Experts poke holes in Oil, Gas Act

Govt Sets Plan to Train Experts in Oil, Gas Sectors
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Government has set an ambitious goal to train 1,350 graduates in geology and minerals explorations, oil and gas geosciences, mining and minerals processing and mining environmental management by June next year. Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda says ...

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MPs poke holes at CCM performance.
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Opposition Members of Parliament yesterday faulted performance of Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) saying it has failed to implement its 2010 election manifesto. They observed that most of the issues outlined in the ruling party's 2010 election manifesto have ...

MPs poke holes at government development plan
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The government's first Five Year Development Plan (FYDP) is characterized by several serious challenges creating fear that the national vision might not be achieved, it has been observed. Spanning from 2011/12 to 2015/16, the Plan is the formal ...

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There is no guarantee that the gas economy would lessen Tanzania’s debt burden because it is not the only solution to the country’s economic woes, according to experts.

Former Deputy Minister of Energy and Minerals and Director of Tanzania Oxygen, Lawrence Masha.With abundant gas reserves Tanzania requires suitable policies, laws, right skills and legal expertise to manage contracts for successful participation in the gas economy and the common man to benefit.
This is the view of stakeholders who also felt that without right skills and legal expertise the country is likely to be unsuccessful in exploiting the sector’s potentials. They said it will thus fail...

Since 2011 the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), specifically the Department of Chemical and Mining Engineering, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) of Norway and the Angolan University of Agostinho Netto are collaborating under the ANTHEI project to train professionals for petroleum engineering and geosciences at Masters level. Already three batches of a total of 28 Tanzanian students have been enrolled under the program. In this program the students spend...

A report on oil and gas in East Africa released by Deloitte on Monday suggests that Tanzania risks losing on the lucrative oil and gas sector.