Government officials trained on oil, gas contracts

Top Tanzania officials arrested in row over oil, gas contracts
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Zitto Kabwe (L), chairman of Tanzania's parliamentary oversight committee on public accounts, gestures during a meeting with government officials, in October 2014. Photo by Kizito Makoye Shigela. Tweet · Recommend · Google + · LinkedIn · Email Print.

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TPDC officials arrested over gas contracts
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TPDC board chairman Michael Mwanda under arrest boards police van at National Assembly offices in Dar es Salaam yesterday. Two high-ranking Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) officials were arrested yesterday after disobeying ...
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Tanzania to lose up to $1b under StatOil PSA: Open these Oil and Gas Contracts

Zitto Kabwe, MP

When news of the leaked Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) and Norweigean State Company StatOil came out through social networks, the discussion was muted. When a blogger Ben Taylor wrote a brief about it, some of us saw how serious the issue is. According to the article...

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TANZANIA : Future dream team to negotiate oil and gas contracts
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The chief secretary to the Tanzanian president, Ombeni Sefue, wants to set up a high-level team of negotiators to try to compensate for Tanzania's a lack of specialists in oil contracts and the inexperience of new staff at the Tanzania Petroleum Development ...
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>Former Chief Secretary, Dr Matern Lumbanga, has asked planners to put measures in place that will help Tanzanians to harness the benefits of natural gas.

Chadema Presidential candidate Edward Lowassa yesterday assured Lindi Region residents that if elected in the October polls, his administration would review all contracts related to gas so that every mwananchi would be involved and benefit from the sector.

Chadema presidential candidate Edward Lowassa has promised residents of Mtwara that he would form a probe team on natural gas and oil contracts if he were elected to lead the country.

>Energy and Minerals minister Sospeter Muhongo yesterday heightened the rift between the executive and the legislative arms of government by reiterating that his ministry will not submit the oil and natural gas production sharing agreements (PSAs) for scrutiny by the Public Accounts Committee.