How myopic oil and gas policies will doom Tanzania

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CSOs want stable gas, oil extraction policies
IPPmedia
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have suggested that there is a need to have a system of ensuring that policies on oil and gas are carried on even after the current government's tenure lapses. According to the CSOs, President Jakaya Kikwete's government ...

East African Community (EAC) partner states have to design fiscal regimes which will enable them to manage their oil and natural gas wells, it was observed here on Wednesday.

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...

The call by the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF) and other Tanzanian stakeholders that a special arrangement be put in place to enable Tanzanian individuals and groups overcome the challenges arising from huge capital and costly risks experienced in the oil and natural gas exploration industry is timely.

In My Book of Things, Tanzania stands an excellent chance of falling into the excruciating clutches of the hydra-headed monster commonly referred to as a ‘resource curse.’

A heated debate is raging in Tanzania regarding whether or not the Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) that the country signs with international oil companies should be made public.

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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 ...
So, This is Tanzania…Patheos (blog)

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