Review oil, gas laws: call

New Oil, Gas Laws Win CEOs Nod
AllAfrica.com
Business leaders in Tanzania have welcomed the three new legislations on oil and natural gas that were passed by the Parliament in July and eventually signed by President Jakaya Kikwete last week. The pieces of legislation include the Petroleum Act ...

-PwC’s ‘Africa oil & gas review’ analyses what has happened in the last 12 months in the oil & gas industry within the major African markets

The challenges facing oil & gas companies operating in Africa continue to be diverse and numerous fuelled by fraud, corruption, theft, poor infrastructure and a lack of skilled resources, among others. Regulatory uncertainty and delays in passing laws are severely inhibiting sector development in many countries around the continent. “Some key players...

Zanzibar disability laws for review
Daily News
THE disability law is being reviewed to meet the needs of people with disabilities in the Isles, Minister of State (Environment and Disability), Ms Fatma Abdulhabib Fereji has said. “The government is also planning to have inclusive policy in society so that ...

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Two laws for review to boost Big Results Now
IPPmedia
Presidential Delivery Bureau (PDB) Chief Executive Officer, Omar Issa, gestures as he addresses media personnel yesterday in Dar es Salaam. The President's Delivery Bureau (PDB) has said the country's Public Procurement Act, 2004 and the Public Private ...
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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.

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.