Scottish expert tips TZ on natural gas benefits

Tanzania should set up a unit for examining local companies and linking them with multinational corporations, an expert says.

>Former President Benjamin Mkapa yesterday called for a law to provide for the sharing of income from natural resources exploitation between investors and the communities surrounding the areas concerned.

Six-year-old Sophie had almost finished the hand-made birthday card for her father. “Just like a real one,” she thought to herself, admiring it proudly. She’d been working on it for nearly an hour when Henry, her little brother, offered to help her. Before she could stop him, he’d smeared black marker all over her beautiful ponies and rainbows.

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Indian expert tips Tanzania on ways to boost investment
IPPmedia
For Tanzania to have a conducive business and investment climate, it should committee itself to implementing development strategies. This was said at the weekend in Dar es Salaam by the Director and Vice Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade ...

Statoil is upbeat on the discovery of natural gas offshore Tanzania.

A Bill for enacting the Natural Gas Act is being finalised and will be ready for tabling in Parliament in October, President Jakaya Kikwete made public yesterday.

>While the United States is sitting on a bounty of natural gas, the wild volatility of prices this winter could soon become a regular feature as growing demand begins to test supply, potentially curbing plans to increase exports and switch power plants to gas from coal.

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...

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India offers Tanzania expertise in natural gas sector
The Hindu
India on Friday offered its expertise to Tanzania in development of its potentially rich natural gas sector and decided to extend e-tourist visa to people of the African nation even as the two countries signed eight MoUs to expand engagements in diverse areas.
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