Entries by Tanzania Petroleum

Bridging the Leadership Gap In East African Oil and Gas

  To realize potential economic benefits from activities of discovering developing and producing oil and gas resources, the industry needs one important thing. A lot of competent and trained local people, With massive deepwater natural gas discoveries and upcoming exploration and production projects, developing local experience is the best way to drive industry growth and […]

Driving East Africa’s Oil and Gas Towards Industrial Development Through Increased Local Capacity Development

  The oil and price went significantly down since 2014. Industry analysts project the price will oscillate between $50 to $60 per barrel in 2020. Technically speaking, in this period when the oil price is selling at $50 per barrel, it is not only a challenge to attract direct foreign investment but there is also […]

The Making of Local People and Young People Who Will Lead the East African Oil and Gas Sector

By Hussein Boffu The East African oil and gas industry is endowed with huge deep-water natural gas resources. The Royal Dutch Shell (formerly BP) and Norwegian Equinor (previously Statoil) has found substantial offshore natural gas in southern Tanzania while Italian Eni and United States company, Anadarko, has discovered over 125 trillion cubic feet of natural […]

Taking Training and Development in Tanzania’s Oil and Gas Beyond the Conventional Way

  Investors’ interest in Tanzania’s oil and gas market is huge despite the oil price significantly went down in the global market. The main factor contributes to this is the attractive hydrocarbon prospectively. The massive natural gas discovered in offshore Tanzania is classed as “world-class”. It is a dry gas. In chemistry classes, It will be […]