Entries by Hussein Boffu

Ideal Employer Survey: The Top 10 National Oil Companies

As the term implies, a national oil company (NOC) is an organization somehow linked to a country’s government. Unlike a multinational or international oil company (IOC) whose shareholders hail from the private sector, a government partially or fully owns a NOC. The profit motive does matter to NOCs, but these entities’ ties to the public […]

Tanzania Plan Pre FEED On LNG Project

Tanzania plans to spend $2.6mn (6bn Tanzania shillings) in the 2018/19 financial year, ending next March, on conducting a pre-front end engineering design (pre-FEED) for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and compensating 450 project-affected people, according to national budget plans released last week. Five international gas companies are working on building a $30bn onshore […]

Orca Exploration Extends Tanzanian Deal Deadline

Canadian firm Orca Exploration Group said May 14 that it has agreed to an additional extension of the date, by which it will achieve key stages in the divestment of a 40% interest in its Tanzania gas production business to local firm Swala Oil & Gas for up to $130mn, from May 11 2018 to June […]

Tanzania oil and gas sector Needs Oil and Gas, Too

Oil and natural gas continue to be the cost-effective source of energy to electric power, industrial and residential sectors. Beside from producing natural gas that used as cost-effective source of energy to electric power, industrial, commercial and residential sector, Tanzania’s oil and gas use oil and natural gas in its own operation. Tanzania’s oil and  […]

Addressing Skills Gap In The Upstream Oil and Gas In Tanzania

  Deficiency of local skills can be major barriers to local participation in the oil and gas company’s activities. Some oil and gas companies deal with this by investing in skills development programs. This include: 1. Partnering with local universities. Norwegian Statoil operator of Area 1 offshore Tanzania partnered with Department of finance at the […]