Entries by Hussein Boffu

Tanzania:Oil Down, Opportunities Are Up

  The oil price has been falling since  June 2014. And it continues to hit new bottom every day. Recent global oil price drop   sign several years of $ 100 per barrel which has led to massive oil production coming online  and supply exceed demand. The low demand is the result of the slowdown in  […]

Tanzania Agrees With Uganda to Run Oil Pipeline to Its Coast

Tanzania and Uganda’s leaders agreed to build a crude pipeline linking their countries, connecting landlocked oilfields to the Indian Ocean, Tanzanian President John Magufuli said. Statements issued after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Tanzanian counterpart John Magufuli met on Tuesday did not mention the fate of the Kenyan oil export pipeline plan. Uganda, which […]

Tanzania Make New Natural Gas Discovery In Ruvu Basin

  Feb 25 Tanzania has discovered an additional 2.17 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of possible natural gas deposits, raising the east African nation’s total estimated recoverable natural gas reserves to more than 57 tcf. The onshore reserves were found at a field licensed to the United Arab Emirates’ Dodsal Group located at Ruvu basin in […]

TPDC has Got it Done , Journalists Must Pull Up Socks

Earlier this month, Tanzania petroleum development corporation (TPDC) launced a 2-day workshop held at Karimjee hall Dar es Salaam with aim to improve capability of Reporter in composing and reporting about oil and gas industry Perhaps Tpdc has been done an awesome job and performs their positions in developing the potential to the journalists on […]

Kenya Eyes Oil Export In 2017 via Truck and Railway

Kenya is considering moving its crude oil to Mombasa by road and railway as President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration races to hit export markets before the General Election set for August next year. The Energy ministry has offered Rift Valley Railways (RVR) the contract to move the oil over a distance of more than 800km, from […]