Tanzania Oil and Gas Strategic Analysis and Outlook to 2025

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author, one of the leading research and consulting service providers for the oil and gas industry, recently published the “Tanzania Oil and Gas Strategic Analysis and Outlook to 2025”. The premier report provides analysis of key opportunities and associated challenges facing Tanzania oil and gas industry.

Amidst downfall in oil prices creating uncertainty on the future of Tanzania industry growth, the report details key strategies of government, oil and gas companies and investors in the country. Detailed outlook of the industry in terms of production forecasts of oil, gas, LNG, LPG, gasoline, diesel, fuel oil along with supporting parameters of primary energy demand, GDP and population are included.

Current status of planned projects along with the possible commencement of the projects, feasibility of developing those projects in current market conditions, expected start up, impact of competing assets in other countries and overall industry developments, investments required and other related information on planned projects is provided in detail.

The comprehensive guide provides analysis and forecasts of Tanzania oil and gas market for the period 2000 to 2025. Asset by asset details of all existing and planned projects across Tanzania oil and gas value chain are detailed in the report.

Driven by strong methodology and proprietary databases, reliable projections of oil, gas, petroleum products, coal, and LNG- supply and demand are made to 2025. The research work examines the existing infrastructure (oil and gas assets), market conditions, investment climate and competitive landscape of upstream, midstream and downstream sectors.

SWOT Analysis and benchmarking tools are used to analyze and compare the real prospects and challenges of investing or expanding in the industry. Further, the report details all the investment opportunities sector wise, highlighting the industry growth potential and project feasibility. Detailed information on new fields, blocks, pipelines, refineries, storage assets and LNG terminals along with the investments required, current status of the projects and commencement feasibility are provided.

The report also analyzes three key companies in Tanzania oil and gas industry. Business operations, SWOT Analysis and financial performance of the companies are provided. All latest developments in the industry along with their possible impact on the industry are included in the report.

Some of the Key issues addressed in the report include-

– How will be oil and gas supply scenario in Tanzania by 2025?
– Which of the petroleum products will witness the maximum demand growth by 2025?
– What are the new risks and opportunities for investors/ oil and gas companies?
– What are the potential investment opportunities in Tanzania and how much investment is needed?
– How did the production from major fields vary over the last decade?
– What is the current status of all planned projects in Tanzania?
– Who is the market leader and what is the market concentration ratio of pipelines, upstream, oil storage, refining, LNG and UGS sectors?
– What will be the coking/FCC/HCC/VDU capacities in the Tanzania by 2020?
– How much of the LNG capacity is contracted and how much will be available for contracts by 2020?
– What will be the crude oil/petroleum products/chemicals storage capacity by 2020?
– How much natural gas can be withdrawn from underground gas storage tanks in a day?
– How extensive is the pipeline transportation network in the country?

Scope

Coverage-
Across the value chain including Fields, blocks, pipelines, oil, products, chemicals storage, underground gas storage, refineries, LNG

Forecasts and Projections-
Crude oil, natural gas, LNG, petroleum products supply and demand: 2000- 2025

Market Analysis-
Primary energy scenario; SWOT Analysis; Benchmarking with peer markets; Drivers and challenges

Investment opportunities-
Information on investments, current status, routes, owners, construction contracts of Key planned pipelines, planned refineries, new units, expansions and upgrades, exploration blocks on offer, LNG terminals, expansions, new storage facilities

Asset wise Information-
– Oil and gas field details- production (2005-2012), location, operator, ownership
– Refineries- primary and secondary capacity outlook (2005-2020), refineries under operation and implementation (complexity, capacity, location, start up, operator, ownership), refinery expansions
– LNG – capacity outlook (2005- 2020), trade imports, utilization rates (2005- 2014), operational and planned terminals (location, start up, operator, ownership and capacity)
– Storage- oil and gas storage capacity outlook (2005-2020), tank farm details under operation and planned
– Pipeline- crude oil, petroleum product and natural gas pipelines under operation and planned

Competitive Landscape-
Market structure and share of top five companies in each of the oil and gas segments is provided;
Company wise oil, gas production from 2005- 2012 is provided
Net weighted refining, LNG and storage capacity information is provided for historic and forecasted period
Further, detailed business profiles of three leading oil and gas companies in the country are included, detailing their business overview, SWOT and financial analysis.

Latest industry Updates-
All latest industry updates along with their possible impact on the industry, players and investors are analyzed.

Reasons To Purchase

The multi-client market study is used by oil and gas companies, traders, constructors, equipment and service providers, investment, financial institutions and strategic decision makers.

It allows your company to –
– Identify potential opportunities and risks involved in operating and investing in the market
– Formulate effective growth and expansion strategies through reliable forecasts
– Gain clear understanding of market size, trends and challenges for each of the oil and gas segments
– Beat your competition with robust information on the industry
– Understand the operations, strategies of leading companies
– Keep updated with all the recent developments in the industry.

 

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Iss Awarded Paragon Offshore Project In Tanzania

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Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has been appointed by Paragon Offshore in Houston as marine and logistic services provider for a new drilling campaign off the Songo Songo Islands, Tanzania – the first new commercial drilling project in Tanzania in a number of years.

ISS is providing a range of services for Paragon Offshore including full husbandry, crew logistics, visa assistance and arranging marine and air charters.

Paragon Offshore is deploying jack-up rig M826 on the nine month campaign for PanAfrican Energy Tanzania – the country’s first natural gas producer.

M826 arrived at the field on board semi-submersible vessel, OHT Falcon, to be floated off and pinned to the drilling location.

During the campaign, M826 will clear actively producing wells to enhance output and will drill several new wells in the same field

How   to Win the trust of  Citizens in Tanzania Oil and gas Sector

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Transparency is the key element to succeed  petroleum industry and is the among of simple tactics to build citizen trust in oil and gas sector

.Let see first what are the importances of transparency before moving on how we can build it

Importance of Transparency in oil and gas industry

  • It reduce corruption
  • It mange public expectation
  • It build trust
  • It enable good decision making

How to build Transparency in oil and gas industry in Tanzania

  • We must increase public disclosure of licensing and tendering process
  • Also we must publish the criteria of assessing bid and hold open bidding round for both exploration licensing and tendering
  • companies currently operating in Tanzania should be more detailed about their financial report and also they publish information on the sites where they work.
  • We must increase publish income or revenues generated from oil and gas industry in newspapers, internet and strong media.

 

    My Final Words

Regular disclosure of information to the public  would clear up misconceptions of the citizens in oil and gas industry and reduce corruption which is the key element  resource curse in many emerging oil and gas producers.

 

Dear readers,  we would love to here all of these from you.

 

Erin Energy Appoints New Chief Operating Officer

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Erin Energy Corporation announced Friday that it has appointed its senior vice president for exploration and production, Segun Omidele, as its new chief operating officer, effective immediately.

Omidele has worked for Erin Energy since 2011 and led the company’s technical team in its successful deepwater drilling and completion campaign of the Oyo-7 and Oyo-8 wells, located offshore Nigeria. The company’s new COO has over 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, including 28 years with Shell Oil companies in Nigeria, the U.K. and the U.S.

Kase Lawal, chairman and chief executive officer of Erin Energy, commented in a company statement:

“Segun’s leadership and knowledge of the business and region have proved exceptionally valuable to our company and I am very pleased he will now serve us as chief operating officer.”

Life Cycle of a Well

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                       1.Exploration:This is the first stage in getting oil and gas to  market.This is where Geoscientists and Petroleum engineer work together to locate and drill into location that they think will produce oil.

                       2.Appraisal: After they finding the traces of oil and gas they must appraisal and evaluate the commercial potential of that discovery,in dong so the determine how much oil is available, the type of oil and gas that is present and extent of field size, In short they calculate if there is sufficient hydrocarbon to justify further investment. In other word will the field produce enough hydrocarbon to help recover all the cost and still make profit.

  1. Development: If they determine there enough oil, they will then plan development of the field, they select where are the wells to be drilled to determine the size and extent of the field next they plan budget equipment tools and manpower needed to bring the field into production.

  1. Production:This is where field start to produce oil and gas or its satart actually makes money,In fact the production stage is the only stages that makes money and must make enough to support other phases and still makes profit. This stages can last from few years to decades depending on the size of the field.

                     5.Abandonment: When there is no longer enough producible hydrocarbon to make profit the well will be shut down.

Connection for New Natural gas Pipeline from Mtwra will Led To Electricity Blackout

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MANY parts of the country connected to the national grid will experience electricity blackout on Monday as all gas-powered turbines will be switched-off to pave way for connection of the new natural gas pipeline from Mtwara.
The Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (Tanesco)’s Managing Director, Engineer Felchesmi Mramba, said the power interruptions will persist for the rest of the week though on smaller extent.
“For the whole of tomorrow (today), gas fired plants will be turned off to allow technicians to connect the new pipeline to new plants at Ubungo,” Engineer Mramba said after a brief tour at Kinyerezi 1 and Ubungo gas plants in Dar es Salaam.
The new plants to be supplied with gas from Mtwara include (Symbion 112MW) and Plant number 2, both at Ubungo area as well as Kinyerezi 1 (150MW).
Plants to be affected by the shut down tomorrow are those supplied with gas from Songo Songo and they include Songas (184MW), Ubungo Plant number 1 (100MW) and Tegeta plant (45MW).
The power-utility boss said the power interruptions are expected to last, though on smaller extent, until September 15, when installations work will be completed.
Natural gas discoveries in Tanzania stand at over 50 trillion cubic feet (tcf) and the resource produces over 40 per cent of power supplied to the national grid while hydro-power and diesel-fired plants account for the remaining percentage.
As the country focuses on gas for power generation, the Tanesco boss assured the public of reliable power and stable prices.
“I would like to apologise to our customers for the interruptions they will face during the next one week but, thereafter, the country will have reliable electricity,” Engineer Mramba noted.
Earlier, the Managing Director of the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC), Dr James Mataragio, explained that as of yesterday, transportation of gas from Madimba Processing Plant in Mtwara has clocked 3 bars.
“For power generation to commence, we require between 50 and 55 bars of natural gas, which will be realised in the next one week since we are still pumping gas in the pipeline,” Dr Mataragio stated.
With the use of natural gas for power production, the country is expected to save almost one billion US dollars (about 2 trilion/-) which has been used to purchase fuel to operate diesel-powered generation plants.
Construction of the 532-kilometre gas pipeline from Mtwara to Dar es Salaam is expected to allow the country to double its power generation capacity to 3,000MW by next year and the government looks forward to boost the capacity to at least 10,000MW by 2025.

See Why Discovery of Natural gas in Tanzania Could not bring Too Many Jobs To Tanzanians as they believe

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Few weeks ago i got  the text from Tanzanian  who
is studying Petroleum engineering in among  of university in China, He was curious to know  about the
employment opportunity in natural gas sector in Tanzania? And this is why  i am writing this article.

You know many people believe the
discovery of natural gas could give Tanzanians millions of job opportunities,
they think, their sons, relatives or themselves can be  employed in 
natural gas industry.This  is definetly  untrue. So to day, this article    will clear up  this 
common misconception
Oil and gas sector is highly capital
intensive industry with risky operations. And Due to the investment of high
capital, the oil companies do not prefer to have a large number of employee in
order  to make reasonable profit. In the currently
findings released by Twaweza organization in a research brief tittled “Great
expectation citizens views on the gas sector” shows that, average citizens
expect four millon job opportunities from natural gas industry. Their expectation
 is beyond of the real situation. Tanzanians can find an example of country like Norway, though of its massive discovery of natural resources,  they  have only 240,000  employee  in their  gas sector. 

You can imagine, Tanzanians expect four millions job in gas sector while Norwagians who currently employed in gas sector is only 240,000. I hope you will agree with me that, the perception of many Tanzanian citizen to get job in gas sector is unrealistic. 
MY FINAL WORDS
 Citizen might be be
employed in this sector, but is not at large number  as many citizens
believe, few people they could get employment and not many of them. This is
the right time for Tanzanians to be aware on this particular matter.

Ministry Of Energy To Set Up Special Local Content on Oil and Gas Sector

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The Ministry of Energy and Minerals plans to set up a special local content on gas and oil unit to enable the public easily access information on various issues concerning the sector.
Senior Supplies Officer (Local Content) at the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Ms Neema Lungangira made the revelation in Dar es Salaam during a seminar organised by Twaweza Organisation to present and discuss the report titled ‘Great Expectations On Gas Sector And Relevant Policies’.
“Government through the ministry is setting up various strategies to enable the citizens fully participate in the oil and gas sector and one of the strategies is the establishment of the special local content unit,” she said.
Among the issues to be tackled under the unit will include public awareness creation, providing knowledge of public participation in the sector.
The unit will be established under the local content policy and will focus on the providing information from the key document on the sector.
According to the report presented by Twaweza at the seminar, citizens do not have access to full information about Tanzania’s gas sector.
Presenting the report, Executive Director of Twaweza, Mr Aidan Eyakuze said that 53 per cent of citizens think that gas from the new offshore discoveries is already flowing with some thinking that both government and foreign companies are already earning revenues from the gas.
The report based on data from ‘Sauti za Wananchi’ Africa’s first nationally representative high frequency mobile survey also indicate that citizens expect four million jobs and 7.5m/- each from gas deposits.
The report which shows that citizens are significantly misinformed about the potential of the country’s deposits, show that 59 per cent of citizens think that natural gas deposits will improve their lives and a similar (58 per cent) expect government to invest gas revenue into public services.

Tpdc has Awarded Ion A Contract For Seismic Survey in Ruvuma Delta Region

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 ION Geophysical Corporation has announced that the TPDC has awarded ION a contract to acquire 4,058 km of 2D seismic, gravity and magnetic data over offshore blocks 4/1B and 4/1C in the Rovuma Delta region. The award follows an international tender, number PA/031/2014-15/W/06, for a 2D multi-client survey, to be known as ‘TPDC Phase I 2015’, that is planned to be acquired in fourth quarter 2015.
“We are very excited on the commencement of this program, which is part of a broader campaign aimed at adding value to all of TPDC assets, both onshore and offshore,” Dr James Mataragio, Managing Director of TPDC, commented. “This survey and three other surveys carried onshore are 100% funded by TPDC. This marks an important step for TPDC, as a National Oil Company, to begin fully focusing on exploration, development and production. Blocks 4/1B and 4/1C are 100% owned and operated by TPDC, and this new seismic data will be used to assist TPDC with a competitive farmout process, details of which will be announced at a later date.”
Joe Gagliardi, Senior Vice President of ION’s Ventures group, added, “ION is delighted to have been awarded this contract, which represents a further phase of seismic acquisition, processing and interpretation services to be provided by ION in support of the government’s hydrocarbon exploration strategy.”

See Why in Tanzania there is the biggest increases in Demand for Natural gas

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The
aboundance of natural gas reserves in Tanzania  attracts many investors , contractors,
equipment suppliers  and consultant firms
to offer business opportunities  in
Tanzania.  This  implies that, natural gas will continue  to play an increasingly important role in
meeting demand for energy in Tanzania.
       There are many reasons for the long term
expected  increase in demand for natural
gas in Tanzania, which include the following.
1.Increase
 in the number of  New homes
New
homes increase day after day, family size increase as well, as these new homes built,
the consumption of natural gas mounts, and the number of families use natural
gas to cook and heat them also increase.Therefore increase of new homes using
natural gas is expected drive demand for Natural gas in Tanzania.
2.Expansion
of gas based power generation
The
largest addition to gas demand in Tanzania where the most of expansion of power
are taking place.  forexample the
construction of kinyerezi 1 gas fired power plants, they will be supplied gas
from Mtwara through Mtwara-Dar es Salaam pipeline, So more gas will be needed
to meet the demand as the result of natural gas demand increases.
3. Technological
Advancements – Currently, the majority of energy used by the commercial
sector is in the form of electricity. Similarly, many common household
appliances can only run on electricity. The advancement of natural gas
technology in the form of offering natural gas powered applications that may
compete with these electric operated appliances may provide a huge increase in
demand for natural gas. Natural gas cooling, combined heat and power, and
distributed generation are expected to make inroads into those applications that
have traditionally been served solely by electricity.

Transportation
Natural
gas use in transportation are almost negligible.Although natural gas powered
vehicles are very useful for reducing environment pollution compered to fuel
powered vehicles. The demand for alternative vehicles fuel vehicles (Including
natural gas vehicles) will increase demand in natural gas. Although to
accomplish this, technology is required.

MY
FINAL WORDS
This
general increasing of natural gas demand in Tanzania can be expected to the
general growth of economy of Tanzania and improving living standard of
residents.
Dear
readers we would love to hear your views on all of these