Tanzania delays on LNG terminal location


Issue 275 - 11 Apr 2014 | 3 minute read

More than a month after energy and minerals minister Sospeter Muhongo promised the location of Tanzania’s planned liquefaction facility would be revealed in less than a week, no decision has been made public and rumours of an upcoming announcement swirl in Dar es Salaam and Dodoma. On 29 March, Nairobi-based daily The East African led with the story that BG Group and Statoil, both developing huge gas reserves in the country’s offshore Ruvuma Basin, had selected Likong’o-Mchinga as the best site for the project, adding provocatively that Mtwara, which was rocked by violent protests last year, had been left out in the cold.

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