TANZANIA OIL AND GAS ALMANAC TANZANIA TANZANIA OIL AND GAS ALMANAC Print edition June 2015 A Reference Guide published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Tanzania and OpenOil Tanzania Oil and Gas Almanac A Reference Guide published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Tanzania and OpenOil EDITORIAL Abdallah Katunzi – Chief Editor Marius Siebert – Deputy Editor PUBLISHED BY Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung P.O Box 4472 Mwai Kibaki Road Plot No. 397 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Telephone: 255-22-2668575/2668786 Email:
[email protected] PRINTED BY FGD Tanzania Ltd P.O. Box 40331 Dar es Salaam Disclaimer While all efforts have been made to ensure that the information contained in this book has been obtained from reliable sources, FES (Tanzania) bears no responsibility for oversights or omissions. ©Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2015 ISBN: 978-9987-483-36-5 A commercial resale of this publication is strictly prohibited unless the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung gives explicit and written approval beforehand. PREFACE With an estimated gas reserve of more than 55 trillion cubic feet (Tcf), Tanzania readies itself to join the gas economy. Large multinational oil companies are currently exploring natural gas and oil in various parts of Tanzania – both offshore and onshore. Despite these huge discoveries, there is little publicly available information on natural gas on a wide range of issues. Consequently, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Tanzania, with the technical support of OpenOil– a Berlin based organisation – created the Tanzania Oil and Gas Almanac as a living database for publicly available information around the country’s Oil and Gas sector. It has been created to significantly increase the stock of information available in local contexts among extractive stakeholders including civil society organizations, government, journalists and companies.