Natural gas pipeline between Tanzania and Uganda to be running within three years
The two countries have signed a deal for the pipeline that will start in Dar es Salaam, pass through Tanga port and Mwanza, before crossing to Uganda
The Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp is confident a natural-gas pipeline to Uganda will start in 2021, according to acting MD Kapuulya Musomba. At least 29 companies have shown interest in conducting a feasibility study and constructing the pipeline that will pump gas to western Uganda to power iron and steel factories, Musomba said in an interview in Dar es Salaam. He did not identify any names. “We expect the feasibility study to be concluded by June next year,” he said on the sidelines of an oil and gas conference. Funding will be sought in 2019 and 2020 “and then construction will start in 2021”. TPDC set an August 24 deadline for submission of tender documents to conduct the study. Tanzania and Uganda have already signed an agreement for the pipeline that will start in Dar es Salaam, pass through Tanga port on the Indian Ocean and Mwanza, a port city on Lake Victoria, before crossing to Uganda. Oil and gas The two nations plan a separate pipeline to transport Uganda’s crude ...
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