Short, recent? interview with PanAfican GM"AB: The working...

Short, recent? interview with PanAfican GM

"AB: The working relationship with the government is very good. Their ambition is to see gas expand its role in Tanzania significantly – they have high hopes for not just the reserves that we found, but also for the exploration taking place offshore with the likes of Ophir, BG Group and Petrobras. The government of Tanzania is very keen to see a much-expanded gas industry as quickly as possible, and we hope to play an important part in that process.

TAR: The government is building a gas-processing plant on Songa Songa Island and a pipeline up to Dar es Salaam, so they must have asked you to produce more.

AB: They have; they’ve asked us if the field is capable of producing more. We can double capacity from currently 102 million standard cubic feet a day and we’ve given them a plan that gets us to 200m a day. We’ve had no confirmation of whether the plan is accepted or confirmed and no formal notification as to when infrastructure will be in place, but we know their ambition is either this expansion project or the Songas expansion project. Songas was originally looking at expanding the existing plant to bring 140m a day to Dar es Salaam. So we’ve got these two projects to bring new infrastructure, which is great from a supplier point of view, but there needs to be some clarity as to what it will be and I’m hoping we’ll get that soon."



http://novafrica-developments.net/2012/03/09/oil-gas-buried-treasure-the-africa-report-n38-march-2012/