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Zambia begins $300mn pipeline

to move diesel from Tanzania

ZAMBIA/TANZANIA ZAMBIA has begun construction of a 700-km minister, came into office in August 2021.
pipeline that will bring diesel into the country Zambia is also exploring other fuel supply
from Tanzania, Energy Minister Peter Kampala options. In April 2021, the country’s govern-
said in a radio interview on July 3. ment inked a $5bn agreement with Angola on
The pipeline will run parallel to the existing the construction of a 100,000-120,000 bpd pipe-
1,700-km Tazama pipeline, which pumps crude line for refined petroleum products. The Zam-
oil from the Tanzanian coast to the Indeni refin- bian Business Times reported in August of that
ery in central Zambia, he said. The initial invest- year that the parties hoped to begin a feasibility
ment in the project will amount to $300mn, he study in September 2021.
said. Then in May 2022, Kampala announced that
“In a few months’ time, the pipeline will start Zambia intended to sign a deal with Namibia,
pumping diesel fuel into Zambia. Phase one of its neighbour to the west, to build yet another
the pipeline will end in Mpika (District in north- fuel pipeline. ™
ern Zambia), phase two in Ndola (in Copperbelt
Province) and phase three in Solwezi (in north-
western Zambia),” Kapala told the live radio
broadcast.
Zambia owns 66.7% of Tazama, which has
a throughput capacity of 22,000 barrels per day
(bpd) of oil, while Tanzania holds the remaining
33.3%.
The oil pipeline, which was commissioned in
1968, is inefficient and ageing. By contrast, said
Kapala, the new pipeline will be modern.
Additionally, he said, the link help the coun-
try achieve its long-term goal of stabilising die-
sel supplies and maintaining favourable retail
pump prices.
In 2019, the two countries announced a plan
to construct a $1.5bn fuel pipeline to comple-
ment Tazama. Talks on the project resumed after
the current government, in which Kampala is a The new pipeline will follow the route of the existing Tazama link (Image: Tazama)

Uganda, Tanzania to review EACOP’s

application for construction licence

UGANDA/TANZANIA THE governments of Tanzanian and Uganda which will be the world’s longest heated oil pipe-
have initiated a review of the application for a line. The application must be reviewed in con-
construction licence that the East Africa Crude sultation with the relevant state agencies before
Oil Pipeline (EACOP) company submitted to a licence can be issued, he explained.
the policy arm of Uganda’s Ministry of Energy Martin Tiffen, EACOP’s general manager in
last week, according to a report from the Uganda, submitted the application in line with
Monitor. the requirements of Ugandan legislation cov-
Honey Malinga, the acting director of Ugan- ering midstream operations in the oil industry,
da’s Directorate of Petroleum, told the daily in including the Petroleum (Refining, Conversion,
an exclusive interview that the EACOP group Transmission and Midstream Storage) Act and
had applied for the licence as a necessary pre- the Petroleum (Exploration, Development and
requisite to beginning construction on the link, Production) Act, he added.

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