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Officials in Accra hope the deal will make larger Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), told
volumes of gas available on the domestic market, the Daily Graphic earlier this week that Ghana
supplementing local production and pipeline did not need to import gas to cover demand.
imports from Nigeria. The country can extract enough from its own
However, state-run GNPC has attracted fields and import enough via the West African
some criticism for its contract with Shell. Ben- Gas Pipeline (WAGP) to meet its own needs, he
jamin Boakye, the executive director of the asserted. ™

Tanzania, Kenya plan gas pipeline

TANZANIA/KENYA THE governments of Tanzania and Kenya hope that today we have signed an agreement, and
to work together to build a natural gas pipeline what remains is implementation,” she remarked.
along the coast of the Indian Ocean from Dar es According to Kenyatta, the pipeline will allow
Salaam to Mombasa. Kenyan thermal power plants (TPPs) to use gas
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan as fuel for generation. The increase in gas sup-
and her Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta, plies will help bring down the cost of power in
made an announcement to this effect earlier Kenya, while also reducing emissions, he added.
this week, following a meeting in Nairobi. They During their meeting, the two presidents also
described the pipeline project as part of a wider signed a package of MoUs on co-operation in
long-term programme designed to help the other areas, including animal health and san-
neighbouring countries share energy resources. itation, the arts, culture, national heritage and
The conduit will be about 600 km long and will social integration. ™
carry a price tag of around KES121bn ($1.12bn),
they added.
Kenyatta offered more details, saying at a
press conference after the meeting that the two
sides had signed a memorandum of under-
standing (MoU) on co-operation in the area of
gas transport. This document provides for the
energy ministers of both Kenya and Tanzania to
negotiate with the aim of drawing up an agree-
ment for construction of the proposed pipeline,
he said. The negotiations will cover design, cost
and other aspects of the project, he said.
Suluhu, for her part, told reporters that the
parties aimed to start building the pipeline,
which will pump gas from Tanzania northward
to Kenya, as soon as possible. Tanzanian and
Kenyan officials have been instructed to start
discussions on the project immediately, she said.
“That is a long-term project, and we are thankful Suluhu (L) and Kenyatta (R) met in Nairobi this week (Photo: State House Kenya)

PAU: Uganda hopes to tender

service contracts in December

UGANDA UGANDAN authorities are gearing up to seek completion of a road network serving the
contractors for infrastructure projects that will Kingfisher and Tilenga oilfields, said Peninah
support the country’s nascent oil industry later Aheebwa, the director of PAU’s technical sup-
this year. According to the Petroleum Authority port services. Others will cover contracts for
of Uganda (PAU), Kampala hopes to call the first work on the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline
set of tenders in December. (EACOP) and a refinery that will turn out FUEL
Some of these auctions will relate to the for Uganda’s domestic market, she explained
construction of production facilities and the during a youth training event held last week.

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