Rush is on to get East Africa’s oil, gas to the market
Kenya and Tanzania upstage neighbours with accelerated production and export plans as Uganda reaches out to DR Congo for a joint venture on the Central Corridor pipeline. TEA GRAPHIC |
Oil and gas are the buzzwords in East Africa as countries try to outdo each other in getting their hydrocarbons out of the ground and into the market.
Last week, Tanzanian President John Magufuli ordered that exploitation of natural gas begin as a matter of urgency, as Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that Tullow Oil would send the country’s first barrels of crude oil to the market from March 2017 ahead of the start of exports in June.
