Kenya halts piped cooking gas plan

Kenya has halted its plan to introduce piped cooking gas in residential homes over safety concerns, lack of appropriate infrastructure and lack of gas reserves. PHOTO | FOTOSEARCH

Kenya has halted its plan to introduce piped cooking gas in residential homes over safety concerns, lack of appropriate infrastructure and lack of gas reserves.

This comes as Tanzania, which has an estimated 57 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, said it had set aside $5 million for connecting natural gas to more than 1,000 households for domestic use in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam starting July.