CAPITAL: Dar es Salaam
MONETARY UNIT: Shilling
REFINING CAPACITY: 14,900 b/cd
PRODUCTION: -
OIL/CONDENSATE RESERVES: -
NATURAL GAS RESERVES: 980 bcf
The Cabinet in November 1999 approved Ocelot International`s East African natural gas and power project. The project was to develop more than 1 tcf of sweet gas for electrical generation and industrial energy markets in Tanzania and Kenya.
The estimated cost of the project, which included a gas plant, a 232-km pipeline, and a 110-Mw electrical power plant, was $340 million.
Financing was to be completed early in 2000.
Ocelot reconditioned five wells in Songo Songo field on and off Songo Songo Island and was to build a gas processing plant on the island and lay 232 km of marine and land pipeline.
A second phase of the project would involve further development of the gas reservoir by Ocelot under a production sharing agreement with the Tanzanian Petroleum Development Corp.
Elsewhere, Canop Worldwide Corp., Calgary, let a contract to Polaris International Explorer Ltd., Calgary, for geophysical acquisition in Tanzania. Canop planned to conduct a 3D seismic program over portions of the Rufiji trough.

