Tanzania Uganda Pipeline

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Tanzania Uganda Pipeline is a proposed gas pipeline in Tanzania and Uganda. As of September 2021, it is considered shelved.

Location

The pipeline was proposed to start in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, pass through Tanga port on the Indian Ocean and Mwanza, a port city on Lake Victoria, before crossing to western Uganda.

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Project details

• Operator: Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp.
• Owner: Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp.
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• Status: Shelved
• Start year: 2021

Background

The Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp. expects that the natural-gas pipeline will start in 2021. At least 29 companies have shown interest in conducting a feasibility study and constructing the pipeline, which will pump gas to western Uganda to power iron and steel factories. Funding will be sought in 2019 and 2020, and construction will start in 2021. Tanzania and Uganda have already signed an agreement for the pipeline that will start in Dar es Salaam, pass through Tanga port on the Indian Ocean and Mwanza, a port city on Lake Victoria, before crossing to Uganda.

As of September 2021, there had been no evidence for further development of this pipeline, so it is considered shelved.