East Africa a new hotspot for Hydrocarbon Exploration

By Maxwell Suuk
After major gas reserves were discovered in Tanzania and Mozambique alongside the substantial deposits of crude oil found in Uganda, East Africa has become the new hotspot in hydrocarbon exploration.
BP group plan to build a $30 billion-onshore LNG export terminal in partnership with the state-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) by the early 2020s.

Natural Liquefied Gas—LNG according to schlumberger is natural gas containing mainly methane and ethane which usually get liquefied at a temperature of 22.1 degree Celsius. It get solidify during an extremely low temperature.

Methane is the chief constituent of most natural gas constituting up to 85% of some natural gases, with lesser amounts of ethane propane, butane and pentane. Impurities can also be present in large proportions, including carbon dioxide, helium, nitrogen and hydrogen sulfide.

Tanzania discovered an additional 2.17 trillion cubic feet of possible natural gas deposits in February, raising the east African nation's total estimated recoverable natural gas reserves to more than 57 trillion cubic feet according to the Reuters.
Ms Neema K. Lukagangira, a local content expert in Tanzania wants a proper regulation to check the LNG sector, "most of the money goes out of Tanzania and doesn't remain in the country", she told Selected African journalists undergoing training in the extraction sector in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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