HAYA NDIO MALENGO MAHUSUSI YA SERA YA GESI ASILIA

Specific Objectives
a) To ensure sustainable exploration, production, processing, liquefaction, transportation, storage, distribution facilities and utilization of natural gas for domestic market and value addition for export;
b) To ensure that the Government and Tanzanians participate strategically in the natural gas value chain;
c) To strengthen human capacity development as well as institutional, legal and regulatory framework for natural gas industry development;
d) To ensure effective management of natural gas revenue to achieve the national development goals;
e) To strengthen Corporate Social Responsibility mechanism in the natural gas activities and projects areas, in order to maximize benefits to the local communities;
f) To ensure that prices of natural gas and related services are economically efficient and promote natural gas industry growth;
g) To promote linkages between the natural gas industry with other strategic sectors of the economy to accelerate socio-economic transformation;
h) To ensure transparent and accountable system in the management of the natural gas industry;
i) To benefit from regional and international community in the development of natural gas industry; and
j) To ensure that all activities in the natural gas value chain are undertaken in a manner that protects people’s health, safety and environment.
Policy Statements:


The Government shall:
(i) Participate strategically in upstream activities through its National company responsible for development of petroleum or its subsidiaries;
(ii) Ensure promotion of investment in exploration and production of natural gas resources;
(iii) Ensure adoption of modern technologies for exploration and production of natural gas;
(iv) Ensure competitiveness in the grant of petroleum licenses to promote productivity and maximize the country’s benefits from its natural gas resources unless under exceptional cases for national interest;
(v) Ensure natural gas is produced efficiently and effectively with minimal flaring activities where necessary; and
(vi) Ensure adoption of optimized production profile to ensure high recovery of natural gas.