{"id":49197,"date":"2026-10-27T16:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49197"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:41:56","slug":"tanzania-announces-first-gas-discovery-in-over-10-years","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tanzania-announces-first-gas-discovery-in-over-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania announces first gas discovery in over 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Tanzania has discovered an \u200bestimated 223 billion cubic feet of \u200cnatural gas in the Mnazi Bay area in the south of the country, its \u200bEnergy Minister, Juma Homera announced this Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Homera said the reserves \u2060were found at the Kasa-1X ST2 \u200bwell, explored jointly by state-owned Tanzania Petroleum \u200bDevelopment Corporation (TPDC) and French oil company Maurel &amp; Prom.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The find is Tanzania&#8217;s first gas discovery in \u200bmore than 10 years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Homera said \u200bthat TPDC and Maurel &amp; Prom had drilled three \u200cwells, MB-5, MS-2 and Kasa-1X ST2, that would help to boost the country&#8217;s gas supply.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Maurel &amp; Prom has said that first \u200bgas production \u200bcould \u2060start as early as next month.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Homera said TPDC was already in \u200btalks with four investors planning \u200bsmall-scale \u2060liquefied natural gas projects.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Before the latest announcement, Tanzania&#8217;s discovered reserves stood at about \u206057.5 \u200btrillion standard cubic feet, \u200baccording to the energy regulator.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36273,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-49197","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Homera said TPDC was already in \u200btalks with four investors planning \u200bsmall-scale \u2060liquefied natural gas projects.","published_date":"","news_description":"Homera said TPDC was already in \u200btalks with four investors planning \u200bsmall-scale \u2060liquefied natural gas projects.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49199,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49197\/revisions\/49199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}