📋 Tender Overview
Scope :
The 1,710km-long, upcoming Tazama New project will be operated by TAZAMA Pipelines. onshore product pipeline, with a maximum diameter of 12 inches, will start in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and ends in Northwestern Province (Zambia).
The Tazama New project is expected to commence operations in 2027 and will be owned by TAZAMA Pipelines.
The Tazama New project is associated with the 1710km Tazama.
The ministers discussed the best ways on how the new oil pipeline of about 24 inches will be built from Dar es Salaam to the landlocked nation, where an online entry says TAZAMA Pipelines Ltd operates a 1,710 km long crude oil pipeline which runs from Dar es Salaam to Indeni refinery in Ndola, in the Zambian central region.
Widening the pipeline is meant to boost trade and meet the high demand for energy, meanwhile as the pipeline currently does not meet these requirements due the narrow width and low crude oil pumping capacity.
It will also transport oil to the southern regions of Tanzania and thus reduce transportation costs and provide the people with cheap fuel, the host minister declared, noting that the pipeline will have the same length of 1,710 km, taking up $2.5bn investments.
The new pipeline will provide for unloading services in Morogoro, Makambako, Mbeya and Songwe, ending bulk transportation by trucks to those regions.
A team of negotiators is starting work right away on how the project will be carried out, he said, elaborating that the government is ready to implement the strategic project.
The good relations between two countries enable project initiatives and implementation, including the TAZAMA pipeline and the 400 kV electricity transmission project, he specified.
The visiting minister said that the country really needs the project and the president expects that the implementation will be carried out speedily, such that it can be completed within two years.
