据世界石油网站9月16日报道，坦桑尼亚表示，计划修建一条30公里长的管道，将该国的天然气供应网络从首都达累斯萨拉姆延伸至附近的Bagamoyo，为那里的工厂和家庭提供更廉价的能源。

该国一直渴望向更多城镇扩大天然气供应，尤其是允许工厂取代煤炭和进口柴油等成本更高的能源。

坦桑尼亚国家石油开发公司(TPDC)负责扩建项目的官员Evaline Rweikiza对路透表示，选择开发商的招标最迟将于10月初公布。

“我们的目标是通往Bagamoyo管道沿线的所有家庭、机构和工厂。这条管道将在2020/21财政年度早期完成。“她说。

位于坦桑尼亚东部的Bagamoyo是一个快速发展的城镇，拥有一系列大中型工厂，生产各种产品，包括钢铁和饮料。

坦桑尼亚目前正努力增加天然气的使用量，将其作为一种更廉价的能源，以帮助该国推动工业化进程。

目前，该国一半以上的电力来自天然气。

今年5月，坦桑尼亚能源部表示，2018年该国天然气消费量较三年前增长84%，达到592亿立方英尺。据估计，坦桑尼亚的可采天然气储量超过57万亿立方英尺，主要分布在南部近海油田。

李方征 编译自 世界石油

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Tanzania plans to extend its gas pipeline network

Tanzania said it planned to construct a 30-km pipeline to extend the country’s natural gas supply network from the capital Dar es Salaam to the nearby town of Bagamoyo to provide cheaper energy for factories and households there.

The country has been eager to expand supplies of natural gas to more towns to allow factories in particular to replace more costly sources of energy such as coal and imported diesel.

Evaline Rweikiza, an official at state-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) who is in charge of the expansion project, told Reuters a tender to select a developer will be announced by early October at the latest.

“We are targeting all households, institutions and factories along the pipeline to Bagamoyo. The pipeline will be completed early in the 2020/21 financial year,” she said

Bagamoyo, in eastern Tanzania, is a fast-growing town and home to a range of large and medium-sized factories producing various products including steel and beverages.

Tanzania is currently pushing to increase the uptake of natural gas as a cheaper source of energy to help fuel the industrialisation drive.

Currently more than half of the electricity generated in the country is produced from natural gas.

In May this year, Tanzania’s energy ministry said the country’s natural gas consumption had increased by 84% to 59.2 billion cubic feet (bcft) in 2018 from three years earlier. Tanzania boasts estimated recoverable gas reserves of over 57 trillion cubic feet (tcf), mostly in southern offshore fields.