Tanesco faces cut-off over Sh53bn gas debt

Maurel & Prom general manager for Tanzania and Namibia, Mr Christopher Maitre, shows his company’s gas assets on a map in Dar es Salaam last week. He told The Citizen On Sunday they would be forced to stop gas production due to unpaid bills, a situation that has  forced them to push back maintenance. PHOTO |SAID KHAMIS 

What you need to know:

  • Maurel & Prom, a natural gas firm in Mnazi Bay, supplied the state power utility with a total of 5,713 MMscf of natural gas from August, 2016 to May, this year.
  • The natural gas was supplied to Mtwara and Dar es Salaam power generating stations, but the bills are yet to be serviced, The Citizen can report.