Tanzania: Harnessing local gas and powering rural communities

The Tanzanian government and the World Bank have devised a means of exploiting the country's natural gas resources to increase the country's much needed electrification. A private international consortium, Songas, has built a 200-km underground pipeline at a cost of US $295 million to carry natural gas from the island of Songo Songo to the industrial area of Ubungo in the country's commercial centre, Dar es Salaam.