A del­e­ga­tion of gov­ern­ment and state sec­tor of­fi­cials from the East African state of Tan­za­nia ar­rived in Port-of-Spain over the week­end and will be con­duct­ing a study tour of T&T's en­er­gy sec­tor un­til Sat­ur­day. The del­e­ga­tion in­cludes Tan­zan­ian MPs, along with of­fi­cials from that coun­try's Min­istry of En­er­gy and Min­er­als (MEM) and ex­ec­u­tives from the Tan­za­nia Pe­tro­le­um De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (TPDC).

The 16-mem­ber of­fi­cial del­e­ga­tion is head­ed by Kas­sim Ma­jali­wa, the Deputy Min­is­ter for Re­gion­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment, in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, ac­cord­ing to a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day by T&T's Min­istry of En­er­gy.

The pri­ma­ry sub­ject of the study tour is the man­age­ment of pe­tro­le­um nat­ur­al re­sources in T&T. The del­e­ga­tion is ex­pect­ed to pay cour­tesy calls on sev­er­al gov­ern­ment min­is­ters, in­clud­ing the Min­is­ters of For­eign Af­fairs, En­er­gy and En­er­gy Af­fairs, Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion & Skills Train­ing, and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment.

While in Trinidad, the del­e­ga­tion will have an op­por­tu­ni­ty to vis­it sev­er­al of this coun­try's en­er­gy in­stal­la­tions and meet with top lev­el ex­ec­u­tives in state en­er­gy com­pa­nies and the En­er­gy Cham­ber. The of­fi­cial del­e­ga­tion will de­part Trinidad and To­ba­go on De­cem­ber 8. Tan­za­nia, a mem­ber of the Com­mon­wealth, has one of the fastest grow­ing economies in East Africa.

In Oc­to­ber 2012, Tan­za­nia raised its es­ti­mate of re­cov­er­able nat­ur­al gas re­serves to 33 tril­lion cu­bic feet from 28.74 tcf ear­li­er in 2012 fol­low­ing re­cent large dis­cov­er­ies off­shore. Most of Tan­za­nia's nat­ur­al gas re­serves are off­shore, and it is ex­pect­ed to in­crease with nat­ur­al gas ex­ports through an LNG fa­cil­i­ty on the hori­zon.