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T A N Z A N I A

Project:

Support to Petroleum Data Arhive or Tanzania operated by TPDc

Cooperating institution:

Tanzania Petroleum Development corporation ( TPDc)

TPDc was ormed in 1969. The primary role was to oversee the operations o Agip.

Following the disovery o the Songo Songo Gas feld, and subsequent relinquish-

ment by Agip, TPDc undertook the urther appraisal and planning

o the ommerialisation o the gas feld. TPDc is now geared to managing Songo

Songo interests as well as exploration in other basins in the ountry.

The mandate o the orporation is to spearhead, ailitate and undertake oil explo-

ration and development in Tanzania.

Goal: Inreased soial and eonomi growth in Tanzania through efient

exploration and exploitation o the petroleum resoures in a sustainable way.

Objective:To enhane the quality and apaity o the National Arhive o

Petroleum Data in TPDc, Dar es Salaam, to transribe, store and manage all

relevant petroleum data whih the upstream petroleum industry need to

operate efiently in Tanzania.

Project period: January 2005 - Deember 2007

Total budget: NOK 1.94 mill

Programme

The programme onsists o the ollowing main elements: Quality ontrol o seismi tape arhive Upgrade equipment and ailities Upgrade and training, seismi arhive loation system Enable in-house transription rom old to new media Regional ooperation with Mozambique on transriptionContact:

TPDc: Omary Mtunguja, Prinipal Geophysiist, mtunguja.tpd@raha.om

NPD: ystein Kristiansen, Projet Manager/Jan Allan Eide, Projet coordinator

oystein.kristiansen@npd.no jan-allan.eide@npd.no

Cooperating institutions in Norway:NORAD

Brie history o the projetNORAD has previously supported the establishment o a Petroleum Data Arhive

at TPDc in Dar es Salaam rom 1985 to 1997 under the TAN051 projet. At that

time onsiderable resoures were used to reormat Tanzanian petroleum data to

more modern storage media. The data projet was part o a larger projet, whih

also oused at supporting the ommerialisation o the Song Songo Gas Projet.

Unortunately the projet was not ontinued at that time by NORAD and both the

support to the Petroleum Data Arhive and the assistane to MEM or the Songo

Songo terminated.

NPD still has some o the old TPDc data in our data storage and we have sine

1997 been in the position to over priority needs or opies o data when TPDc

has requested suh support.

cOUNTRY FAcTS:Ofcial Name:

United Republi o Tanzania

Capital:

Dar es Salaam

Legislative ofes have been

transerred to Dodoma,

whih is planned as the new

national apital; the National

Assembly now meets there

on regular basis

Chie o state:

President Jakaya Kikwete.

The president is both

hie o state and head

o government

Population:

37 445 392 (2006)

Petroleum sector,

key fgures:

Oil prodution: 0Annual gas prodution:

416 mill m3 (2005)

Organisation o the setor:

Ministry o Energy and

Minerals o Tanzania (MEM)

Tanzania Petroleum

Development

corporation ( TPDc)

National oil ompany

responsible or promotion

and to ailitate and

undertake oil exploration

and development in

Tanzania

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6.14The urrent projet to revitalize the Petroleum Data

Arhive reeived the initial support rom the INP in-

stitutional support programmes in Mozambique,

supported by the Embassy in Maputo and the INP

chairman Mabote. The projet has greatly benefted

the regional ooperation between the two Petroleum

Data centers in Maputo and Dar es Salaam. There is at

the moment inreasing interest or exploration in East

Aria. capaity to provide old data to the international

petroleum industry and apaity to reeive new data or

registration and storage is thereore very important.

Ativities in 2006Training o operators and maintenane personnel

was initiated in February in parallel with hardware

maintenane by TSS engineers. Not all maintenane

ould be undertaken in DSM, two 4280-drives were

shipped to Norway or repairs.

The meta-database ontaining all projet inputs

has been brought up to date.

Tape drives returned to TPDc in May. One ound

to be working

June, one IBM 3590 drive developed problems and

was deommissioned. Remaining 3590 was used or

both integrity and opying.

Additional hardware maintenane was done by

Khangela consulting during a 10 day period in August.

Integrity hek o random inputs was initiated.

TPDc personnel have run integrity tests on enough

input (10 per ent - i.e. 400 items) tapes to ensure that

the data, in general, has not deteriorated. This has been

time onsuming due to varying TANEScO power sup-

ply and the at that only the single loader 3480 was

running. The use o an in-house generator has enabled

progress. The results o this testing is promising as the

tapes have been ound to be readable although some

inonsistenies between label-ino and atual data on

tape our.

Sanning o observer reports and other doumentation

is well underway, but had to be halted due to lak o

disspae. More dis apaity will have to be

purhased.

A data set opied rom 3480 to 3590 has been produed

on request rom Petrodel Resoures in onnetion with

a Prodution Sharing contrat (PSA) with TPDc and the

Government.

Plans 2007Start o ull sale reormatting o all projet 3480s to

3590 is planned or April 2007.

Initiation o new database or 3590-outputs.

Additional dis apaity will be installed.

Installation o additional 3590 and maintenane o

existing hardware will be undertaken.

Soure: PetroView