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Songas

Contacts

Songas Corporate Office
Cape Town Fish Market Building
Msasani
P. O. Box 6342
Dar es salaam
Tanzania

Tel: +255 22 245 2160

Songas Limited
Ubungo Power Plant
Corner of Nelson Mandela/Morogoro Road
P. O. Box 6342
Dar es salaam
Tanzania

Tel: +255 22 245 2160
songas.info@songas.com

Description

Songas is a majority owned by Globeleq, a leading independent power producer in Africa. Other investors in Songas include TPDC, TDFL and TANESCO. The Government of Tanzania, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Finance as well as the World Bank and CDC played a key part in the project?s development.

Songas generates electricity using gas from the Songo Songo Island gas fields, off the coast of southern Tanzania. The project reached commercial operation in August 2004 and was immediately expanded to reach its current capabilities in August 2005.  The project had a total cost of approximately US$320m.

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