坦桑尼亚和赞比亚计划投资15亿美元修建输油管道

据管道新闻网5月31日消息称，坦桑尼亚能源部长周二表示，坦桑尼亚和赞比亚计划修建一条成品油管道，用于两国间运输石油，耗资15亿美元。

Medard Kalemani在他的部门2019年7月—2020年6月的预算报告中说，这条管道将从商业首都达累斯萨拉姆到840英里外的赞比亚矿业城市恩多拉。

Kalemani在坦桑尼亚的行政首都多多马发表讲话时没有给出该项目何时启动的时间框架，但表示在下一个财政年度，他们计划完成一项可行性研究。他也没有透露资金来源的细节。

他说：“该项目将减少使用我们港口进口燃料的国家在运输石油产品方面面临的挑战，并打开商机……”

“该项目将由赞比亚和坦桑尼亚共同实施。”

Kalemani表示，该管道还将在坦桑尼亚一侧的莫洛戈罗、伊林加、恩仲贝、姆贝亚和Songwe地区设有起始点。

坦桑尼亚和赞比亚之间已经有一条原油管道将石油输送到赞比亚，然后在恩多拉进行提炼，供当地使用。

非洲最大的铜生产国赞比亚的大部分石油需求都是通过坦桑尼亚的达累斯萨拉姆港进口的，主要来自中东。

曹海斌 摘译自 管道新闻网

原文如下：

Tanzania and Zambia Planning $1.5 billion Oil Pipeline

Tanzania and Zambia plan to build a refined products pipeline to transport petroleum between the two countries at a cost of $1.5 billion, Tanzania’s Energy minister said on Tuesday.

Medard Kalemani said in a presentation of his ministry’s 2019/20 (July-June) budget that the pipeline would run from the commercial capital Dar es Salaam to Zambia’s mining city of Ndola, some 840 miles away.

Kalemani, speaking in Tanzania’s administrative capital Dodoma, did not give a time frame for when the project would kick off, but said that in the coming fiscal year, they planned to complete a feasibility study. He also gave no details on how it would be financed.

“The project will reduce challenges in transporting petroleum products in the countries that use our ports to import fuel and open up business opportunities ...” he said.

“The project will be implemented jointly by Zambia and Tanzania.”

Kalemani said the pipeline would also have take-off points at Morogoro, Iringa, Njombe, Mbeya and Songwe regions on the Tanzanian side.

Tanzania and Zambia already have a crude oil pipeline between them transporting oil to Zambia, where it is refined in Ndola for local use.