@article{2016:majamba:tanzania,
title = {Tanzania’s Oil and Gas Industry: Legal Regime, Management and Access Rights},
year = {2016},
note = {This article examines the extent to which the legal and management
framework governing the rapidly developing oil and gas industry in
Tanzania provides access rights to key stake- holders. The focus on
management and access rights has been confined to rights to access the
resource by the government, the private sector and the local
communities. The article sets out the historical context that is
necessary for a thorough understanding of the develop- ment of the
industry and the legal and regulatory framework put in place by the
government to address issues of management, to access rights and to
control of the industry. The analysis focuses primarily on the
provisions of the recently enacted laws, the Petro- leum Act, the Oil
and Gas Revenue Act and the Extractive Industry Transparency and Ac-
countability Act. These laws were passed towards the end of 2015 in a
charged session of the Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania
which was the last before the gruelling National Elections that
followed. Members of the opposition Parties in Parliament had cried
foul, alleging that citizens had been hood-winked arguing that the
process of presenting the Petroleum Bill had been unnecessarily
fast-tracked.1 In the context of access rights by the government, the
article’s primary focus is on the legislative framework governing
access to the oil and gas subsector by the government. The main focus
is on Tanzania Mainland. However, in the process of analysing access
rights of government, the article also brings to the fore the
controversial issues relating to access rights and control of oil and
gas resources between the governments of Tanzania Mainland and
Zanzibar.},
journal = {RiA Recht in Afrika | Law in Africa | Droit en Afrique},
pages = {3--23},
author = {Majamba, Hamudi Ismail},
volume = {19},
number = {1}
}