East Africa is fast becoming a lucrative area for natural gas and oil reserves. But local governments must balance national interests and those of the oil companies if they are to develop a successful mining strategy, write Peter Kasanda, Paul Jones and Lucy Minde
East Africa’s oil and gas market has transformed over the past year following significant gas finds off the coasts of Tanzania and Mozambique, the discovery of oil in Kenya and the movement of Uganda towards development and production of its petroleum reserves.
