Tazama Pipeline
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The Tazama Pipeline is a 1710 kilometres (1,062.5 mi) long crude oil pipeline from the Single Point Mooring terminal at the outer anchorage of in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
, to the TIPER refinery in Dar-es-Salaam and the Indeni refinery in Ndola
, Zambia
. It was commissioned in 1968. The pipeline was designed for a throughput of 1.1 million tonnes per year. Currently it is handling approximately 600,000 tonnes annually. The diameter of pipeline varies between 8 and 12 in (203.2 and 304.8 mm). The pipeline is owned by Tazama Pipeline Limited, a joint company of the Governments of Zambia (66.7%) and Tanzania (33.3%). The pipeline is currently under privatization
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Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
, to the TIPER refinery in Dar-es-Salaam and the Indeni refinery in Ndola
Ndola
Ndola is the third largest city in Zambia, with a population of 495,000 . It is the industrial, commercial, on the Copperbelt, Zambia's copper-mining region, and capital of Copperbelt Province. It is also the commercial capital city of Zambia and has one of the three international airports, others...
, Zambia
Zambia
Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
. It was commissioned in 1968. The pipeline was designed for a throughput of 1.1 million tonnes per year. Currently it is handling approximately 600,000 tonnes annually. The diameter of pipeline varies between 8 and 12 in (203.2 and 304.8 mm). The pipeline is owned by Tazama Pipeline Limited, a joint company of the Governments of Zambia (66.7%) and Tanzania (33.3%). The pipeline is currently under privatization
Privatization
Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector to the private sector or to private non-profit organizations...
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