Mtwara gas plant on progress.

After discovering of gas in Mtwara2007 as the result of work done by foreign Exploration companies such as BG Group, Exxon Mobil, Statoil, Petro bras and the government of Tanzania are making all the efforts to make sure that in a period of seven years to come the plant of Mtwara will work effectively   

The ministry of energy and minerals of Tanzania during 2012 signed an agreement of USD 1.225bn through a loan provided by the foreigners to finance construction of the pipeline to allow them starting to construct the pipeline from mtwara to Dar-es-Salaam http://www.ippmedia.com

The government officially started construction of the mnazi Bay to Dar es salaam gas pipeline project on Thursday November 8, 2012 approximated to be complete after seven years to come, www.thecitizen.co.tz in this year the various components of the gas pipeline project are taking place, the long term gas sales agreement to supply natural gas from the discovered gas field to a new pipeline was executed in September 2014. The company plans to produce up to 130mmcf/d of gas for delivery into the pipeline and hopes to increase that supply to 270mmcf/d within five years.

That pipe is of 24-30 inch size and 532km compared to that of Sangos it is expecting that it will have the capacity of transmitting the high level volume of the gas where by the gas will be supplied to society at any time and also the sales will be increased.

Currently the project has work positively; so far some of the initiatives of digging the stretch from Mtwara to Dar-es-salaam, and lowering down the pipe are on the progress also the receiving facilities of gas and greater water pressure on Bomba (hydostatic pressure test) are completed.

Extraction of gas is a major way of achieving development for any country so far a country can benefit by reducing the cost of imported gas from outside countries, accelerating the nation economic growth, also the increase of use natural gas for domestic and reduction of deforestation to many countries.

The Tanzanians also will benefit from that plant by getting employment opportunities since it is approximated that more than 10,000 people will be employed http://www.tpsftz.org  also development of infrastructures and industries in Tanzania

Short summary of the second day training

During the second training day, what I like is, the way of facilitating by Mr. Peik Johansson whereby he engaged us on doing more practices on how can we design our bogs how to make changes in our blogs and making new settings to our blogs I might say it was new to me I learn t a lot .

Honestly I dislike nothing from the training all were good to me, I learn' t on how to  research by the use of internet as the process of writing for investigative journalism , I also learn' t on how to find information  from Google searching engine(advance searching) whereby we searched different issues like inflation rate of Tanzania , world press freedom day, population statistics of Iringa municipality , finally we were given the  task of choosing one topic among the provided for doing research on internet and write it with our own words.   

Short summary of the first day training

During the first training day, what I like is interaction with various people from different places for instance I met with my lecturers from Iringa University, I also like the way of facilitating by Mr. Peik Johansson I might say that I’m happy for getting the chance of attending this training.

Honestly I dislike nothing from the first day training all were good to me, I learnt on how to follow proper procedures on how to create blog and posting information too, I also getting involved in discussion with my colleagues whereby we discussed a lot on how to use social media like face book and instagram as a source for investigative internet journalism.

my story

My name is Stella Mnishi, Iam a graduate of Bachelor of Arts in journalism at Iringa University, currently im living in mbeya region.

I’m working at Teofilo Kisanji University as Tutor for journalism and mass communication studies.

In this week I am in training of investigative internet journalism at Open University branch of mbeya which is organized by media institute of southern Africa (MISA) and VIKES.

I’m expecting at the end of this training I will have knowledge on how to use internet as the source of getting news and information and how to deal with investigative journalism by the use of internet.