Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi

Museveni ndiye kasema hivyo!
KItu usichokijua Total ndo ana usemi mkubwa mahali mafuta yanayosafirishwa na bomba yatakapopelekwa.I can bet you Total hana mpango wa refinery. Crude inayobaki Uganda ana plan kujisafishia mwenyewe itumike Uganda. Where does this leave the Tanga refinery?
 
Total will be using small ships, Dangote is planning to use Post - Panamax ships which no port in Tanzania can accommodate 😂😂🤣
Tanga's EACOP is the largest crude oil terminal in eastern and central Africa!
 

Kabisa, gharama za kujenga Bomba hilo ni kubwa... Walinunua gesi Hadi gharama zije kurudi ni mbali... Bado tutaendelea kuwapa nguvu ya kutusumbua.

Kama wanashida na bomba sana... Wajenge tu kwa gharama zao. Tutawapatia eneo na ulinzi. Inatosha kabisa.
 

Kenge wanataka kujipa umuhimu na kuweka shobo kwenye vitu vya watu.
 
Dangote kashasema decision ipo mikononi mwa ruto, si utalia sana
 
EACOP - Inabeba mafuta toka Uganda, South Sudan, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi na Tanzania
 

Dangote Favours Kenya’s Mombasa Over Tanzania’s Tanga for East Africa Oil Refinery​


Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has indicated he now favours Kenya’s Mombasa over Tanzania’s Tanga for a proposed 650,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery estimated at USD 15–17 billion, citing port depth, market size, and the need for protection against cheap fuel imports—less than three weeks after pledging to build the facility in Tanga.

MAY 11, 2026 2 MINUTE READ

After pledging to build a 650,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery at Tanzania’s port of Tanga, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has indicated he now favours Kenya’s Mombasa as the preferred location for the project, according to the Financial Times.

Dangote had committed to the Tanga refinery at the Africa We Build Summit in Nairobi on April 23, 2026, in the presence of Kenyan President William Ruto and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, conditional on government support.

He now leans toward Mombasa primarily because of its deeper and larger port infrastructure, and because Kenya represents a bigger market with higher fuel consumption than Tanzania.

The cost of the proposed facility remains unchanged at between USD 15 billion and USD 17 billion, with a processing capacity of 650,000 barrels per day.

For the project to proceed, he said he would require the host government to provide land, some regional financing, and protection against what he described as the dumping of cheap fuel from countries such as Russia and India, adding that no refinery in the world could survive without such protection and that if an agreement were reached, construction could begin this year.

He also left the door open for Tanzania, stating he could still build the refinery there. The final decision, he said, rests entirely with President Ruto, according to Reuters.

Industry analysts have speculated that he may be using the competing locations to negotiate a better deal from both governments.

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who was not present at the April 23 summit in Nairobi, subsequently stated publicly that she had not been consulted before the announcement, and told President Ruto directly that she had no prior knowledge of a plan that placed a major industrial project on Tanzanian soil.

Ruto, speaking at Tanzania’s parliament in Dodoma during a state visit, defended the announcement as part of broader regional consultations on industrialisation and the joint use of East Africa’s natural resources, according to Reuters.

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Are you forgetting Kenya is also a source of crude oil?😂😂.

We are not planning to hold anybody hostage, it will be a scenario of willing buyers.
which crude oil? The one that couldn't support a pipeline? wacha upumbavu!
 
So do you still think you have more vehicles than Kenya?
 
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