Dar es Salaam — Tanzania has saved up to $7.4 billion (about Sh15.5 trillion) by using natural gas as a source of energy from July 2004 to June 2015, according to calculations by the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC).
The country saved this amount by using natural gas to replace expensive fuel such as heavy furnace oil (HFO), diesel, petrol, jet fuel and others, which would have been imported from abroad.
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