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TIPER (oil terminal)

Industry	Tank farm
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Key people	Abdulkarim Mruma (chairman) Daniel Belair (MD)
Total equity	TSh 100 million (2004)
Owner	GoT / Oryx Energies (50%)

The Tanzania International Petroleum Reserves Limited (TIPER) is a joint venture between the Government of Tanzania (GoT) and Oryx Energies. It operates the largest oil terminal in the country, and will have a storage capacity of 213,200 m by 2015.

The terminal is located at Kigamboni, opposite the Port of Dar es Salaam.

History

Born out of the ancient AGIP Refinery and originally built in 1966, TIPER is now a vast storage terminal for petroleum products. After the closure of the refinery in 2000, the facilities that remained underwent major rehabilitation and improvement. TIPER enjoys a Bonded Warehouse Status. Which is key in attracting storage of large volumes of petroleum products. Stored products can be distributed to the domestic market, exported to neighboring countries or even re-exported by ship. TIPER is jointly owned by the Tanzanian Government and the Geneva based Oryx Oil & Gas Group, who are also responsible for the facilities management. A team of 61 experienced staff ensure constant customer satisfaction.

The plant was commissioned as an oil refinery in the 1960s. It was then known as the Tanzanian and Italian Petroleum Refinary Limited (TIPER), owned jointly by the GoT and Agip (Tanzania) Limited. After the signing of the agreement in 1963, it was built by the Italian state-owned Eni between February 1965 and June 1966 at a cost of TSh 100 million. In 1969, the GoT purchased half of the shares. It was a small refinery with a capacity to process 600,000 tonnes per annum.

Prior to the liberalisation of the petroleum industry in 1997, TIPER produced 30 percent of the local requirements and the rest was imported by the state-owned Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC).

In 1991, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), operations ceased at the refinery to implement the country's Structural Adjustment Program. The IMF argued that it was operating at 60% of its capacity.

In 1999, Swiss based Oryx Energies acquired Agip's assets in Tanzania.

In 2012, the GoT was considering using the oil terminal as part of its national strategic petroleum reserve.

In November 2014, the government as the silent partner, suggested that the firm be led by an independent team. Oryx Energies disagreed. The firm expects to build new storage tanks and thereby increase its capacity by an additional 100,000 m.

Corporate affairs

See also

• Tazama Pipeline

References

1. "Annual Report" (PDF). Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation. 2005. p. 45. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
2. ^ "Tiper hands over Sh1.3bn to State after Sh6bn profit". The Citizen. 16 June 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
3. ^ "Tiper to instal on-stream tanks". Daily News. 6 August 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
4. B. S. Hoyle (26 July 2012). Seaports and Development: The Experience of Kenya and Tanzania. Routledge. pp. 132–. ISBN 978-1-136-86604-3.
5. ^ Andrew Coulson (25 July 2013). Tanzania: A Political Economy. OUP Oxford. pp. 211–. ISBN 978-0-19-967996-6.
6. John M. Stopford; John H. Dunning; Klaus Haberich (1999). The World Directory of Multinational Enterprises. Facts on File. ISBN 9780871964403.
7. "Tanzania to revive oil import monopoly". TheEastAfrican. 19 November 2007. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
8. Lymo, Karl (10 April 2009). "IMF can atone for its sins by building us a refinery". TheEastAfrican. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
9. "Oryx Energies – Tanzania". Oryx Energies. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
10. "Firm set to double fuel storage capacity". The Citizen. 18 June 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
11. "Tanzania govt, Oryx differ on management of oil reserve". TheEastAfrican. 1 November 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
12. ^ "Govt gets Sh1bn in dividends". The Citizen. 10 July 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2015.

External links

• Agip (Tanzania) Ltd

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