Tanzania may build new LNG export facility in Lindi - minister

By Jane Xie SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Tanzania is looking at building a massive facility to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) similar to those developed by the world's biggest gas exporter Qatar and may locate it in the southern Lindi region, a minister said on Wednesday. Many top companies such as BG Group, Exxon Mobil and Statoil are at work in Tanzania to tap its gas reserves. "We are thinking of building one industrial area, like what you have in Qatar, where you have all these (LNG) plants, petrochemical industries," George Simbachawene, Tanzania's deputy minister for energy and minerals, said in an interview to Reuters on the sidelines of the Africa-Asia Oil and Gas Summit in Singapore. The government is looking at building the facility by 2020 and is zeroing in on Lindi, the second most southerly region in coastal Tanzania.