{
  "id": 17048959,
  "title": "Tanzania’s First Gas Find in a Decade Is Small, but It Arrives at the Right Time",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/tanzanias-first-gas-find-in-a-decade-is-small-but-it-arrives-at-the",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-29T10:59:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/news/brics/2026-10-29-tanzanias-first-gas-find-in-a-decade-is-small-but-it-arrives-at-the-right-time/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "On 27 October, Energy Minister Juma Homera stood at the Kasa-1X ST2 well in Mnazi Bay and announced Tanzania’s first natural gas discovery in about a decade: an estimated 223 billion cubic feet (6.3 billion cubic metres) in the south of the country. He called it a “major milestone” for a small oil and gas sector. The find is modest by the standards of Tanzania’s offshore giants, but where it sits…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}