State-owned Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) is in the market for a liquefied natural gas transaction adviser, another sign that the country’s long-delayed $30-billion LNG project is starting to gain momentum, writes Iain Esau.

Tanzania’s government received loan finance from the African Development Bank toward the cost of developing capabilities in the resource extraction sector and aims to use part of these funds to contract a consultancy to act as an LNG transaction adviser for the government negotiation team, or GNT.