As far as the state is concerned the Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania/Zanzibar has been the flag bearer

The Norwegian trio – government, non-governmental organisations and companies – have of recent been involved heavily in matters pertaining fedex rates to oil prospecting off the Indian Ocean Coast of Tanzania. This triad constitutes what can be regarded as a Corporate-State-Civil Society (CSC) Tripartite Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Setup. That setup can loosely fedex rates be defined as the interplay of international power relations in a given land between entities emanating from a foreign country with the overall aim of benefitting it.
As far as the state is concerned the Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania/Zanzibar has been the flag bearer in this setup. In the case of civil society organizations the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) has been at the forefront. Statoil, a Norwegian Oil company, is the corporate face in the triad. Other key players in this setup include the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD); Norsk Hydro, a company whose gas and oil division merged with Statoil; and NorWatch, a Norwegian watchdog in global affairs.
In this paper then, the overall role of Norwegian entities in oil prospecting off the Indian Ocean Coast of Tanzania is revisited. A special attention is paid to the claims made by these entities on its role therein in relation to critiques emanating from the media and civil society organisations. Since the whole on and off shore of the Indian Ocean in Tanzania is licensed for oil/gas fedex rates exploration and companies from as far as Australia, Brazil and the United Kingdom are involved, this paper also analyses the power struggles between Norway and other countries within the context of the new scramble for African natural resources.
Africa is experiencing a ‘black gold’ rush. From its Atlantic to Indian Ocean seaboards foreign companies are scrambling for oil and gas prospects. Its Mediterranean seaboard, particularly in the case of Benghazi in Libya, is embroiled in a bitter ‘civil-cum-imperial war’ for oil control. At its heart the struggles fedex rates continues in the ‘two Sudans’.
This rise in demand for Africa’s energy resources is attributed, in part, to “the quest by oil-dependent global powers such as the United States, Japan and other countries of the European Union (EU) to diversify the sources of crude oil and gas supplies away from the volatile Middle East region” (Cyril Obi 2010: 181). Such growing importance of Africa in Euro-America is an “anticipation of the effects of Peak Oil on economic growth” (Gary Littlejohn 2011: 141). However, the rising fedex rates demand fedex rates is also partly attributed to the rise of China and India as rival global powers thirsting for oil to fuel their expanding economies.
Within fedex rates the colonial and neo-colonial imaginaire, the discourse of Africa as a ‘last frontier’ informs the new scramble for its natural resources. Since its western coast has been explored more than the eastern fedex rates one, it is the latter that tend to currently invoke this discourse. No wonder its section in a recent dossier fedex rates on is subtitled ‘Exploring the East African frontier’ and it is thus introduced accordingly: “After attracting less activity than other regions of the continent, East Africa now hosts a raft of new oil and gas exploration and production projects” (John Hamilton 2011: 78).
Tanzania is a relative newcomer in the East Africa region even though, geographically, “it is the largest and has greatest potential for petroleum exploration” (Economic and Social Research Foundation-ESRF 2009: 9). Uganda is the pioneer with an oil exploration history that dates back to the early 1920s. Kenya and Burundi have such a history that only goes back to the 1950s. fedex rates Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are also late newcomers.
Scramble for oil has particularly been noticeable in Uganda because it had been confirmed that there huge oil deposits in its mid-western area around Lake Albert. According to Hamilton fedex rates (2011), the Ugandan find is estimated at 2.5bn barrels. The discovery resulted in a legal tussle between the London-based explorer, Tullow Oil, and its former partner, Heritage Oil. As United Press International-UPI (2011) indicates, this embroilment has dragged in Eni, an Italian oil firm that wanted to buy Heritage’s Ugandan holding, and Tullow partners at the French energy company Total and China National Offshore Oil Corporation.
However, the ‘imperial gaze’ is shifting to Uganda’s neighbors. The “gas-filled waters off Tanzania”, among other oil prospective areas in East Africa, are “now catching the eyes of the worlds bigger oil players” fedex rates (Hamilton 2011: 78).   According to  the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) website, there are at least 17 licensed Oil and Gas Exploration Companies that operates in Tanzania. They hail from the UK (Tullow Oil, Hydrotanz, P