Tanzania Mbolea and Petrochemical Company

Tanzania Mbolea and Petrochemical Company (TMPC), a Tanzanian company that was specifically formed to design, build and operate a fertilizer-manufacturing factory in the Mtwara Region of Tanzania, using natural gas as raw material.

When completed, the plant will be the largest fertilizer-manufacturing factory in Africa, with capacity of 3.8 million metric tonnes of product annually.

Location
The factory is located on 400 ha of land in Mtwara, in the Mtwara Region, in extreme southeastern Tanzania, "close to large offshore gas plants". This is approximately 565 km, by road, southeast of Dar es Salaam, the commercial centre and largest city of Tanzania. This is about 1005 km, by road, southeast of Dodoma, the capital of the country.

Overview
Tanzania Mbolea and Petrochemical Company, is a special purpose vehicle company (SPVC), established in 2016, to specifically design, build and operate the "Mtwara Fertilizer Factory". The consortium in TMPC includes 1. The Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) 2. Ferrostaal Industrial Projects of Germany 3. Haldor Topsoe AS of Denmark and 4. Fauji Fertiliser Company Limited of Pakistan. This SPV will own 20 percent of the factory. Other potential investors in the factory include National Social Security Fund of Tanzania and Minjingu Mines.

The factory is valued at $3 billion, as of August 2017. The factory is expected to employ a total of 5,000 people, during construction and manufacturing operations. Construction began in 2016, with commissioning expected in 2020. In 2021, the company began building a petrochemical complex in Lindi, Tanzania.

Ownership
Tanzania Mbolea and Petrochemical Company is owned by the following corporate entities as outlined in the table below: