Botswana had massive gas resources, Minerals and Energy Minister Charles Tibone revealed during yesterday's ministerial panel discussions at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town.

The former permanent secretary in Botswana's Minerals and Energy Ministry, who became an entrepreneur before his election to the Botswana Parliament in 2004, said initial indications were that the country had 60-trillion cubic feet of coal-bed methane gas. He said the recent coal-bed methane gas discovery held out hope for the use of gas for commercial and industrial purposes. Though the search for coal-bed methane was still at an early stage,indications were that resources would be as high as 60-trillion cubic feet of available gas. Government-funded early investigations had resulted in enticing the private sector to explore further for this gas, for which there was excellent prospectivity.

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