September 1894.
West Great Lake Province, East Africa.
"What's the purpose of these long steel pipes? They seem about an armful thick?" This is a question on many people's minds.
"I heard it's for a natural gas pipeline, transporting the kind of gas used for gas lamps."
The conversation was about East Africa's first industrial-scale long-distance natural gas pipeline, a project currently being prioritized by the East African Government or Ernst.
The conventional energy mineral triad, coal, oil, and natural gas—East Africa is not short on coal, but oil reserves are relatively scarce, so Ernst naturally turned his focus to natural gas.
On one hand, East Africa's natural gas resources are quite abundant; in previous generations, regions within the current East African territory like Tanzania and Mozambique had large reserves of natural gas.
