South Africa | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 7
Eskom Links Last Units to South Africa’s Grid
Eskom boasted a milestone in its efforts to overcome South Africa’s chronic electricity shortages, saying it had linked the last of four units at its new Ingula hydro-electric power plant to the grid, reported Reuters...
Saudi ACWA Eyes South African Power Project
Saudi-based ACWA Power’s CEO, Paddy Padmanathan, expects to win further business in South Africa this year as the power plant developer rides out concerns about the country’s currency to tap into its need ...
Sasol’s US Plant Costs Jumped to $11b
South African chemical and energy company Sasol reported that with the project 40% completed, the cost to construct its Lake Charles, Louisiana, chemical complex project, jumped 23.6%, to $11b from $8.9b, with the com...
Sasol Investing $1.4b in Mozambique Gas Platform
South African energy group Sasol has started drilling the first of what will be 12 new gas and oil wells in Mozambique –with first production expected in mid-2019–, where the government recently approved a production ... Sasol Commences Drilling of Mozambique PSA Licence
South African petrochemicals firm Sasol drilled its first well in its new oil and gas field in Mozambique, the company said in a statement as Reuters reported. This marked the start of its field development plan for i...
South Africa Antitrust Commission Wants More Competition in LPG
South Africa’s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) market should move toward deregulation through measures to spur competition, an Antitrust Commission recommended after a two-year inquiry into the industry. “There ar...
South Africa Moves to Develop Gas-to-Power Project
The Minister of Energy of South Africa, Tina Joemat-Pettersson, has stated that her department, in Q2 of the 2015/16 fiscal year, had solicited market information to assist in designing the Gas-to-Power programme, ESI...
South Africa to Add More Clean Power to Grid
South Africa will connect 7,000MW of renewable power to its grid by mid this year, when the first 47 projects become fully operational, the Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson told the Parliament, Reuters reported.... 
