Petroleum producers seek permission to coordinate operations, avoid shortages
Sapia has applied for exemption from the Competition Act. Petrochemicals companies want to coordinate operations to avoid critical shortages.
Sapia has applied for exemption from the Competition Act. Petrochemicals companies want to coordinate operations to avoid critical shortages.
Africa Energy has identified a “a new world class oil and gas play…with substantial follow-on potential” near Brulpadda. Hope springs.
Total SA has deployed a rig to South Africa to look for more oil near a massive discovery, in a rare example of exploration in a frontier area.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc is planning to acquire an oil-block stake in a second deal in South Africa’s relatively unexplored waters, months after a major discovery by Total SA boosted the country’s hydrocarbon prospects.
Total SA’s discovery of South Africa’s first oil in deep water could prove to be a bonanza for a country lacking crude reserves of its own and prompt a rush from other majors.
Simon says in an era where leadership is ‘defined by travel voucher scandals, or Gold Field’s troughs, or Louis Vuitton bags stuffed with cash”…it’s best the stuff should just stay in the ground.
It could take almost a decade before any production starts on the Brulpadda gas find just off the southern coastline of South Africa, explains a TOTAL exec.
Total SA said it has opened up a new “world-class” oil and gas province off the coast of SA after making a significant gas condensate discovery there.
Sasol, the South African manufacturer of oil and chemical products, is looking at options including the possible sale of a refinery due to the country’s pending cleaner fuel standards.
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