The Upstream Petroleum Resources Development Bill calls for the state to take a 20% stake in exploration and production ventures, and proposes the creation of a new state-owned enterprise (SOE), the State Petroleum Company. Given South Africa’s track record on SOEs, what could go wrong?
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Following the Brulpadda gas discovery announced in February 2019, the recent Luiperd gas discovery, made off the south coast of Mossel Bay, has been widely…
GlobalData questions South Africa’s gas development
Discoveries offshore South Africa have “no clear route to commercialisation”, according to GlobalData.
Updated: 26/01/2021, 8:33 am
Emissions rise from towers at the Sasol Ltd. Sasol One Site in Sasolburg, South Africa, on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.
Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
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Discoveries offshore South Africa have “no clear route to commercialisation”, according to GlobalData.
Total announced the Brulpadda discovery in February 2019 and the Luiperd follow up in October 2020.