Friday, September 20, 2024

Eskom and energy and chemical enterprise, Sasol, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to "collaboratively explore and investigate possible long term liquified natural gas (LNG) requirements".

This really is according to a joint statement by the two businesses, following the signing ceremony from the MoU on Friday.

"The collaboration aims to find out the potential volumes that South Africa needs to determine a practical LNG import market place, along with the enabling infrastructure, and can be facilitated by governing administration-to-federal government relations exactly where vital."

"This initiative focuses on using gasoline for power generation to offer important base load energy and position gas being a key enabler of re-industrialisation, even though also ensuring continued supply to the market by unlocking global LNG resources.

"Furthermore, the collaboration will contribute to enhancing South Africa’s energy mix and enable the country's energy transition and decarbonisation," the joint statement read.

The MoU is expected to "explore sourcing gas within South Africa, the Southern African Development Community region, and other parts of the African continent, in addition to evaluating long-term LNG contracting".

"This will support the gas requirements for Eskom’s planned coal power station repowering and conversion to gas in the long term. The parties will also engage other state entities to enable an LNG value chain in South Africa.

"As part of its revised gas strategy, Sasol is working on enabling the future supply of LNG to South Africa by collaborating with companies such sasol bursaries as Eskom, existing and future customers, suppliers, and infrastructure developers.

"The research findings from the first phase of the Sasol-Eskom collaboration will guide the necessary role players and investors required to offer the best prospects for South Africa's energy sasol vacancies market, while outlining the challenges associated with the long-term commitments required for LNG imports," the statement said.