Eskom and Sasol Have Signed A Gas-For-Fuel MoU Document
Eskom and Sasol Have Signed A Gas-For-Fuel MoU Document
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Friday, September 20, 2024
Eskom and energy and chemical enterprise, Sasol, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to "collaboratively explore and study prospective long term liquified natural gas (LNG) requirements".
This is based on a joint statement by the two providers, following the signing ceremony of the MoU on Friday.
"The collaboration aims to ascertain the possible volumes that South Africa necessitates to establish a viable LNG import market place, combined with the enabling infrastructure, and may be facilitated by federal government-to-govt relations where by essential."
"This initiative focuses on making use of gas for electrical power generation to supply vital base load energy and position gas as a key enabler of re-industrialisation, whilst also ensuring ongoing supply to the industry by unlocking world wide 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 sasol learnerships 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 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 sasol bursaries players and investors required to offer the best prospects for South Africa's energy market, while outlining the challenges eskom associated with the long-term commitments required for LNG imports," the statement said.