Eskom and Sasol Have Signed A Gas-For-Fuel MoU Agreement
Eskom and Sasol Have Signed A Gas-For-Fuel MoU Agreement
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Friday, September 20, 2024
Eskom and energy and chemical business, Sasol, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to "collaboratively investigate and investigate possible future liquified natural gas (LNG) requirements".
This is based on a joint statement by the two organizations, following the signing ceremony of the MoU on Friday.
"The collaboration aims to determine the possible volumes that South Africa demands to establish a practical LNG import market place, combined with the enabling infrastructure, and will be facilitated by federal government-to-government relations where by important."
"This initiative focuses on using gasoline for energy generation to supply critical base load energy and position gas being a key enabler of re-industrialisation, when also ensuring ongoing supply to the market 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 sasol 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 as Eskom, existing and future customers, suppliers, and infrastructure developers.
"The research findings from the first phase of the Sasol-Eskom eskom careers collaboration will guide the necessary role players and investors required to offer the best prospects for sasol vacancies South Africa's energy market, while outlining the challenges associated with the long-term commitments required for LNG imports," the statement said.