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 enterprise, Sasol, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to "collaboratively investigate and study prospective future liquified natural gas (LNG) requirements".
This can be according to a joint statement by the two businesses, following the signing ceremony from the MoU on Friday.
"The collaboration aims to ascertain the prospective volumes that South Africa needs to determine a viable LNG import sector, along with the enabling infrastructure, and can be facilitated by government-to-authorities relations where needed."
"This initiative concentrates on applying gas for energy generation to provide important base load energy and position gas as being a important enabler of re-industrialisation, while also ensuring ongoing supply to the market by unlocking world 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 sasol vacancies 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 as Eskom, existing and future customers, read more 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 market, while outlining the eskom challenges associated with the long-term commitments required for LNG imports," the statement said.