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            <title>Seriti Green calls for faster permitting to support energy transition, job creation</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mulilo CEO Jan Fourie speaks to Engineering News at the Africa Energy Forum in Cape Town about the priorities for South Africa's renewable energy sector, the investment and policy actions needed to accelerate energy development, and the role of clean energy in supporting Africa's industrialisation ambitions.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Globeleq CEO Jonathan Hoffman speaks to Engineering News at the Africa Energy Forum in Cape Town about the key developments shaping the continent's energy landscape and the opportunities, challenges and investment priorities influencing future energy infrastructure growth.]]></description>
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            <title>Creecy urges collaboration, LNG and ports reform at fuels imbizo</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has said that South Africa’s logistics recovery and long-term energy security will depend on the closer collaboration between government and the fuels industry, as the country works to reclaim its position as a leading regional transport and logistics hub. Addressing delegates on the second day of this year’s Fuels Industry Imbizo, hosted by industry organisation the Fuels Industry Association of South Africa, the Minister described the fuels sector as one of the country’s most strategic industries owing to its role in enabling mobility, supporting trade and logistics and underpinning economic activity.]]></description>
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            <title>Standard Bank outlines macroeconomic spinoffs from $30bn Rovuma LNG project</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Standard Bank has published a bullish macroeconomic assessment of the giant Rovuma liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in northern Mozambique, which has been described as the largest commercial project in Africa’s history but which has faced protracted delays following a deadly insurgency in Cabo Delgado in 2021. The onshore project has a current estimated capital cost of $30-billion and has been expanded to a yearly production of 18-million tonnes from an initial nameplate of 15-million tonnes.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Eskom has signed heads of agreement with Zululand Energy Terminal (ZET) with the intention of becoming the ‘foundation customer’ for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal that ZET intends building at Berth 207 in the South Dunes precinct of the Port of Richards Bay. ZET is a joint venture between Vopak Terminal Durban and Transnet Pipelines, and was selected in 2024 as the preferred bidder to develop, construct and operate a new LNG terminal at the KwaZulu-Natal deepwater port. Vopak Terminal Durban is owned by Royal Vopak, of the Netherlands and the Reatile Group.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has signed a 25-year terminal operator agreement with Ukwanda LNG, to develop an onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification facility at the Port of Ngqura, in the Eastern Cape. Ukwanda LNG is a JV between Tamasa Energy Group and the State-owned Strategic Fuel Fund, and operationalisation of the full terminal, with a yearly capacity of 3.6-million tons, is targeted for 2035.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Rwanda's foreign minister said on Tuesday that Mozambique had secured the funds for Rwanda's army to continue its deployment in the insurgency-hit and gas-rich Cabo Delgado province.  Rwanda sent troops to northern Mozambique in 2021, at Mozambique's request, to help stabilise areas previously overrun by an Islamic State-linked insurgency.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Industrial Gas Users Association-Southern Africa (IGUA-SA) has outlined the policy requirements it believes are now required to mitigate what would otherwise be a steep decline in gas supply to domestic industry by 2030. Described as a ‘gas cliff’ the fall-off is anticipated when existing supply from Mozambique’s Pande-Temane fields is no longer available to industrial consumers from 2028 and after Sasol ends its temporary two-year supply of methane-rich gas, produced using coal.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[In this article, Naviara Energy founder and director and Cresco Project Finance energy strategy advisory partner Dominic Goncalves writes that South Africa's planned gas-to-power are unlikely to be commissioned by 2030, while the current conflict in the Middle East is creating further complications in terms of how liquefied natural gas (LNG) is perceived globally and in South Africa.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an effort to support African and Caribbean economies affected by the ongoing Middle East conflict, multilateral trade finance institution African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) reports that it will make available $10-billion under its Gulf Crisis Response Programme (GCRP). The bank states that the programme aims to limit economic shocks affecting countries that rely on fuel, liquefied natural gas (LNG), fertilisers and food imports from the Gulf region. It does this by providing short-term foreign exchange and liquidity support to member States.]]></description>
            <author>Devina Haripersad</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Gas monetisation and broader gas cooperation will become central to strengthening energy ties between Senegal and Nigeria, following a high-level working visit aimed at deepening collaboration across the oil and gas value chain, reports energy industry organisation the African Energy Chamber. The chamber states that the March visit included Senegal’s Energy Minister Birame Soulèye Diop and representatives from national oil company Petrosen, who met with Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Senator Heineken Lokpobiri and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company in Abuja.]]></description>
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            <title>Global energy demand up 1.3% in 2025, electricity demand up by 3% – IEA</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Global energy demand growth slowed to 1.3% in 2025, which is slightly below the preceding decade’s average of 1.4% and significantly lower than in 2024, while global electricity demand increased by about 3%, which is more than twice the rate of overall energy demand growth, says international organisation the International Energy Agency (IEA). The main reasons for the slowdown in global energy demand were lower global economic growth, less extreme temperatures in some regions and rapid uptake of more efficient technologies.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Even under the low-carbon scenario, modelled by consulting firm Bain & Co in its 'Global Energy and Materials Outlook 2026' report, fossil fuel supply constitutes 52% of global primary energy supply by 2040 and the world warms by 2.1 °C by 2100. Even in the most coordinated decarbonisation scenario, climate impacts are severe and require that capital be allocated to resilience strategies, it notes.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <title>Middle East conflict drives renewed interest in shale exploration in some countries</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Amid conflict in the Middle East, a new research paper from energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie (WoodMac) has highlighted the importance of elevating strategic energy security priorities as countries seek supply diversification. The consultancy states in its ‘A hydrocarbon copy: the upstream industry’s return to international shale exploration’ paper that international shale exploration can play a key role in meeting those goals.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its 2026 growth projection for the South African economy to only 1% from a January projection of 1.4%, as it warned that the outbreak of war in the Middle East threatened to throw the global economy off course and exact a high economic toll on many oil-importing countries. The IMF has also reduced the growth outlook for sub-Saharan Africa to 4.3% from 4.6%.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The heads of the International Energy Agency (IEA), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and World Bank Group have jointly warned that fuel and fertiliser prices may remain high for a prolonged period even if regular shipping flows resume through the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement after a meeting of the coordination group the three entities established in early April to maximise their response to the energy and economic impacts of the war in the Middle East, they indicated that the negative effects could linger given the damage to infrastructure as a result of the conflict.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Having successfully hosted a two-day inaugural KZN Energy Indaba tailored to the prospects of Richards Bay and the broader KwaZulu-Natal, Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone (RBIDZ) and the province’s Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs are positioning the region as a leading energy hub and investment destination. ]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Amid a challenging energy landscape, diesel-based power generation remains one of the predominant standby energy sources across the African continent, despite diesel generator demand slowly plateauing, says global diesel and alternative fuel generators manufacturer Cummins power generation markets Europe, Middle East, India and Africa executive director Ignacio Gonzalez. Although there is a need for a “sensible balance” between global decarbonisation efforts and Africa’s need for reliable power, in practice, energy security continues to “come first” across most African markets.]]></description>
            <author>Nadine Ramdass</author>
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            <title>Fuel price surge adds cost pressures, sparks supply security debate in S Africa</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With fuel prices set to rise steeply next week, South Africans are bracing for new affordability pressures, and debates are also raging about how the country should mitigate security of supply and external pricing threats. Terence Creamer discusses how these debates are playing out.  ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Given the increasing depths and complexity of orebodies, high and volatile energy costs, logistics bottlenecks and growing demand for safer and sustainable operations, the adoption of digital technologies is now essential as a baseline for mine safety, sustainability and competitiveness. This message echoed throughout Creamer Media’s ‘New Mining Technologies’ webinar on February 25, facilitated by South African Capital Equipment Export Council (SACEEC) CEO Eric Bruggeman, with the panelists including public-private partnership Mandela Mining Precinct executive director Julie Courtnage, original-equipment manufacturer (OEM) Bell Equipment group marketing head Stephen McNeill and multinational engineering company Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions automation and digitisation business line manager Kabelo Nkoana.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <title>Vopak delays investment on South African LNG project to 2028</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dutch tank storage and terminal operator Vopak has pushed back a final investment decision (FID) on South Africa's first liquefied natural gas terminal to 2028, a senior executive said on Wednesday. The company had planned to approved the project earlier this year, but a September court order halted power utility Eskom's plans to develop a 3 000 MW gas-powered plant at Richards Bay, slowing progress.]]></description>
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