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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s State-owned ports authority has initiated a bidding process for the appointment of a new private terminal operator at the Port of Cape Town’s existing liquid bulk terminal for a 25-year concession period. The brownfield site comprises a tank farm with eight storage tanks offering a combined storage capacity of about 44 430 m³, including an adjacent storage warehouse and administration building.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Global commodities trader Trafigura is among three companies vying for a 36.36% stake in South African petrochemical company Sasol’s Natref refinery, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The minority shareholding in the 108 500 barrels per day plant, South Africa's only inland crude oil refinery, is up for sale after British-based Prax Group, which bought the stake from TotalEnergies for an undisclosed sum two years ago, went into administration in 2025.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR), which is now preparing for a prolonged period of fuel supply and pricing pressure as a result of the damage to energy infrastructure during the war in the Middle East, remains confident of ongoing security of supply. However, the department is deeply concerned about the outlook for fuel prices, especially in relation to diesel, and is also urgently reviewing the composition of its Basic Fuel Price (BFP) formula to align it to the new sources of supply that have been secured since the start of the crisis and to address the issues that have given rise to the imposition of diesel surcharges.]]></description>
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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>
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            <title>Govt, industry insist there is no risk to fuel supply amid ‘panic buying’ fears</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources and the Fuels Industry Association have issued a joint statement urging South Africans not to engage in any “panic-buying” of fuel, insisting that supplies to the country remain stable for the immediate future. The joint statement comes amid concerns of possible supply disruptions as well as the prospect of extreme price hikes in diesel and petrol in April, precipitated by blockages to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz following the launch of military attacks on Iran by the US and Israel.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The rapidly expanding regional market for battery energy storage systems (BESS) is creating the commercial foundation needed to support domestic lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cell manufacturing in South Africa, a new feasibility study released by the Localisation Support Fund (LSF) posits. The study was conducted by Ernst & Young Advisory Services (EY-Parthenon), serving as an independent adviser to the LSF, and drawing on a multidisciplinary team with expertise in economic development, industrial policy, value chain analysis and advanced econometric modelling.]]></description>
            <author>Tasneem Bulbulia</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Reliable logistics remain critical to supporting South Africa’s downstream chemicals and petrochemicals value chain as industry depends more on secure fuel supply, says integrated energy company bp Southern Africa (bpSA). Consequently, the company’s logistics system is designed to move fuels from coastal import and manufacturing points to inland industrial hubs and regional markets with minimal supply interruptions, bpSA business development and integration GM Bongani Khumalo explains.   ]]></description>
            <author>Devina Haripersad</author>
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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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            <description><![CDATA[Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe says government is “moving with urgency” to ensure security of gas supply to avert a looming “industrial cliff-edge”. Addressing a forum on gas at the Africa Energy Indaba, Mantashe said a two-pronged strategy was being implemented that included the immediate import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and accelerated domestic gas development.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>Ramokgopa reflects on Africa's energy future amid global upheaval</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South African Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has highlighted the current global upheavals and what they mean for African energy in his welcoming address at Africa Energy Indaba 2026, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, on Tuesday. "The global order, as we have known it for decades, is recalibrating in real time," he pointed out. "Energy sits at the epicentre of this reordering. Electricity has become sovereignty expressed in electrons."]]></description>
            <author>Rebecca Campbell</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[As South Africa confronts issues such as ageing infrastructure, rising energy demand and the need to modernise its power systems, few companies can claim a legacy as deeply intertwined with the country’s mining and industrial development as CBi-electric: african cables, a member of the JSE-listed industrial group Reunert. Founded on December 20, 1935, the company commemorates 90 years of continuous operation, a milestone that reflects not only longevity but sustained relevance in a demanding and evolving market.]]></description>
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            <title>25-year deal signed for new Port of Durban LPG terminal</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A 25-year terminal operator agreement to develop and operate a new R1.4-billion liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) terminal at the Port of Durban’s Island View precinct has been concluded. The deal was signed on December 12 between the Transnet National Ports Authority and a JV comprising WASAA Gases, a black and woman-owned entity, and the State-owned Central Energy Fund.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>Cabinet approves draft Gas Bill for processing by Parliament</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Cabinet approved the submission of the draft Gas Bill 2025 to Parliament for further processing at its last scheduled meeting for 2025, which took place on December 5. Minister in The Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the Bill sought to repeal the Gas Act of 2001 and introduce a modernised legislative framework that reflected recent technological developments in gas transportation and storage.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Enabling access to South Africa’s growing renewable energy generation capacity by addressing its transmission network constraints is a vital step in advancing the country’s energy transition. The delivery of the Impofu wind farms transmission line project in the Eastern Cape ahead of schedule, is a critical milestone in this regard. Electrical infrastructure contractor Siyavuya Power Projects CEO Graham Roebuck says this feat demonstrates that local contractors have the capability to effectively build large, complex power infrastructure despite ongoing concerns about national capacity.]]></description>
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            <title>Sasol CEO sees chemical business potentially listing by 2028</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sasol CEO Simon Baloyi said the South African company may spin off its international chemicals business as soon as 2028, depending on how quickly profit grows. Shares of the fuel and chemicals firm have gained about 47% this year — heading for its best performance since 2021 — as Baloyi, who became CEO last year, focuses on increasing output from the Secunda manufacturing hub in South Africa and turning around the international chemicals division ahead of a potential listing. That part of the company includes the $12.8-billion sprawling Lake Charles complex in Louisiana.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Industrial Gas Users Association–South Africa (IGUA-SA) is calling for the creation of a new structure under The Presidency to coordinate the actions needed to avert the ‘gas cliff’ faced by industrial consumers by 2030 and to lay the foundations for longer-term security of supply and demand growth. The proposal for the establishment of a National Gas Project Team, which would operate along lines similar to structures established to tackle the electricity and logistics crises, is included in a new ‘Gas Roadmap’ document released by IGUA-SA on November 12.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Having made significant investments in its distribution, engineering facilities and technical skills, industrial solutions provider BMG’s dedicated variable-speed drive (VSD) workshops in Cape Town, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal remain the approved warranty centres for renowned brands – including Danfoss, VACON and Synergy – in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. BMG’s range of Danfoss electronic, mechanical and intelligent ‘mechatronic’ devices are designed to optimise automation processes and reduce energy consumption.]]></description>
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            <title>Industrial gas users welcome demand certainty created by IRP, but warn that supply questions linger</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Industrial Gas Users Association of Southern Africa (IGUA-SA) has welcomed the focus given to gas in the Integrated Resource Plan 2025 (IRP 2025), but executive officer Jaco Human says critical supply-side questions will still have to be answered if the impending gas supply cliff is to be averted. Describing as a significant shift the plan’s target of raising the share of gas in the electricity generation mix to 11% by 2039, or to 16 000 MW from close to zero currently, Human said IGUA-SA wholeheartedly welcomed the “strategic pivot towards gas”.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa’s insistence that the State will lead and the market follow in the procurement of new electricity generation, while simultaneously indicating that any new investment will be “off balance sheet” for government and, thus, funded by the private sector, has raised questions. The Minister made the statement at a briefing held to release details of the updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP 2025), which he argued set the policy framework and that “everyone will procure according to this policy”. This, while also acknowledging that policy adjustments had been made that resulted in the plan deviating from a least-cost outcome.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title> 25-year extensions of Island View liquid-bulk terminal leases to boost fuel security – Creecy</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has issued a directive instructing the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) to renew the leases of existing liquid-bulk terminal operators in the Island View precinct at the Port of Durban for a further 25 years in a bid to ensure ongoing fuel security. Uncertainty over the lease agreements has proved to be a major obstacle to investment by the terminal operators in the precinct, with many operating on month-to-month leases after their long-term agreements expired years ago.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>South Africa grants long-term leases to oil majors at key Durban fuel hub</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa has granted oil majors and traders, including BP and Vitol, extended access at its main petrochemical hub, ending years of wrangling over short-term leases that threatened investment and supply security, the national fuels body said. Transport Minister Barbara Creecy extended the lease agreements at the Island View Precinct at the request of the Fuels Industry Association of South Africa. The Minister used Section 79 of the National Ports Authority Act, which allowed her to circumvent normal procedures in the national interest.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>Cape Ocean Terminals secures licence to build a petroleum storage facility in Saldanha Bay</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has approved an application by Cape Ocean Terminals for a combined licence to build a petroleum storage facility in the Saldanha Bay Industrial Development Zone and a pipeline connecting the storage facility to Berth 104 at the Port of Saldanha. The overall greenfield fuel storage terminal development project, named Project Albatross, is envisaged to be built in three phases, bringing the total potential storage capacity to 390 000 m³.]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s fuel supply system is under strain, as the country continues to rely heavily on imports amid stagnating infrastructure investment and unresolved regulatory issues. “We’re in a new world now, where supply security has risen to the top of the policy agenda, especially in this region. That’s something that we’ve perhaps been slightly slow to respond to, but it’s an opportunity that we now need to start thinking about quite seriously,” S&P Global VP Daniel Evans said at a fuels industry forum, hosted by the Fuel Industry Association of South Africa (FIASA) in Johannesburg last month.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) in a bid to improve alignment on the regulatory frameworks needed for the licensing and operation of petroleum, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and electricity infrastructure and facilities at the ports. “To ensure the effective implementation of the MoU, governance structures will be established through steering committees with workstreams, each with a specific focus on either technical, regulatory, or strategic aspects,” the entities said in a joint statement.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Retail-focused real estate investment trust Hyprop Investments on August 12 launched the Rosebank Mall energy project, an integration of solar PV, battery storage, grid supply and generator backup, managed by the ComAp InteliNeo controller. This central control analyses demand, tariff rates and system status in real time, to prioritise power sources.]]></description>
            <author>Tasneem Bulbulia</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's fuels industry body FIASA on Friday welcomed a year-long extension from tax authorities to special licences for importing and storing jet fuel, helping to avert a potential supply crisis at major airports. The Fuels Industry Association of South Africa (FIASA) said the arrangement meant its members could operate special storage warehouse (SOS) licences until October 31 next year.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa could face another jet fuel supply crisis by October unless urgent regulatory reforms are made, Fuel Industry Association of South Africa CEO Avhapfani Tshifularo has warned. Speaking at a fuels industry forum, in Johannesburg, on July 25, he explained that the scheduled shutdown of the National Petroleum Refiners of South Africa (Natref) refinery, in Sasolburg – the country’s last operational oil refinery – combined with outdated customs regulations, could severely disrupt fuel supply to OR Tambo International Airport and beyond, potentially grounding flights and straining regional fuel distribution networks.]]></description>
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            <title>Mantashe wants newly launched SANPC to lead oil refining revival</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has indicated that he wants the newly launched South African National Petroleum Company (SANPC) to play a central role in reviving domestic refining activity, which has shrunk dramatically in recent years as refineries have ceased operating. The new State-owned enterprise has been formed through the merger of three Central Energy Fund (CEF) subsidiaries, namely iGas, the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF), and PetroSA.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>South African suppliers truck fuel as pipeline fees spike</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South African fuel suppliers are looking to utilise trucks to transport the commodity inland as the cost of using the nation’s main pipeline operated by Transnet surges. The National Energy Regulator of South Africa granted State-owned Transnet an 8.7% tariff increase effective April 1 on the line that runs from the coastal city of Durban to the Gauteng province, where the commercial hub of Johannesburg is located. Prices will increase another 5.7% in the next financial year. Trucking fuel “just makes sense, it’s quicker, the cost is almost the same,” Avhapfani Tshifularo, chief executive of Fuels Industry Association of South Africa, a lobby group whose members include BP Plc, Shell Plc and TotalEnergies SE, said in an interview. “The tariff is going to keep on increasing because the volumes are dropping.”]]></description>
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