Eskom and Sasol Have Signed A Gas-For-Power MoU Agreement
Eskom and Sasol Have Signed A Gas-For-Power 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 discover and investigate potential long term liquified natural gas (LNG) requirements".
This is according to a joint statement by the two organizations, following the signing ceremony from the MoU on Friday.
"The collaboration aims to find out the possible volumes that South Africa needs to determine a viable LNG import current market, along with the enabling infrastructure, and can be facilitated by governing administration-to-authorities relations where by essential."
"This initiative focuses on working with gas for electrical power generation to offer necessary base load electrical power and position gas for a vital enabler of re-industrialisation, while also guaranteeing continued 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," eskom vacancies 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 more info 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, 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 challenges associated with the long-term commitments sasol learnerships required for LNG imports," the statement said.