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South Africa's PetroSA targets Mozambique gas in brand-new sales offer

South Africa's PetroSA anticipates the first circulations of gas into the nation from a deal with Mozambique's national energy company ENH later this year, officials stated, in the middle of efforts to fortify products ahead of a. potentially crippling lack.

Handed a gas trading licence by regulators in March,. state-owned oil and gas business PetroSA has moved quickly to. protect an offer for an initial 2 petajoules of gas a year (PJ/a),. with scope to rise to 200 petajoules eventually.

That would be enough to provide ratings of industrial gas. users, consisting of steelmaker ArcelorMittal, which. presently counts on around 190 PJ/a, mainly provided by South. African petrochemical company Sasol.

Sasol has warned customers that it will substantially. limit supplies in a number of years as its Mozambican gas. fields run dry.

PetroSA wants to form a joint venture (JV) with ENH to charm. potential gas customers in energy-starved South Africa, and. plans replicating the JV model at Mossel Bay to trade gas from. offshore fields found by TotalEnergies to the. Cape market.

At Mossel Bay we will be taking a look at possibly two. various JVs, one with Overall for Brulpadda (field) and then. another JV is for the Block 9 development, however the primary entity. that will trade gas for the group is PetroSA Gas Trading,. Sesakho Magadla, chief operating officer at PetroSA, informed. .

The ENH gas sales agreement includes importing gas via the. 869 km ROMPCO pipeline that links Pande and Temane fields to. South Africa, before providing users via Sasol's pipeline. network in the north of the nation, she said. ENH did not. react to ask for comment.

PetroSA is presently working out two gas transport. agreements with Sasol and ROMPCO - the pipeline business it. operates, a presentation to lawmakers last month revealed. The. ROMPCO pipeline flows from Mozambique to Sasol's petrochemical. complex at Secunda where it runs the world's biggest. coal-to-liquids plant.

Negotiations are presently continuous relating to a gas. transportation arrangement to provide PetroSA ... access to. uncommitted capacity within the pipeline network, Alex. Anderson, Sasol spokesperson, stated.

Technical research studies are likewise underway to identify the. expediency of carrying PetroSA's gas to various places. in the area of the existing pipeline network, he included.

(source: Reuters)