Fuels and petrochemicals group Sasol, along with the South African and Mozambique governments, will invest R1,1-billion to expand natural gas delivery to South Africa by 20%.
The additional gas will be used under the first phase of Sasol’s planned 20% expansion of its synthetic fuel capacity at Secunda over the next eight years.
Sasol said in a statement that Sasol and its partners in the Republic of Mozambique Pipeline Investment Company (Rompco) will build a new gas compression station at Komatipoort on South Africa’s border with Mozambique.
The station will facilitate an increase of natural gas delivery along Rompco’s 865km pipeline that brings gas from the Pande and Temane gas fields in Mozambique to Sasol’s plants at Sasolburg and Secunda in South Africa.
Gas delivery capacity will rise from a current 120-million gigajoules a year to 147-million gigajoules a year.
Sasol Gas owns 50% of Rompco, the South African government through iGas 25% and the Mozambican government 25% through Compania Mozambicana de Gasuduto. — Reuters