Sasol delays South Africa’s ‘gas cliff’
The company will use methane-rich gas produced from local coal to temporarily replace lost supplies from Mozambique
The period of South African industrial reliance on gas sourced from Mozambique’s Pande and Temane fields is in its closing stages, with supply from the fields due to end by July 2028. South African energy and chemical company Sasol, which own the Rompco pipeline used to import Mozambican gas, said in April that it plans to use methane-rich gas (MRG) produced from coal at its Secunda plant in South Africa to delay the “gas cliff” for industrial power users by two years, to 2030. “Any kind of respite for industrial users is a welcome relief,” said Stefano Marani, CEO of Renergen, which produces LNG and liquefied helium at its Virginia gas project in South Africa. Still, industrial users wi
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