South Africa to Get 20% More Gas From Mozambique

The South African energy giant, Sasol - the world’s biggest producer of commercial scale synthetic fuel from coal - in partnership with South African and Mozambican governments, is to invest US$600,000 to build a gas compression station at Komatipoort (South Africa) to increase the supply of gas from Mozambique to South Africa by 20% by the end of 2009.

The move is meant to boost electrical energy supply into South Africa in the wake of the current electricity shortage.

Construction on the project will start in the second half of this year, and it will come on stream towards the end of 2009.

The additional gas that will feed to South Africa will be used in the first phase of a government electricity expansion project to increase capacity to 20% over the next eight years, according to Sasol.

Sasol said on Wednesday that 75% of the eventual additional synfuels capacity would use environmentally more benign natural gas as feedstock, while the rest of the feedstock for the expansion would come from fine-coal reserves.

Source African Press Agency

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