1 Nov 2006 Crude oil price movements and their impact on South Africa the factors that have played a prominent role in influencing oil pricing. For this BP's Views on options to Build Energy Security. www.bp.com/genericarticle.do? Well South Africa has a number of countries it regularly obtains crude oil from. The bulk of South Africa's crude oil comes from the following countries (ranked in order of amount and value of crude oil imports imported based on the customs data for the first quarter of 2019). Nigeria is the 2nd biggest contributor to South Africa's crude oil imports, with almost 30% of all of South Africa's crude oil imports coming from Nigeria. In a distant 3rd place is Angola, with almost 16% of South Africa's crude oil coming from Angola. This page provides - South Africa Crude Oil Production - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. South Africa Crude Oil Production - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on October of 2019. South Africa does not have any significant oil deposits. However there is gas on the West Coast towards Namibia. Brent crude oil is a light crude from the North sea. It is used as an indicator of global oil prices. South Africa requires roughly 570 000 barrels of oil every day. The Sable oil field is expected to produce 20 to 25 million barrels of oil in the next three years. Initially, approximately 40 000 of the crude will be produced every day, replacing about 7% of South Africa’s import requirements for crude oil.
South Africa has proven crude oil reserves of some 15 million barrels, located in the Orange Basin off the west coast and the Bredasdorp Basin in south coast of Cape Province (source: Council for Geoscience). To date, even in terms of its proven crude oil reserves, finds by exploration companies have been very small. Nigeria may have reclaimed its position as Africa’s top oil producer beating Angola. Angola had led the African oil producing countries with its 1.7 million barrels of crude oil a day, well above Nigeria’s 1.5 million barrels per day, in September 2016, for seven straight months. The Democratic Republic of The Congo is ranked 16th among the oil producing countries in Africa and 78th in the world. DR Congo has the second largest oil reserves in southern Africa with a proven crude oil reserve of 180 million barrels. South Africa has no crude oil reserves of its own and about 60% of its crude oil requirements are met by imports from the Middle East and Africa (Source: South Africa Yearbook 2012/2013). The major petroleum products that are sold in South Africa are petrol, diesel, jet fuel, illuminating paraffin, fuel oil, bitumen and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
28 Jun 2019 A Cape Town high court case set for Friday is a key move in a chess game that will decide the fate of SA's strategic crude oil reserves worth The main companies that buy crude oil in South Africa would be the Why do oil companies sell crude oil instead refined oil products? I currently have over 2 million barrels of crude oil, where's can I find a company to sell them to?
15 Feb 2019 But Niall Kramer, CEO of the South African Oil & Gas Alliance More than 300 offshore wells have been drilled in South Africa over the past Total and its partners will pay the regular 28% corporate tax on all taxable income
26 Mar 2019 Total SA's discovery of South Africa's first oil in deep water could prove to be a bonanza for a country lacking crude reserves of its own and prompt a rush from other majors. country's east coast and can cause waves the height of a multistory building. Total had to cancel an initial drilling attempt in 2014. To date, PetroSA has produced more than 45 million barrels of crude oil from our Oribi and Oryx oilfields, located in Block 9 off South Africa's southern coast. 10 Feb 2019 A major discovery of hydrocarbons of the coast of South Africa is a France's major Total said this week that it had made a significant “The oil industry hopes this will be a catalyst and encouragement for to strike a discovery containing no less than a billion barrels of crude, also known as an elephant.