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South Africa launches new national petroleum company

May 28, 2025

(World Oil) – South Africa has officially established its new state-owned oil corporation—South African National Petroleum Company (SANPC). The launch—which follows the merger of PetroSA, iGas and the Strategic Fuel Fund—signals the rise of an integrated oil company in South Africa, paving the way for greater accountability, efficiency and profitability in the country’s petroleum sector. The establishment of the SANPC

TotalEnergies and Qatar expand Namibia oil exploration into South Africa

March 6, 2024

Oil Price TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy are expanding their efforts to explore for oil and gas in the Orange Basin offshore Namibia by acquiring a nearby license in the basin in South African waters. TotalEnergies and its partner QatarEnergy have signed an agreement to buy participating interests in Block 3B/4B offshore South Africa from the companies Africa Oil South Africa, Azinam,

Shell sends seismic vessel home after South African court loss

January 5, 2022

World Oil (Bloomberg) – The vessel hired by Royal Dutch Shell Plc to look for potential oil and gas fields is on course to leave South African waters after community groups won a court case to temporarily halt the activity. A judge on Dec. 28 granted local activists an interim interdict blocking any seismic surveys until a ruling can be

Shell wins court ruling, to start seismic survey offshore South Africa

December 3, 2021

World Oil (Bloomberg) –A South African court has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell Plc can proceed with a seismic survey offshore the East Coast, after dismissing a legal application by activist groups. Greenpeace was among organizations that filed an urgent court interdict this week to block the activity, used in the search for oil and gas resources, claiming it’s linked

Qatar Petroleum Partners with Total in Africa, South America

August 27, 2019

By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Qatar Petroleum signs agreement to farm Total-held exploration acreage in Namibia, Guyana and Kenya Qatar Petroleum (QP), Qatar’s state-owned energy company, has signed an agreement with French supermajor Total SA (stock ticker: TOT), under which the company will farm into Total-held exploration acreage in Namibia, Guyana and Kenya. With regards to

Total Wants to Drill for Oil in the World’s Fastest Ocean Current

March 26, 2019

From Bloomberg 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. That’s if they’re able to solve the engineering challenges of operating in one of the fastest ocean currents in the world. The Brulpadda find, with reserves estimated

Up to 1 Billion BOE Discovery

February 7, 2019

New find could contain three times more resources than all South Africa’s previous gas finds to date: Wood Mac By Richard Rostad, analyst, Oil & Gas 360 Total announced a major gas condensate discovery today in an unexpected location: South Africa. The company’s Brulpadda well, targeting prospects located roughly 110 miles off the coast of South Africa, has discovered significant

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