Cape Town – South Africa is positioning itself as a premier funding vacation spot in Africa’s vitality transition, with a strategic push throughout your complete vitality worth chain – from oil and fuel exploration to renewables and inexperienced hydrogen.
At African Energy Week (AEW) 2025: Invest in African Energies, an “Invest in South Africa” Roundtable will deliver collectively top-tier traders, policymakers, and vitality executives to highlight South Africa’s evolving regulatory panorama, its new nationwide oil firm, and a number of bankable infrastructure tasks.
This 12 months’s roundtable brings collectively a strong lineup of audio system driving South Africa’s vitality future.
The audio system embody Shahrukh Mirza, VP LNG Development at ExxonMobil, Stefano Marani, CEO of Renergen Limited, and senior representatives from each the newly fashioned South African National Petroleum Company (SANPC) and the South African National Energy Development Institute.
South Africa’s vitality sector is present process a important transformation: years of load-shedding and grid instability have prompted daring reforms aimed toward liberalizing the vitality market, fast-tracking private-sector participation, and diversifying provide sources.
As the federal government unbundles Eskom and opens transmission infrastructure to impartial energy producers, investor curiosity in South Africa’s energy and fuel markets is rising sharply.
Meanwhile, the Integrated Resource Plan and Renewable Energy Masterplan are paving the best way for expanded photo voltaic, wind, and battery storage deployment, backed by sturdy public-private collaboration.
The upstream oil and fuel sector can be getting into a pivotal new section.
The lately established SANPC is spearheading contemporary exploration efforts and opening up acreage throughout frontier basins, together with the Orange Basin – an space that has drawn renewed curiosity following a string of offshore discoveries in neighboring Namibia.
Energy main Shell has secured approval for a five-well drilling marketing campaign within the Northern Cape Ultra Deep block, whereas CompleteEnergies is focusing on a two-well wildcat marketing campaign in South Africa’s portion of the Orange Basin, slated for 2026.
With upcoming licensing alternatives, clear fiscal phrases and enhanced knowledge packages, South Africa is well-positioned to draw each new market entrants and skilled independents to its upstream sector.
In its fuel monetisation technique, South Africa is advancing efforts to leverage home assets – together with these beneath growth by Renergen on the Virginia Gas Project – to assist helium exports and the manufacturing of LNG for transport and industrial gas use.
The nation’s Gas Master Plan, at the moment beneath assessment, units out a roadmap for important infrastructure, together with LNG terminals, pipeline expansions, and strategic fuel storage, aimed toward enhancing long-term vitality safety.
At the identical time, public-private initiatives such because the inexperienced hydrogen hall, linking the Northern Cape to key export hubs, are laying the groundwork for large-scale hydrogen manufacturing, backed by the area’s distinctive photo voltaic and wind potential.
“As South Africa retools its regulatory setting and builds momentum behind vitality diversification, AEW 2025 stands as the best venue to attach capital with alternative.
From the Orange Basin’s high-impact prospects to scalable renewables and fuel monetisation, the nation is open for enterprise,” says Oré Onegbesan, Program Director, AEW.
