South Africa’s power shortages could be nearing its end as the country is looking to build an LNG import facility at the west coast port of Saldanha Bay.
The facility would feed the gas to power generation facilities, with Shell, Mitsubishi and Sasol lauded as interested bidders for 3,126 MW projects, Reuters reports.
Fernel Abrahams, the project manager told Reuters that the Saldanha Bay is South Africa’s deepest natural port and all government’s studies have showed that the project is technically feasible.
He added that the gas from the LNG project would be supplied to power utility Eskom’s Ankerlig 1,327 MW diesel-fired open cycle gas turbine power station.
Both land-based LNG receiving terminal at the Port of Saldanha Bay and an offshore receiving terminal were considered in studies, while in both options Mozambique was considered as the LNG supplier.
The project is planned to cover the market along the Saldanha Bay-Cape Town corridor.
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LNG World News Staff; Image: capechamber.co.za