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This report examines the state of the liquid fuels sector, highlighting issues such as the global liquid fuels market, local crude oil refining, synthetic fuels production and security of liquid fuels supply.

Published: 25 October 2010.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of abbreviations 1

Key developments 2

Global market 3–5

• Demand
• Supply

The South African liquid fuels market 6

South Africa’s oil and gas industry 7–10

• Oil and gas exploration
• Coal-bed methane
• Shale gas
  • Environmental concerns

South Africa’s refining capacity 11–13

• South Africa’s refineries
  • Engen
  • Sapref
  • Chevref
  • Natref
  • Sasol Secunda
  • Mossel Bay GTL refinery

Synfuels production in South Africa 14–21

• The potential for global synfuels development
  • South Africa
  • Australia
    • Altona Energy
    • Blackham Resources
    • Linc Energy
    • New Hope Coal
    • Pacific GTL
  • China
    • Shenhua Group
    • Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group and Sasol
  • India
    • Jindal Steel & Power
    • SSI and Tata Group
  • Indonesia
  • Qatar
  • The US
    • American Clean Coal Fuels
    • Baard Energy
    • DKRW Advanced Fuels
  • Uzbekistan

Biofuels production in South Africa 22-24

• Second-generation biofuels
• The potential for global biofuels development
  • Austria
  • France
  • Germany
  • Malaysia
  • The US

South Africa’s pipeline infrastructure  25-28

• Security of supply
  • Refining capacity
    • Project Mthombo
    • Project Mafutha
    • Secunda expansion project
  • Fuel transport and storage capacity
    • Petroline pipeline
    • New multiproduct pipeline project
    • Secunda/Natref integration project

Black economic empowerment  29-30

The road to cleaner fuels  31

Main Sources  32-35