Shell appealing against overturning of environmental permit for oil exploration
Shell is appealing a court decision that overturned the environmental permit for an oil exploration block off the west coast of South Africa.
The oil giant is challenging, alongside the South African government, a...
South Africa's petrol station changes
South Africa's petrol station space has seen several significant changes in recent months, with Shell dropping its filling stations in the country and Astron Energy hitting an important milestone in its big rebranding project.
Astron Energy, replacing...
Court grants Shell and Mantashe leave to appeal seismic survey ruling
Shell Plc, Impact Africa and South African energy minister Gwede Mantashe were given leave to appeal a ruling that stopped the oil company from doing seismic surveys of an ecologically sensitive stretch of the country’s...
Big petrol price hike coming — These banks have the best fuel rewards
Several of South Africa's major banks offer rewards schemes that enable their customers to earn back some of their spending on fuel every month.
These initiatives can provide some relief for motorists who have been hammered...
Mantashe must pay costs in Shell's court loss
A South African court has denied Shell Plc’s bid to conduct an oceanic seismic survey along the country’s east coast.
The decisions to grant Shell the rights to explore for oil and gas didn’t follow fair procedure and the decision-maker failed to...
Shutdown of South Africa's biggest fuel refinery — what it means for jobs and power cuts
The impending shutdown of the South African Petroleum Refiners (Sapref) joint venture between Shell Downstream South Africa and BP will result in thousands of job losses and help reduce the likelihood of...
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Shell and BP "greedy" for shutting down South Africa's biggest fuel refinery — Mantashe
Energy minister Gwede Mantashe has berated Shell and BP for their decision to pause operations at their South African Petroleum Refineries (Sapref) and consider selling the facility.
During Tuesday's debate...
South Africa's biggest fuel refinery is shutting down
BP South Africa and Shell Downstream South Africa have announced they will pause operations at South African Petroleum Refineries (Sapref) in Durban by the end of March 2022.
The two shareholders of the refinery will implement a spending...
Shell's seismic survey ship leaving SA's coast
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...
Mantashe defends Shell seismic oil surveys
Energy minister Gwede Mantashe has held a press conference to address the "unrelenting attacks on the oil and gas development in South Africa."
Mantashe said that section 24 of the Constitution commands that everyone has a right to have the...
Good news about fuel shortages in South Africa
South African Petroleum Refineries (Sapref) is preparing to restart its crude oil refinery in Durban after a temporary shutdown.
This start-up process is planned to begin today, 21 of July 2021, and will take seven to ten days to complete.
Fuel shortage concerns in South Africa
Several major fuel refineries in South Africa have shut down, and long queues have started forming at petrol stations in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Gauteng.
South African Petroleum Refineries (Sapref) has declared the riots and violent looting gripping...
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I bought a Ryobi generator a quite a few years back and used a few times, maybe 10 hours in total and its been standing for the last 3 years. Now that Eskom is starting load shedding again I want to get it running again so I drained the old petrol/oil/etc.
My question is related to...
So we have a few petrol suppliers in South Africa. British Petroleum (BP), Shell, Caltex, SASOL. Well that's all I have access to in Cape Town.
I tend to always look for a a BP filling station to fill up now part of the reason is I can use my Debit Car so that's a huge plus and I lean towards...