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South Africa's energy crisis or load shedding is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months of 2007 towards the end of Thabo Mbeki 's second term as president, and continues to the present. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The South African government-owned national power utility, and primary power ...
Top 5 oil-producing countries 1980–2022 World oil production. This is a list of countries by oil production (i.e., petroleum production), as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar year 2023, tabulating all countries on a comparable best-estimate basis.
Oil in this list refers to base crude oil only, and not refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and airplane fuel. In 2022, Saudi Arabia was the largest exporter of petroleum, followed by Russia and Iraq. Other major exporters of petroleum in that year included the United States, Canada and United Arab Emirates.
On 14 June 2024, the ANC, the Democratic Alliance (DA), the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Patriotic Alliance (PA) and Good, agreed to form a landmark national unity government, with Cyril Ramaphosa being re-elected President of South Africa. This marks the first time the ANC has had to govern without an absolute majority since the end of ...
On 1 January 2012, the Nigerian government headed by president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, tried to cease the subsidy on petrol and deregulate the oil prices by announcing the new price for petrol as US$0.88/litre from the old subsidised price of US$0.406/litre (LAGOS), which in areas distant from Lagos petrol was priced at US$1.25/litre.
South African Petroleum Industry Association. South African Petroleum Industry Association (SAPIA) was formed in July 1994 by six of South Africa 's leading petroleum refining and marketing companies namely: The stated goal of the organisation is to represent the interests of the petroleum refining and marketing industry in South Africa.
PetroSA (The Petroleum, Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa Ltd.) is the national oil and gas company (NOC) of South Africa. Its main activities are the extraction of natural gas from offshore fields about 89 km from Mossel Bay, the production of synthetic fuels from this gas through a gas to liquids (GTL) process, and the extraction of crude oil from oil fields off the South Coast of ...
As of January 2024, OPEC has 12 member countries: five in the Middle East , six in Africa, and one in South America. [182] According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), OPEC's combined rate of oil production (including gas condensate ) represented 44% of the world's total in 2016, [ 183 ] and OPEC accounted for 81.5% of the ...