AFRICA outlook

PetroSA
DEVELOPMENTNOMICS
(PTY) LTD.
unleaded petrol, kerosene (paraffin),
diesel, propane, liquid oxygen and
nitrogen, distillates, eco-fuels and
alcohols. Its world-class synthetic fuels
and petrochemicals are marketed
internationally,” it continues.
Project Ikhwezi, the flagship
offshore development to produce
and supply gas feedstock to the
company’s GTL refinery, is scheduled
to come onstream in 2013 and is
“set to extend the refinery´s life
and consolidate PetroSA’s position
at the heart of South Africa´s
transformation,” the company says.
“At the same time, we are
vigorously pursuing new investment
opportunities across Africa as part
of our commitment to supporting
the continent´s accelerating
development,” its website adds.
©PetroSA
This is a good point at which to
introduce PetroSA’s vision 2020 which
is to “become a fully integrated,
commercially competitive national
oil company, supplying at least 25
percent of South Africa’s liquid fuel
needs” by, you guessed it, 2020.
“We aim to achieve this by
sustaining the Mossel Bay GTL
refinery as a profitable operation
and use it as a platform to sustain
our company; growing our company
into a significant industry player,
while ensuring security of energy
supply for the country; transforming
the company, the sector and
society; and ensuring that the
above are carried out in line with
the highest safety, health, quality
and environmental standards,” the
company says.
Rarely do words, so long ago
spoken - in 1770 - so far away,
have such resonance with an
organisation’s service posture as
the words spoken by John Adams,
America’s first vice president and
second president.
He posited that “whatever may
be our wishes, our inclinations, or
the dictates of our passions, they
cannot alter the state of facts and
evidence.” He could as well have
been talking about the raison d’etre
of our company.
We are wholly devoted to the notion
of uncovering facts and producing
evidence for the purpose of
informing, formulating, monitoring,
evaluating and implementing public
policy decisions, improving public
management, civic relationships
and commerce.
Our globally benchmarked
methodologies, tools and techniques
are supported by over a century of
practiced skills and experience of
our principal officers who guide our
service theatres of advisory, project
management and monitoring and
evaluation services.
While we are based at the southernmost
tip of Africa, our outlook
is global. Our consultants are
multinational, multilingual and
multidisciplinary.
We hold ourselves out to serve
everywhere and anywhere
development thought, word or
action is desired and welcomed.
It will be our eternal pleasure to
welcome you into our growing
community of satisfied clients.
Tel +27 21 460 0435
Email info@developmentnomics.co.za
www.developmentnomics.co.za
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