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Proposed third tippler for the Port of Saldanha. Transnet Saldanha Bay

Port of Saldanha Proposed Provision of a third tippler and associated infrastructure. Transnet SOC Ltd proposes the provision of a third tippler and associated infrastructure in the Port of Saldanha to ensure the current iron ore export volume of 60 million tons per year are sustained during the refurbishment of existing tipplers. New brought to you by West Coast Office National Samsung IT, Copiers,...

IDZ begins to earn its keep in Saldanha Bay

The Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) in Saldanha Bay is beginning to yield benefits for the province with the arrival of a large oil rig that will be serviced at the port. MEC for finance Alan Winde said yesterday the docking of the Sedco 700, belonging to the Nigerian-based multinational oil company, was good news for the Western Cape. This was clear evidence of the interest foreign investors have...

Saldanha Bay, West coast set for R9.3bn investment

Cape Town – President Jacob Zuma is set to kick-start the oil and gas sector industry in Saldanha today in an attempt to bring jobs and billions of rand in investment over the next decade to the West Coast. Officials from the national and provincial governments and the local municipality descended on the town yesterday in anticipation for the official designation of the Saldanha Bay Industrial...

President Jacob Zuma expected to launch the Saldanha Bay IDZ this week.

WITH President Jacob Zuma expected to launch the Saldanha Bay industrial development zone (IDZ) next week, oil and gas stakeholders have urged the government to ensure that costs in the new zone are competitive relative to other such ports globally. South African Oil and Gas Alliance CE Ebrahim Takolia said this week that promulgating Saldanha Bay — about 130km from Cape Town — as an IDZ would...

IDZ has the green light for Saldanha Bay, the West Coast will become a oil & gas hub for Africa

The Saldanha Bay industrial development zone (IDZ), which will be launched by President Jacob Zuma at the end of October, will be crucial in plans to establish the Western Cape as the oil and gas hub for Africa, the Western Cape provincial government said on Thursday. Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said earlier this week that a feasibility study had shown Saldanha Bay was strategically located...

R2bn crude oil storage and blending terminal for Saldanha Bay, West Coast

Oiltanking Grindrod Calulo Holdings (OTGC), a subsidiary of Germany’s Oiltanking group, and Mining, Oil & Gas Services (MOGS) will, through a joint venture (JV), construct a R2-billion commercial crude oil storage and blending terminal at the Saldanha Bay port. The terminal will have a capacity of 13.2- million barrels, comprising twelve 1.1-million-barrel concrete tanks. The development, construction,...

Construction starts on R1.3bn LPG terminal, Saldanha Bay, West Coast

Construction has officially started on the R1.3-billion Saldanha liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) import and storage terminal, in Saldanha Bay – a project aimed at remedying rampant LPG shortages in the Western Cape, and dismantling what Sunrise Energy MD Barthlo Harmse describes as a monopolised LPG supply chain market. “The Sunrise Energy terminal will be an open-access facility, meaning its infrastructure...

R2bn Saldanha Bay crude oil facility in the pipeline.

Oiltanking Grindrod Calulo Holdings (OTGC), a subsidiary of Germany’s Oiltanking group, and Mining, Oil and Gas Services (MOGS) on Wednesday announced a joint venture (JV) agreement to construct a R2-billion commercial crude oil storage and blending terminal at the Saldanha Bay port. The terminal would have a capacity of 13.2-million barrels, comprising twelve 1.1-million barrel concrete tanks. The...

Four solar panel farms for the West Coast.

The Saldanha Bay Municipality has confirmed that it has received applications for land use changes for four solar panel electricity farms.   One application is the controversial proposal by Soventix for land off the R27 at the entrance to the town. We reported last month that the Government has rejected an appeal by the Langebaan Residents’ and Ratepayers’ Association (LRRA) to refuse environmental...

Langebaan beaches sinking into the sea

Cape Town – While the City of Cape Town has been working on salvaging what is left of nudist beach Sandy Bay, the beach is only one of many along the Western Cape coastline that is quickly losing sand and disappearing into the ocean. The construction of barriers and groynes has done little to slow down the rapid erosion of the province’s sandy coastline. On the West Coast, Langebaan Ratepayers’...