{"id":11926,"date":"2012-06-28T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T10:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/s-africa-lpg-storage-plant-to-start-in-2014\/"},"modified":"2012-06-28T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T10:01:15","slug":"s-africa-lpg-storage-plant-to-start-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-lpg-storage-plant-to-start-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa LPG storage plant to start in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN, June 28<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Construction of South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s largest liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage facility<br \/>\nwill start early in 2013 and the plant will be operational in<br \/>\nlate 2014, the project director said on Thursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The project, aimed at reducing LPG shortages that regularly<br \/>\nhit Africa&#8217;s largest economy, will cost about 1.2 billion rand<br \/>\n($143 million), with imports coming from the Middle East, Gulf<br \/>\nof Guinea and Angola.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be commissioning the facility at the end of<br \/>\nDecember 2014,&#8221; said Barthlo Harmse, of Sunrise Energy, the<br \/>\ncompany developing the site next to the Saldanha Bay port on the<br \/>\ncountry&#8217;s west coast. Sunrise Energy is a joint venture between<br \/>\nIlitha Group and state-owned financier Industrial Development<br \/>\nCorporation.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa is diversifying its energy mix away from<br \/>\nelectricity to alleviate pressure on state utility Eskom, which<br \/>\nis operating on razor-thin capacity.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An estimated 3 percent of the country&#8217;s 49 million people<br \/>\nuse LPG and the intention is to have an additional one million<br \/>\nusers over the next five years.<br \/>\n($1 = 8.4068 South African rand)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Editing by Jon Herskovitz and<br \/>\nDavid Goodman)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, June 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Construction of South Africa&#8217;s largest liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage facility will start early in 2013 and the plant will be operational in late 2014, the project director said on Thursday. The project, aimed at reducing LPG shortages that regularly hit Africa&#8217;s largest economy, will cost about 1.2 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}