{"id":57318,"date":"2015-11-09T11:43:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T09:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2015\/11\/sacoil-joins-consortium-to-develop-equatorial-guineas-bioko-oil-terminal\/"},"modified":"2015-11-09T11:43:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T09:43:50","slug":"sacoil-joins-consortium-to-develop-equatorial-guineas-bioko-oil-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sacoil-joins-consortium-to-develop-equatorial-guineas-bioko-oil-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"SacOil Joins Consortium to Develop  Equatorial Guinea\u2019s Bioko Oil Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <span dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n                                                    MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, November 9, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy confirms SacOil has signed MoU to join the Bioko Oil Terminal partners<\/li>\n<li>The company will work with Taleveras Group, Gunvor Group and the Strategic Fuel Fund to set up Bioko Oil Terminal<\/li>\n<li>An MoU signed October 30, 2015 in Cape Town expanded the scope of previous plans to develop the petroleum products storage facility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South African oil and gas company SacOil will join the consortium of Taleveras Group, Gunvor Group and the Strategic Fuel Fund in developing the Bioko Oil Terminal tank farm in Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The Bioko Oil Terminal will be a massive oil and petroleum products storage facility, and is spearheaded by the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy of Equatorial Guinea. Through the project, the Government aims to establish Equatorial Guinea as the premier storage location in West and Central Africa, and a major transit point for global oil and gas deliveries.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>On October 30, 2015 the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy signed an MoU with Taleveras Group, Gunvor Group and the Strategic Fuel Fund that established the terms of funding and initial development of the tank farm. SacOil will participate in the project under the same agreement.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>SacOil, a South African independent oil and gas company listed on the JSE and AIM, is active in upstream, midstream and downstream projects across Africa, including Egypt, the DRC, Malawi, Mozambique and Botswana.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>\u201cThe entry of a fourth partner company into the Bioko Oil Terminal project signals the international interest in this facility, which will serve the huge demand for petroleum storage in the Gulf of Guinea region,\u201d said Minister of Mines, Industry and Energy H.E. Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima, at the MoU signing. \u201cProjects such as the Bioko Oil Terminal further reinforce Equatorial Guinea\u2019s status as a major African oil and gas actor and a highly attractive investment destination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>\u201cSacOil welcomes this opportunity to work with a strategic partner such as the Ministry of Mines, Industries and Energy to add needed oil and petroleum products storage capacity in West and Central Africa. The project fits well with the Company\u2019s overall strategy of diversifying the business into midstream and downstream activities,\u201d said Dr Thabo Kgogo, Chief Executive Officer of SacOil Holdings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, November 9, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy confirms SacOil has signed MoU to join the Bioko Oil Terminal partners The company will work with Taleveras Group, Gunvor Group and the Strategic Fuel Fund to set up Bioko Oil Terminal An MoU signed October 30, 2015 in [&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":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-57318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","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\/57318","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=57318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}