{"id":8493,"date":"2012-03-02T02:48:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/mercuria-denies-south-africa-oil-storage-vp\/"},"modified":"2012-03-02T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T00:48:10","slug":"mercuria-denies-south-africa-oil-storage-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mercuria-denies-south-africa-oil-storage-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercuria denies South Africa oil storage-VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, March 1<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Swiss-based independent<br \/>\ntrader Mercuria Energy Group has never invited a strategic<br \/>\npartner to run an oil storage tank in South Africa, a senior<br \/>\nofficial said on Thursday, denying an earlier report.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have never approached anyone to invite to run the tank<br \/>\nin South Africa,&#8221; said Daniel Jaeggi, Mercuria&#8217;s vice president<br \/>\nand head of global trading.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mercuria has been using one tank of the six in Saldanha Bay<br \/>\nunder the contract from the state-controlled Strategic Fuel Fund<br \/>\n(SFF).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday market sources said Mercuria has been<br \/>\nlooking to invite a strategic partner to run an oil storage tank<br \/>\nin South Africa when it renews the leasing contract. A company<br \/>\nspokesman declined to comment, having been contacted by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other contract holders at the Saldanha Bay include U.S. oil<br \/>\nmajor Chevron and U.S. bank Morgan Stanley, which<br \/>\nbought trader Masefield in 2010, which had held the original<br \/>\nleasing contract with SFF.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ikuko Kurahone; editing by Keiron Henderson)<\/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>LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Swiss-based independent trader Mercuria Energy Group has never invited a strategic partner to run an oil storage tank in South Africa, a senior official said on Thursday, denying an earlier report. &#8220;We have never approached anyone to invite to run the tank in South Africa,&#8221; said Daniel Jaeggi, Mercuria&#8217;s vice [&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-8493","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\/8493","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=8493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}