Exploration

Huge new volumes of gas may lie close to Total's game-changing South Africa discoveries

Geologists from the country's Petroleum Agency unveil potentially enormous gas and oil promise in acreage offshore nation's southern seaboard

Rich gas potential: Flaring during a drill stem test on Total's Luiperd-1X well off South Africa, which was drilled by Odfjell Drilling's semi-submersible rig Deepsea Stavanger.
Rich gas potential: Flaring during a drill stem test on Total's Luiperd-1X well off South Africa, which was drilled by Odfjell Drilling's semi-submersible rig Deepsea Stavanger.Photo: ODFJELL DRILLING
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Published 5 March 2021, 07:49Updated 9 March 2021, 14:55