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Sapref upgrade central to BP’s R5.5bn investment plan for SA, Moz

Global energy group BP has announced a R5.5-billion, five-year investment plan for South Africa and Mozambique, including a R2.5-billion capital expenditure programme to upgrade the Sapref...

Bowman Gilfillan advises Oryx Energies on SA gas acquisition

BOWMAN GILFILLAN

Bowman Gilfillan, the pan-African legal services group, has advised on the South African leg of a major international transaction that will see Oryx Energies acquire liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)...

SA: Jacob Zuma: Address by the President of South Africa, a on the occasion of the Bongi Ngema-Zuma Foundation’s sponsors dinner promoting the fight against diabetes, Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Gauteng (02/03/2013)

SPEECH

One of our government’s foremost goals is to promote a healthy nation and increase the life expectancy. We have done well with the fight against HIV and AIDS and other communicable diseases. We...

Great expectations: Can President Mohamud create a more stable Somalia in 2013?

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

“We are much better than to be called terrorists, better than to be branded as pirates, better than having the largest refugee camps in the world and better than being known as the most failed...

OXFAM: Statement by the Oxfam, International relief and development organization, US member of Congress and Oxfam defend oil and mining transparency law (17/01/2013)

STATEMENT

International relief and development organization Oxfam America and prominent Members of Congress have filed briefs with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in response to...

First donation of BP’s ‘Ads to Bags’ campaign reaches Soweto primary school

EDUCATION & RECYCLING

Through its Ads to Bags campaign, oil giant BP has handed over the first donation of pencil cases, chair bags and school backpacks recycled from its old vinyl advertising billboards to hundreds of...

SA: Statement by Nedbank, financial services provider, invests in the development of thriving Jet Park (04/11/2012)

STATEMENT

Nedbank adds value to the established and thriving commercial area of Jet Park near OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg with a R45 million loan to GRWJET Park Investments (Pty) Limited for the...

Competition Commission refers oil company cartel complaint to Competition Tribunal

WEBBER WENTZEL

The Competition Commission (Commission) has referred a complaint investigation to the Competition Tribunal (Tribunal) regarding alleged cartel conduct by six oil companies, as well as the South...

SA: Statement by the Automobile Association, warns motorists of another petrol price increase (02/10/2012)

STATEMENT

The school holidays began last week Friday, meaning the increase will affect many travellers across the country. The AA urges holiday makers to fill up their tanks before Wednesday’s price hike,...

Contributory infringement

ADAMS & ADAMS

In a judgement handed down in the matter of Gallagher Group Ltd and Another v I O Tech Manufacturing and Others (96/6799) [2012] ZACCP 1 (8 February 2012) (“Gallagher”), the North Gauteng High...

Compulsory pharma licensing, the Indian case of Natco v Bayer, and the South African Context

Adams & Adams

In March 2012, India’s Controller of Patents granted the country’s first compulsory licence in the case of Natco Pharma Limited v Bayer Corporation. With the crisis of HIV/AIDS and the great...

Oil companies and their human rights (ir)responsibilities

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

In recent years, gas and oil discoveries have been made on the African continent in countries such as Mozambique,(2) Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda and on prospected fields in Kenya, Mali and Sierra...

Fuel for thought

REAL ECONOMY: LIQUID FUELS

Without question, one of the more maddening energy challenges currently confronting South African policymakers relates to the best timing for the introduction of new oil-refining capacity. In a...

Shifting equation

REAL ECONOMY: ENERGY & POLITICS

Nobody the world over would argue with the notion that energy and politics are inextricably linked. Whether it's the issue of foreign oil and the role it plays in the US and in shaping its military...

Renewables to be fastest-growing energy segment over 20 years - BP

ENERGY OUTLOOK

Fossil fuels will continue to dominate the global energy mix in 2030, oil group BP forecasts in its latest ‘Energy Outlook 2030’, in which it estimates that such primary energy sources should...

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