South Africa has not been able to exploit its oil and gas potential to its fullest on the back of legal challenges and litigation raised by local and international environmental groups.

For a company the size of Africa Oil, a discovery like this could prove to be a long-term "homerun". Like Namibia, South Africa is known for its stability and infrastructure support. The discovery ...

South Africa is one deal away from having its own crude oil to refine and serve the local market from the Orange Basin Crude ...

In recent years, international majors have focused on new gas and LNG projects in West Africa and the exploration hotspot Namibia further south, where massive oil reserves have been found.

Peter Booi was quoted in a September 2021 interview with Weekly SA Mirror as saying that the gas and oil find in Limpopo would help ease South Africa's power challenges and create thousands of jobs.