Jaco Human, the Executive Director of the Industrial Gas Users Association (IGUA) in South Africa looks at the country’s draft gas masterplan and the future of this resource in the country’s energy, transport and agri markets. “There is no official gas masterplan in South Africa, there’s a draft one. The problem with what we see in that draft plan is, [that] it is not it is not actually a plan in the first instance but it’s also not a realistic one.”He said one of the draft’s core assumptions around timelines – what project will supply which demand node – has “significant disconnects, so we are engaging with the government on that topic…”Plans for the gas industry in South AfricaHuman said the issue now is around how the gas industry moves forward in a defragmented market. “The industry is actually now in the process of implementing a gas aggregator model for industry by industry that will essentially bring the defragmented market together… pull all the volumes from which certain large capital transactions and investments could take place in order to secure gas energy into the future.”This interview took place at Enlit Africa 2024.
