The energy department has called for public comment on Gas Masterplan basecase report before Monday, 31 January 2022. The preliminary basecase report is supposed to "[set] the scene" for the Gas Master Plan bydescribing the gas landscape how much gas exists and where and a realistic picture of future gas development. Another potential blind spot in the basecase report is that it implies that having gas offshore equates to having a consistent supply of cheap domestic gas. But the basecase report contains a possible clue as to why Mantashe has given such vocal support to the Karpowership project. Without such localised gas demand, it is difficult to develop distributed gas supply and without such distributed gas supply it is difficult to develop localised gas demand," the basecase report notes.

Source: News 24 January 28, 2022 08:30 UTC