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Renergen, Total team up for LNG

marketing and distribution

SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH Africa’s Renergen is working with a partners will expand sales and start making LNG
subsidiary of France’s Total on the marketing and available on routes leading to other major cities
South Africa’s Renergen distribution of LNG. in South Africa, it noted.
is working with a In a statement dated June 18, Renergen said it Total and Renergen are working to make
subsidiary of France’s had signed an agreement with Total South Africa the case for LNG as a more environmentally
Total on the marketing on co-operation in this area. The deal will allow friendly fuel for long-haul trucking, the state-
and distribution of LNG. the former company to sell a part of its LNG pro- ment reported. “The LNG displaces diesel usage,
duction at the latter’s filling stations. reducing operating costs and helping customers
The statement did not reveal the value of the meet their sustainability targets due to the signif-
deal or say how much LNG it hoped to sell via icantly lower greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions
Total’s filling station chain. It did say, though, from natural gas over diesel,” it said.
that the fuel would come from the gas lique- Miriam Kane-Garcia, the managing direc-
faction plant that Renergen is building within tor of Total South Africa, also touted the envi-
the framework of its upstream Victoria gas ronmental benefits of the agreement. “Total
project. The company “is in the construction is committed to better energy, and with this
phase of South Africa’s first commercial LNG partnership we are taking another step towards
plant and is anticipating a turn-on date of the providing affordable, reliable and clean energy
plant around the third quarter [of] 2021,” it in line with our Climate Ambition to achieving
explained. carbon neutrality by 2050 together with society,”
It went on to say that the partners intended she said. “We look forward to working together
to supply the LNG to trucking companies. “The with Renergen to continue making a difference
customer base for the LNG will predominantly in South Africa.”
be logistics companies operating trucks along Stefano Marani, the CEO of Renergen, added:
the main routes across the country,” it said. Ren- “We are proud to have partnered with a global
ergen has already arranged to allocate a “signifi- forward-thinking energy company. Total has a
cant portion” of the initial output from its plant big focus on sustainability and a proven track
to a number of transport operators, it added, record in the LNG space, which was clearly an
without identifying any of the future buyers. advantage. This agreement is intended to provide
The first Total stations to sell LNG lie along ideal filling locations for our customers along
the N3 road, which links Durban and Johannes- strategic routes across the country, and the union
burg, the statement said. Once the second phase will create a powerful first mover advantage in
of Renergen’s LNG plant begins operating, the this exciting space in South Africa.” ™

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