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Reatile Group is a 100% black owned investment holding company formed in 2003 to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the economic transformation in industrial sectors of the South African Economy.

Reatile Group’s strategic focus is on the energy, petrochemical and industrial sectors.

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Tackling shipping sector’s carbon emissions

By: Saliem Fakir Updated 3 hours ago Shipping emissions is an area that has not fallen under the rubric of United Nations Framework for Climate Change (UNFCCC). The shipping industry has, by and large, avoided scrutiny of its own contribution to climate change. Given that the shipping industry’s infrastructure will be exposed to the... →

Free State natural gas project, South Africa

By: Sheila Barradas Updated 3 hours ago Renergen expects to become a significant global producer of helium when its Virginia project starts production in 2019. →

New gensets introduced at Middle East Electricity

Updated 3 hours ago Engine manufacturer Cummins has introduced the C450 D5, which is part of its QSG12 series diesel generator sets (gensets) for the commercial and industrial markets, at the Middle East Electricity (MEE) 2018 in Dubai, which was held from March 6 to 8 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, in Dubai. The... →

Power generation rental popular in developing, underdeveloped countries

Updated 3 hours ago The rental power generation market is popular in developing and underdeveloped countries owing to power shortages being a major issue, says market research company ReportBuyer. With power an essential component for the enhancement of any country or economy and playing a vital role in the... →

Tanzania remains power hungry despite 240 MW plant commissioning

By: John Muchira Updated 3 hours ago Tanzania has achieved a major electricity generation milestone with the recent commissioning of a $345-million gas-fired power plant. The new plant, Kinyerezi II, with an installed capacity of 240 MW, was constructed by Japanese company Sumitomo and is one of the many power projects Tanzania is... →

Power storage tech development on the rise

By: Victor Moolman Updated 3 hours ago With there being a rise in the development of technology for power distribution, storage and generation, power equipment manufacturer Himoinsa Europe, Middle East and Africa director Guillermo Elum says the company is also assessing ways in which technology will change the way electricity is... →

Irish forklift manufacturer launches new headquarters, manufacturing facility

By: Simone Liedtke 26th April 2018 Irish manufacturer of multidirectional forklifts Combilift, which specialises in customised machines, on Wednesday launched its new 46 500 m2 global headquarters and manufacturing facility, in which it invested about €50-million. The facility, which is based in Monaghan, Ireland, currently... →

MSA Africa extends its gas-detection capabilities significantly

26th April 2018 MSA Africa has extended its gas-detection capabilities significantly with the acquisition of Senscient of the UK, and the launch of its new Ultima® X5000 with Bluetooth communication. High false-alarm rates, slow detection and poor reliability are frequent bugbears for on-site operations in terms... →

India, Iran near a truncated deal on gasfield development

By: Ajoy K Das 26th April 2018 India and Iran are closing in on a deal for the development of the Farzad B gasfield, albeit of a much smaller size. Diplomatic negotiations between the two countries since early this year have narrowed down differences on the gas project and this will be followed up by a consortium of Indian... →

Senegal integrating more renewables with 130 MW Wärtsilä Flexicycle power plant

By: Marleny Arnoldi 26th April 2018 Technology group Wärtsilä has signed a contract to engineer, manufacture and deliver a 130 MW Flexicycle plant in Senegal, which will be an integral part of the country’s energy future. →

Santos delivers Scotia project 16% under budget

By: Esmarie Swanepoel 26th April 2018 ASX-listed Santos has completed the commissioning and start up of its $400-million Scotia project, in the Bowen basin of Queensland. The company told shareholders that the project was completed ahead of schedule and under budget, with initial full field production exceeding 40 TJ/d, in line... →

Woodside signs gas supply MoU with Perdaman

By: Esmarie Swanepoel 26th April 2018 Australian oil and gas producer Woodside has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with multinational Perdaman to supply gas to the proposed $3.5-billion coal-to-urea plant being developed on the Burrup Peninsula. Under the MoU, Woodside will supply some 125 TJ/d of domestic gas to the... →

Sherritt narrows Q1 loss as metals prices jump

By: Henry Lazenby 26th April 2018 Canadian diversified miner Sherritt International has reported a narrower first-quarter headline loss of C$14.7-million, or C$0.04 a share, compared with a loss of C$82.7-million, or C$0.28 a share, for the same period of 2017, mainly as higher metals prices made up for lower output. Sherritt... →

N American oil & gas, mining sectors released a third of total 2013 pollution – report

By: Henry Lazenby 25th April 2018 A new report that fine-combed the national pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs) of Canada, the US and Mexico to explore pollutant data reported by industrial facilities, has pointed to the critical need to standardise the way information is collected across the three jurisdictions,... →

Trend to use ‘green’ refrigerants to future-proof air-con systems

25th April 2018 The trend to use R32 refrigerant in air-conditioning systems as a ‘green’ alternative to R410A is a good example of the global impact of the phasedown programme initiated by the Montreal Protocol and Kigali Agreement. The Kigali Amendment, signed on 15 October 2016, includes specific targets and... →

GAIL India likely to be split ahead of setting up natural gas exchange

By: Ajoy K Das 25th April 2018 The Indian government is likely to split national gas infrastructure and marketing major GAIL India into separate entities, with one controlling pipeline construction and operation and the other natural gas marketing. The proposal comes in the wake of the Indian government moving ahead to set up... →

Marange villagers disperse after diamond protest in Zimbabwe

By: African News Agency 25th April 2018 After two days of demonstrations – which at one stage turned violent – disgruntled villagers from Zimbabwe’s diamond-rich area of Marange on Tuesday began dispersing after a day of running battles with the police. There were no major injuries reported. Police fired tear gas and threatening to... →

Barossa LNG project advances to FEED phase – Santos

By: Esmarie Swanepoel 24th April 2018 Australian oil and gas major Santos and its joint venture (JV) partners have advanced the Barossa project to the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase of development. FEED activities will involve engineering and commercial work, aimed at finalising the project’s technical detail, cost,... →

Beach production surges after Lattice buy

By: Esmarie Swanepoel 24th April 2018 Oil and gas producer Beach Energy has reduced its expected full-year capital spend from between A$405-million and A$455-million, to between A$370-million and A$400-million. The ASX-listed company said on Tuesday that the tightening of capital spend during the 2018 financial year was as a result... →

Afrox thought leadership series: Liquid nitrogen and cold chain

23rd April 2018 Afrox application specialist for the food and beverage markets, Hendrik Pretorius, looks at nitrogen and its use in modern food chilling and freezing applications. Food safety: nitrogen, an ideal clean gas →

Egypt aims for $10bn foreign investment in oil, gas in 2018/19

By: Reuters 23rd April 2018 Egypt aims for foreign investment in the oil and gas sector to reach about $10-billion in the 2018/19 fiscal year that begins in July, Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said on Sunday. Molla said he expected foreign investments to total the same amount for the current fiscal year, marking a 25%... →

Agreement opens way for R1.8bn oil services hub at Saldanha port

By: Terence Creamer 23rd April 2018 A private port terminal operator has been selected to build and operate South Africa’s first offshore supply base (OSSB) at the Port of Saldanha, in the Western Cape. The facility, which will involve investments of R1.8-billion over the coming five years, will provide services to offshore oil and... →

Monitoring the molecules: RTS Africa’s Neo Monitors LaserGas analysers offer accurate real-time gas level monitoring for industry

23rd April 2018 Since its founding, innovation has been the hallmark of RTS Africa Engineering, a Tshwane-based company specialising in innovative technologies which provide solutions to industrial challenges. RTS Africa has not only imported many new technologies from its portfolio of well-established and... →

Monitoring the molecules: RTS Africa’s Neo Monitors LaserGas analysers offer accurate real-time gas level monitoring for industry

23rd April 2018 Since its founding, innovation has been the hallmark of RTS Africa Engineering, a Tshwane-based company specialising in innovative technologies which provide solutions to industrial challenges. RTS Africa has not only imported many new technologies from its portfolio of well-established and... →

Afrox Integrated Valve Regulator cylinders provide constant oxygen supply

23rd April 2018 Designed specifically to address the needs of medical practitioners and respiratory therapists for the administration of medical oxygen in portable cylinders, the ready-to-use, mobile Integrated Valve Regulator (IVR) cylinders from Afrox are fitted with a built-in valve, regulator, live contents... →

Babcock’s plant division gives customers a lift

23rd April 2018 Babcock’s safety first philosophy has resulted in its plant hire business receiving two orders from Air Products South Africa (Pty) Limited to install two 88-tonne cryogenic tanks at its plant in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal. Following the first successful, incident-free heavy lift in 2017, Air... →

US coal bailout review is said to slow as Trump faces pushback

By: Bloomberg 23rd April 2018 A bankrupt power generator’s plea for President Donald Trump to help saving money-losing power plants has drawn opposition from key administration officials, slowing action on the proposal, according to two people familiar with the deliberations. FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. asked the Trump... →

APLNG to supply more gas to domestic market

By: Esmarie Swanepoel 23rd April 2018 The Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas (APLNG) project has committed a further 21 PJ of gas to the domestic east coast market. The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) CEO Ian Macfarlane on Monday said that the additional gas from APLNG was another sign that the policy setting in Queensland... →

Molewa gazettes financial provisioning regulation amendments

By: Marleny Arnoldi 20th April 2018 Environmental Affairs Minister Dr Edna Molewa on Friday gazetted, for implementation, an amendment to the Financial Provisioning Regulations (FPR) for prospecting, exploration, mining or production operations. →

India seeks consultants to frame regulations for gas trading hub

By: Ajoy K Das 20th April 2018 With the Indian government aiming to set up a natural gas trading hub in the country, sector regulator the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is seeking to appoint a consultant to help determine a regulatory mechanism for such a trading exchange. “In order to further boost the... →

Trump's latest plan for saving coal comes from the Cold War

By: Bloomberg 20th April 2018 Months into the Korean War, President Harry Truman capped wages and imposed price controls on the steel industry, seizing authority under a newly passed law to take action in the name of national defense. Now, more than a half century later, Trump administration officials are considering using... →

Investor interest in Africa’s power sectors remains significant

By: Jessica Oosthuizen 20th April 2018 Despite the downturn in commodity prices that led to more subdued growth in several of Africa’s resource-intense economies, there is still significant investor interest in Africa’s power sectors, says multidisciplinary engineering consultancy WSP Africa power transmission and distribution... →

Africa pursuing diversified energy investments to deliver power

By: Jessica Oosthuizen 20th April 2018 Africa has an abundance of energy resources that can be brought online rapidly and cost effectively, says engineering, procurement and construction services provider Black & Veatch sub-Saharan Africa business development director Webb Meko. With governments realising that no single technology... →

Coral South floating liquefied natural gas project, Mozambique

By: Sheila Barradas 20th April 2018 Coral FLNG SA plans to develop five-trillion cubic feet of gas in the deep waters of the Rovuma basin. →

North Field expansion onshore facilities project, Qatar

By: Sheila Barradas 20th April 2018 Qatargas is developing the largest single nonassociated gasfield in the world. →

Kusile power plant project, South Africa

By: Sheila Barradas 20th April 2018 General Electric has successfully completed performance tests on Unit 1 of the power plant. →

Nigeria plans power tariff overhaul by 2021 to attract investment

By: Reuters 19th April 2018 Nigeria plans to overhaul its energy tariff system by 2021 to try to attract investment and improve power supply, the vice chairman of the country's electricity regulator said. Only about half of the 190 million people in Africa's most populous country have access to power. The problem has been... →

EVs not yet a market force to disrupt oil demand growth

By: Anine Kilian 19th April 2018 Short-term oil demand is still growing strong and will continue to do so through the end of 2020, a trend taking place despite the market’s increasing focus on electric vehicles (EVs) and the forecasted future plateau in oil demand, according to a new report from IHS Markit’s oil and gas team.... →

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