15 FACTS ON
...
SOUTH AFRICA
June
2016
HYDROCARBON
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Table Mountain
in Cape Town
is believed to be
one of the
oldest mountains
in the world
South Africa supplies
TWO THIRDS
OF AFRICA’S
ELECTRICITY
The Cullinan Diamond,
the world’s
LARGEST
rough gem quality
diamond, was found
in South Africa in
1905,
and weighed
3106.75 carats
uncut
South Africa has
three capital cities:
CAPE TOWN,
BLOEMFONTEIN
AND
PRETORIA
On
3 December 1967,
Lewis Washkansky
received
THE
FIRST
HUMAN HEART
TRANSPLANT
at
Groote Schuur
Hospital
in
Cape Town
South Africa has
11
official languages,
including
Zulu,
Afrikaans, Xhosa
and English,
and
numerous
unofficial ones
In 2013,
72%
of
South Africa’s
total
primary energy
consumption
came from
COAL,
followed by
oil
(22%),
natural
gas
(3%),
nuclear
(3%), and
renewables
(less than 1%)
At the
SASOL SYNFUELS
plant
in Secunda, more than
37 million short tpy
of coal were converted
into
liquid fuels
and a range of
chemical feedstocks
EIA estimates that
South Africa
holds
390 trillion ft
3
of
technically recoverable
shale gas resources
PetroSA’s
gas to liquids
plant at
Mossel Bay
was commissioned in
1992, and is
one of the
largest in the world
Synthetic fuels
account for
MORE THAN
90%
of the country’s
DOMESTIC PETROLEUM
PRODUCTION
South Africa has the
SECOND LARGEST
crude
oil distillation capacity in
Africa at
503 000 bpd,
surpassed only by
Egypt, according to the
OGJ January 2015 estimates
The last South African
National Census
of 2011 put the
country’s population
at approximately
51.77 MILLION
South Africa
has
a total land area of
1.219 million km
2
,
about a
THIRD
of the size of the
European Union
South Africa
imports crude oil
mostly from
OPEC
countries,
namely
Saudi Arabia
(38%),
Nigeria
(31%),
and
Angola
(12%)
