Industry Insights
November 2024
Addressing Africa’s Infrastructure Gap in the Face of Fast-Rising Energy Demand
In this edition of CITAC’s Industry Insight, we are summarising work related to the infrastructure gap in Sub-Saharan Africa by looking at where the infrastructure challenges are coming from, assessing the extent of the infrastructure gap, and looking at possible ways of closing this gap, including the obstacles and possible solutions.
Industry Insights
October 2023
Sub-Saharan African Refining Poised for a Great Leap Forward
This article looks at recent developments and presents CITAC’s outlook for the immediate and medium-term developments in the SSA refining sector, and the effect that has on net import balances in the region.
Energy Transition
April 2023
Africa’s Carbon Market Opportunity
The Paris Agreement leaves plenty of room for countries to take unilateral measures to reach their NDCs – their self-binding climate targets – but it also acknowledges the need for finance to flow to where it is needed to drive emissions lower
Energy Transition
January 2023
An Introduction to Carbon Credits and Carbon Offsetting
What are carbon offsets? What is the life cycle of a carbon offset? What are offset standards? Carbon offsets in compliance markets; the market for carbon credits; how are carbon credits priced? How and why companies measure carbon emissions – you will find answers to these questions and more in
CITAC’s latest Industry insight
Industry Insights
September 2022
CITAC South Africa Bunker Market Outlook
CITAC Africa has published a concise South Africa Bunker Market Outlook report that covers the main bunker ports and grades, the bunker mix, market dynamics and a detailed port-by-port competition analysis.
Energy Transition
July 2022
How Hydrogen is Contributing to the Changing Energy Mix in Africa
Africa is poised to be a major player in the green hydrogen economy as large-scale projects have been announced or commenced to both export green hydrogen and play a significant role in the energy transition road maps across the continent.
Industry Insights
April 2022
The Future of Refining and Storage in South Africa
The refining sector in South Africa has changed significantly in the past five years. In 2018, South Africa’s refineries produced 21.8mn mt of products and in 2022, this is forecast to be only 10.9mn mt.
Energy Transition
January 2022
A Biofuel Perspective for Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa’s oil product storage landscape is highly diverse, with both state and private players as well as ageing and state of the art facilities.
Industry Insights
July 2021
Key Building Blocks of a Best-in-Class Oil Product Supply Chain
Sub-Saharan Africa’s oil product storage landscape is highly diverse, with both state and private players as well as ageing and state of the art facilities.