TRADING, SUPPLY AND LOGISTICS

PetroSA trades in gas, condensate, crude Oil and fuel and petrochemical products through its Trading, Supply and Logistics Division.

In addition to acquiring feedstock for PetroSAs' GTL plant, the Division ~arkets the plants' products on the South African and international markets. It also trades on behalf of the Government, on an ageno/ basis, with respect to strategic oil stocks.

LOCAL PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION

The bulk of PetroSA's production from the GTL plant is supplied to the major South African oil companies which market it through retail networks under their own brand names in parts of the Western, Eastern and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa.

Eighty percent of the gasoline, diesel and kerosene are shipped from a single point mooring at Mossel Bay to the coastal cities of East London and Port Elizabeth. The rest is supplied to oil industry depots in Mossel Bay from where the products are distributed by road and rail in the Southern Cape and neighbouring regions of the Western Cape province.

The company also sells liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), propane and small volumes of fuel oil, liquid oxygen and nitrogen alnd ICO2 to the South A!!ican market.

INTERNATIONAL EXPORT

PetroSA exports 100 000 tons of light and heavy anhydrous atcohols, co-produced in the Synthol process, to markets in Europe, the USA, the Caribbean the Middle East and the Far East.

Low aromatic distillates are recent additions to the PetroSA product slate and are produced for the drilling fluids, solvents, speciality chemicals and indoor heating and lighting markets in Europe and the United States of America. Essentially odourless, colourless, smokeless and sulphur-free, they command premiums of more than 100% over the local fuel price of diesel and kerosene.

Eco-diesel, which is required by the more environmentally conscious market, is also produced.