https://www.upstreamonline.com/politics/critical-south-africa-upstream-law-set-for-presidential-assent/2-1-1635827
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National Council of Provinces approves Upstream Petroleum Resources Development Bill, with all eyes now on President Cyril Ramaphosa
Updated 1 May 2024, 00:56
Upstream players in South Africa are waiting on tenterhooks for President Cyril Ramaphosa to give his assent to vital and long-awaited legislation designed to underpin the country’s emergent exploration and production sector.
Oil and gas players in South Africa — with notable exceptions — have been treading water for years, hamstrung by Pretoria’s inability to create a welcoming environment for investors, partly because successive African National Congress governments failed to fully differentiate between the needs of the country’s critical mining sector and those of the burgeoning E&P industry.
The upstream petroleum resources development bill (UPRDB) which was three years in the making was approved by the National Council of Provences on April 25, only the Western cape voted against it, has been sent to the president to sign...