WASAA ANNOUNCED AS A 2018 MEA BUSINESS AWARD WINNER

Wasaa takes pride in being recognized as the Best LPG & Petrochemicals Supplier 2018, South Africa in the recently announced 2018 MEA Business Award Programme. The acclaimed MEA Business Awards celebrate the talent, who have worked tirelessly to provide some of the best products and services in one of the largest and influential business regions…

LPG industry urged to act on non-binding market inquiry findings

South Africa’s Competition Commission has made far-reaching, yet non-binding, recommendations for dealing with prevailing “market distortions” in the domestic liquid petroleum gas (LPG) sector following its first-ever market inquiry, which took nearly three years to complete. The report identifies serious policy and regulatory misalignments, which are crimping both the production of LPG by existing refineries,…

Life’s a Gas

Poloko Mofokeng ENTREPRENEURS: NOKWANELE QONDE and THANDO SIBISI CIRCUMSTANCES RATHER than a grand plan led Nokwanele Qonde and Thando Sibisi to establish their company, called Wasaa Trading. After the two women left their then employment more than two years ago, they took time out for two months to evaluate where they wanted to go. With…

PetroSA signs deal with empowerment company

The government-owned national oil company, PetroSA, has signed a R 1.2 bn procurement deal with an empowerment company. In what is considered one of the major black economic empowerment deals in the oil and gas industry, Mesa Pty is set to supply more than 30 000 tons of condensate a month to PetroSA over the…