Top Petroleum Companies In South Africa

What is Petroleum?

A liquid mixture of hydrocarbons that is present in suitable rock strata and can be extracted and refined to produce fuels including petrol, paraffin, and diesel oil.

Top Petroleum Companies In South Africa

Below are some of the Top Petroleum Companies.

  • African Group Lubricants (Pty) Ltd.
  • African Oxygen (Pty) Ltd.
  • Astron Energy (Pty) Ltd.
  • Avedia Energy (Pty) Ltd.
  • Blendcor (Pty) Ltd.
  • Blue Chip Lubricants (Pty) Ltd.
  • BP Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd.
  • Deojay Petroleum KZN (Pty) Ltd.

How many petroleum companies are in South Africa?

There are profiles of 72 companies including major producers, refiners, and retailers Sasol, TotalEnergies, Astron, BP, Engen, and Shell, gas companies such as Easigas, and lubricants companies such as Fuchs.

Where is petroleum found?

Coal, natural gas, and petroleum are all fossil fuels that formed under similar conditions. Today, petroleum is found in vast underground reservoirs where ancient seas were located. Petroleum reservoirs can be found beneath land or the ocean floor. Their crude oil is extracted with giant drilling machines.

What are the 10 uses of petroleum?

Chemical fertilizers, synthetic fibres, insecticides, synthetic rubber, nylon, plastics, pesticides, perfumes, dyes, paints etc are the significant products produced using the major by-products like naphtha, grease, petroleum jelly, wax, butadiene etc.