The African Energy Leadership Centre (AELC) at Wits Business School and the Industrial Gas Users Association of South Africa (IGUA-SA) are hosting a webinar on the natural gas landscape in South Africa on 22 September 2026.

The webinar will build on the discussions from the 2025 Natural Gas Symposium held at WBS and will provide an opportunity to reflect on developments over the past year, as well as the challenges, opportunities and potential solutions across the natural gas value chain.  

The programme will incorporate panels on the upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas sectors, as well as fiscal frameworks and judicial process reform.

Speakers:

• Prof David Phaho, Director: AELC
• Jaco Human, CEO: IGUA-SA
• Prof Maurice Radebe, Chairperson, AELC Advisory Board
• Magali Pailhe, Chairperson: Offshore Petroleum Association of South Africa (OPASA) & Managing Director: Total Energies Exploration & Production SA
• Marianne Wagener, Director & Head of Antitrust, Competition & Economic Regulation, Deneys
• Nick Mitchell, Chariperson: Onshore Petroleum Association of South Africa (ONPASA) & Executive Director: Renergen Limited
• Oliver Naidu, President: Vopak South Africa
• Dr Bongani Sayidini, CEO: The Petroleum Agency SA
• Wayne Glossop, CEO: Flexible Energy Developments
• Paul Eardley-Taylor, Gas Sector Lead, Standard Bank Group
• Kresen Naicker, Head of Business Development, Transnet Pipelines
• Theopolina Kapani, Chief Executive Officer of BFS Fund Managers, Namibia
• Motlokwe Sebake, General Manager: Commercial and Stakeholder Management, ROMPCO
• Dennis Zekveld, General Manager: Upstream, Shell South Africa
• Thabiso Manne, Business Development Manager: IDC

Our Moderators are: Niall Kramer, Marista Fey, Dr Nomhle Ngwenya, and Dr Rod Crompton

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