On October 23 local time, South Africa’s minister of mining resources and energy, mantacher, visited the exploration well in the waters near mosobe, Western Cape Province.

The area to be explored is called brulpadda, about 175 km away from the southern coast of South Africa, covering an area of 18734 km2. The water depth gradually changes from 200 m in the north to 1800 m in the south. Total, an exploration company, said the area could hold one billion barrels of natural gas and a large amount of crude oil.

Since August 2020, luiperd has employed 195 exploration engineers, aviation experts, hydrologic experts, petroleum geologists and marine experts and other local South African professionals. As South Africa’s first deep-sea oil and gas field, it is likely to end the history of South Africa’s oil and gas import needs.

Mantacher said the project has invested 1.5 billion rand (620 million yuan) and the government is now completing the upstream oil development act “at the necessary speed” to help release the untapped potential of upstream oil and gas reserves. The project will revitalize South Africa’s economy.