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Fossil
fuel
Namibia imports most of its energy from South Africa, with no domestic production of oil, gas or coal. |
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Coal Coal deposits in Namibia are stratigraphically confined to the Ecca Group of the Karoo Sequence. Coal potential exists in extensive sedimentary basins like the Owambo, Huab, Waterberg and Aranos basins. The Aranos basin has been investigated in detail for coal. The Aranos coal basin, which contains in situ resources of about 350 million tonnes of high-quality metallurgical coal at a depth of up to 300 m, is the largest known coal deposit in the country. |
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Hydrocarbons |
 The Kudu Gas Project |
Fourteen
exploration wells have been drilled offshore so far in an area that
covers more than 500,000 km2. Five of the wells are located in the
Kudu Gas Field, which has 1.4 trillion cubic feet of proven reserves
and an upside of 20 trillion cubic feet. |
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The Kudu Gas Project involves the development of the Kudu gas field
by Energy Africa and NAMCOR, and the piping of gas to shore to an
800MW power station to be developed and operated by NamPower, in
the vicinity of Oranjemund. The Kudu gas-to-power plant is based
on combined-cycle gas-turbine technology and will be the first of
its kind in southern Africa. The first power station will have a
capacity of 800 MW. |
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| Oil Exploration for oil offshore as well as within the Nama and Ovambo basins is currently in progress. |
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