South African Oil & Gas Alliance - SAOGA

The South African Oil & Gas Alliance (SAOGA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the development of South African-based industry supplying products and services to the upstream oil & gas sector. The organisation operates as a partnership between the public and private sectors, receiving public funding to carry out a range of industry development activities and working to promote the interests of a membership base of about 170 private sector companies. It is overseen by an independent volunteer Board of Directors from industry and a number of other key stakeholders. Members include global oilfield service companies with bases in South Africa, marine and ship repair companies that focus on the substantial opportunity in oilfield-related ship/rig repair and maintenance, logistics companies that move people and materials from within and outside South Africa to the regional oilfields and a diversified base of engineering and service companies that supply equipment and specialized services to the industry.

History

SAOGA is an outgrowth of a provincial government sector development programme around the oil and gas industry in the Western Cape Province of South Africa (a region that includes Cape Town, Mossel Bay and Saldanha Bay). This programme was focused on a significant cluster of upstream supplier companies that developed in the province in response to upstream growth in West Africa and the the establishment of domestic production in Mossel Bay in the late 1980s. An indepedent non-profit entity known as the Cape Oil and Gas Supply Initiative (COGSI) was established in 2003 to become the main vehicle for promoting and developing the sector. The Board subsequently renamed COGSI the South African Oil and Gas Alliance to reflect the growing involvement of upstream suppliers from other regions and the fact that no other South African organisation focuses on the upstream supplier base. Today we have a national footprint and focus although the Western Cape remains the de facto centre of upstream supplier activity in South Africa.
Type: EXECUTIVE
Address: Suite 604 6th Floor 4 Loop Street Cape Town South Africa, 8001
Website: http://www.saoga.org.za
Phone: +27 21 425 8840
Email: info@offshoreafrica.co.za
 
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