Energy Franchise Total has announced finding a potential of 1 billion barrels of wet gas on the nation’s coast.

Total owns the exploration rights to the Brulpadda block, an area of 19,000 km², some 275km south of Mossel Bay.

It is reported that the gas could be converted into petrol at PetroSA’s gas-to-fuel refinery in Mossel Bay, but the uses of the gas are still open to change as experiments will be conducted to see where the gas will be most useful.