How can SAOGA help non-South African-based companies?

The South African Oil & Gas Alliance as an organization has the basic mandate of promoting the development of a South African-based upstream supplier base –  it is also a member-based organisation where membership is restricted to companies with a South African presence.   In line with this we have a variety of activities and initiatives to build capacity in and promote South African-based industry supplying into (for the most part) the sub-Saharan upstream market.  In general we would work with foreign companies either to help them establish an operation in South Africa and/or to partner/jv with a South African company. We would not generally provide services to a non-locally based company to sell product into the South African market.  The main criterion for working with a company is that there has to be some benefit to the local supplier base (and preferrably a member company in particular) in the activities we undertake.