Recent verified changes
LPG moved to 10.0 days5.0 days week on week · source date 2026-03-15South Africa LPG cover moved 5 days week on week.
Diesel moved to 19.0 days4.0 days week on week · source date 2026-03-15South Africa DIESEL cover moved 4 days week on week.
Jet fuel moved to 13.0 days4.0 days week on week · source date 2026-03-15South Africa JET cover moved 4 days week on week.
Crude moved to 26.0 days4.0 days week on week · source date 2026-03-15South Africa CRUDE cover moved 4 days week on week.
Petrol moved to 16.0 days3.0 days week on week · source date 2026-03-15South Africa PETROL cover moved 3 days week on week.
LNG moved to 7.0 days6.0 days week on week · source date 2026-03-14South Africa LNG cover moved 6 days week on week.
Methodology for this country page
Reserves Monitor never treats the article publish date as the stock measurement date. Each live claim stores a separate source date, extraction time, and last checked time.
The public confidence score is deterministic. It is reduced for non-official sources, inferred calculations, on-water or mixed stock scope, and stale source windows.
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Evidence trail
Live source cards
Official sources rank first. Media or modelled values are labeled explicitly.
Uses refinery outage reporting, import arrivals, and stock commentary to estimate fuel cover by product.
Source titleFuel supply and refinery status brief
PublisherEngineering News
Source date2026-03-15
Published date3/15/2026, 5:30:00 PM
Extracted date3/21/2026, 12:45:00 AM
Last checked3/21/2026, 9:10:00 AM
Classificationreporting extracted
Confidence57/100 · low
Snippet: Product availability remains tight.
- No official day-cover figure found for the same measurement window.
- Publisher passed the editorial ranking threshold.
- Days-of-cover figure cross-checked against at least one secondary signal.
Uses refinery outage reporting, import arrivals, and stock commentary to estimate fuel cover by product.
Source titleFuel supply and refinery status brief
PublisherEngineering News
Source date2026-03-15
Published date3/15/2026, 5:30:00 PM
Extracted date3/21/2026, 12:45:00 AM
Last checked3/21/2026, 9:10:00 AM
Classificationreporting extracted
Confidence57/100 · low
Snippet: Product availability remains tight.
- No official day-cover figure found for the same measurement window.
- Publisher passed the editorial ranking threshold.
- Days-of-cover figure cross-checked against at least one secondary signal.
Uses refinery outage reporting, import arrivals, and stock commentary to estimate fuel cover by product.
Source titleFuel supply and refinery status brief
PublisherEngineering News
Source date2026-03-15
Published date3/15/2026, 5:30:00 PM
Extracted date3/21/2026, 12:45:00 AM
Last checked3/21/2026, 9:10:00 AM
Classificationreporting extracted
Confidence57/100 · low
Snippet: Product availability remains tight.
- No official day-cover figure found for the same measurement window.
- Publisher passed the editorial ranking threshold.
- Days-of-cover figure cross-checked against at least one secondary signal.
Uses refinery outage reporting, import arrivals, and stock commentary to estimate fuel cover by product.
Source titleFuel supply and refinery status brief
PublisherEngineering News
Source date2026-03-15
Published date3/15/2026, 5:30:00 PM
Extracted date3/21/2026, 12:45:00 AM
Last checked3/21/2026, 9:10:00 AM
Classificationreporting extracted
Confidence57/100 · low
Snippet: Product availability remains tight.
- No official day-cover figure found for the same measurement window.
- Publisher passed the editorial ranking threshold.
- Days-of-cover figure cross-checked against at least one secondary signal.
No direct days-cover release is available, so LNG-equivalent cover is estimated from storage, imports, and recent burn.
Source titleGas availability and import position
PublisherDepartment of Mineral Resources and Energy
Source date2026-03-14
Published date3/15/2026, 8:00:00 AM
Extracted date3/21/2026, 12:48:00 AM
Last checked3/21/2026, 9:10:00 AM
Classificationinferred modelled
Confidence38/100 · low
Snippet: Gas data remains sparse.
- No direct stock-days figure published by an official source.
- Estimate derived from inventories, runs, or import cadence with explicit caveats.
- Flagged for monitoring until a fresher direct source appears.
Estimates crude cover from terminal balances and expected arrivals because official crude cover is not published in a timely way.
Source titleCrude supply and terminal balance note
PublisherEngineering News
Source date2026-03-15
Published date3/15/2026, 5:30:00 PM
Extracted date3/21/2026, 12:50:00 AM
Last checked3/21/2026, 9:10:00 AM
Classificationreporting extracted
Confidence59/100 · low
Snippet: Feedstock stocks remain thin.
- No official day-cover figure found for the same measurement window.
- Publisher passed the editorial ranking threshold.
- Days-of-cover figure cross-checked against at least one secondary signal.
Helium cover is carried as a clearly labeled modelled reserve layer. It is maintained separately from core fuel-cover layers and is not blended into the overall fuel metric.
Source titleReserves Monitor helium reserve model
PublisherReserves Monitor
Source date2026-03-15
Published date3/15/2026, 5:30:00 PM
Extracted date3/21/2026, 12:50:00 AM
Last checked3/21/2026, 9:10:00 AM
Classificationinferred modelled
Confidence38/100 · low
Snippet: Helium reserve cover is shown as a clearly labeled modelled layer.
- Derived only from live approved country fuel claims.
- Underlying source dates and badges are preserved on each component layer.
- Modelled layer is clearly labeled and linked to methodology.
Weighted composite of petrol, diesel, jet, LPG, and LNG live claims. Crude is shown separately and is not blended into the public overall-fuel number.
Source titleReserves Monitor weighted fuel-cover methodology
PublisherReserves Monitor
Source date2026-03-15
Published date3/15/2026, 5:30:00 PM
Extracted date3/21/2026, 12:50:00 AM
Last checked3/21/2026, 9:10:00 AM
Classificationinferred modelled
Confidence48/100 · low
Snippet: Composite cover uses weighted live fuel layers.
- Derived only from live approved country fuel claims.
- Underlying source dates and badges are preserved on each component layer.
- Modelled layer is clearly labeled and linked to methodology.
Applies the country import-stress penalty to the weighted overall-fuel layer. This is explicitly modelled and does not replace directly sourced fuel layers.
Source titleReserves Monitor disruption-adjusted cover model
PublisherReserves Monitor
Source date2026-03-15
Published date3/15/2026, 5:30:00 PM
Extracted date3/21/2026, 12:50:00 AM
Last checked3/21/2026, 9:10:00 AM
Classificationinferred modelled
Confidence40/100 · low
Snippet: Import reliance discounts the overall cover estimate.
- Derived only from live approved country fuel claims.
- Underlying source dates and badges are preserved on each component layer.
- Modelled layer is clearly labeled and linked to methodology.
Archive
Superseded claim history
Older approved claims stay archived instead of being silently overwritten.
Petrol previously sat at 13.0 daysSource date 2026-03-08 · Media · superseded by zaf petrol liveUses refinery outage reporting, import arrivals, and stock commentary to estimate fuel cover by product.
Diesel previously sat at 15.0 daysSource date 2026-03-08 · Media · superseded by zaf diesel liveUses refinery outage reporting, import arrivals, and stock commentary to estimate fuel cover by product.
Jet fuel previously sat at 9.0 daysSource date 2026-03-08 · Media · superseded by zaf jet liveUses refinery outage reporting, import arrivals, and stock commentary to estimate fuel cover by product.
LPG previously sat at 5.0 daysSource date 2026-03-08 · Media · superseded by zaf lpg liveUses refinery outage reporting, import arrivals, and stock commentary to estimate fuel cover by product.
LNG previously sat at 1.0 daysSource date 2026-03-07 · Estimated · superseded by zaf lng liveNo direct days-cover release is available, so LNG-equivalent cover is estimated from storage, imports, and recent burn.
Crude previously sat at 22.0 daysSource date 2026-03-08 · Media · superseded by zaf crude liveEstimates crude cover from terminal balances and expected arrivals because official crude cover is not published in a timely way.