{"id":235203,"date":"2026-06-03T05:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-cabora-bassa-gas-agreement-with-invictus-energy-faces-commercial-viability-test\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:10:19","slug":"zimbabwes-cabora-bassa-gas-agreement-with-invictus-energy-faces-commercial-viability-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-cabora-bassa-gas-agreement-with-invictus-energy-faces-commercial-viability-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s Cabora Bassa Gas Agreement With Invictus Energy Faces Commercial Viability Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Discover moreWorld News DigestAfrica Travel GuideBusiness News Updates<em>Channel Africa<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Zimbabwe has signed a resource agreement with Australian upstream oil and gas company Invictus Energy for development of the Cabora Bassa gas project in northern Zimbabwe near the Mozambique border, in a move seen as a possible contribution to southern Africa&#8217;s energy supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"127\">Development Economist Dr Eddie Mahembe said the discovery was positive news for Zimbabwe and the wider region, but commercial viability&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606020746.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover moreWorld News DigestAfrica Travel GuideBusiness News UpdatesChannel Africa Zimbabwe has signed a resource agreement with Australian upstream oil and gas company Invictus Energy for development of the Cabora Bassa gas project in northern Zimbabwe near the Mozambique border, in a move seen as a possible contribution to southern Africa&#8217;s energy supply. Development Economist Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6423,11373,51996,8574,7424,5080,7168,38276,257,254,6596,15718,421,7726],"class_list":["post-235203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agreement","tag-bassa","tag-cabora","tag-commercial","tag-energy","tag-faces","tag-gas","tag-invictus","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-test","tag-viability","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}