{"id":238424,"date":"2026-07-10T18:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-oil-targets-60-day-fuel-buffer\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:42:27","slug":"botswana-oil-targets-60-day-fuel-buffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-oil-targets-60-day-fuel-buffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Oil Targets 60-Day Fuel Buffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Gaborone \u2014 The country&#8217;s fuel storage capacity is envisaged to reach 55 days&#8217; cover by the first quarter of the 2027\/28 financial year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">This will be dependent on the commissioning of the Francistown Depot early next year and the Gantsi Depot, both of which are currently under construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Botswana Oil Limited (BOL) Senior Manager, Project Management Office, Mr Kabelo Lanka, said this during a media tour of the Gaborone BOL Depot on July 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607100036.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 The country&#8217;s fuel storage capacity is envisaged to reach 55 days&#8217; cover by the first quarter of the 2027\/28 financial year. This will be dependent on the commissioning of the Francistown Depot early next year and the Gantsi Depot, both of which are currently under construction. Botswana Oil Limited (BOL) Senior Manager, Project [&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":[2461],"tags":[54819,258,256,4718,2462,34045,7570,257,4221,254,7317],"class_list":["post-238424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-60day","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-buffer","tag-fuel","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-south-africa-today","tag-targets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238424","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=238424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238424\/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=238424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}