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Top 25 Petrochemicals companies based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 76 petrochemicals companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 24,575 professional contacts across them, including 7,938 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers petrochemicals companies headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 15, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest petrochemicals companies based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,170 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Astron Energy is one of the leading suppliers of petroleum products in South Africa through its vast network of approximately 850 service stations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 244 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Manufacturer and supplier of a complete range of unsaturated polyester resins, coating resins, dispersions, epoxy vinyl esters, gelcoats, pigment pastes accessories and equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1984, Refinex (Pty) Ltd is a privately owned company which has evolved from producing quality products for the pet food, feed and industrial markets to providing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MET is an independent oil company and a recognized member of SAPIA and has been in existence since 2006.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With over 65 years of experience in the petrochemical industry - Moov Energy aims to meet Africa’s energy needs through safe and reliable service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CGH South Africa (Pty) Ltd is a member of the CGH Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Prowalco Tatsuno Pty Ltd is a company based out of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ColVic is a complete end-to-end solution provider for safe storage and distribution of fuels to the retail & commercial petrochemical industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wasaa Gasses Pty Ltd is an Independent South African Petroleum and Petrochemical company, serving the various refining and downstream players in South Africa and SADC, and with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tron Lubricants is part of a group of companies specialising in the lubrication and petro-chemical industries in South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stacor supply clients with virgin products such as Petroleum Jelly, White Oils, Aromatic Oils, Process Oils, Slack Waxes, Automotive and Industrial Lubricants, Specific Specialty…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Renati Group of companies are leaders of innovation in the petroleum industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Supplier of various global equipment brands to the Petrochemical Industry in South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CHEMGROUP SA is a major conglomerate with multiple subsidiaries with operations in the chemical, lubricants, fuel and detergents industries since 1986.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Ti Ta Investments ( Pty) is a BEE Level 1-rated enterprise operating as a fully-fledged trading house sourcing products globally, supporting major petroleum companies with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With over 65 years of experience in the petrochemical industry - MOOV Fuel and Lubricants aims to meet Africa’s energy needs through safe and reliable service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Import, development, production, and supply of speciality chemicals for use in industrial applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Petroleumfix specializes in the wholesale, trading and distribution of petroleum delivery and custody transfer products including but not limited to diesel, petrol, and paraffin…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We Specialize in Petro Chemicals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Venco is a leading wholesale petroleum company in South Africa, trading nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Synergia is an independent Oil & Gas company operating across the full spectrum of the petroleum value chain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Origen Chemicals is a privately held company headquartered in Durban, South Africa, with representation in Europe, India, China and the United States of America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We combine industry-specific expertise, powerful research capabilities and innovative thinking to provide a suite of petroleum consulting services to our wholesale and retail…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Resin SA (Pty) Ltd is a South African based composite company operating in three major business sectors – Polyester Resins, Chemical Solvents and Speciality Plastic Polymers –…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Proudly South African Company with its core focus on importing and exporting of the GLOBAL STANDARD polymers/POLY-OLEFINS through-out South Africa and sub Saharan Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: petrochemicals companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names petrochemicals companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of petrochemicals companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name petrochemicals companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Petrochemicals companies based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 76 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among petrochemicals companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “petrochemicals companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names petrochemicals companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among petrochemicals companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 7,938 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 15, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names petrochemicals companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many petrochemicals companies are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 76 petrochemicals companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Astron Energy PTY LTD, headquartered in Cape Town, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most petrochemicals companies?
Johannesburg leads with 12 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (10) and Durban (9).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 7,938 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 76 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 15, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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