Craig Morkel

Chairperson Gas Economy Leadership Group South African Oil and Gas Alliance

Mr Craig Morkel is Chairperson of the Gas Economy Leadership Team at SAOGA (SA Oil & Gas Alliance), the industry association for primarily up- & mid-stream oil & gas since 2003. 

He is also CEO of iKapa Energy which was established in 2014 as a technology-agnostic energy project development company, but has also branched out into water projects. 

Mr Morkel is a former Member of Parliament (MP), having served 2 terms of office from 1999 to 2009, including in the then Parliamentary Portfolio Committees of Minerals & Energy, Science & Technology, Communication and Public Service & Administration, besides the Joint Standing Committees on Defence and Children, Youth & People with Disabilities. 

Before then he worked for a strategic communications company with blue chip clients across the various sectors of the economy, including a petroleum company, as well as roles in the public service, from 1991 to 1996, including in the Department of Justice and the Department of Local Government (Western Cape). 

Mr Morkel studied non-degree courses towards a BA (Law) at UWC from 1987, besides completing short courses in conflict resolution with Dr Dudley Weeks visiting from the University of Washington and the Centre for Conflict Resolution (UCT), and in minerals & mining with the Mining Qualifications Authority (Wits & UJ).