Powering Africa on Africa's terms.
Abakhulu Energy is a Black-owned holding company operating across importation, base oil distribution, lubricants distribution, and specialty chemicals in sub-Saharan Africa.
Three operating businesses, one holding structure, and a partnership model anchored by direct ExxonMobil authorisation.
Operates at the earliest point of the supply chain — importing ExxonMobil base stocks by dedicated vessel, storing across 26,244m³ at Bidvest Tank Terminals in Durban, and handling base oil distribution across the full Group I, II and III slate. Vertically integrated from vessel, to tank, to distribution.
The group's market-facing lubricants business — covering blending, blending distribution and the supply of Mobil and own-brand finished lubricants to workshops, fleets, mines and construction across sub-Saharan Africa. One of only 11 ExxonMobil-authorised blending plants globally.
Zestchem is the group's specialty and industrial chemicals arm, distributing chemicals, polyethylene, polypropylene, PET and PVC to plastics manufacturers, mining operations and industrial customers across Southern Africa. In collaboration with NCT Holland, Zestchem brings international supply scale together with local stockholding and South African currency transactions.
An experienced leadership team operates across the holding company and each of its three businesses.
For over 150 years, the Dunn name has been woven into the fabric of KwaZulu-Natal — beginning with John Dunn, the first outsider welcomed across the Tugela by Zulu King Cetshwayo and made part of the community. That inheritance shapes how Abakhulu Energy operates today.
A direct ExxonMobil authorisation across base stock supply and finished lubricant blending — a position years in the making.
Abakhulu Energy (Pty) Ltd
The Group Office
Johannesburg, South Africa
Registered in the Republic of South Africa.
All enquiries are reviewed by the executive office and directed to the relevant operating business — Zestcor, AGL or Zestchem — for a formal response.
