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Sasol's Secunda CTL plant is, as of 2020, the world's largest point source of greenhouse gas, at 56.5 Mt/a CO 2, [54] a status which persists during the 2020s, with the complex producing more carbon dioxide than the country of Portugal at the close of 2023.
The ex-workers took SASOL to court as result and, in 1989, the Labour Court ruled in favour of the ex-workers; however, as of 2014, they have yet to receive compensation. SASOL still denies responsibility and, as a result of the refinery's designation as a National Key Point, the actions taken against workers remain secret until today. [2]
It is the largest coal liquefaction plant and the largest single emitter of greenhouse gas in the world. Secunda CTL consists of two production units. The Sasol II unit was constructed in 1980 and the Sasol III unit in 1984. [1] It has total production capacity of 160,000 barrels per day (25,000 m 3 /d). [2]
Sasol Secunda. Secunda (from Latin: second, secund, secundi meaning second/following) is a town built amidst the coalfields of the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.It was named for being the second Sasol extraction refinery producing oil from coal, after Sasolburg, [2] some 140 kilometres (87 mi) to the west.
A coal liquefaction plant in Secunda (Secunda CTL) is one of the country's two petroleum-from-coal extraction plants, which is operated by the synthetic fuel company Sasol. [39] The high density of coal power stations on the Mpumalanga highveld means that the region has the highest levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution in the world. [40]
Sasol operates the world's only commercial Fischer Tropsch coal-to-liquids facility, Secunda CTL, with a capacity of 150,000 barrels per day (24,000 m 3 /d). [ 5 ] Sasol's Oryx Fischer Tropsch gas-to-liquids plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City , Qatar is running at 29,000 barrels per day (4,600 m 3 /d) capacity, near its anticipated 34,000 ...
The Free State is also rich in mineral wealth, gold representing 20% of the world's total gold production. Mining is the province's major employer. The province has 12 gold mines, producing 30% of South Africa's output and making it the fifth-largest producer of gold in the world.
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