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The refinery is a joint venture between Sasol Ltd and Total South Africa (Pty) Ltd. Sasol has a 63.64 per cent shareholding in Natref, and Total South Africa holds a 36.36 per cent interest. [42] One of few inland refineries in South Africa, [39]: 166 Natref's capacity in 2017, stood at 108,500 barrels per day of crude oil. The refinery uses ...
Secunda CTL is a synthetic fuel plant owned by Sasol at Secunda, Mpumalanga in South Africa. It uses coal liquefaction to produce petroleum-like synthetic crude oil from coal. The process used by Sasol is based on the Fischer–Tropsch process. It is the largest coal liquefaction plant and the largest single emitter of greenhouse gas in the world.
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.
Sasolburg is a city in the Free State province of South Africa. The city is located in the northern part of the province and is the seat of the Metsimaholo Local Municipality. The city lies 13 kilometres south of the Gauteng province and forms part of the Vaal Triangle (Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging and Sasolburg) region.
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 ...
South African Reserve Bank, Cape Town - 25 Burg Street. PetroSA GTL Refinery - Mossel Bay . 34°10′03.41″S 22°59′12.80″E / 34.1676139°S 22.9868889°E / -34.1676139; 22.9868889 Single point mooring buoy Voorbaai - Mossel Bay .
Oil was the one major raw material not available in South Africa except synthetically from coal. This priority resource was therefore placed under a high degree of control by the government, which expected to meet 50% of its oil needs from the SASOL program. The South African Coal Oil and Gas Corporation was a state controlled company.
Duvha Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, is a coal-fired power plant operated by Eskom. The 300 metres (980 ft) tall chimneys at Duvha are the second and third tallest structures in Africa, only a chimney located at the Secunda CTL plant is taller.