The business book From Good to Great has become an important inspiration for new Sasol Synfuels MD Marinus Sieberhagen, now ten months into the job. 

Natural gas from Temane, Mozambique, has come on line and the SCI conversion project is very much on the home stretch, overall construction being within a whisker of completion. 

Qatar Petroleum and Sasol Synfuels International had no hesitation in deciding to locate their new facility in the Ras Laffan Industrial City development in north-east Qatar on the Arabian Gulf,... 

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has approved Sasol Dia Acrylate’s application for a strategic industrial programme (SIP) grant. ?SIP is an incentive programme designed to... 

Several notable greater-than-€2m Sasol chemicals projects outside of South Africa are at an advanced stage of implementation in the US, Italy and Germany at a total cost of some R5... 

One of Sasol’s best employment equity (EE) successes is Joe Makhoere, the MD of Merisol RSA, a joint venture that South Africa’s petrochemicals giant Sasol has with Merichem of the US. 

The R12-billion Project Turbo, one of the largest projects ever undertaken in South Africa, is already 15% complete, Engineering News can today report. 

South Africa’s new acrylic acid and acrylates (AAA) complex in Sasolburg is making a textbook-style entry. 

The chemicals industry has a tradition of seven-year cycles, two good years and five lean ones. 

The normal (n)-butanol plant in Sasolburg commissioned this year is inextricably linked to the acrylic acid acrylates (AAA) project, which is on track to reach ready-for-operation stage in the... 

The new acrylic acids and acrylate (AAA) project in Sasolburg is on track to beat the world construction norm for plants of this kind, Engineering News can today report. 

South African petrochemicals giant Sasol is putting the finishing touches to the world’s largest air-separation unit (ASU), constructed at its synthetic fuels production facilities in... 

Secunda-based electrical engineering company Energotec reports that it has completed a multimillion rand contract as part of the construction of Sasol’s 15th air-separation unit (ASU). 

The detailed drawings, fabrication, corrosion-protection, erection and painting of part of the total structural steel needs for Sasol’s 15th air-separation unit (ASU) were supplied by... 

An intricate network comprising several kilometers of piping interconnects Sasol’s 15th air-separation unit (ASU) to the rest of the plant infrastructure at the petrochemical group’s... 

Local specialist Group Five Mining and Industrial completed a contract for the civil works and pipe racks for Sasol’s 15th air separation unit (ASU) in April 2003, having started on site in... 

Sasol Oil intends modelling its retail fuel brand on that of the highly-successful US QuikTrip, Engineering News can today report. 

There has been more success than expected from Sasol’s NetGain programme. 

Linear alkylbenzene (LAB) is an important detergent intermediary that has contributed nearly a quarter of the turnover of Sasol’s olefins and surfactants division. 

The stone-laying ceremony for the world’s pioneering gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in the Middle East is scheduled to take place on December 7, Engineering News can today report. 

South Africa’s biggest industrial project in years is being firmed up for submission to the board of this country’s largest petrochemicals company, Engineering News can today report. 

An enlightened approach to business processes with enabling technologies can dramatically improve downstream company competitiveness. 

With the recent Sasol Technology (Sastech) approval of both Leser API specification safety relief valves and TLV steam traps and related equipment for use on Sasol?plants being granted, Heaton... 

Automation and control solution provider Honeywell is a technology partner with Sasol and has had much experience providing control solutions for the petrochemical industry worldwide 

Sourcing the best solutions and products and ensuring innovative technology for plant operations is a key to the success of any leading conglomerate. 

A leading engineering and construction company based in Secunda, Mpumalanga, CB&I Constructors SA, was awarded a contract by Linde on behalf of Sasol, in April this year, to supply three carbon... 

Sasol Polymers International’s R3,6-billion investment in an ethane-based crackerplus low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plants in Iran is proceeding... 

South Africa’s sole manufacturer of ammonia has been placed in a position to increase ammonia production capacity by 12% at Sasolburg next year as a result of the introduction of natural gas... 

Engineering News spoke to project director: natural gas Elmore Marshall and Sasol Petroleum International GM Martin Vorster on the new pipeline to bring natural gas from Temane in Mozambique to... 

Bottom-of-the-barrel beneficiator Sasol Carbo-Tar is on an intense drive to capture niche markets. 

Groundbreaking work done by petrochemical giant Sasol on the production of synthetic jet fuel from coal, is expected to gain worldwide approval from aviation authorities for the fuel by August,... 

A search is on for a new fuel to bridge the gap between existing conventional fuels and the eventual introduction of the fuel cell, Engineering News can today repo 

The plans looked somewhat ambitious for a plant of the magnitude of Sasol Synfuels in Secunda -but their implementation is on target at the halfway point. 

A large new gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in Qatar – nearly four times the size of the pioneering $950-million GTL plant now under construction there – is a new possibility in the...