Sasol targets 2012 for CTL plants

Sasol’s two coal-to-liquid (CTL) plants in China could start operations as early as 2012 and could lessen China’s oil imports by at least 55 million barrels a year, Sasol Chief Executive Pat Davies said in November. In June, Sasol signed two agreements with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao to proceed with feasibility studies to investigate the development of two CTL plants that will produce 80,000 barrels per day (bpd). In South Africa, Sasol operates the world’s only commercial CTL plant at Secunda where 150,000 barrels of synthetic fuels are manufactured every day. (November 2, 2006)