Sasol is a diversified chemical and fuel company with production facilities in South Africa and several other countries worldwide. Its principal feedstocks are obtained from coal but it also uses other hydrocarbon raw materials in its global petrochemicals plants. Sasol's chemical businesses include Sasol Olefins & Surfactants, Sasol Polymers, Sasol Solvents, Sasol Wax and Sasol Nitro.
Sasol believes that it has a good business strategy, exciting and achievable growth plans and competitive technologies. Sasol's growth strategy includes the development of world scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) or coal-to-liquids (CTL) plants outside South Africa with its partners, based on a clear, focused selection of opportunities for which Sasol has a strong value proposition. It also plans to grow existing and/or another one or two additional chemical hubs that are not based on Fischer Tropsch technology.
Sasol also has plans to expand the South African gas business and increase Sasol Synfuels’ capacity. It will enhance and optimise the composition of its chemicals portfolio by encouraging each business unit to focus on maximising its value proposition. The company will explore the feasibility of an additional CTL plant in South Africa.
Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sasol employs around 33,544 people.
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Key Personnel
Chairman: Hixonia Nyasulu
Non-executive chairman: Pieter Cox
Executive director: Pat Davies
Executive director: Nolitha Fakude
Executive director: Benny Mokaba
Executive director: Christine Ramon
Non-executive director: Elisabeth Bradley
Non-executive director: Brian Connellan
Non-executive director: Henk Dijkgraaf
Non-executive director: Mandla Gantsho
Non-executive director: Anshu Jain
Non-executive director: Imogen Mkhize
Non-executive director: Hixonia Nyasulu
Non-executive director: Jurgen Schrempp
Non-executive director: Tom Wixley
(Updated July 2009)
Contacts
Sasol Limited
1 Sturdee Avenue (PO Box 5486)
Rosebank 2196
Johannesburg 2000
South Africa
Tel: +27 11 441 3111
Fax: +27 11 788 5092
Email: sasolltd@sasol.com
www.sasol.com
Sasol
Company Structure
Sasol is a diversified petrochemical company with production facilities in South Africa and several other countries worldwide. The history of Sasol dates back to 1927 when a white paper was tabled in parliament to investigate the establishment of an oil-from-coal industry in South Africa. It was realised then that South Africa did not have any crude oil reserves and that the country's balance of payments had to be protected against increasing crude oil imports. After many years of research and international negotiations, the company was eventually formed in 1950. Sasol was listed on the JSE Securities Exchange in 1979 and on the New York Nasdaq stock market in 1982.
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Sasol
Strategy & Financial Highlights
Sasol will concentrate on its strategy of “investing for growth”. Sasol believes that it has a good business strategy, exciting and achievable growth plans and competitive technologies. Even though it says the variability of the business environment in which Sasol operates makes it difficult to forecast likely trends for oil, chemical and associated prices and margins, the company has set its sights on achieving further growth in headline earnings in years to come. (Edited from annual report and company website). ICIS also provides you with key financial data listed in table form.
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