Petrol?

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AFAIK, SASOL doesn't make much of that type of oil any more. It was useful mainly for sanctions busting during the old apartheid. Nowadays they buy the oil in same as the others.

Sasol Synthetic Fuels (SSF) - which consists of the two plants in Secunda - produces synthetic oil using the Fischer-Tropsch process from both coal (mined around Secunda) and natural gas (extracted from the Temane field in Mozambique). The Secunda complex produces around 180 000 barrels per day of synthetic oil which is around 36% of SA's total requirements of 500 000 bpd.

Sasol Chemical Industries - the plant in Sasolburg - does not produce synthetic oil anymore (except as a minor byproduct of the F-T process), but is primarily geared to producing various hydrocarbon based chemicals.

Sasol Oil - the retail arm of Sasol - which runs the petrol stations and Sasol's two refineries (Natref & the blending plants at SSF in Secunda) and markets Sasol's products sometimes have to import refined products when refining capacity is running low at SAPREF, Caltex-Milnerton or at their own refineries. SA's total refining capacity is currently around 450 000 bpd, so there will always be a need to import refined product (Petrol, Diesel, JET A-1, etc) until the existing capacity is upgraded.

Their primary business remains producing synthetic oil from coal (and contributes about 65% of the group's total profit).