BHP appoints former Sasol CEO to its board

Mining giant BHP Billiton has appointed Pat Davies to its board of directors, as an independent nonexecutive director, from June 1. Davies has previously acted as CEO of South Africa’s chemical and mining company Sasol, until retiring in June...

Company Announcement: Sasol CE Pat Davies recognised for advancing chemical engineering

Attached please find a press release on: Sasol Chief Executive Pat Davies has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) in the UK for his contribution to the profession of chemical engineering through...

Coal use expected to increase by 2030, despite CO2 limitations

South Africa’s integrated resource plan (IRP, or the IRP 2010) presents a revised balanced scenario that proposes that, by 2030, South Africa’s generation mix in installed GW should be made up of 48% coal, 14% nuclear, 16% renewable energy and...

Sasol, Talisman mull enlarged GTL plan as they pen second shale-gas deal

Energy and chemicals group Sasol announced on Tuesday that it had signed a second R7,4-billion agreement with Talisman Energy, of Canada, to acquire a 50% interest in the Cypress A shale-gas asset, located in the Montney Basin of British Columbia....

Ningxia CTL plant proposal to be considered in last quarter of 2010

Engineering consultancy Chinese International Engineering Consultative Company’s recommendations on the proposed coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant to be built in the Ningxia Hui Autonomus region is expected to go before the Chinese National Energy...

Sasol launches ultralow-sulphur diesel fuel

South African fuels and petrochemicals producer Sasol has launched an ultralow-sulphur diesel that eliminates injector fouling in diesel engines and can be used in all new-generation diesel technologies, says Sasol fuels technology manager Paul...

Resources Watch

This week: Sasol decelerates its coal-to-liquids project pending clarity on carbon capture and refinery; slow transformation in South Africa fuels the nationalisation debate; and Aveng talks to us about its acid-mine-drainage solutions.

Sasol decelerates CTL project pending carbon capture, refinery clarity

Sasol CEO Pat Davies on its coal-to-liquids projects in China and South Africa, and its gas-to-liquids plan for Uzbekistan.

More raw chrome ore exported at low prices, JSE-bound coal-miner aspires to be consolidator, Sasol allocates R3,1bn for new export coal mine

Some South African chrome miners are continuing the frowned-upon export of raw chrome ore without adding value to make it ferrochrome - and electricity uncertainty is likely to result in an even greater increase in the export of unbene-ficiated...

Sasol-Chesapeake-Statoil apply to explore for shale gas in Karoo

South Africa’s Sasol is taking steps to join the global search for shale gas. Shale has for long been considered a rock too difficult to drill, but the breakthrough of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has opened up shale along with...

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Petrochemicals company Sasol allocates 3,1-billion-rand for a new export coal mine, and wants to explore for shale gas in the Karoo; Peter Leon is ‘cautiously optimistic' as South Africa mulls the future for mining; And, Barrick Gold's spin-off...

Daily podcast – March 9, 2010

Sasol allocates R3,1-billion for the new export coal mine to replace the depleting Twisdraai operation; and Zimbabwe prepares an amended mining law to be presented to Cabinet for approval before it is debated in Parliament.