## sasol technology 

## Delivering on Sasol’s strategic agenda 

Sasol Technology’s vision is to be recognised for consistent excellence in innovation and for the delivery of cleaner technologies to enable Sasol’s growth and sustainability. In 2010, we made good progress in our efforts to reinforce Sasol’s foundation and better position the group to meet its ambitious growth targets. 

Sasol Technology remains steadfast in its goal to reduce the group’s environmental footprint. We are developing ways to improve the efficiency of our processes, and are working closely with Sasol New Energy to identify opportunities for low-carbon and renewable energy to power our facilities. We plan to invest considerable effort in further developing photovoltaic and concentrated solar power technologies, as well as in improved ways to capture carbon dioxide (CO$_{2}$) and divert it to productive use or underground storage. Further detail can be found in Sasol New Energy’s report on page 67. 

We experienced challenges in maintaining our safety record, specifically in respect of our service providers. Our RCR rose to 0,65 from 0,44 in 2009. We are working hard to improve this performance by adopting a more disciplined approach to safety as well as by positioning safety more prominently in our contractual agreements with our service providers. 

## Preparing for growth 

Sasol Technology plays a pivotal role in the group’s growth agenda. We assist 

in assessing the feasibility of various opportunities while working to continuously hone our technology offering, making our processes more efficient and competitive. 

The development of the US shale gas industry in recent years has improved the commercialisation of Sasol’s proprietary Slurry Phase Distillate™ gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology. The success of the group’s Oryx GTL joint venture in Qatar underpins our international prospects. Further technology enhancements contributed signifi cantly towards improving the performance of Oryx GTL in the second half of the year. Sasol and its partners are now carrying out studies to further enhance Oryx GTL’s performance and increase its capacity. Our experience in Qatar will be applied to other GTL facilities, including Escravos GTL (EGTL) in Nigeria and a possible venture in Uzbekistan. 

Sasol Technology’s Fischer-Tropsch design reactor and catalyst-testing reactor pilot plants are key to our efforts to develop new, more efficient GTL and CTL operations. These Sasolburg facilities, which became fully operational in 2010, are already making major contributions to improving catalyst performance and reactor and process intensifi cation. 

As outlined by Sasol Synfuels International (SSI) on page 44, we also continue to enhance Sasol’s proprietary CTL technology and recently completed the feasibility study for a CTL complex in China, which demonstrates signifi cant efficiency improvements. We are also assisting SSI with the pre-feasibility study 

into developing a similar facility in India. In South Africa, we are working on gasification trials to test the quality of the coal sample mined close to the proposed site of the potential Project Mafutha project in Limpopo Province. 

As part of our CTL objectives, we worked to refine our expertise in fi xed-bed, dry-bottom (Sasol ®  FBDB™) gasifi cation techniques. A highlight in 2010 was the signing of a partnership agreement with Linde and Hatch Energy Africa. This arrangement creates more capacity by leveraging external resources and expedites our efforts to enhance our gasification technology. It will also assist us in further supporting the stability of the Sasol Synfuels plant at Secunda. 

We are working on a number of projects for Sasol’s chemicals businesses. In 2010, we managed the completion of the project to build and rapidly ramp-up to capacity a second methyl iso-butyl ketone (MiBK) plant for Sasol Solvents in Sasolburg. We are also project managing Sasol Wax’s expansion (see page 59 for details), Sasol Polymers’ ethylene purification expansion and the parallel utilities enlargement in Sasolburg. An important goal in this regard is to ensure the Sasolburg site complies with water quality requirements, contributing to its sustainability. 

## Managing projects across the globe 

Managing the many projects undertaken by Sasol across the globe is one of Sasol Technology’s key areas of accountability. In the year, we made good progress in 

