Sasol Limited

Sasol Limited is a South African integrated chemicals and energy company headquartered in Sandton, near Johannesburg, best known for pioneering large-scale coal-to-liquid synthetic fuel production. It was founded in 1950 as the South African Coal, Oil and Gas Corporation, created by the apartheid-era state specifically to reduce South Africa's dependence on imported oil by converting the country's abundant coal into liquid fuels using Fischer-Tropsch synthesis technology. Sasol built and continues to operate the Secunda synthetic fuels complex, one of the largest coal-to-liquids facilities in the world, and the company has since diversified into chemicals manufacturing while also pursuing natural gas production in Mozambique and a gradual shift away from coal feedstock toward lower-carbon alternatives.