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Sasol’s Guerbet Unit at Lake Charles Achieves Beneficial Operation
Sasol Limited
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number 1979/003231/06)
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(“Sasol” or “Company”)
SASOL’S GUERBET UNIT AT LAKE CHARLES ACHIEVES BENEFICIAL
OPERATION
Sasol is pleased to announce that the Guerbet alcohols unit at the Lake Charles
Chemicals Project (“LCCP”) achieved beneficial operation on 19 June 2020. The new
Guerbet unit is Sasol’s second Guerbet alcohol production site, with the other located in
Brunsbuettel, Germany. This means that 100 percent of LCCP’s specialty chemicals
units are now online, and that 86 percent of total nameplate capacity of LCCP is
operational. The Guerbet unit is the sixth LCCP production unit to be brought into
production, and has a nameplate capacity of 30 000 tons per year, using Sasol’s
proprietary technology.
The LCCP Ziegler unit, which achieved beneficial operation on 16 June 2020, is an
extension of the existing Ziegler plant in Lake Charles and adds to existing Ziegler
capacity from Brunsbuettel in Germany. It is the largest of its kind in the world, adding
nameplate capacity of 173 000 tons per year of alcohol and 32 000 tons per year of
alumina. The Ziegler unit is the most technically complex of the units in the LCCP and is
also based on Sasol’s proprietary technology.
The last remaining unit to come online at LCCP will be the low density polyethylene
(LDPE) plant, which was damaged during a fire in January 2020. This is on track for
beneficial operation by the end of September 2020, as per previous guidance. At the
end of May 2020, the LCCP capital expenditure was tracking the previously
communicated guidance of US$12,8 billion.
23 June 2020
Johannesburg
Sponsor: Merrill Lynch South Africa Proprietary Limited
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Date: 23-06-2020 07:05:00
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