Secunda CTL


Secunda CTL is a synthetic fuel plant owned by Sasol at Secunda, Mpumalanga in South Africa. It uses coal liquefaction to produce petroleum-like synthetic crude oil from coal. The process used by Sasol is based on the Fischer–Tropsch process. It is the largest coal liquefaction plant in the world.
Secunda CTL consists of two production units. The Sasol II unit was constructed in 1980 and the Sasol III unit in 1984. It has total production capacity of.

Unique plant infrastructure

The Sasol III Steam Plant has a tall chimney built by Concor, which consists of a high windshield and four reinforced concrete flues which together with a high temporary roof on the 4th flue temake it one the tallest structures in Africa.

In Media

As a major component of South Africa's economy, Secunda was in turn a major target of the African National Congress during the apartheid era. Two ANC attacks were dramatized in the 2006 film Catch a Fire.