Natref Sasolburg Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Sasol 63,64% / Total 36,36%
- Website: http://www.sasol.com/
- Location: Sasolburg, South Africa
- Capacity: 5.04 million tons/annum & 108,500 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth: 90%
Brief Description
- Natref, South Africa's only inland crude oil refinery, is a medium sized technologically advanced refinery, highly efficient in refining heavy crude oil
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Fluid catalytic cracking unit, (FCC) - 18,000 bpd
- Distillate Hydrocracker
- Black Oil Hydrocracker
- Platformer - 14,500 bpd
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Heavy Crude Oil
Products Produced
- diesel, petrol, jet fuel and LPG
Ongoing Projects
- The refinery has just completed a project to improve refinery depth and expand capacity
Other Information
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History
- 1971 - Refinery Commissioned
- 1993 - Refinery upgraded and expanded to 86,000 bpd
- 2001 - Fire at the refinery kills 2 people
- 2004 - Fluor Awarded clean fuels project
- 2005 - Investment project launched to lower sulphur content in diesel
- 2009 - The energy regulator awarded a licence for the building of a product pipeline between the refinery and Sasol Secunda Refinery
Relevant Links
- Refinery webpage, Total
- Natref to reopen next month, Sept 2001
- Natref refinery's innovative R600 million investment to lower sulphur content in diesel
- Fluor Selected By Sasol to Upgrade South African Refinery
- Approval of Pipeline Construction Licence
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