Monday, September 8, 2008
Sasol reported that the “majority of teething problems” from its Oryx gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in
The $1 billion facility, a JV with Sasol and Qatar Petroleum, came onstream in January 2007, but five months later, Sasol announced difficulties as a result of high levels of a fine material being produced in the Fischer-Tropsch process.
In a statement released together with the group’s year-end results, Sasol said: “With the majority of teething problems behind us, the ramp up of the Oryx GTL plant in Qatar met our expectations during the year.”