# SASOL LTD

Summary updated: 2026-10-03T22:19:05.759052Z
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## Overview

Sasol Ltd is a South African-founded global chemicals and energy company. It sources, produces and markets energy and chemical products through its Sasol Chemicals, Sasol Energy and Sasol ecoFT businesses. Its portfolio includes fuels, chemical products, polymers and solvents, and it markets products in 22 countries. [1](https://www.sasol.com/who-we-are/about-us)[2](https://www.sasol.com/our-businesses)[3](https://www.sasol.com/products-10) Sasol’s stated purpose is “Innovating for a better world”; the company was established in South Africa in 1950. [4](https://www.sasol.com/who-we-are/purpose-and-values)[5](https://www.sasol.com/overview)

For the year ended 30 June 2026, Sasol reported turnover of R272.118 billion and 27,239 employees. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318327)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318665)
[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318327)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318665)[1](https://www.sasol.com/who-we-are/about-us)[2](https://www.sasol.com/our-businesses)[3](https://www.sasol.com/products-10)[4](https://www.sasol.com/who-we-are/purpose-and-values)[5](https://www.sasol.com/overview)

## Products & services

Sasol’s chemicals portfolio includes base chemicals such as polymers, fertilisers and explosives, methanol, ammonia, gases and solvents. Its differentiated chemicals include phenolics, wax, comonomers, SAFOL, cobalt catalyst and carbon; products are used in markets including mining, coatings, personal care and pharmaceuticals. [8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162317854)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162317858) Sasol also markets synthetic ethanol for industrial and consumer-product uses, ISOFOL branched alcohols for skin, sun-care and hair-care formulations, and Fischer–Tropsch waxes, surfactants and glycol ethers for coatings. Its fuels and oils include transport fuels, bitumen, LPG, lubricants and heating fuels. [10](https://chemicals.sasol.com/products/c2-alcohols)[11](https://chemicals.sasol.com/products/isofol)[12](https://chemicals.sasol.com/applications/coatings)[13](https://www.sasol.com/products-9)

The FY2026 report categorises chemicals production capacity across olefins, polyolefins, LAB/paraffin, alcohols, ketones, acrylates, surfactants, ethylene oxide derivatives and wax. Reported nameplate capacity is not equivalent to saleable output, which may be lower due to integrated use, maintenance shutdowns and market conditions. [14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318293)[15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T18883378)[16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T18883379) Sasol also offers customer-facing technical services, including troubleshooting, product validation, R&D collaboration and operational optimisation. [17](https://www.sasol.com/our-businesses/energy/business-energy-solutions/industry-solutions/research-and-technical-services)[18](https://chemicals.sasol.com/contactus)
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## Geographic presence

Sasol’s principal manufacturing base is in South Africa, with major facilities at Secunda and Sasolburg and coal collieries around Secunda. [19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318282) In Mozambique, gas assets in the Pande-Temane area include processing at Temane, with gas supplied to South African operations and external customers. [20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318162)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318182) Sasol also has an interest in Escravos GTL in Nigeria; its ORYX GTL facility in Ras Laffan, Qatar, was offline after shutting down in March 2026. [22](https://www.sasol.com/operations-locations-9)[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318428)

In FY2026, Sasol reported 27,239 employees: 23,047 in South Africa, 2,450 in Europe, 1,061 in North America and 681 in other regions. [24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T18883472) Its listed management offices are in Sandton and Houston, with sales offices in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. [25](https://www.sasol.com/who-we-are/global-presence) A 2026 company overview, based generally on FY2025 information, states that Sasol’s South Africa and International Chemicals portfolios serve more than 7,000 customer locations in 118 countries. [26](https://www.sasol.com/sites/default/files/2026-06/Business%20overview%20document.pdf) The FY2026 materials searched did not provide a country- or region-level revenue share. Sasol’s latest available annual report is for FY2026, ended 30 June 2026. [27](https://www.sasol.com/sites/default/files/2026-09/Integrated_Annual_Report_2026.pdf)
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## Business segments

Sasol’s FY2026 report identifies six reportable operating segments. Based on each segment’s external turnover as a share of consolidated turnover of R272,118 million, the approximate contributions were: Fuels, 44.9% (R122,075 million) [28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T18883411); Chemicals Africa, 22.0% (R59,862 million) [29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T18883413); Chemicals Eurasia, 15.4% (R41,889 million) [30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T18883417); Chemicals America, 14.8% (R40,290 million) [31](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T18883415); Gas, 2.9% (R7,998 million) [32](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T18883409); and Mining, less than 0.1% (R4 million) [33](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T18883407). These percentages are calculated against consolidated turnover [34](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T18883389).

Fuels covers the liquid-fuels business and marketing to wholesalers, retailers, end-users and export markets [35](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162317849). Chemicals Africa includes Base Chemicals and Differentiated Chemicals, with products such as polymers, fertilisers, explosives, methanol, ammonia, gases, solvents and specialty chemicals [8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162317854). Chemicals America and Chemicals Eurasia are the two geographic segments of International Chemicals, which includes Base Chemicals and differentiated businesses [36](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162317855)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162317858). Gas sells gas through direct sales and marketing arrangements; Mining supplies coal, primarily for internal use [37](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162317848)[38](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318029).

The report also groups Mining, Gas, Fuels and Chemicals Africa within the Southern Africa Energy and Chemicals Business, and Chemicals America and Chemicals Eurasia within the International Chemicals Business; these are broader groupings rather than additional reportable segments [39](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318386)[40](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318453). The report’s segment structure reflects how management organizes the businesses to assess performance and make operating decisions [41](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P162318384).
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## Company history

Sasol’s origins date to a 1927 proposal to investigate producing oil from coal in South Africa. It was established on 26 September 1950 as a government-sponsored corporation, and construction of its first plant at Sasolburg began in 1952. The plant produced its first synthetic crude in August 1955, followed by commercial-scale petrol later that year. [42](https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/energy-and-chemical-company-sasol-registered)[43](https://sasol.com/celebrating-our-heritage)[44](https://www.sasol.com/sasol-produces-15-billion-barrels-synthetic-fuel-coal-fifty-years)

The company expanded its coal-to-liquids operations with Sasol Two and Sasol Three, completed in 1980 and beginning production in 1982, respectively. Sasol listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1979 and on the New York Stock Exchange in 2003. Around the turn of the century, it pursued international growth through the Sasol Chevron venture, acquired German chemicals company Condea in 2001, and developed the ORYX gas-to-liquids venture in Qatar, which produced its first final product in 2007. [45](https://www.sasol.com/historical-milestones)[46](https://www.sasol.com/jse-listing)[47](https://www.sasol.com/investor-centre/shareholder-information)[48](https://www.sasol.com/sasol-considering-disposal-its-olefins-and-surfactants-os-business-excluding-its)[49](https://www.sasol.com/oryx-gas-liquids-ltd-qsc-news-release-0)

In the 2010s, Sasol diversified further into North American shale gas, agreeing to acquire a 50% interest in the Farrell Creek assets in Canada in 2010. It approved its Lake Charles Chemicals Project in Louisiana in 2014; the project’s final major polyethylene unit entered beneficial operation in 2020. That year, Sasol also agreed to sell a 50% interest in the project’s base-chemicals business to LyondellBasell as part of its debt-reduction response. [50](https://www.sasol.com/sasol-signs-cad1-050-zar7-119-million-agreement-canada)[51](https://www.sasol.com/final-investment-decision-0)[52](https://www.sasol.com/sasol-announces-beneficial-operation-louisiana-low-density-polyethylene-ldpe-unit)[53](https://sasol.com/divestment-50-interest-sasol-s-lccp-base-chemicals-business-and-creation-jv-lyondellbasell)
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