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Sasol | |
Company type | Public |
JSE: SOL NYSE: SSL | |
Industry | Oil and gas Chemical Coal tar |
Predecessor | Suid-Afrikaanse Steenkool-, OLie- en Gasmaatskappy |
Founded | 1950 |
Headquarters | , South Africa |
Area served | |
Key people | Stephen Westwell (Independent non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Board) Fleetwood Grobler (Executive Director, President and CEO) |
Revenue | $12.26 billion (2020) |
$(7.15) billion (2020) | |
$(5.867) billion (2020) | |
Number of employees | 30,100[citation needed] |
Website | www |
Sasol Limited is an integrated energy and chemical company based in Sandton, South Africa. The company was formed in 1950 in Sasolburg, South Africa, and built on processes that German chemists and engineers first developed in the early 1900s (see coal liquefaction). Today, Sasol develops and commercializes technologies, including synthetic fuel technologies, and produces different liquid fuels, chemicals, coal tar, and electricity.[1]
Sasol is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE: SOL) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SSL). Major shareholders include the South African Government Employees Pension Fund,[2] Industrial Development Corporation[3] of South Africa Limited (IDC), Allan Gray Investment Counsel,[4] Coronation Fund Managers, Ninety One,[5] and others.[6] Sasol employs 30,100 people worldwide and has operations in 33 countries.[7] It is the largest corporate taxpayer in South Africa and the seventh-largest coal mining company in the world.[8]