GREEN GOALS?

Sasol: From Green Hydrogen to Mozambique drilling, 10 facts about its 2023 interim results

By Xolisa Phillip

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Posted on March 28, 2023 14:23

© A general view in Secunda, on December 18, 2022 of Sasol Synfuels Operations, a commercial coal-based synthetic fuels manufacturing facility, producing synthesis gas (syngas) through coal gasification and natural gas reforming. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) — A general view in Secunda, on December 18, 2022 of Sasol Synfuels Operations, a commercial coal-based synthetic fuels manufacturing facility, producing synthesis gas (syngas) through coal gasification and natural gas reforming. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)

Sasol’s 2030 emissions reduction ambitions have drawn scepticism, but the company’s establishment of a $54m venture capital fund should signal it means business, CFO Hanre Rossouw tells The Africa Report.

The integrated global chemicals and energy company released, at the end of February 2023, its interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2022.

As Sasol progresses delivery on the business of today, it is also advancing the development of Sasol 2.0, which represents a future conception of the company.

We look at 10 facts worth noting in the first half of Sasol’s 2023 financial year.

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