SASOL Integrated Report 2025_Final_28 August 2025 - Flipbook - Page 62
INTRODUCTION
ABOUT SASOL
STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
PORTFOLIOS
ESG
REMUNERATION REPORT
DATA AND ASSURANCE / ADMINISTRATION
STRENGTHEN OUR FOUNDATION
SOUTHERN AFRICA ENERGY AND CHEMICALS continued
Operations
Fuels
Secunda Operations’ production volumes for
2025 of 6,7 mt were 4% lower than the prior year,
primarily due to ongoing coal quality challenges
which impacted gasifier availability, as well as
unplanned factory outages.
Liquid fuels sales volumes for 2025 were 2% lower
than the prior year. Sales in the Commercial and
Wholesale channels were adversely impacted by the
aforementioned lower production at Secunda
Operations and Natref, with higher external purchases
being used to partially mitigate this impact. Mobility
business has continued to demonstrate resilience
amid a challenging macroeconomic and competitive
fuel retail environment. While South African retail
market fuel demand softened over the period, with
total volumes declining by 0,9%, our performance was
markedly ahead of the market, with volumes growing
by 5% year-on-year.
Work is ongoing and underway to improve
production volumes from Secunda Operations
through targeted interventions to improve coal
quality and gasifier availability.
The medium- to long-term improvement in
profitability will be underpinned by already
proven interventions to improve the quality and
availability of coal feedstock. These interventions
are expected to shift Secunda Operations to better
stability, while further reliability improvements on
the gasifiers will enhance predictability and energy
efficiency improvements.
Sasolburg Operations’ production volumes for
2025 were 4% lower than prior year impacted by
internal planned and unplanned outages and
external impacts from water supply disruptions
and Eskom power failures.
Natref production in 2025 was 17% lower than
prior year, impacted by planned and unplanned
outages including the fire incident on the crude
distillation unit in January 2025 and Eskom power
outage in Q4 of FY25.
Chemicals Africa
Sales volumes for 2025 were 4% lower than the
prior year, impacted by lower chemicals production
at Secunda Operations and Sasolburg Operations.
The average sales basket price was 2% higher than
prior year despite challenging global market
conditions.
ORYX GTL had a strong performance and
maintained stable performance for most of 2025
achieving a utilisation rate of 86%, significantly
more than the utilisation rate achieved in the prior
year of 50% which was impacted by the shutdown
of Train 2.
The utilisation rate achieved in 2025 included 36
days planned shutdown of Train 2 for inspections
during the last quarter of 2025.
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