The project is expected to raise Sasol’s production of medium waxes and liquid paraffins by around 50%.
In addition, the company is providing engineering services to Sasol Technology’s Fischer Tropsch Licensing group (FTL). The FTL is performing a feasibility study for the Sasol and Shenhua-Ningxia Coal Company partnership.
The feasibility study examines the potential for an 80,000 barrels-per-day coal-to-liquids plant in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China. Specifically, the company is supporting the Fischer-Tropsch, water treatment, wax treatment and heavy ends recovery areas of the study with the FTL.
“Shaw has worked with Sasol on Fischer-Tropsch technology for more than 30 years and has designed approximately 96 percent of all Fischer-Tropsch units in the world,” said Lou Pucher, president of Shaw’s Energy & Chemicals Group. “The two contracts further solidify Shaw’s long-term partnership with Sasol in the continued development and expansion of this technology.”
