FOLLOWING its decision to ditch plans to built an 80,000 barrels per day coal-to-liquids plant in Limpopo, energy and chemicals group Sasol is now mulling other possible coal opportunities in the province, the company said.Sasol was awarded a prospecting right in respect of the Limpopo west coal reserves in August 2007. Sasol was part of the Eyesizwe Sasol Waterberg Joint Venture — made up of Exxaro Coal Mpumalanga and Sasol Mining. The joint venture wanted to exploit the area’s coal resource mainly for a coal-to-liquid market. Sasol, however, suspended Project Mafutha in 2010.In an annual report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday and issued in South Africa on Monday, Sasol said its group executive committee earlier this year asked Sasol Mining to investigate options to exploit possible future business opportunities relating to the Limpopo west reserves independent of the coal-to-liquids market."Based on the outcome of study results completed in May 2012,...
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