Sasol revised its forecast synfuel sales for its financial year to end-June down to 60-million barrels from 61-million barrels in a production update released on Tuesday morning. An earlier version of this story blamed a strike at Sasol’s Secunda colliery for a 4.5% drop in "white product" liquid fuel (petrol, diesel and paraffin) sales to 42.5-million barrels in the nine months to end-March. But Sasol said the strike was not a big contributor to the drop, but rather the refurbishment of its Natref refinery. The group’s "black product" (bitumen) sales remained level at 1.8-million barrels, Sasol said in a production and sales update released on Tuesday morning. Secunda coal mine’s saleable production fell 11.7% to 26.3-million tonnes compared with the same nine months the previous year. "The decrease in production volumes up to the third quarter of the 2017 financial year is primarily due to the impact of labour actions at our Secunda mining operations in the first half of the finan...
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