PetroSA, South Africa University Tout GTL Diesel Fuels Research Center

Abstract

The new PetroSA Synthetic Fuels Innovation Centre (PFSIC) houses a pilot-scale reactor for further studies on conversion of olefins to distillate (COD), the novel process employed at PetroSA's GTL plant in Mossel Bay to produce diesel fuel.

South Africa Energy Minister Dipuo Peters commented that "natural gas reserves represent a vital energy resource for South Africa and the African continent as a whole, thus the identification and monetization of those reserves by [PetroSA] and UWC is of major national interest."