Here’s an interesting segment from Martin Creamer On-The-Air program.

De Gouveia: Certainly very interesting. South Africa’s gas-to-liquids technology caught the eye of the Canadians.

Creamer: Here we have got that home grown technology that has been developed by Sasol and Sasol are taking it into Canada for shale-gas. Here we stopped from exploiting our shale-gas down in the Karoo, whereas the Canadians, a first world country, rolling out the red-cape for Sasol coming in there already invested R15-billion.

They can see the value of this gas-to-liquids because it gives you green diesel and that is what the world wants at the moment, it wants environmentally friendly fuels. Developed in South Africa, but we can’t do much more then what we are doing down at the refinery in the Southern Cape. Here a very important technology in South Africa going to be used in a first world country were we are not using it optimally in our own country.

De Gouveia: Well, we are going to have to leave it there this week, but we are certainly look forward to having you again next week. Thanks very much. Martin Creamer is publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly, he’ll be back with us at the same time next week.

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