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NEWS RELEASE
Frackville, Pennsylvania
Wednesday February 10, 1999
Sasol Limited of South Africa and Waste Management and Processors, Inc., of Frackville, PA,
are investigating an arrangement whereby Sasol would analyze the technical and economic feasibility
of converting synthetic gas, derived from Pennsylvania anthracite waste and other carbonaceous
feedstock, into high quality environment-friendly transportation fuels.
Sasol was founded in 1950 for the manufacture of fuels and chemicals from indigenous raw
materials. Sasol became a private company in 1979 when Sasol Limited was listed on the
Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Sasol is one of the world's foremost players in utilizing
Fischer-Tropsch technology for the production of fuels and chemicals and has a production facility of
more than 150,000 barrels per day in Secunda, South Africa.
Sasol's feasibility studies for Gas-to-Liquid plants in Qatar and Nigeria are in an advanced stage of
completion. The company has also prepared a number of pre-feasibility studies for oil majors on gas
sites throughout the world.
Should the Frackville project proceed, it will be located in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and is
estimated to cost $300 million, create 150 permanent jobs and 1,000 construction jobs over a three
to four year period. The plant will produce approximately 5,000 barrels a day of a zero percent sulfur
diesel fuel from anthracite waste feedstocks. The plant will be a modular design so as to be easily
replicated throughout the United States. This will be the first commercial gas-to-liquids facility in the
United States.
Pennsylvania state officials visited Sasol's Secunda gas-to-liquids plant in September 1998.
Legislation has been proposed to facilitate and help finance the project.