Secunda is southeast of Johannesburg. It is a town built amidst the coalfields of the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. It was named
for being the second extraction refinery producing oil from coal, after Sasolburg,[2] some 140 kilometres (87 mi) to the west.
Sasol's Secunda, South Africa, complex
converts tons of coal into 150,000 barrels of oil each day.
Today, Secunda is a buzzing industrial hub
with 16,000 employees, miles of interlocking pipes and cables, and eight
colossal silos. The silos, each big enough to contain a football field, cool
steam involved in the conversion process. Fuel trucks wait along the edge of
the facility to fill up with gasoline. Nearby mines produce more than 40
million metric tons of coal a year
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