Published at 2000 × 1333 in Gallery: Free State province, South Africa
The Sasol Infrachem chemicals processing plant in Sasolburg, an industrial town in the far north of the Free State near the Gauteng border. The town was founded in 1954 to support Sasol, a state-owned company created to manufacture oil from coal. South Africa has plenty of coal reserves, but no oil. Today Sasol is a ginat multinational petrochemicals corporation. (Media Club South Africa)