Sasol has completed a pre-feasibility study into the Boegoebaai green hydrogen/ammonia export opportunity, confirming its strong technical and economic potential. While Boegoebaai remains a strategically important component of Sasol’s portfolio, the company is evolving its approach to green hydrogen development in the Northern Cape.

Sasol is shifting from a single-project development model toward a broader, province-wide strategy focused on enabling a coordinated green hydrogen ecosystem. This shift reflects both the scale of the opportunity and the requirements for long-term success, including access to land, grid capacity, infrastructure, and phased market development across multiple sites.
In this context, Boegoebaai continues to be advanced as a potential anchor within a wider Northern Cape green hydrogen corridor, supported by the planned deepwater port and Special Economic Zone. However, Sasol’s development focus is no longer limited to a single site and now encompasses a portfolio of renewable energy opportunities across the province feeding into a Green Hydrogen development ecosystem.

This strategic pivot is aligned with the Northern Cape’s vision to establish a globally competitive green hydrogen export hub, leveraging the province’s exceptional renewable energy resources, available land, and infrastructure potential.

Sasol supports the efforts of all stakeholders including government in the development of critical enabling infrastructure; including transmission, port, and logistics systems and is committed to contributing to a coordinated industrialisation platform that can unlock investment and accelerate implementation at scale.
A core element of this strategy is the recognition that globally competitive green hydrogen production in the 2030s will depend on the timely development of giga-scale renewable energy capacity in the 2020s. Accelerating large-scale solar and wind deployment is therefore a critical near-term priority to underpin future hydrogen production, support industrial demand, and ensure long-term cost competitiveness of the Northern Cape as a production zone for low-carbon fuels.

This approach recognises that large-scale green hydrogen development requires a multi-partner, multi-project system to de-risk early-stage investments, align investment triggers and key infrastructure build out with customer demand, and in so doing support the emergence of competitive export and domestic markets. Sasol’s role is evolving toward that of a catalyst and integrator, contributing its technical expertise and market capabilities within a broader ecosystem of public and private sector participants.