Southern Africa
Botswana Eyes Facility to Convert Coal to Liquid Fuels
The US$2.5 billion plant will help reduce dependency on imported fuel.
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The state oil company, Botswana Oil is building a new coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant. The process of coal-to-liquids converts coal to fuels such as diesel or gas. For diesel, a plant converts coal to gas and then to liquid. The fuel produced is called synthetic fuel or synfuel.
The US$2.5 billion plant
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