Refinery
NATREF refinery — crude-distillation-unit fire
4 January 2025
Sasolburg, Free State, South Africa
What happened
A fire at the NATREF refinery's crude distillation unit damaged nearby piping, instrumentation and electrical cabling. No personnel were injured, but Sasol later reported that the entire refinery was non-operational for two months. The outage threatened jet-fuel supply to O.R. Tambo International Airport, prompting government and industry to secure about 121.1 million liters from alternative sources until production resumed.
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Refinery
- Latitude
- -26.8400°
- Longitude
- 27.8300°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.