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Reduced Environmental Impact - Reaching New Frontiers
The employees of Sasol's local facility care about the environment
of Southwest Louisiana and work hard to protect it.
Strict federal, state and local regulatory guidelines aimed at
preserving our natural resources govern the facility’s operations.
In addition, our local plant employees have gone beyond those
guidelines with a number of programs designed to achieve an even
cleaner, healthier environment. Two voluntary projects of note
recently reduced hydrocarbon emissions from our facility by nearly
90 percent. Hydrocarbon emissions are not toxic, but may lead to
the formation of ground-level ozone. The complex has also made strides
in the area of reducing EPA-targeted chemical emissions by nearly 90%
since the baseline year of 1987.
In 2002 the complex installed the world’s largest totally enclosed
ethylene ground flare to address neighbor’s concerns regarding the
noise and light from flaring during upsets and maintenance outages.
In 2004 the complex built a containment sphere for the alcohol unit
that significantly reduced the need to use the open ground flare,
which resulted in heavy smoking.
In addition to these accomplishments, the facility has set high
goals and significant targeted reductions for emissions, water
usage and flaring events.
The plant’s environmental performance is definitely improving.
After all, the employees not only work here, they live here too.
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