Welcome to SAPREF

About SAPREF

We process 24 000 tons crude per day and we make 10 main products in 46 different grades. We produce 2.7 billion litres of petrol per year, which is enough fuel to take 800 000 cars around the world. We have 160 000 km of pipe work (4 times around the world). We operate at temperatures of up to 700ºC and at pressures up to 120 bar. We have about 700 employees, 500 contractors and 208 learners at our refinery.

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News

  • Learners offered opportunity of a lifetime

    More than 60 learners have been offered an opportunity of a lifetime through various skills development programmes offered by the SAPREF refinery at Prospecton this year. 

    Of these learners, … more

  • SAPREF launches science labs in South Durban schools

    The teaching of Maths and Science in South Durban schools has received a boost with the establishment of two science laboratories In Isipingo and Umlazi today.

    The SAPREF-sponsored labs at Isipingo … more

  • Literacy boost for learners in KZN schools

    30 August 2012

    More than 7000 learners in 11 KwaZulu-Natal schools are the happy recipients of a range of books and posters following a donation of mobile libraries by the SAPREF oil refinery.The … more