South African energy giant Sasol building a gas-to-liquids plant in Louisiana . The technology will help it convert natural gas to transportation fuels . The only country where it gained wide traction was coal-rich South Africa where international embargoes during the apartheid years made oil hard to come by . Comment: Critics warn the technology is not commercially viable if cost of the gas rises to the price of oil .
South African energy giant Sasol building a gas-to-liquids plant in Louisiana . The technology will help it convert natural gas to transportation fuels . Comment: Critics warn the technology is not commercially viable if cost of the gas rises to the price of oil .