Big project will go ahead

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SASOL LTD. (ADR) $34.47 (New York symbol SSL; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (082- 883-9697; www.sasol.com; ADRs outstanding: 650.8 million; Market cap: $22.5 billion; Dividend yield: 7.1%) has announced that it will proceed with building an $8.1-billion facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana that will convert natural gas into plastics and other products. The project, which will triple Sasol’s U.S. chemical production, will start up in 2018. Major developments like this can add a lot of risk. But the plant will take advantage of cheap and abundant U.S. shale gas, as well as ethane-shipping infrastructure that’s already in place on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Expanding in the U.S. will also help Sasol offset some of the political and currency risks of operating mainly in South Africa. Sasol ADRs are a buy. buy. …