Charl Buys
Consulting Partner
Charl has over 40 years experience in engineering and business management. He has worked in the steel industry and over 30 years in petrochemical and xTL sectors.

About Charl
Charl is a graduate chemical engineer who also holds an masters degree in business leadership. He has more than 38 years of engineering and business management experience, covering 3 years in the steel industry and 32 years in the petrochemical (CTL and GTL) industry.
Charl’s areas of expertise include:
- Group management (of Sasol Group of Companies)
- Strategy development
- Business optimisation
- Capital portfolio development
- New Business Development
- Project Development
- Capital project owner team management
- Engineering services management
- CTL and GTL plant operations management
- Gasification technologies.
PUBLISHED INSIGHTS
Focus on the business case throughout the project life cycle
How many business cases are presented for approval, and then filed away once the project is underway, never to see the light of day again? If this is the situation in your company then please reconsider your approach - in this article we explain why. Introduction The...
Structuring the Business to the Project Opportunity
The world constantly provides us with a myriad of challenging and exciting business opportunities. Whether you are an entrepreneur developing the opportunity or it is being developed by the business development department of a major corporation, the focus is normally...
Site Selection for Process Plants
In this article, we’ll discuss the site selection process, we’ll see how facility objectives influence site selection, we’ll spend time on site selection criteria and discuss the site selection decision matrix. Introduction Selecting a site for a process plant is far...