Pakistan Bets on Underground Coal Gasification to Help Relieve Power Shortages

Pakistan Bets on Underground Coal Gasification to Help Relieve Power Shortages 

 

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by admin@namecake.com (John Daly)

Pakistan has glimpsed its energy future, and it is brown – coal, to be exact.Sindh Engro Coal Mining Co. is developing the $3 billion Thar Coal mining project in partnership with the government of Sindh. The Thar project is expected to produce 100 megawatts of electricity by 2016 using Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technology. The Thar UCG pilot project is situated in the Tharparkar desert in Sindh eastern Pakistan.  UCG converts coal to gas while still in the coal seam, where injection wells are drilled and used to supply the…Read more...