The Crow Nation signed a 50 year agreement with the Australian-American Energy Co. to build and operate a coal gasification Coal-to-Liquids plant on the reservation near Billings, Montana. Many Stars Coal-to-Liquids project will be a win-win project for the Crow Nation, the State of Montana and Australian-American Energy. The project is the Many Stars Project [...]

T. Boone Pickens is right about the strategic importance to stop spending $700 billion each year on imported foreign crude oil. This is the equivalent of a Federal bailout equal to the 2008 bailout every year. The Obama administration should include coal derived liquid fuel as a key component of the U.S. Energy Policy. Coal-to-Liquids [...]

The Ohio EPA awarded the final air permit for the Ohio River Clean Fuels project to Baard Energy. The Ohio River Clean Fuels LLC (ORCF) project is a 53,000 barrel alternative fuels coal-to-liquids project that will be located near Wellsville, Ohio. The estimated cost of the plant is $5 billion. The plant will be built [...]

Environmentalists frequently comment that coal gasification technology is not proven when they are citing reasons to be against coal gasification technology. The implication is that it’s not known if the technology works. This is a false statement. The technology is well proven. These type of statements are an injustice to Americans. A U.S. energy policy [...]

Barack Obama and Joe Biden support clean coal technology. The quote below is from the Obama-Biden website: Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology. “Obama’s Department of Energy will enter into public private partnerships to develop five “first-of-a-kind” commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration technology. “ The new administration is laying the [...]

The United States has a tremendous potential to offset oil imports with coal-to-liquid (CTL) plants.  China is deploying a government strategy to be energy independent by relying on its coal reserves for power, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and chemicals feedstocks.  The U.S. can too.  The U.S. has 250 billion tons of proven coal reserves and [...]

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Kentucky is aggressively pursuing coal gasification projects with a comprehensive offering.  Kentucky has taken an innovative and progressive approach to developing coal gasification plants in the state.  The state is a coal state and realizes the importance of using coal as an energy source. This knowledge and understanding of the importance of coal derived energy [...]

Uhde GmbH is back in the marketplace with it’s proprietary PRENFLO gasification technology and is once again marketing it’s PRENFLO (TM) solids gasification technology in the Coal-To-Liquids and IGCC markets.  In 2002, Shell and Krupp-Uhde announced that henceforth their technologies would be merged and marketed as the Shell gasification technology.   In 2008, Uhde is [...]

Rentech Inc. reported that it has produced thousands of gallons of liquid fuels at it’s Pilot Demonstration Unit (PDU) in Commerce City, Colorado. Rentech recently completed its first PDU production run in excess of 800 continuous hours at the facility and produced thousands of gallons of synthetic fuels including Jet A and Jet A+fuel and [...]