Coal and petcoke gasification provides exceptional opportunity to capture CO2 and state enviromental quality departments issued air permits for two projects in March. Two solids gasification projects received their air permits in March. Coal and petcoke gasification provides the highest CO2 capture rate. This is a factor in each states’s enviromental quality departments decision to issue air permits for the two projects.

DKRW Energy received the air permit for the Medicine Bow Fuel and Power project in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) approved the air permit March 6, 2009. The Medicine Bow Fuel and Energy project is a coal-to-liquids project and will gasify Wyoming coal and produce gasoline as the primary product. The CO2 will be captured and pumped under pressure into pipelines to be used for CO2 enhanced oil recovery in the Powder River Basin oilfields.

Hunton Energy received the air permit for the Lockwood Project in Brazosport, Texas. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) issued the air permit on March 4, 2009. The Lockwood project will gasify petcoke and produce synthetic natural gas (SNG), a pipeline quality natural gas. The CO2 will be captured and pumped under pressure into pipelines to be used CO2 enhanced oil recovery in the Texas oilfields.