Coal Gasification
(asked on 27th January 2015) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will update his Department's estimates of the UK coal resource which could be suitable for deep underground coal gasification development in (a) onshore and (b) offshore locations.
This question was answered on 2nd February 2015
No licences have been granted by the Coal Authority for onshore UCG projects and we do not have any estimates for onshore UCG resource.
At present there are 20 current conditional offshore licences granted by the Coal Authority for potential underground coal gasification (UCG) projects. The licensees’ estimates of the coal resource suitable for UCG in these licence areas equates to some 4.1 billion tonnes.