African Carbon Energy
UCG Area showing farm land above the UCG site
What is considered a good UCG potential resource ?
> Coal seam depth of over 200 metres
> Coal thickness of more than 3 metres
> Ash content less than 60 %
> Minimal discontinuities
> Isolation from valued aquifers
Australian ASX listed Wildhorse Energy with investment , technology and management skills for a proposed UCG Project in Europe . The whole Africary team has also a long track record with Sasol which is the world ’ s largest coal mining gasification company , producing 150,000 barrels of oil every day from coal gasification .
Why UCG ? Underground Coal Gasification is a mining method that extracts previously stranded coal reserves in-situ , through a gasification process by constructing at least two horizontal boreholes , where one borehole is used to inject air / oxygen to convert the coal into syngas and another to bring the syngas to surface .
It is an economically and environmentally viable option for mining deep reserves ( 200 metres or deeper ), and with two thirds of the planet ’ s coal unable to be mined through conventional techniques it is the most promising technology for the future .
50 January 2015