Economic and Environmental Feasibility of Coal to Liquids and Coal to Gas from Thar Coal in Pakistan

Summary

Exploratory initiatives for the liquefaction and gasification of coal have been taken up by numerous countries in a bid to achieve energy security. Pakistan is one of the latest countries to jump on the bandwagon of coal to liquid/ gas conversion processes as the country’s prime minister signaled towards this move in his address to the world during the United Nation’s climate ambition summit last year.