CTL project in Medicine Bow, Wyoming

DKRW Advanced Fuels has an ongoing project to build a 15,000 to 20,000 bpd CTL plant in Medicine Bow, Wyoming.  The plant, which is located at a mine mouth (reducing transportation costs), is projected to open in 2013.  Medicine Bow is an interesting collaborative project – DKRW, mine operator Arch Coal, Davy Process Technology, Honeywell, GE and ExxonMobil are all involved.  This plant, like other contemporary CTL plants,  captures and sequesters the C02 byproduct.  DKRW also commercializes the CO2:  “CO₂ can be dried, liquefied and shipped via pipeline, and plans are to sell it to the enhanced oil recovery market.”

This is not unique – the Dakota Gasification Company runs a plant in Beulah, ND and pipes its CO2 to the oil fields of Saskatchewan.  The Beulah plant’s primary output is synthetic natural gas, plus a wide array of other products.  Thanks to reader Frank G. for the tip on this plant.

If you know of a coal gasification plant, drop us a line or leave it in the comments section.  We would like to put together a map of such plants and keep a tally of the daily fuel output.