US Gasification Database

GASIFICATION DATABASE
PROPOSED U.S. PROJECTS HAVING COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL
The data presented herein has been sourced from: the Internet; literature sources purchased by DOE; and other
independent literature sources provided openly to DOE.
December-14
INTRODUCTION
Proposed U.S. Gasification Projects Having Commercial Potential
Welcome to the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) / National Energy Technology
Laboratory (NETL) Gasification Database. This Database tracks proposed large-scale gasification projects
in the United States (U.S.). Projects are categorized as either "Active," recently "Delayed/Cancelled," or
"Other." The "Other" category is defined as projects that have been announced, but for which data are
limited. Only domestic, proposed projects are included; currently operating projects (e.g., Tampa Polk,
Wabash, etc.) are excluded. This Database presents factual rather than interpretive information. For thos
instances where conflicting data are found in the supporting literature, the most recently dated information
used.
The data presented herein has been sourced from: publicly available information and internal
information approved for public release.
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DISCLAIMER
This report is intended to provide an overview of proposed new gasification plants that are u
development. This report may not represent all possible plants under consideration but is in
illustrate the potential that exists for installation of new U.S. gasification plants.
The Department of Energy does not warrant the accuracy or suitability of this inform
Experience has shown that public announcements of gasification plant developments do no
accurate representation of eventually commissioned gasification plants. Actual plant capaci
has historically been significantly less than new capacity announced.
The report focuses on those gasification projects that have achieved significant progress to
completion, to provide a more accurate assessment of the ability of this segment of the pow
industry to support demand for new electricity capacity in various regions of the world.
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

BCF
BCFY
BPD
BTC
BTL
CBTL
CCPI
CCS
CO2
COE
CTC
CTL
DOE
EIS
EOR
EPA
FE
FEED
F-T
GPY
H2
IGCC
LLC
MOU
MTPY
MW
Billion Cubic Feet

Billion Cubic Feet per Year
Barrels per Day
Biomass-to-Chemicals
Biomass to Liquids
Coal-Biomass-to-Liquids
Clean Coal Power Initiative
Carbon Capture and Storage
NETL
PC
PPA
PTL
RFP
SCFD
SCPC
SNG
National Energy Technology Laboratory

Pulverized Coal
Preliminary Project Approval
Petcoke-to-Liquids
Request for Proposals
Standard Cubic Feet per Day
Supercritical Pulverized Coal
Synthetic Natural Gas
Carbon Dioxide
Cost of Electricity
Coal-to-Chemicals
Coal-to-Liquids
Department of Energy (U.S.)
Environmental Impact Statement
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.)
Fossil Energy (U.S. Department of Energy Office of)
Front-End Engineering and Design
Fischer-Tropsch
Gallons per Year
TPD
TPY
TRIG
WTE
WTEth
Tons per Day

Tons per Year
Transport Reactor Integrated Gasifier
Waste-to-Energy
Waste-to-Ethanol
Hydrogen
Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle
Limited Liability Company
Memorandum of Understanding
Million Tons per Year
Megawatts
Abbreviations and Acronyms
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PROJECT NAME
Adams Fork Energy - TransGas WV CTL
LAST UPDATE
(Month, YY)
June-13
DEVELOPER
TransGas Development
Systems (TGDS)
CITY OR COUNTY (Counties

STATE
specificied)
Mingo County
West Virginia
TYPE
SIZE
CTL
7,500 TPD of coal to 18,000 BPD gasoline and 300 BPD

LPG
COST
$4 billion
STATUS
EMISSIONS CONTROL PLAN
A - Active
Not identified; developers hope to get a right of way to

send CO2 through interstate pipelines to the Texas coast
for EOR
NOTES
INFORMATION SOURCE
Developers haven't yet locked up financing for a $3 http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1059981383

billion plant they say won't be up and running until at
least 2016.
Company continues to receive annual extensions to http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-11-08/as-nd-coal-projectsdetermine if the project will be feasible. Company
languish-some-question-worth
representatives have stated that the project needs
favorable coal legislation in the US as well as a clear
energy policy to move forward.
American Lignite Energy (aka Coal Creek

Project)
August-14
American Lignite Energy MacLean County

LLC (North American Coal,
Headwaters Energy
Services)
North Dakota
CTL
11.5 million TPY lignite coal to 32,000 BPD of undefined fuel $4 billion
D - Delayed / Cancelled
70% of CO2 to be used for EOR
Ohio River Clean Fuels (formerly Baard

Generation 1 & 2)
April-14
Planck Trading LLC
Wellsville
Ohio
GTL
500 MMcf/d natural gas to 250 MW and 53,000 BPD ultra- $6 billion
clean diesel, jet fuel, and naptha
"Will capture and ultimately sequester at least 85%" of CO2 Most recent reports reference uncertainty regarding
air quality permits and challenges to the air quality
permits that have been issued. The company has not
issued reports countering challenges or stating
progress on the project. Planck Trading was initially
brought in to help Baard with financing for the project
and eventually took over controlling interest from
Baard, at which time Planck changed the direction of
the project from CTL to GTL.
http://www.ohioenvironmentallawblog.com/tags/nsr/
http://www.naturalgasintel.com/articles/print/87985-long-delayed-ohioliquefaction-plant-gets-new-life
http://businessjournaldaily.com/drilling-down/columbiana-port-authoritysigns-chesapeake-2012-3-20
Belwood Coal-to-Liquids Project (Natchez)
April-14
Rentech
Natchez
Mississippi
CTL
Petcoke to up to 30,000 BPD ultra-clean diesel
$4.5 billion. The project depends on $2.75 billion in state- D - Delayed / Cancelled
issued bonds.
CO2 takeoff agreement with Denbury Resources for EOR,

designed to capture ~80% Life-cycle analysis indicates the
proposed plant could lower CO2 emissions 11-23% over
conv. petroleum refining.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=66629&p=irolnewsArticle&ID=1790402&highlight=
http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2013/08/16/county-closes-on-rentechland-sale/
Cabin Creek
December-14
Tahoe Regional Power

Company
Placer County
California
BTE
2 MWe
$12 million
Not identified.
Cash Creek Generation
June-14
Erora Group
Henderson County
Kentucky
IGCC (via SNG)
1.7 million TPY coal to SNG and 720 MW electricity
$1.97 billion. Financial commitment received from D.E.

O - Other
Shaw in 10/06. GE Energy acquired 20% of the project in
01/07.
Signed a CO2 sales contract with Denbury Resources for In July 2012, the US EPA granted part of and denied http://content.sierraclub.org/coal/environmentallaw/plant/cash-creek-igcc
EOR; CO2 pipeline may be built to transport CO2 to Texas part of a petition that requested the US EPA to object
to the Cash Creek Title V permit. No additional
information has been made public on this project
since.
Chicago Clean Energy Project (formerly

Leucadia Chicago SNG)
April-14
Leucadia National Corp.
Chicago
Illinois
SNG
Undefined high-sulfur Illinois coal to SNG
$3 billion
Not identified.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn vetoed the bill that would allow
the plant to begin construction. Quinns rejection of
the bill puts the future of the plant in jeopardy
because the agreement requiring companies to
purchase the gas for the next 30 years was
considered part of the guarantee making the plant
economically viable. Following the veto
announcement, Leucadia representatives stated that
they would not continue to pursue development of the
facility and focus efforts on other facilities around the
country.
CleanTech Energy Project
December-13
USA Synthetic Fuel Corp.

(USASF)
Wyoming
CTL
30.6 mm bbls/year of synthetic crude (or 182 billion cubic

feet per year)
$2.3 billion
O - Other
Not identified.
This project is being developed by Cleantech Energy http://www.usasfc.com/usasfc_dev/?page_id=239

Company. Financing for this project has not yet been http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/spos/company/usa-synthetic-fuel-corpsecured. The Cleantech Energy Project will be
833509-69054
located in Wyoming and is being designed to produce
30.6 million BOE per year of pipeline quality synthetic
natural gas and to capture and fully utilize the carbon
dioxide produced during the synthetic natural gas
manufacture.
ClearFuels BTL
April-14
ClearFuels Technology
Collinwood
Tennessee
BTL
1,000 TPD wood material to 20 million GPY sythethic

jet/diesel fuel and naptha
$200 million
A - Active
Not identified
Original plans for this project included co-firing with

http://www.clearfuels.com/pdf/CF_Hughes_Hardwood_Release_2-24coal and biomass, but has since re-defined it's
10.pdf
feedstock as biomass only. ClearFuels and Hughes http://www.southernenvironment.org/uploads/pages/biomass_facilities_
Hardwood International, Inc. (Hughes Hardwood)
download_2013Nov01.pdf
have executed a Memorandum of Understanding
regarding the development of a commercial scale
biorefinery facility for the production of renewable jet
or diesel fuel. The renewable energy facility will be
co-located with Hughes Hardwoods wood component
products manufacturing facility in Collinwood,
Tennessee. Under the MOU, Hughes Hardwood will
supply 1000 dry ton per day of wood product for
conversion to liquid fuel. As of late 2013, the facility
was still considered proposed with an online date of
2014.
Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers UAN January-13

Expansion Project
CVR Partners
Coffeyville
Kansas
CTL
Expanding the facilitys 2,025 ton-per-day urea ammonium TBD

nitrate (UAN) production capacity to more than 3,000 tons
per day.
A - Active
None - CO2 is used in production
All machinery and equipment for the project has been http://www.cvrpartners.com/2013-01-09_UAN_Expansion_Update_NR-installed and related infrastructure is in place.
F.pdf
Expansion project is active and producing product.
Cook Inlet Coal-to Liquids Project (aka Beluga August-12

CTL)
AIDEA and Alaska Natural Cook Inlet

Resources to Liquids
Alaska
CTL
16 million TPY coal to 80,000 BPD of diesel and naphtha.

EOR. 380 MW.
Capital cost of $12 billion (est.). Federal support: $500

M/yr. CPC added $1.5M to co-fund feasibility study.
O - Other
Not identified; potential for sequestration in depleted gas

fields
This project is still in the idea stage, with no firm plans http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/Issues/AlaskaCoal/BelugaCTL.html
or permit applications, and is contingent on the
development of the proposed Chuitna Coal strip mine.
The fuel produced at this facility would to be exported
to the West Coast of the US.
Demonstration "Bluegas"
January-13
GreatPoint Energy
North Dakota
SNG
Biomass fuel
TBD
O - Other
Not identified.
The Company currently conducts tests at a pilot plant http://www.greatpointenergy.com/developmentstatus.php

at the University of North Dakota's Energy and
Environmental Research Center which demonstrates
the latest version of its technology and serves as a
feedstock calibration facility for designing commercial
plants.
REG Geismar, LLC (formerly Dynamic Fuels

Bio-Synfining BTL)
October-14
Renewable Energy Group, Geismar

Inc.
Louisiana
BTL
284,500 TPY of animal byproduct fat/grease to 75 mil. GPY $158 million

liquid fuels
A - Active
Not identified.
http://regi.com/node/686
East Dubuque Plant
December-13
Rentech Energy Midwest

Corporation (REMC)
East Dubuque
Illinois
CTL, polygeneration
1,000 tpd ammonia; 2,000 BPD clean fuels and chemicals
TBD
Not identified.
Plant constuction is complete and facility is in

operation. In June 2014, ownership of the facility
transferred to Renewable Energy Group, Inc. and its
subsidiary REG Synthetic Fuels, LLC upon closing of
acquisition deals with both Tyson Foods, Inc. and
Rentech,
Inc.
announced plans to cease operations
Syntroleum
Corporation.
at, reduce staffing at, and mothball its research and
development (R&D) Product Demonstration Unit
(PDU), in Commerce City, CO, and to eliminate all
related R&D activities. The Company's strategy is
focused on more immediate growth opportunities
within the energy industry that do not rely on new
technologies. Project was abandoned in 2008 as it
not longer fit the company's development strategy.
Ely Energy Center, Phase II
December-13
NV Energy
White Pine County
Nevada
IGCC
1000 MW (two units)
TBD
Not identified.
No activity has been reported since 2009. Nevada

SB123 has been passed by both houses in the
Nevada legislature and signed into law by Governor
Sandoval. By passing the bill, Nevada lawmakers
have effectively eliminated coal as a fuel source for
power generation. Passage of the bill is expected to
cause an indefinite cancellation of the plans for the
Ely Energy Center.
http://www.protectnv.org/blog/303-looking-toward-nevadas-cleanenergy-future
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jun/04/nv-energy-bill-winspassage-signaling-shift-coal/
http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/energy/nv-energy-backs-coalfired-ely-energy-center-air-force-objects-solar-plant
U.S. Gasification Database
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Grand Forks
A - Active
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Rentech, Inc. announced plans to cease operations

technologies. According to company filings, Rentech
has begun the process of selling the 450 acres it
intended to use for its coal-to-liquids Natchez project.
The company sold the land to the Adam's County
government for $9.25 million in August 2013.
http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/11236082-113/biomass-countyenergy-facility
http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5393957.pd
f
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/illinois/chicago/quinn-vetoes-coalgasification-bill/article_6d4395cd-2c90-52bf-9a84-f9dfff6c2e7f.html
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-15/business/ct-biz-0815leucadia-exit--20120815_1_coal-to-gas-plant-coal-gasification-plantcommerce-energy-council
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130228005399/en/Rentech
-Close-Product-Demonstration-Unit
Enid GTL
LAST UPDATE
(Month, YY)
June-14
Faustina CTC Project
Freedom Energy Diesel CTL
PROJECT NAME
DEVELOPER

specificied)
STATE
TYPE
SIZE
COST
STATUS
NOTES
INFORMATION SOURCE
A - Active
Not identified.
Emerging Fuels Technology announced that they plan http://www.enidnews.com/localnews/x1535572689/Companyto begin engineering analysis work at the Cimarron
considering-Enid-gas-to-liquid-plant
Industrial Park in Enid, OK. The company has
reserved for $6,000 a total of 67 acres at the location
for 6 months with an additional 6 month option
available. If work progresses, the $650 million plant
would be built in 2 stages and likely employ
approximately 100 people.
4,000 TPD ammonia; 600 TPD methanol; 450 TPD sulfur; $1.6 billion. Financing in place according to Owner.
16,000 TPD CO2 for EOR; may also produce SNG
O - Other
CO2 to be used for EOR
Since initially being announced in 2007, little

information on the project has been released.
GTL
Undetermined
$750 million
Not identified
The Morristown Industrial Board has granted a one- http://lindanoe.blogspot.com/search?q=diesel

year extension, broken into two phases---6 months
http://www.citizentribune.com/?p=67136
(December 31, 2013) to allow Freedom Energy Diesel http://www.citizentribune.com/?p=75199
to obtain and present proof that it has the financing in
place for the project and then another 6 months (June
30, 2014) to begin construction. This is the second
extension that has been granted to the project since
property for the project was provided to Freedom
Energy Diesel. A clause in the property deed would
transfer the land back to the City of Morristown if
construction doesn't begin by the end of the current
extension. Project developers have changed the
direction of the plant to now use natural gas instead of
coal to produce liquid fuels. The deadline to begin
construction has now passed and ownership of the
115-acre site in the East Tennessee Progress Center
has reverted back to the Morristown government. An
option to repurchase the land has been made
available should Freedom Energy Diesel secure the
necessary $750 million financing.
Georgia
BTL
320,000 bpy ethanol (10 million gpy)
TBD
A - Active
Not identified
Site manager John Burgess announced that

http://www.southeastgeorgiatoday.com/index.php?
LanzaTech was planning to move forward with the
option=com_content&task=view&id=10476&Itemid=117
development of the Freedom Pines Biorefinery. He
stated that the company is evaluating technology left
behind at the former Range Fuels site to determine if
it would remain at the site or be replaced by other
commercially available technology. He noted that
from the time the company breaks ground it would
take 20 to 24 months before operations begin.
Schuylkill County
Pennsylvania
NGCC (initial project 330 MW from natrual gas (initial project design was for
design was for IGCC) anthracite coal; 270 MW)
$1 billion (will seek ~$610 million in US DOE loan

guarantees and/or grants)
A - Active
CO2 removal is expected to be at 50% initially, nearly

100% by 2020 ("would likely be sequestered in locations
interconnected by pipelines")
EmberClear announced that it is dropping plans for a http://emberclearenergy.com/tag/good-spring/

270 MW IGCC plant and opting for a 300 MW NGCC http://www.garp.org/risk-news-and-resources/risk-headlines/story.aspx?
plant instead, announcing the selection of SK E&C
newsId=71522
USA for Engineering, Procurement & Construction
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1320765/emberclear-announces(EPC) for the 300 MW Good Spring Natural Gas
partnership-with-tyr-energy-on-good-spring-power-projects
Combined Cycle (Good Spring NGCC) power plant http://republicanherald.com/news/emberclear-corp-receives-final-dep(renamed "Good Spring NGCC"). Changed direction permit-for-electricity-plants-1.1646889
of plant from coal to natural gas to make use of
abundant/cheap Marcellus gas supplies. Company
representatives announced in February 2014 that
they plan to break ground on the Good Spring Project
in May or June 2014 and have the first of two units
operating within 18-24 months. EmberClear has also
signed a 50:50 partnership with Tyr Energy, Inc. for
ownership of the facility. Earlier in 2014 EmberClear
was granted its final air quality permit from the PA
DEP, moving construction of the plant one step closer.
Beulah
North Dakota
CTC
$402 million
A - Active
Not identified
California
IGCC/H2/polygenerati 25% petcoke / 75% coal mix producing 180 MMSCFD H2, $3.9 billion
on
used to generate 300 MW, 2208 tpd of urea, and undefined
amount of liquid sulfur.
A - Active
Homeland Fuels Company Springfield
Illinois
CTL
150 tpd Illinois coal to 1,000 bbl/d diesel.
A - Active
Not identified.
Homeland Fuelsintends to develop a CTL project,

http://www.gasification.org//uploads/eventLibrary/2014_3.2_Jacobs_Diet
focusing on diesel production. The facility will convert er_Lamprecht.pdf
150 tpd Illinois coal to 1,000 bbl/d diesel fuel. The
facility will be considered a stepping stone towards a
2,000 to 3,000 tpd CTL plant.
December-13
Hyperion Refining, LLC
South Dakota
IGCC/H2,
polygeneration
7,400 TPD petcoke to 450 million SCFD H2; 200 MW and $10 billion
2.4 mmlb/hr steam. [507 MW total IGCC capacity to be
used onsite]
Not identified; 90+% carbon-capture capable; studies

ongoing to locate suitable CO2 sequestration projects in
the vicinity; either EOR or saline aquifer sequestration
As part of Hyperion Refinings reevaluation of the

Hyperion Energy Center, the Company will consider
filing a new application for its air permit rather than
renewing the existing consent. The company has
relinquished rights to all land it had acquired for the
project.
Illinois Clean Fuels Project
June-14
American Clean Coal Fuels Coles County
Illinois
CTL
4.3 million TPY coal/biomass to 400 million GPY diesel and $3.6 billion
jet fuel
Capture with underground sequestration; sequestration

required by regulations
Activity last reported on 3/8/2009 but the project

http://www.cleancoalfuels.com/blog/
appears to be active. Construction schedule was
delayed to 2010-2013. Last known activity is
approved financing for permitting and engineering
work. The lack of announced activity/progress on the
project suggests that the project has been
abandoned.
Indiana - Rockport SNG
February-14
Indiana Gasification, LLC, Rockport

subsidiary of Leucadia
National Corp.
Indiana
SNG
3.85 million TPY coal to 47 million mmBtu per year of SNG, $3.65 billion
134 MW electricity, and an undefined amount of sulfuric
acid
A - Active
Plant is able to capture 90%; will be sold for use in EOR.
Lawmakers have approved tough new regulatory

http://www.tristatehomepage.com/story/indiana-supreme-court-rules-inoversight of the proposed $2.8 billion Rockport coal- favor-of-rockport-p/d/story/L907kHKtmUSaxFd08X8pvw
to-gas plant. The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld
the Indiana Finance Authoritys 30-year contract to
buy 80 percent of the synthetic natural gas made at
the plant financed by Leucadia National Corp. at a
pre-negotiated rate, and then resell that product on
the open market. The court did acknowledge that a
slight change of wording in the contract was not
significant enough to void the contract. Had the court
found the wording change significant, another review
by utility regulators would have been necessary, which
in turn would subject the project to new regulatory
standards that were not in place when the project was
initially approved. The court's decision now places
the decision on whether to continue with the project
into the hands of the developer and the Indiana
Finance Authority.
Emerging Fuels Technology Enid
Oklahoma
GTL
Undetermined
August-14
Faustina Hydrogen
Products
Donaldsonville
Louisiana
CTC
October-14
Freedom Energy Diesel

LLC
Morristown
Tennessee
Freedom Pines Biorefinery (Range Fuels BTL) June-14
LanzaTech
Soperton
Good Spring (aka Future Power) NGCC
August-14
EmberClear (formerly
Future Fuels LLC) /
Sinopec
Great Plains Urea Project
August-14
Dakota Gasification
HECA: Hydrogen Energy California Project

(formerly Carson Hydrogen Power Project)
October-14
SCS Energy California LLC Kern County

(formerly: Hydrogen
Energy International LLC
(HEI) [JV: BP and Rio
Tinto])
Homeland Fuels Illinois CTL
December-14
Hyperion Energy Center aka "Gorilla Project"
04/02/2015
Union County
Lignite to 1,100 tons of urea per day
$650 million
TBD
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?
title=Faustina_Hydrogen_Products_Petroleum_Coke_Gasification_Proj
ect
Dakota Gasification Co. has approved the Great

http://www.prairiebizmag.com/event/article/id/17626/
Plains Synfuels Plant at a cost of $402 million. The http://www.dakotagas.com/News_Center/Publications/Feature_Articles/
facility will produce 1,000 tons of urea daily, have the approved-dakota-gas-project-adds-to-product-diversity.html
capacity
store 53,000
tons
on site,Control
and have
the
http://www.ihi-ec.com/ihi-ec-international-corporation-awarded-ep87% CO2 capture will be used for EOR, while 13% will be The
San to
Joaquin
Valley Air
Pollution
District
http://www.energy.ca.gov/sitingcases/hydrogen_energy/documents/othe
ability tothe
load
updetermination
to 110 railcars.
The plant will
also
services-contract-for-urea-project/
used to produce urea
issued
final
of compliance
(FDOC)
rs/2013-07produce
diesel emission
fluid which
will comments.
be stored in a 08_San_Joaquin_Valley_Air_Pollution_Control_District_Notice_of_Final
for
air pollution,
after addressing
public
1.1 million
gallon
tank.
The plant
is expected
to be
The
decision
by the
Air District
means
HECA has
_Determination_of_Compliance_TN-71610.pdf
operational
sometime
in 2017. and
In June
2014, IHI E&C http://hydrogenenergycalifornia.com/wpprovided
sufficient
information
mitigation
international
Corporation
awardedinafull
contract to content/uploads/file_attachments/311020122134460/WebENGHECAFal
proposals
showing
that it was
can operate
provide detailed engineering and procurement
compliance with all air pollution rules and regulations. lNewsletter9032013.pdf
services
for
the
Great
Plains
Synfuels
Plant.
The facility may face additional hurdles as a lawsuit http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x62929100/Lawsuit-overagainst the coal handling facility that will supply the
coal-depot-could-affect-HECA-project
HECA plant has been filed in Kern County Superior
Court. The lawsuit was filed contending that the coal
handling facility is in violation of the California
Environmental Quality Act for inappropriately waiving
an extensive environmental review prior to increasing
mazimum handling volumes from 900,000 tons to 1.5
million.
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http://www.ktiv.com/story/22200219/2013/05/08/hyperion-energy-letsgo-of-all-land-in-union-county-sd
http://siouxcityjournal.com/business/local/another-roadblock-for-billionunion-county-s-d-oil-refinery/article_1178828e-a16f-5563-98fbcf347d75c5ab.html
Kemper County IGCC Project (Plant Ratcliffe)
LAST UPDATE
(Month, YY)
December-14

STATE
specificied)
Kemper County
Mississippi
NOTES
IGCC
582 MW
$6.1 billion
A - Active
65% capture (to be eligible for additional tax credits/grants,

etc.) for EOR
Removal of: over 99% SO2 & P25, at least 90% Hg
(another source: 92% mercury), NOX emissions of less
than 0.07 lb/million Btu.
Southern company announced that the proposed

Kemper IGCC Project would now be delayed until
March 2016 and would cost an additional $496 million
dollars, bringing the total cost of the project to just
over $6.1 billion. This increase follows an earlier
announcement of $59 million that pushed completion
to June 2015. The newly announced additional costs
are needed for material and labor during plant startup
as well as interest on already invested funding. The
plants turbines were brought online in August, fueled
by natural gas that is piped to the plant. Since the
plant was approved for construction, the cost has
more than doubled from an original estimate of $2.8
billion. The original timeframe would have brought
the completed plant online in 2013.
Kentucky NewGas SNG
August-14
Peabody Energy,
ConocoPhillips
Muhlenberg County
SNG
Coal and petcoke 3.5 million TPY to SNG 60-70 BCF/Y
$3 billion
Less than 5% of the emissions of a traditional coal-fired

Project has been official cancelled as the project
http://www.globalccsinstitute.com/project/kentucky-newgasucky
power plant. Over 99% of sulfur will be recovered and sold developer, Peabody Energy, notified the
Commonwealth of Kentucky in 2013 that no additional
development work would occur.
Lake Charles Clean Energy
October-14
Leucadia National
Port of Lake Charles, Calcasieu Louisiana

Parish
SNG, polygeneration
7.4k TPD petcoke to 120 MMSCF per day SNG and 2k

TPD sulfuric acid
$2.5 billion
85% CO2 capture for used in EOR. More than 4 million

tons of CO2 emissions, transported as compressed CO2
through 12-mi Denbury pipeline for EOR in Hastings and
Oyster Bayou oilfields. CCS project via NETL's Clean Coal
Power Initiative (CCPI)
In October 2014, Leucadia National Corporation

http://www.sulphurdailynews.com/article/20141007/NEWS/141009743/1
announced that development on the Lake Charles
994/NEWS
Clean Energy facility would cease. Development on
the project was ceased after the company came to
the conclusion that the final cost of the facility would
higher than anticipated. Prior to ceasing work, more
then $20 million had been invested in the region on
such things as lease payments and property
improvements.
Lake County Waste-to-Ethanol
December-13
Powers Energy 1
Lake County
Indiana
WTEth
2k-10k TPD MSW to 30-150 million GPY ethanol (other

source says up to 175 million GPY)
$285 million
Not identified
Lake County Solid Waste Management District Board, http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/lake-county-officials-cancelin a unanimous vote, canceled its contract with
trash-to-ethanol-contract/article_e98e7ea1-641b-5018-a60ePowers Energy for the development of a waste-to5a77b8a3c331.html
ethanol plant. The board cited Powers Energy's
repeated inability to secure financing as well as
providing viability of the planned process as its reason
for ending the project. The project was initially
approved in 2008 but never got off the ground.
Lima Energy Project
June-14
USA Synthetic Fuel Corp. Lima

(USASF)
Ohio
IGCC/SNG/H2,
polygeneration
Three Phases: 1) 2.7 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe), $2 billion

2) expand to 5.3 million boe (3) expand to 8.0 million boe
(47 billion cf/y), 516 MW
A - Active
Unspecified amount captured and used for EOR in eastern On 10/1/13, Lima Energy Company announced that http://www.usasfc.com/usasfc_dev/?page_id=237
Ohio oilfields (partnership with HTC PurEnergy)
they had agreed to supply the nearby Husky Energy http://www.limaohio.com/news/news/860475/Community-largelyLima Refinery with upwards of 80 million barrels of
supportive-of-Lima-Energy-project
Global 1 Ultra Clean Synthetic Crude. Global 1 is the
product that will be produced at the Lima Energy
Project. As of late 2013, the site of the proposed
project had been cleared, removing all remaining
structures from the former Lima Locomotive Works.
Permit applications have been submitted to the Ohio
EPA, which is in the process of debating whether to
approve.
Many Stars CTL
October-14
Australian-American
Big Horn County
Energy Co. (Terra Nova
Minerals or Great Western
Energy), Crow Nation
Montana
CTL
First phase: 8,000 BPD liquids
$1 billion
O - Other
95% CO2 capture for either saline aquifer sequestration or No new information on the project has been released http://news.yahoo.com/mont-tribe-signs-coal-deal-192548021.html
sold for EOR use
and the project's website in relation to news about the
project was last updated in 2011. While Crow Tribal
Leaders negotiate PRB coal contracts with Cloud
Peak Energy for shipping overseas, they announced
that plans for the CTL Plant are still seeking financing
and do not consider the project to be cancelled.
Medicine Bow Fuel and Power Project
August-14
DKRW Advanced Fuels
Carbon County
Wyoming
CTL
3 million TPY coal to 11,700 BPD of gasoline
$1.75 billion
CO2 to be sold for EOR in Wyoming or geologically

sequestered.
On September 20, 2013, DKRW Advanced Fuels

http://wyomingpublicmedia.org/post/dkrw-asks-another-constructionsubmitted a request to delay construction for up to 30 delay-its-coal-liquids-facility
months to address concerns about scheduling and
http://www.therepublic.com/w/WY--Coal-To-Liquids-Plant
project impacts. The Wyoming Industrial Siting
http://wyomingpublicmedia.org/post/arch-coal-writes-investment-dkrwCouncil approved a 39-month extension for the
coal-gas-project
project in December 2013. In March 2014, DKRW
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/United+States+
ended its relationship with Sinopec Engineering
%3A+DKRW+ADVANCED+FUELS+continues+talks+with+DOE+over...Group, the projects contractor. In April 2014, Arch
a0374708070
Coal, one of the projects investors and supplier of
coal to the project, announced in a statement to
investors that they see the project as a total loss on
the company's investment of $25 million. It is
unknown if Arch will still supply the project with coal.
DKRW continues to discuss with DOE a loan
guarantee worth $1.75 billion, with a focus on whether
DKRW can secure a new construction firm.
Mesaba Excelsior Energy Coal Gasification

Project I
February-13
Excelsior Energy, Xcel

Energy
Taconite
Minnesota
IGCC
603 MW
$2.0 billion
Not identified
Excelsior Energy sought to convert its permits from

coal gasification to conventional natural gas plant
permits for both Project 1 and Project 2
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mesaba_Energy_Project
Mesaba Excelsior Energy Coal Gasification

Project II
February-13
Excelsior Energy, Xcel

Energy
Itasca County
Minnesota
IGCC
603 MW
TBD
Not identified
Excelsior Energy sought to convert its permits from

coal gasification to conventional natural gas plant
permits for both Project 1 and Project 2
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mesaba_Energy_Project
Moss Point (formerly Moss Point SNG)
July-13
Mississippi Clean Energy Jackson County

(formerly Mississippi
Gasification) (a subsidiary
of Leucadia National
Corp.)
Mississippi
PTL
7000 tons per day of petcoke (from Chevron refinery &

Koch Industries) to undefined amount of gasoline,
methanol or both. Also: 500,000 TPY sulfuric acid
$2.2 billion
90% CO2 capture (4 million TPY). DOE Loan Guarantee

Program from ARRA, with Denbury: $840,000 to
demonstrate capture and sequestration of CO2.
Mississippi Clean Energy, formerly Mississippi

http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-pressGasification (a subsidiary of Leucadia National Corp.) business/2013/07/mississippi_gasification_wont.html
reported to the Jackson County, Mississippi Economic
Development Foundation that the company would be
unable to extend the current lease option for the
land/facility which would become the Moss Point
gasification plant. The site is being considered for
other projects, while Mississippi Clean Energy and
Leucadia National Corp. reported that they will
continue to pursue the project at a different location.
NABFG Weirton CTL
June-13
North American Biofuels

Group
Weirton
West Virginia
CTL
Undetermined
$400 million
O - Other
Not identified
Primus BTL
October-14
Primus Green Energy
Hillsborough
New Jersey
GTL
100,000 gallon per year demonstration plant
TBD
A - Active
Not identified
No activity on ownership's part since August 2011;

however, no acknowledgement of project being
cancelled either.
Primus Green energy Ltd.announced that it has
commissioned a 100,000 gallon per year continuous
demonstration plant in Hillsborough, NJ. The demo
plant is presently converting natural gas to gasoline
with plans to expand to diesel fuel production in 2015.
Biomass use will be added later for direct biomass to
gasoline conversion. The technology is expected to
be produced at commercial scale in the near future,
with the company planning to begin operation of the
first commercial plant in 2016.
Red Rock Biofuels
December-14
Red Rock Biofuels LLC
Lakeview
Oregon
BTL
140,000 tons of biomass feedstock to 12 million gal/yr of jet $200 million

fuel, diesel, and naphtha.
A - Active
Not identified
Red Rock Biofuels LLC is in the process of

http://www.redrockbio.com/Technology.htmlhttp://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/earth_to_power/2014/09/red-rock-biofuels-lands-contracts-with-southwest.html
developing several biomass refineries using
gasification technology to produce liquid fuels
including jet fuel, diesel, and naphtha. The company
already has a supply contract with Southwest Airlines
for the purchase of 3 million gallons annually. The
company has also received a $70 million federal grant
to help build refinery in Oregon. Groundbreaking is
expected in the summer of 2015 with the facility going
into operation sometime in 2016.
Rentech Energy Midwest Facility
April-13
Rentech Energy Midwest

Corporation (REMC)
East Dubuque
Illinois
CTL
1,250 bbl/day diesel
Not identified

technologies.
PROJECT NAME
04/02/2015
DEVELOPER
Mississippi Power
(Southern Co.)
Kentucky
TYPE
SIZE
COST
TBD
STATUS
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INFORMATION SOURCE
http://www.mississippipower.com/about-energy/plants/kemper-countyenergy-facility/facts
http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/10/coal-newscosts-rise-by-another-496mm-at-kemper-plant.html
http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/10/coal-newsagain-costs-rise-and-completion-delayed-at-kemper.html
http://gas.carboncapturereport.org/cgi-bin//profiler?
key=american_bio_fuels_group&pt=3
http://www.primusge.com/operations/demonstration-plant/
http://www.primusge.com/operations/first-commercial-plant/
LAST UPDATE
(Month, YY)
April-13
Rentech/Peabody Coal

STATE
specificied)
undefined
Kentucky
CTL
10,000 and 30,000 BPD
TBD
Rentech/Peabody Minemouth
April-13
Rentech/Peabody Coal
undefined
Montana
CTL
10,000 and 30,000 BPD
TBD
Rialto Project
April-13
Rentech
Rialto
California
BTL
1,000 dry tons/d feed

9 million gallons per year, 35MW
Secure Energy CTL (aka MidAmericaC2L)
February-13
MidAmericaC2L /Siemens McCracken County
Kentucky
CTL
Sierra BioFuels Plant
October-14
Fulcrum Bioenergy
Nevada
South Heart Coal Gasification Project
June-12
Great Northern Power

Stark County
Development (GNPD) and
Allied Syngas
Southern California Edison Utah IGCC
June-14
Southern Illinois Coal-to-SNG Project
PROJECT NAME
Rentech/Peabody Joint Development
Agreement (JDA)
DEVELOPER
TYPE
SIZE
COST
STATUS
NOTES
INFORMATION SOURCE

Seeking either underground sequestration sites or CO2 for Rentech,
Inc. announced plans to cease operations
technologies.
EOR offtake agreements (what they refer to as "CO2
solutions")
technologies.
$430 million
Not identified

technologies.
10,200 bpd gasoline
$1.3 Billion
O - Other
Not identified
The Secure Energy Paducah Gasification Plant

remains an active plant but no new updates have
been released as of July 2011. There is no
information available under the name
MidAmericaC2L, indicating that a formal name
change has been submitted but not yet approved.
http://www.sierraclub.org/environmentallaw/coal/getBlurb.aspx?
case=ky-secure-energy-paducah-gasification-plant.aspx
WTL
200,000 tons/yr MSW to 10 million gallons/yr of SPK jet

fuel or diesel
$266 million
A - Active
Not identified
North Dakota
IGCC/H2
Lignite - 14,000 TPD; Product plan has changed: syngas to $1 billion ($2.5 billion for previous plan)
hydrogen to 175 MW electricity, rather than SNG & 200
MW plant power.
A - Active
Southern California Edison Emery County
Utah
IGCC
1 million TPY Coal to 500 MW
TBD
June-14
Power Holdings of Illinois, Jefferson County

LLC
Illinois
SNG
5 million TPY Illinois bituminous coal to 65 BCFY SNG
$2.2 billion - $2.3 billion
Sundrop Fuels BTL/GTL
December-13
Sundrop Biofuels
Rapides Parish
Louisiana
BTL/GTL
About 300,000 - 400,000 TPY forest waste and an

undefined amount of hydrogen to 1.6 mm bpy (50 million
GPY) gasoline.
$450 to $500 million
Sweeny Refinery Gasification Project
March-13
ConocoPhillips
Sweeny
Texas
IGCC
Texas Clean Energy Project "NowGen"
October-14
Summit Power Group
Odessa
Texas
Tyonek Coal-to-Liquids (formerly Alaska

Accelergy CTL Project)
September-12
Accelergy, Tyonek Native

Corporation (TNC)
Cook Inlet
US Fuel CTL
June-14
US Fuel Corporation
Perry County, Muhlenberg

County
Wallula Energy Resource Center
June-14
Wallula Resource
Recovery,LLC & Edison
Mission Group
Weirton Energy CTL Project
August-14
Weirton Power
04/02/2015
Not identified; plant seeking long term CO2 offtake

agreements
Fulcrum Energy has completed permitting, front-end

engineering and site preparation activities for their
first MSW to fuels plant, the Sierra BioFuels Plant,
located in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, in the
City of McCarran, Storey County, Nevada. The Sierra
BioFuels Plant will be comprised of a Feestock
Processing Facility and a Biorefinery that will convert
approximately 200,000 tons of prepared MSW
90% (175 MMSCFD) to be used for EOR
feedstock
The
Stark into
County
more
Commission
than 10 million
acted
gallons
properly
of SPK
whenjet
it
approved
land-use
changes
to allow
development
fuel or diesel
annually.
Flucrum
has entered
into of
a
new coalzero-cost
mine, gasification
factory and
electric with
long-term,
MSW feedstock
agreements
power
in southwestern
North
Dakota, thetwo
state
Waste plant
Management
and Waste
Connections,
of
Supreme
Thursday.
GreatinNorthern
the largestCourt
wasteruled
service
companies
North is
America, and
uncertain
about
a fuel
which
off-take
technology
agreement
and which
with Tenaska
products
BioFuels.
it
will produce.
The Sierra BioFuels Plant is expected to be
one of the United States first fully operational,
commercial-scale MSW-to-renewable fuels
production
plant
is expected
to begin
90% capture and sequestration in underground saline
The
projectplants.
failed toThe
obtain
DOE
funding and
commercialSouthern
operation
in 2016. Edison
In September
2014,
aquifer, 20-mi. east of plant with ~500 million ton capacity developer
California
attempted
to
Fulcrum fund
received
a $105through
million loan
guaranteebut
from
partially
the project
rate increases
the USDA
as partwere
of the
Biorefinery
those
increases
denied
by the Assistance
California Public
Program.
Utilities
Commission.
http://www.fulcrum-bioenergy.com/facilities.html
http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/10889/usda-awards-loanguarantee-to-fulcrum-sierra-biofuels
Capture 50% (possibly 90%) CO2 for EOR
Illinois' environmental agency has denied a permit

request to build a $2 billion plant to convert coal to
synthetic natural gas in southern Illinois, further
clouding prospects for the clean-energy project
already more than six years in the making. According
to company announcement, the project is presently
dead due to low natural gas prices and a lack of
buyers for the produced SNG.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/illinois-epa-rejects-coal-gas-projectspermit-172519394--finance.html
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-25/business/ct-biz-0525coal-plants--20120525_1_million-british-thermal-units-natural-gasgasification
A - Active
Not identified.
In July 2013, Sundrop announced that it had selected http://www.sundropfuels.com/assets/white_papers/33.pdf

IHI E&C International Corp. as contractor for its
http://www.sundropfuels.com/assets/white_papers/22.pdf
combined commercial and demonstration plant. The
plant will have the capability of producing 60 million
gallons of gasoline from natural gas while providing
Sundrop a facility to prove its proprietary biomass to
gasoline gasification technology. Earlier in the year
the company purchased nearly 1,200 acres of land
near Alexandria, LA in Rapides Parrish.
5,000 TPD petcoke to 400 MW (one source says 683 MW, $2 billion
may be output equivalent) elec., also H2 (~65 MMCFD)
~85% of CO2 from process stream will be captured, over 5 The project was cancelled following the split of
http://www.globalccsinstitute.com/projects/12606
million tons sequestered into depleted oil or gas field
ConocoPhillips Company (oil and gas exploration and
development) and Phillips 66 Company (midstream
operations, refining and power generation) in April
2012.
IGCC/polygen
1.8mm TPY PRB to 400 MW(Gross) 710,000 TPY

Ammonia/Urea
$2.5 billion
A - Active
Carbon capture rate of 90%, up to 3 million TPY for EOR in CPS Energy has announced at new power purchase http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/10/cps-signs-ppathe west Texas Permian Basin and ultimate geologic
agreement with Summit Power to purchase power
with-coal-fueled-igcc-project-in-texas.html
sequestration. Transportation via existing pipelines.
from the 400 MW IGCC plant presently under
http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/13/epa-agenda-suffers-setback-as-cleandevelopment. Under the new agreement, Summit
coal-plant-project-is-derailed/
Power will provide CPS with 200 MW of electricity
from the new plant. Earlier in 2014, CPS withdrew
from a prior power purchase agreement over
concerns that power generated at the coal-fired
facility would be too costly compared to power
generated from abundant natural gas supplies.
Alaska
CBTL
Undefined amount of coal/biomass to 60,000 bpd Jet

fuel/Gasoline/Diesel and 200-400 MW Electricity
TBD
O - Other
CO2 from the plant will feed algae ponds, and Accelergy
will use the algae biomass to feed the plant.
Kentucky
CTL
300 tons of coal into 525 bpd liquid fuels including diesel
and jet fuel
TBD
A - Active
Capture will be incorporated in the design but no specifics US Fuel Corporation announced in April 2013 that
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130423-909106.html
have been outlined.
Empyrean West had agreed to fund 65% of the loan
cost for US Fuel's CTL facilities in Kentucky. US Fuel,
upon completion of engineering work, intends to build
multiple CTL facilities throughout the state.
Walla Walla
Washington
IGCC
915 MW
$3.2 billion
65% sequestration
Delays in Batelle's testing of CO2 injectivity into

http://sequestration.mit.edu/tools/projects/wallula_energy_resource_cen
Basalt and trouble obtaining the proper drilling
ter.html
equipment for a test well at WERC caused delays in
early 2008 and the permits were retracted. WERC
said they will continue research on CO2 injectivity into
Basalt, but the IGCC power plant has been cancelled.
Weirton
West Virginia
CTL
Undetermined
TBD
Not identified.
Construction of a coal-to-liquids plant in Weirton could http://www.weirtondailytimes.com/page/content.detail/id/557709/Coal-tobegin by the end of the year [2010], an official close to liquid-project-in-jeopar---.html
the project said.
http://www.wtrf.com/Global/story.asp?S=15853341
A man who claims to be on the verge of building a $2 http://theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/552289/Weirton-Stillbillion coal-to-liquid plant in Weirton is wanted as a
Saddled-With-WSX-Properties.html?nav=5286
fugitive from Texas. If the [allegations] turn out to be
true, "for all practical purposes, the energy plant is not
likely to be a reality." It was later found that the
allegations were true. One of Weirton Energy's
directors Al Norman, was actually Albion Arlo Norman
Jr. who had been convicted in US District Court of
financial crimes related to the theft of $9.2 million
from a cemetary association in New York.
McCarran, Storey County
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Coal form the Usibelli mine and the Chuitna mine

could be used for the Tyonek coal-to-liquids plant.
http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/event/article/id/58754/
http://content.sierraclub.org/coal/environmentallaw/plant/green-river
http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/Issues/AlaskaCoal/ChuitnaCoalMine.
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GASIFICATION DATABASE

PROPOSED U.S. PROJECTS HAVING COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL

ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

Billion Cubic Feet

National Energy Technology Laboratory

Tons per Day

Abbreviations and Acronyms

CITY OR COUNTY (Counties

7,500 TPD of coal to 18,000 BPD gasoline and 300 BPD

EMISSIONS CONTROL PLAN

Not identified; developers hope to get a right of way to

Developers haven't yet locked up financing for a $3 http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1059981383

American Lignite Energy (aka Coal Creek

American Lignite Energy MacLean County

70% of CO2 to be used for EOR

Ohio River Clean Fuels (formerly Baard

Planck Trading LLC

Belwood Coal-to-Liquids Project (Natchez)

Petcoke to up to 30,000 BPD ultra-clean diesel

CO2 takeoff agreement with Denbury Resources for EOR,

Tahoe Regional Power

Cash Creek Generation

IGCC (via SNG)

1.7 million TPY coal to SNG and 720 MW electricity

$1.97 billion. Financial commitment received from D.E.

Chicago Clean Energy Project (formerly

Leucadia National Corp.

Undefined high-sulfur Illinois coal to SNG

CleanTech Energy Project

USA Synthetic Fuel Corp.

30.6 mm bbls/year of synthetic crude (or 182 billion cubic

This project is being developed by Cleantech Energy http://www.usasfc.com/usasfc_dev/?page_id=239

1,000 TPD wood material to 20 million GPY sythethic

Original plans for this project included co-firing with

Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers UAN January-13

Expanding the facilitys 2,025 ton-per-day urea ammonium TBD

None - CO2 is used in production

Cook Inlet Coal-to Liquids Project (aka Beluga August-12

AIDEA and Alaska Natural Cook Inlet

16 million TPY coal to 80,000 BPD of diesel and naphtha.

Capital cost of $12 billion (est.). Federal support: $500

Not identified; potential for sequestration in depleted gas

The Company currently conducts tests at a pilot plant http://www.greatpointenergy.com/developmentstatus.php

REG Geismar, LLC (formerly Dynamic Fuels

Renewable Energy Group, Geismar

284,500 TPY of animal byproduct fat/grease to 75 mil. GPY $158 million

East Dubuque Plant

Rentech Energy Midwest

1,000 tpd ammonia; 2,000 BPD clean fuels and chemicals

Plant constuction is complete and facility is in

Ely Energy Center, Phase II

White Pine County

1000 MW (two units)

No activity has been reported since 2009. Nevada

U.S. Gasification Database