Company/Alliance: Shenhua Group
Location: Inner Mongolia, China
Start Date: 2014 (first gas)
Size: 1 Mt/Yr
CO2 Source: Coal liquifaction plant. Currently emitting 3.6 Mt/yr of CO2
Storage: EOR and/ or saline aquifer. The plant is located above saine aquifer with significant storage potential.
Motivation/Economics: Expected to cost approximately 10 billion RMD or $1.46 billion US. The plant is locatedon top of an enormous coal deposit.
Comments: Shenhua is China's largest coal mining company. The Liquifaction plant cost 24.5billion Yuan ($3.58 billion US). The 300 day trial started sucessfully on December 30 2008. It is expected to go into ful operation at the end of 2009. Initial CCS capture will be 0.1 Mt CO2/ Yr. The Chinese government curtailed its coal liquifaction program in 2008 and this project is one of 2 projects which are still allowed to go ahead.
Project Link: China to launch first CCS project ( April 2009)
Other Sources and Press Release:
Shenhua group homepage
Shenhua plans to triple capacity of coal-liquids plant ( January 2009)
Shenhua shows the way to make gas from coal ( January 2009)
Shenhua exempt in China stoppage on coal-to-oil projects ( August 2008)
Date modified October 23, 2009
