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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
China, the world's top energy user, wants to turn coal in remote areas into gas and then pipe it to cities, where residential and industrial use for the fuel is growing rapidly.
From coal miners to power producers, from private firms to state energy giants, companies are in a push to convert China's abundant and cheap coal into gas, using a mix of locally developed and imported technology similar to that used to produce synthetic fuel in apartheid-era South Africa.
Beijing has approved four pilot projects able to supply 15 billion cubic metres of natural gas a year by 2015.
Let's have a look at some plants that China hopes will help boost its energy supply.
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: Qinghua Group
Location: Xinjiang
Capacity: 5.5 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2014
Project status: Approved
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: Datang Group
Location: Inner Mongolia
Capacity: 4.0 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2012
Project status: Approved
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: Datang Group
Location: Liaoning
Capacity: 4.0 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2013
Project status: Approved
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: Huineng Coal Chemical
Location: Inner Mongolia
Capacity: 2.0 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2013
Project status: Approved
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: CNOOC
Location: Inner Mongolia
Capacity: 3x4.0 billion cubic metres
Date of start: N/A
Project status: Preliminary approval
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: China Power Investment Company
Location: Xinjiang
Capacity: 6.0 billion cubic metres
Date of start: N/A
Project status: Preliminary approval
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: Xinjiang Guanghui
Location: Xinjiang
Capacity: 0.5 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2012
Project status: Proposed
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: Shenhua Group
Location: Inner Mongolia
Capacity: 2.0 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2013
Project status: Proposed
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: Henan Coal Chem Engineering
Location: Xinjiang
Capacity: 4.0 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2014
Project status: Proposed
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: China Coal
Location: Xinjiang
Capacity: 4.0 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2014
Project status: Proposed
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: China Huadian Group
Location: Xinjiang
Capacity: 4.0 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2015
Project status: Proposed
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: China Huaneng Group
Location: Xinjiang
Capacity: 6.0 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2015
Project status: Proposed
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: WanXiang/GreatPoint
Location: Xinjiang
Capacity: 0.85 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2015
Project status: Proposed
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: Guodian Pingmei Nileke
Location: Xinjiang
Capacity: 4.0 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2017
Project status: Proposed
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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Project: Sinopec Group
Location: Xinjiang
Capacity: 8.0 billion cubic metres
Date of start: 2020
Project status: Proposed
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