Coal India signs coal-gasification pact with ONGC
State-run Coal India Ltd. (CIL) has signed a pact with Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) to pursue the study of
underground coal gasification.
Junior Minister for Coal Santosh Bagrodia said CIL entered into a memorandum of understanding with ONGC to jointly
pursue a pilot-scale study for underground coal gasification. He said ONGC, in turn, signed an agreement with
Russia's Skochinsky Institute of Mining for technical consultancy in this field.
"CIL and Coal Mines Planning and Design Institute have identified 5 coal blocks and data packages were prepared for
those blocks based on the formats supplied by ONGC and Skochinsky Institute of Mining," Bagrodia said.
He said the data supplied was examined by the Russian experts, and only one block named Kasta in Raniganj coalfield
was selected for generation of additional data.
