Thar Coal Reserves

The thar coalfield is located in thar desert tharparkar district of sindh province in pakistan the deposits 16th largest coal reserves in the world were discovered in 1991 by geological survey of pakistan gsp and the united states agency for international development.

Thar coal reserves.

Subsequently thar coal and energy board act 2011 was passed by provincial assembly of sindh in july 2011. Coal reserves together with heating values as on received basis of all the four provinces and azad kashmir are given here below. He shared that thar coal would in the long run reduce burden on the country s foreign currency reserves as pakistan imported a huge quantity of oil and gas for power production. The primary role of the board is to facilitate and coordinate with domestic foreign and international institutions for speedy development of thar coal and to act as coal pricing agency for coal tariff determination and implementation agency.

The prime minister was informed during a briefing that the thar coal field was the seventh largest coal reserve in the world and had the capacity to produce 100 000mw of electricity for the next. Pakistan has emerged as one of the leading countries seventh in the list of top 20 countries of the world after the. The thar coalfield stretches over 9 000 sq. Km and has an estimated 175 billion tons of coal reserves making it the 7 th biggest coalfield in the world.

The engro thar coal power project thar ll is a coal fired power plant developed as part of the china pakistan economic corridor by sindh engro coal mining company a joint venture between the government of sindh and engro corporation and china machinery engineering corporation in the thar block ii of the thar coalfield tharparkar district sindh pakistan 25 kilometers from the town of. However political instability indecision corruption terrorism and security problems have kept exploration and production at a standstill both in thar and balochistan. In pursuance of the jcc decision as stated above as well as cpec interest to develop coal to liquids from thar coal oracle plc intends to enter into a joint development agreement jda with the china coal energy company which is a.