Punjab has 446m tons of coal reserves

[Edevelop]

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that according to an estimate Punjab has coal reserves of 446 million tons, which can be utilised for generation of electricity.
He said this while talking to a high-level delegation of China’s Gezhouba Group Corporation led by its Executive Director Yang Yisheng, which called on him on Sunday.
Matters regarding promotion of cooperation in infrastructure, hydel and coal based energy projects and low cost residential schemes were discussed in the meeting. Provincial Minister for Energy Sher Ali Khan, Managing Director Metro Bus Authority, Secretary Planning & Development, Chairperson Ring Road Authority, Director General LDA and officers concerned were also present in the meeting.
The Chinese company expressed keen interest in hydro and coal-based power generation projects in Punjab.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said that Pakistan was facing serious energy crisis, which was not only affecting the common man but economic activities had also slowed down.
He said that government was taking measures on emergent basis for controlling energy crisis.
He said that planning has been made for generation of electricity from solar energy.
He said that 1000 megawatt electricity would be generated under a phased programme from Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park project in Bahawalpur.
Shahbaz said that the Federal government was working on Bhasha and Dasu dams for production of electricity as well as availability of water for irrigation purposes.
He said that Punjab was rich in natural resources which can be utilised for changing the destiny of the nation.
The Chief Minister said that Punjab has also vast coal reserves and an Australian company has prepared a feasibility report for using them for energy purposes.
He invited the Chinese company to consider extending cooperation in construction of small dams and mining of coal reserves.
He said that all out security and facilities were being provided to foreign investors and companies in Punjab and China Gezhouba Group Corporation should also benefit from them.
Executive Director China Gezhouba Group Corporation, Yang Yisheng said that his Group has expertise in hydro projects, infrastructure development and coal mining. He also expressed his desire for investment in infrastructure and energy sectors in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister has said that Punjab government would give a special Eid package to the earthquake affectees of Awaran.
He has also praised the devotion to duty of the pilots of the Punjab government’s helicopter doing earthquake relief duty in Awaran and announced one month’s pay as honorarium.
He has asked the pilots to continue performing their duty during Eid days as well.

Punjab has 446m tons of coal reserves

 

[farhan_9909]

446millions are very less.less than yearly production of India

We need to invest only in thar if we are interested in coal extraction.

 

[niaz]

446millions are very less.less than yearly production of India

We need to invest only in thar if we are interested in coal extraction.

Hon Sir,

Punjab has two coal fields; at Makerwal and the Salt range along the Khusab/Chakwal road. Coal is of sub bituminous variety heating value in the 10-12,000 BTU/lb. range and no doubt suitable for power production. According to the my info, total estimated reserves are about 240-million tons out of which Salt Range mines are larger by far (about 215-million tons)

Main problem is that size of the reserves is not yet confirmed. According to the article below only about 55-million tons of the reserves had been verified until October 2009.

Punjab`s coal-based power projects | Latest news, Breaking news, Pakistan News, World news, business, sport and multimedia | DAWN.COM

If the figure of 446-milion is correct it very good news indeed. Especially for the people of Khusahb & Chakwal districts as large scale mining operations will create a lot jobs.

A 500 MW coal plant burns between 1.5 to 2-million tons of coal depending upon its heat value. 446-million tons will generate a lot of electricity for a long time.

Coal from Punjab is of better quality than Thar lignite with almost double the BTU value. It can be used as soon as it dug up from the ground.

 

[farhan_9909]

Hon Sir,

Punjab has two coal fields; at Makerwal and the Salt range along the Khusab/Chakwal road. Coal is of sub bituminous variety heating value in the 10-12,000 BTU/lb. range and no doubt suitable for power production. According to the my info, total estimated reserves are about 240-million tons out of which Salt Range mines are larger by far (about 215-million tons)

Main problem is that size of the reserves is not yet confirmed. According to the article below only about 55-million tons of the reserves had been verified until October 2009.

Punjab`s coal-based power projects | Latest news, Breaking news, Pakistan News, World news, business, sport and multimedia | DAWN.COM

If the figure of 446-milion is correct it very good news indeed. Especially for the people of Khusahb & Chakwal districts as large scale mining operations will create a lot jobs.

A 500 MW coal plant burns between 1.5 to 2-million tons of coal depending upon its heat value. 446-million tons will generate a lot of electricity for a long time.

Coal from Punjab is of better quality than Thar lignite with almost double the BTU value. It can be used as soon as it dug up from the ground.

one of my cousin has invested in the coal of chakwal

But those in thar are freaking huge reserves.184billion tons are extremely huge reserves.

 

[niaz]

one of my cousin has invested in the coal of chakwal

But those in thar are freaking huge reserves.184billion tons are extremely huge reserves.

Thar coal is "Lignite". When you think of coal, you imagine a hard black rocky substance. Lignite is also known as 'Brown coal' which is generally from yellow to dark brown in colour with about 25% carbon content and moisture as high as 60%.

Please don’t confuse bituminous/sub bituminous coal with Thar lignite.

 

[Nishan_101]

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that according to an estimate Punjab has coal reserves of 446 million tons, which can be utilised for generation of electricity.
He said this while talking to a high-level delegation of China’s Gezhouba Group Corporation led by its Executive Director Yang Yisheng, which called on him on Sunday.
Matters regarding promotion of cooperation in infrastructure, hydel and coal based energy projects and low cost residential schemes were discussed in the meeting. Provincial Minister for Energy Sher Ali Khan, Managing Director Metro Bus Authority, Secretary Planning & Development, Chairperson Ring Road Authority, Director General LDA and officers concerned were also present in the meeting.
The Chinese company expressed keen interest in hydro and coal-based power generation projects in Punjab.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said that Pakistan was facing serious energy crisis, which was not only affecting the common man but economic activities had also slowed down.
He said that government was taking measures on emergent basis for controlling energy crisis.
He said that planning has been made for generation of electricity from solar energy.
He said that 1000 megawatt electricity would be generated under a phased programme from Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park project in Bahawalpur.
Shahbaz said that the Federal government was working on Bhasha and Dasu dams for production of electricity as well as availability of water for irrigation purposes.
He said that Punjab was rich in natural resources which can be utilised for changing the destiny of the nation.
The Chief Minister said that Punjab has also vast coal reserves and an Australian company has prepared a feasibility report for using them for energy purposes.
He invited the Chinese company to consider extending cooperation in construction of small dams and mining of coal reserves.
He said that all out security and facilities were being provided to foreign investors and companies in Punjab and China Gezhouba Group Corporation should also benefit from them.
Executive Director China Gezhouba Group Corporation, Yang Yisheng said that his Group has expertise in hydro projects, infrastructure development and coal mining. He also expressed his desire for investment in infrastructure and energy sectors in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister has said that Punjab government would give a special Eid package to the earthquake affectees of Awaran.
He has also praised the devotion to duty of the pilots of the Punjab government’s helicopter doing earthquake relief duty in Awaran and announced one month’s pay as honorarium.
He has asked the pilots to continue performing their duty during Eid days as well.

Punjab has 446m tons of coal reserves

Punjab Govt. should allow local investors to invest in the coal, Oil and Gas found in Punjab and Dr.Samar to make a Coal Gasification there in Punjab and I am sure Punjabi investors would love it too.

 

[SBD-3]

Punjab Govt. should allow local investors to invest in the coal,

I remember a similar comment from you on another topic. I asked you there again, do you know any local investor? Mining business is a tricky and a specialist one. Technology required for efficient extraction may not be available with every tom dick and harry. Especially to keep the mining costs feasible as the accessible resource exhaust, increasing marginal cost of extraction.

Oil and Gas found in Punjab and Dr.Samar to make a Coal Gasification there in Punjab and I am sure Punjabi investors would love it too.

Coal gasification is applied where the coal reserves are not directly accessible. For example, in Thar, the coal reserves are not directly accessible since they exist beneath a large subterranean water reservoir. In this case the coal is heated in its reservoir for turning water above it, into steam. This steam can then be used to generate electricity and coal is extracted in the form of syngas. This gas, in turn, can be used for multiple purposes. Thar is naturally suited for this process but not every other place.

 

[OrionHunter]

That's more than enough coal to blacken our worthy politicians' faces with!

 

[haviZsultan]

Pakistan is gifted with many natural resources but we still havent found a way to advance and make ourselves a highly developed nation. We need to pull our economy in order.

 

[Hyde]

This is not much as we all know. It can be utilised for multiple purposes

Once you have coal-fired plants somewhere in Sindh or Balochistan, you can ideally utilise this coal alongside Thar coal to generate electricity or export this coal to generate revenues or the last option is reduce the demand of coal in the country. There are many ways we can sell this coal inside Punjab alone. For example we eat barbecue on every nook and corner of Punjab and coal-fired heaters are widely found in Punjab/Pakistan.

 

[Fracker]

coal reserves, gold reserves, etc is a lie which normally politicians use to manipulate people mind to vote in favor. (It doesn't means Pakistan don't have it, Pakistan have enough oil reserves that they wouldn't need to import single barrel from outside. ) My PoV is, they don't use these resources since they need money..

Pakistan Energy Crisis is not dependent upon Money or resource requirement, but willingness.. otherwise, thar solar reserves are enough to run whole country ... forget, any oil, coal, gas reserves..

 

[niaz]

coal reserves, gold reserves, etc is a lie which normally politicians use to manipulate people mind to vote in favor. (It doesn't means Pakistan don't have it, Pakistan have enough oil reserves that they wouldn't need to import single barrel from outside. ) My PoV is, they don't use these resources since they need money.

Pakistan Energy Crisis is not dependent upon Money or resource requirement, but willingness.. otherwise, thar solar reserves are enough to run whole country ... forget, any oil, coal, gas reserves..

Honourable Sir,

Havind spent 45 years in the petroleum sector at international level; I happen to know a little bit about oil & gas an about energy.

Current total oil & gas requirements of Pakistan are about 28.8 million tons of oil equivalent per annum. In lay-man’s terms about 0.590-milion barrels per day. This is based upon actual consumption during 2010-2011 which has always been restricted due to lack of funds for imports. If there was no restriction on gas and oil supply and with zero load shedding, real demand would be close to 1.0-million barrels per day of oil equivalent.

Thus far proven reserves are 32 TCF of gas & 300 million barrels of oil. Total domestic production is about 70,000 bbl. per day of crude oil and 4.2 billion cft of gas or about 107,000 bbl. per day of oil equivalent. Meaning production of 177,000 bbl per day per versus requirement of nearly 590,000 bbl. per day.

If you have info about sufficient reserves oil as you say, kindly share the same with us because these are of immense national importance. Please don’t include shale oil & gas primarily because these are not yet proven and also require lot of funds and many years to bring to fruition.

Regarding solar potential?

One hour of full sun provides about 1 Kwh/m2. Average household would need about 20 to 21 m2 of panels ( about 4KW). Even with the sharp decrease in solar panel prices; in UK it would cost about £6000 (Rs 9 lacs) with the inverters and batteries total cost can easily be about £8,000 or Rs 12 lacs.

The proposed solar farm in Bahawalpur will cost about $2.2-billion to produce about 1050MW of electricity and will cover 5000 acres! Add to this cost of transporting it to national grid. Our maximum powershort fall is about 6,000 MW. This would need 30,000 acres of panels/mirrors to produce. In case there is a long period of cloud cover such as during monsoon, electric supply will stop.

Only large potential we have is hydroelectric, again we need money and you know the resistance to Kalabagh Dam. But for this we also need lot funds. We have wind corridor as well but this also need funds.

Therefore with all due respect I would beg to differ from the statement in your post.

Pakistan does not have sufficient PROVEN oil & gas reserves that we don't need to import a single barrel from outside. And one of the main causes of energy crisis is lack of funds to develop solar/wind/nuclear energy or exploit Thar coal.

 

[Fracker]

Honourable Sir,

Havind spent 45 years in the petroleum sector at international level; I happen to know a little bit about oil & gas an about energy.

Current total oil & gas requirements of Pakistan are about 28.8 million tons of oil equivalent per annum. In lay-man’s terms about 0.590-milion barrels per day. This is based upon actual consumption during 2010-2011 which has always been restricted due to lack of funds for imports. If there was no restriction on gas and oil supply and with zero load shedding, real demand would be close to 1.0-million barrels per day of oil equivalent.

Thus far proven reserves are 32 TCF of gas & 300 million barrels of oil. Total domestic production is about 70,000 bbl. per day of crude oil and 4.2 billion cft of gas or about 107,000 bbl. per day of oil equivalent. Meaning production of 177,000 bbl per day per versus requirement of nearly 590,000 bbl. per day.

If you have info about sufficient reserves oil as you say, kindly share the same with us because these are of immense national importance. Please don’t include shale oil & gas primarily because these are not yet proven and also require lot of funds and many years to bring to fruition.

Regarding solar potential?

One hour of full sun provides about 1 Kwh/m2. Average household would need about 20 to 21 m2 of panels ( about 4KW). Even with the sharp decrease in solar panel prices; in UK it would cost about £6000 (Rs 9 lacs) with the inverters and batteries total cost can easily be about £8,000 or Rs 12 lacs.

The proposed solar farm in Bahawalpur will cost about $2.2-billion to produce about 1050MW of electricity and will cover 5000 acres! Add to this cost of transporting it to national grid. Our maximum powershort fall is about 6,000 MW. This would need 30,000 acres of panels/mirrors to produce. In case there is a long period of cloud cover such as during monsoon, electric supply will stop.

Only large potential we have is hydroelectric, again we need money and you know the resistance to Kalabagh Dam. But for this we also need lot funds. We have wind corridor as well but this also need funds.

Therefore with all due respect I would beg to differ from the statement in your post.

Pakistan does not have sufficient PROVEN oil & gas reserves that we don't need to import a single barrel from outside. And one of the main causes of energy crisis is lack of funds to develop solar/wind/nuclear energy or exploit Thar coal.

Solar Panel is history, use draft towers for mass production, Salt based storage is newer & Cheaper way to store the history. Don't have time otherwise would have given detailed answer. You can search on the internet.

If you have previous links in OGDC then Just search about Iran-Pak Oil agreement, on which Iran is bound to provide oil on half price of that time. You will find why still no exploration is happening in Baluchistan area.

 

[Chak Bamu]

Solar Panel is history, use draft towers for mass production, Salt based storage is newer & Cheaper way to store the history. Don't have time otherwise would have given detailed answer. You can search on the internet.

If you have previous links in OGDC then Just search about Iran-Pak Oil agreement, on which Iran is bound to provide oil on half price of that time. You will find why still no exploration is happening in Baluchistan area.

When it comes to @niaz sb, better be mindful. He knows his stuff. Your reply has been written just for the sake of replying.

My understanding is that solar panel costs have fallen to a level where it is the cheapest technology of harnessing solar energy. The salt route has some storage capacity, but it is still cost-prohibitive.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

And we are the largest energy consumers on the planet. And still growing.

Any resources you can sell, we can buy them.