Thar Coal Reserves

Coal reserves together with heating values as on received basis of all the four provinces and azad kashmir are given here below.

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. 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. The thar desert could hold the key to pakistan s energy requirements with 175 billion metric tons of coal reserves enough to fulfill the country s power needs for the next century if the government can get itself lined out. Bilawal said thar coal power plant was the country s most successful project and that his mother the late benazir bhutto had dreamt of providing electricity to pakistan with thar s coal.

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. The area of block vi is 66 1 square kilometres and estimated total coal reserves are 1 4 billion tonnes. 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 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.

The thar coalfield stretches over 9 000 sq. 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. However political instability indecision corruption terrorism and security problems have kept exploration and production at a standstill both in thar and balochistan.