paul29
02-05-2009, 07:33 PM
International Resource Holdings Ltd (ASX:IRH) has entered a conditional heads of agreement to acquire Clean Global Energy Pty Ltd (CGE) for the issue of up to 300m IRH shares.
CGE is a private company with a vision of becoming a significant provider of low-cost energy through converting vast sub-economic coal deposits into a cheap, useful energy in the form of Syngas.
In exploiting coal deposits that are traditionally uneconomical to mine, CGE will use its proven in-situ extraction method, Underground Coal Gasification (UCG), to turn these resources into a Syngas that is suitable for feedstock for power generation, the production of chemicals and fertilisers, and for use in Gas to Liquids technology that produces petrochemical products.
UCG is a process whereby coal is converted to gas in-situ and brought to the surface for further use.
The UCG technology to be used by CGE has been developed over the last 20 years by technical director Dr Michael Green and proven most recently in a successful European UCG trial conducted in Spain between 1992 and 1999.
Dr Green has continued to develop the process used in the trial.
CGE has four coal leases including EPC 1506, 1508 & 1539 located in the Clarence-Moreton Coal Basin in southeast Queensland and EPC 1507 in the Biloela Coal Basin in central Queensland.
It has applied for three additional coal leases including EPCA 1592 in the Bowen Basin, EPCA 1612 in the Clarence-Moreton Basin and EPCA 1637 in the Galilee Basin.
If these additional leases are granted, the seven leases will cover an area of about 1895 sq km.
www.internationalresourceholdings.com
CGE is a private company with a vision of becoming a significant provider of low-cost energy through converting vast sub-economic coal deposits into a cheap, useful energy in the form of Syngas.
In exploiting coal deposits that are traditionally uneconomical to mine, CGE will use its proven in-situ extraction method, Underground Coal Gasification (UCG), to turn these resources into a Syngas that is suitable for feedstock for power generation, the production of chemicals and fertilisers, and for use in Gas to Liquids technology that produces petrochemical products.
UCG is a process whereby coal is converted to gas in-situ and brought to the surface for further use.
The UCG technology to be used by CGE has been developed over the last 20 years by technical director Dr Michael Green and proven most recently in a successful European UCG trial conducted in Spain between 1992 and 1999.
Dr Green has continued to develop the process used in the trial.
CGE has four coal leases including EPC 1506, 1508 & 1539 located in the Clarence-Moreton Coal Basin in southeast Queensland and EPC 1507 in the Biloela Coal Basin in central Queensland.
It has applied for three additional coal leases including EPCA 1592 in the Bowen Basin, EPCA 1612 in the Clarence-Moreton Basin and EPCA 1637 in the Galilee Basin.
If these additional leases are granted, the seven leases will cover an area of about 1895 sq km.
www.internationalresourceholdings.com