Thar Coal Reserves

Subsequently thar coal and energy board act 2011 was passed by provincial assembly of sindh in july 2011.

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. 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 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. 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. 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 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.

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. Coal reserves together with heating values as on received basis of all the four provinces and azad kashmir are given here below. Pakistan has emerged as one of the leading countries seventh in the list of top 20 countries of the world after the.