Unlike traditional coal mining, or oil and gas projects, Underground Coal Gasifiction can undertake carbon capture and sequestration and still remain price competitive.

Looking to the future, Carbon Capture and Storage is the main focus point with all fossil fuels and UCG offers perhaps the easiest and most effective method of capturing and permanently containing CO₂.

UCG is a gasification process which has all the advantages of pre-combustion processing, i.e. smaller capture plant, lower operating costs. In addition, the porous voids created in the coal seam after the UCG process is complete, are a potential storage location for CO₂. Depending on the products produced from the syngas, carbon capture can either be pre, or post combustion. Where hydrogen fuels and power from hydrogen are the products, carbon capture will be pre-combusion, elsewhere we intend to use oxygen fired combustion technices which will make the post combustion capture of CO₂ so much easier.