| The Project
Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC (MBFP) is developing a greenfield, mine-mouth coal-to-liquids facility near Medicine Bow, Wyoming.
Assets:
- Facility: Being developed, owned and operated by Medicine Bow Fuel & Power (MBFP)
- Coal: 180 million tons bituminous coal from the Saddleback Hills Mine
- Coal mine: To be owned by MBFP, underground mining operations by Arch
- Proven conversion technologies: GE coal gasification; Davy methanol from syngas; and ExxonMobil methanol to gasoline (MTG)
- Property: Saddleback Hills mine surface land rights
- Permits: Permits/approvals to construct and operate the facility and coal mine
- Contracts: Key contracts for sale of gasoline, CO2, sulfur and slag
Ownership MBFP is owned DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC of which Arch Coal is an investor
Process Click Here For The Medicine Bow Project CTL Process
Products
- Up to 21,000 barrels per day of gasoline to be sold into the regional market
- Carbon dioxide will be captured from the syngas, dried, liquefied and will be shipped via pipeline to the enhanced oil recovery market in Wyoming
- Other byproducts for sale will be elemental sulfur and slag which can be put to productive use by other companies
Schedule In-service date of 2014
Construction and Operation
- At the peak approximately 2,300 workers will be construction the facility
- Approximately up to 450 full time jobs to operate the mine and conversion facility
- Local hiring will be a priority
- Will work with established local and state job hiring and training organizations
Benefits to Wyoming
- Large multi-billion dollar capital investment in Wyoming
- Expanded economic development and employment in Wyoming
- Enhanced energy profile for State of Wyoming
- New U.S. refined product production lessens foreign dependence
- Use of Wyoming coal to produce a higher value product (gasoline) in Wyoming
- Environmentally responsible
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