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: Obtaining permits/approvals to construct and operate the facility and coal mine
• Contracts: negotiating 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
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Products

• 20,000 - 22,000 barrels per day of gasoline to be sold into the regional market
• Carbon dioxide will be captured from the syngas, dried, liquefied and can 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 450 total 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

• $2.7 billion  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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