{"id":9905,"date":"2012-04-13T16:10:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/pakistan-to-tap-coal-riches-to-avert-energy-crisis\/"},"modified":"2012-04-13T16:10:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:10:56","slug":"pakistan-to-tap-coal-riches-to-avert-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/pakistan-to-tap-coal-riches-to-avert-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to tap coal riches to avert energy crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Energy crisis caps economic growth<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Pakistan has one of world&#8217;s biggest untapped coal reserves<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Coal seen at over 10 pct of energy mix in five years<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jacqueline Cowhig and Qasim Nauman<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON\/ISLAMABAD, April 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Pakistan must turn to<br \/>\ncoal &#8211; both from its own large untapped reserves and from<br \/>\nimports &#8211; to fuel power generation beyond the next decade if it<br \/>\nis to ease the energy crisis which is capping economic growth,<br \/>\ntrade and industry sources said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The sixth most heavily-populated country globally with 180<br \/>\nmillion people, it has been plagued for years by power cuts and,<br \/>\nunless new sources of generation can be developed, will see<br \/>\npower demand outstrip supply for years to come.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet it has one of the biggest, barely-touched, single coal<br \/>\nreserves on the planet &#8211; the massive Thar coalfield in the<br \/>\nnorthern Sindh province with 175 billion tonnes of extremely<br \/>\nhigh water-content, low energy coal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This kind of low-grade, watery coal is found in abundance in<br \/>\nother countries, such as Indonesia, the world&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\nexporter, but it has not been economic to exploit in the past.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But high oil and gas prices, rising coal prices and new<br \/>\ntechnology to dry out watery, gaseous coal or leave it in the<br \/>\nground but extract the gas from it instead, has prompted<br \/>\nprojects around the world.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Energy crisis caps economic growth * Pakistan has one of world&#8217;s biggest untapped coal reserves * Coal seen at over 10 pct of energy mix in five years By Jacqueline Cowhig and Qasim Nauman LONDON\/ISLAMABAD, April 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Pakistan must turn to coal &#8211; both from its own large untapped reserves and from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}