Leigh Creek Energy is an Australian company which is developing an in-situ coal gasification (ISG) project at

Leigh Creek, South Australia Leigh Creek is a former coal-mining town in eastern central South Australia. At the 2016 census, Leigh Creek had a population of 245, a 55% decrease from 550 in the previous census in 2011. Situated to the west of the northern Flinders Ranges ...

. It was renamed from Marathon Resources in September 2015.

Leigh Creek Energy Project

Leigh Creek Energy holds petroleum licences over the

Leigh Creek Coalfield Telford Cut was an open-cut coal mine, now closed, in the Leigh Creek Coalfield in South Australia. For the 72 years between its opening in 1943 and its closure, the mine supplied sub-bituminous coal to fire power stations first in Adelaide the ...

, a large coal deposit which spans approximately seven kilometres at Leigh Creek. The company's flagship Leigh Creek Energy Project intends to produce gas at the site of the former Leigh Creek coal mine and develop a fertiliser production facility using waste gas streams and produce

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fertiliser for use by Australia's farming sector and for export. The LCEP will also generate

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via

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s to supply power to the project and Leigh Creek township.

History

Project planning commenced in 2011, and an exploration license was obtained by the company in November 2014. On 12 April 2018, Leigh Creek Energy received approval for its Statement of Environmental Objectives to run a in-situ coal gasification trial at Leigh Creek. The company successfully ran the pilot project and produced syngas for a period of 4 months and analyzed the sample gas quality. The in-situ coal gasification trail was completed during April 2019 and the site will be monitored for the next 3 years to prove that there are no environmental concerns with the process.

References

External links

Company website
{{Mining companies of Australia, state=collapsed Companies based in Adelaide Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange Synthetic fuel companies