An Australian firm has submitted a request to Wyoming environmental regulators for permission to produce gas and carbon dioxide from underground coal at a site near Wright. Linc Energy's process would essentially cook coal deep underground, producing gas the company would, among other uses, collect for conversion into fuels, and carbon dioxide the company could sell to oil companies that use it to force out hard-to-get oil. The company announced its submission of a permit application to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality on Thursday for its demonstration project, known as Gasifier 6. According to a press release, the company will use the pilot project -- which it expects to fire next year -- to demonstrate the value of underground coal gasification. Linc Energy owns rights to 287 square miles of coal leases in the Powder River Basin as well as three oil fields between Casper and Glenrock.
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