"In December 2007 Medicine Bow Fuel and Power contracted Exxon Mobil Corporation to use their proprietary Methanol to Gasoline (MTG) process technology to work in conjunction with the methanol plant to produce high grade gasoline from the crude methanol produced. The new 15,000bpd unit will be based on the proven MTG process technology which has been used for the last 20 years.
The MTG process will convert the methanol produced directly into low sulphur and low benzene gasoline. This can then be marketed directly or blended with refinery produced gasoline. The gasoline will inherently have low emissions of SOx and NOx because of its synthetic process origins. The technology is being adapted for the Medicine Bow project by EMRE the research and engineering arm of Exxon Mobil Corporation."
We had earlier reported on Exxon-Mobil's MTG technology, and cited some overseas projects where plans were proceeding to employ it.
And:
"The coal feedstock is being provided by Arch Coal who is a shareholder of DKRW Advanced Fuels and an advocate for coal to liquid fuel technologies."
Wyoming, Mike, and lignite. Distant from major markets and reliant on coal that's low in organic content and BTU's, and distant from major markets, relative to West Virginia run-of-mine bituminous; but, perhaps, comparable in quality to some of WV's coal mine waste accumulations - many of which do have potentially-recoverable organic content.