The oil goes into a de-gasification plant, and then four-fifths of it is stored for export.

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Hodel's Summit Power Group aims to build the first low-emissions coal-gasification power plant in oil-rich west Texas.

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The Weyburn-Midale CO2 project is burying carbon dioxide from a coal gasification plant in North Dakota in a depleted oil field in Saskatchewan.

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During the energy crisis of the late 1970s the government financed research into catalysts for coal gasification, only to drop the projects after oil prices fell and natural gas was deregulated.

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