Coal Gasification with Carbon Capture could be a game changer for India-Shifting Coal from an Energy Commodity to a Chemical Feedstock

Niti Aayog is aiming to set up 15,000 tonnes per day coal to methanol gasification unit in a bid to cut crude oil imports

First pilot project of Methanol to Coal was developed by BHEL a year back.

Thereafter, NLC Coal to methanol plant is under commissioning to be completed by 2027.

Dankuni Coal Complex is coming up on build-own-operate model and produce 6.76 lakh tonne of methanol a year, and it is expected to be complete by January 2025

BPCL’s new petcoke gasification project will manufacture many value-added petrochemicals like acetic acid, ethanol, methanol, alcohols and hydrogen

There other couple of ongoing projects on coal to methanol too.
you may like to go through the road map ” mission energy” at the end of this post