Jindal Group announced plans to develop a coal-to-liquid (CTL) project in Angul, Orissa, India, TopNews Singapore reported July 13.

W2 Energy announced July 22 that it has signed a term sheet with National Coal Corp. (NCC) to form Tennessee Clean Coal, LLC, a company which will initially build a one ton per day pilot plant to convert Tennessee coal into gasoline, ultra low sulfur diesel, JP8 jet fuel and electricity. For Tennessee Clean Coal, W2 will provide all of the technology and all of the financing; NCC will provide the land and the feedstock.

This update includes Rentech's construction in Mississippi to start next year; the US Senate candidate backing CTL projects and the 2010 World CTL Conference in China.

Tata Steel, the largest private sector steel maker in the country, plans to set up a coal-to-liquid converter project in tie-up with South Africa's Sasol Synfuel International.

Syngas has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Vemco Australia subsidiary Vemtec to provide peaking power offtake management and advisory services for a facility featuring 114 megawatt combined-cycle gas-fired capacity, to be located at the Clinton Coal-to-Liquids Project in MEL 3874, South Australia.

The U.S. Department of Energy is weighing an application from DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC of Houston for a loan to help build the proposed $2.7 billion coal-to-gasoline plant.