Reuters: India's Coal-to-Gas Dream Takes Baby Steps

India is at least a decade behind China in embracing technology that could convert its coal reserves into enough gas and oil to surmount chronic power shortages and halve its energy import bill of $110 billion a year.

Talk about coal gasification in India, a technology used to access even unmineable reserves, is almost four decades old, but it is only now that its first such plant is about to start production. A second one is still on the drawing board. MORE