Otto Simon Working with Cougar Energy to Exploit the Potential of Underground Coal Gasification

Otto Simon Ltd is delighted to have been appointed as consultant engineers by Cougar Energy Limited, one of Australia’s new dynamic forces working to secure the nation’s domestic gas supplies and future energy needs.

Cougar Energy are well advanced in their ambitious programme to harness Australia’s naturally abundant coal reserves and produce energy using the world’s leading commercial Underground Coal Gasification technology (UCG). Otto Simon will initially work with Cougar Energy to assist them in the definition of the Company’s flagship operation, a 400MW power station in Kingaroy, central Queensland.

Otto Simon secured the position following Cougar’s worldwide search for an organisation possessing the specific expertise and synergies needed to complement their own in-house capability. Otto Simon’s immediate focus will be on the optioneering and definition of unit operations associated with the UCG process.

In addition to the facility at Kingaroy, Cougar Energy is well advanced in the application of UCG and the potential to generate power on other sites through-out Australia. The opportunity to unlock the huge natural potential of underground coal reserves in a more productive and environmentally conscious way using UCG is also involving Cougar Energy in a series of international opportunities.

This appointment in support of Cougar Energy marks Otto Simon’s continued success in providing value added expertise and acumen to project developers and investors in the emergent new energy sector.