The United States Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored the 2007 World Gasification Survey to accurately describe the current world gasification industry, identify near-term planned capacity additions, and keep the global gasification community apprised of current industry trends and drivers.  Based on publicly available information, the survey includes owners/operators of gasification-based power and manufacturing plants, major gasification technology vendors, and suppliers of supporting technologies.  Only commercial operating plants with a capacity exceeding 100 megawatts electric equivalent (MWe) were included in order to avoid listing pilot test and temporary facilities as contributors to the commercial experience database.  However, all feedstocks—coal, petroleum residues, secondary materials, biomass, and other carbonaceous materials—were included if the facility in question met the minimum capacity requirement.

The 2007 survey and database classify plants based on their status as development, engineering, construction, start-up, or commercial operating.  However, for purposes of summarizing and reporting industry syngas capacity, this brochure identifies two broad categories of plant capacity—Operating and Planned.  Operating plants include those projects in either start-up or commercial operating status.  Planned projects are those that have been publicly announced; are in development, engineering, or construction stages; and have received some substantial commitment to the project.  Non-operating plants are excluded from the industry syngas capacity figures. 

This page provides links to data sheets for individual projects that can be accessed through the Access and PDF files below, as well as to the Excel spreadsheet file that summarizes all of the available data in a form that can be downloaded and manipulated to provide your own summary tables and charts. Overview categorical summaries are also provided in the PDF file below.

• Gasification World Database 2007: Current Industry Status, Robust Growth Forecast [PDF-2.4MB] (Oct 2007)
• Searchable Gasification Database with User Interface [Zipped Access MDB file-1.4MB] (Sept 2007)
  Right click on link and save file locally.  Then open the zip file and extract the MDB file.
• Gasification Plant Data Sheets: Sorted by Country, Feedstock, Region and Technology [PDF-7.1MB] (Oct 2007)
• Gasification Database [Excel XLS file-64KB] (Sept 2007)
  To View: Left Click on link. To Save: Right click on link and save file locally. Then, open using Microsoft Excel
• Overview Summaries [PDF-77KB] (Sept 2007)