COAL Reserves

Coal:
Coal is a hard rock which can be burned as a solid fossil fuel. It is mostly
carbon but also contains hydrogen, sulphur, oxygen and nitrogen. It is a
sedimentary rock formed from peat, by the pressure of rocks laid down later
on top.
Coal Reserves in Pakistan

Coal
Region (billion
tonnes)

Sindh: Lakhra, Sonda, Thatta, Jherruck, Thar, Haji Coal

184.623
and others

Punjab: Eastern Salt Range, Central Salt Range, Makerwal 0.235

Balochistan: Khost-Sharig-Harnai,Sor Range/Degari, Duki,

Mach- Kingri, Musakhel Abegum, Pir Ismail 0.217
Ziarat,Chamalong

KPK: 0.091

AJK: 0.009

Grand total 185.175

WORLD Wide
Top 20 coal producing countries [1]
Rank Countries Coal Production
(MT)
1 China 3,874.0
2 United States 906.9
3 Australia 644.0
4 India 537.6
5 Indonesia 458.0
6 Russia 357.6
7 South Africa 260.5
8 Germany 185.8
9 Poland 137.1
10 Kazakhstan 108.7
11 Colombia 88.6
12 Turkey 70.6
13 Canada 68.8
14 Ukraine 60.9
15 Greece 49.3
16 Czech Republic 46.9
17 Serbia 44.4
18 Vietnam 41.2
19 Mongolia 33.2
20 Bulgaria 31.3
 World coal consumption, top 10 countries, 2017[2]

The chart shows the top 10 coal consuming countries and coal consumption in the rest of
the world in 2017. Global coal consumption amounted to 3731.5 Mtoe; China is the main
coal consumer (1892.6 Mtoe, 51%), followed by India (424 Mtoe, 11%) and the USA
(332.1Mtoe,9%).

ENERGY & CO2 FROM COAL ( 1973-2015)[3]

Worldwide 40% of electricity generated still comes from coal, and in 2016 over 7,200 million
metric tonnes (MT) of it was produced globally.To put that into perspective, just over 3,000 MT
was produced in 1973.
 PAKISTAN

Pakistan’s total coal resource is reported as some 185 billion tones, within which ‘measured
reserves’ are 3.45 billion tonnes, ‘indicated reserves’ nearly 12 billion tonnes, ‘inferred reserves’
57 billion and ‘hypothetical resources’ 113 billion. 
References
1) https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-top-10-coal-producers-
worldwide.html
2) Data source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2018
3) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/these-are-the-worlds-biggest-
coal-producers/