by David Sassoon -
Dec 19th, 2007 
Oil giant BP is indeed going Beyond Petroleum once again. Less than two weeks ago came the news that BP was jumping into tar sands. Now comes the news that they've made a deal in Wyoming to drill for coal!
Here's the nub of the deal just struck with GasTech:
A Casper-based company announced a partnership with British Petroleum to test whether the geological and economic conditions exist to step beyond conventional mining and use a recovery method that relies on drill bits instead of shovels. The companies plan to develop underground, or in-situ, coal gasification technology in the Powder River Basin.
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