Coal in Kalmar Union

In recent years the changes in energy policy along with innovations in clean coal technologies have prompted the coal production in Norway has been growing exponentially. In the 90s of the last century, Norway and Estonia (oil shale) were the only regions in the actual Baltic Union that produced coal. This situation remains today, but while the region Estonia has increased its production to 25 million tons annually in the region Norway production has increased from 3 to 27 million in a few years. Coal is used 93% for energy production and 7% for other industrial uses.

In The Baltic Union coal is converted into energy in two ways:
 * Burned in Integrated gasification combined cycle plants.
 * Partial in-situ combustion of a deep underground coal seam to produce a gas for use as an energy source. Syngas.

Coal production Onshore
The only onshore coal basin is on Spitsbergen, the main island in the dependency of Svalbard to the north of the scandinavia region. The mines are operated by Artic Coal Company, a wholly state owned company. The Spisbergen mines produce 7 million tonnes of coal per year.

Coal production Offshore
In 2002 geologists confirmed that 3000 billion tons of coal were located under the Baltic Union continental shelf. This fact led to a large extent the change in energy policy of the Union. From the outset, the government and oil companies involved in the area began to work on how to harness the enormous reserves of coal. The results of this work have been underwater mining and on the other hand the underground coal gasification.