BP and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Establish Joint Effort on Coal Conversion

3 August 2007

BP and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish the Clean Energy Commercialization Centre (CECC), focused on the development in China of coal conversion technologies for fuels production, chemicals manufacturing and power generation.

According to the MoU, CAS and BP will join their efforts to make CECC a successful and profitable world class platform which will identify, evaluate, select, develop and commercialize strategic cleaner coal conversion technologies.

It will also integrate and consolidate individual technologies from CAS institutes and other People's Republic of China (PRC) research and development organizations and elsewhere, both within and outside the PRC, into commercially viable technological systems and solutions.