What fuels do the industrial boilers use in Burma

We know that boilers can use a lot of fuel, such as natural gas, methane, light oil, heavy oil, rice husk, palm shell, peanut shell, bituminous coal, anthracite and so on. So what fuels do industrial boilers or power plants mainly use in Burma?

The most important of these is natural gas, which is estimated to account for about 12% of Myanmar’s GDP. It is the 39th biggest producer of natural gas currently and produced around 11.54 billion cubic meters in 2009. Oil is a fast growing commodity in Myanmar, and an estimate in January 2011 suggested the country had 50million barrels of proven oil reserves, making it the 79th largest reserve in the world. There are many coal mines across the country, with more than 16 that can be classed as ‘large-scale’. The largest of these mines is Tigyit, an open cast mine that produces 2000 ton of coal a day. The estimated amount of coal left in the country is 270million tons.

Most of electricity (74.7%) is produced by hydroelectricity. The rest is from fossil fuels, with gas as the main fuel (20.5%) followed by coal and oil. In 2011, Myanmar had an installed electricity generation capacity of about 3,344 MW, with a low electrification rate of 27%. Electrification rate is especially low in rural villages, which are mainly not connected to the power grid. Firewood is used as a primary source of energy in these areas, a contributing factor to the observed decrease in forests in the country.

Coal, oil and natural gas all feature prominently in Myanmar’s wealth of natural resources.

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