Hybrid Energy Australia holds petroleum and mineral exploration licences over an extensive lignite (coal) deposit near Kingston in South Australia's South East. A number of emerging trends have now provided an unique opportunity for the company to investigate an integrated low-carbon synthetic liquid transport fuels and low-emission power generation facility utilising this Kingston Coal resource. These emerging trends include:

• a predicted short-fall of power supply within ten years in south eastern South Australia;
• the decreasing natural gas reserves within South Australia;
• a continuing increase in the price of liquid transport fuels;
• exciting advancements in environmentally responsible coal combustion and gasification techniques; and
• the close proximity of significant underground reservoirs for the long-term storage of carbon dioxide captured from the energy conversion process (geosequestration opportunities).