Western Fuels partners with Texas company to create low-sulfur carbon out of coal from Dry Fork Mine

GILLETTE (WNE) — Western Fuels and Frontieras North America, Inc., a Houston-based energy and technology company, entered into an agreement to develop a coal processing facility at the mouth of Dry Fork Mine to create value-added carbon products.

Frontieras has a patented technology, FASForm, that deconstructs coal and turns it into liquid fuels and a clean, low-sulfur technical carbon, known as FASCarbon, which functions as a replacement carbon for steel manufacturing and coal-fired plants that burns hotter, cleaner, and with lower emissions.

Under the agreement, which also includes Western Fuels Association, Inc., a nonprofit fuel supply cooperative, the companies intend to develop a mine-mouth FASForm processing facility at the Dry Fork Mine. FASCarbon produced at this facility can be transported by rail to WFA’s member utilities under separate commercial terms or transacted into international markets.

“Wyoming produces more coal than any other state, which makes it the natural place to prove this resource can be commercialized — not just mined,” said Andrea Moran, the chief commercial officer for Frontieras North America. “A mine-mouth site at the Dry Fork Mine puts a FASForm facility directly on top of that feedstock — no rail, no barge, no distance between the coal and the finished fuels and products we make from it. Those are the economics that make commercialization work at scale and pairing them with Western Fuels' operational strength is exactly how we intend to grow this platform across the West.”

This story was published on Sept. 2, 2026. 

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