La Française de l'Energie SA engages in the exploration and extraction of coal gas resources. The company is headquartered in Forbach, Grand Est. The company went IPO on 2016-06-08. The firm holds the prospective resources equivalent to nearly 10 years of French national consumption. The firm uses, never used in France and Europe before, a technique for gas exploration: multilateral well drilling. The company transforms a coal bed methane gas into a strategic, clean energy.