The Fourteenth Annual Underground Coal Gasification Symposium was co-sponsored by the Laramie Projects Office of the Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC) and the Gas Research Institute (GRI). This year's symposium was hosted by METC in Chicago, Illinois, August 15-18, 1988. The purpose of this annual meeting is to provide an opportunity for scientists working in the technology to present their research results, exchange ideas, and discuss their future plans. There were nearly 100 attendees from US industry, academia, and Government and nine foreign countries: Australia, Belgium, East Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, and West Germany. Forty-two technical papers were presented in six sessions: Session 1 -- Poster Session, Session 2 -- Modeling/Experimental Research, Session 3 -- Field Studies at Rocky Mountain 1, Session 4 -- Environmental Aspects, Session 5 -- Environmental Workshop, and Session 6 -- General Subjects. These Proceedings also includes five additional papers that were submitted for publication but were not presented during the conference. Individual projects are processed separately for the data bases.