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Coal seam methane is one of the hotter current plays

Journal Article · · World Oil; (USA)
OSTI ID:5275675
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  1. Philip C. Crouse and Assoc., Inc., Dallas, TX (US)
The author discusses how exploitation and development of coal seams for methane gas recovery has caught the fancy of the petroleum industry. This resource has the potential to add trillions of cubic feet of marketable gas in the future. Shallow coalbed provinces are estimated to constitute around a 400 to 900-Tcf resource with 10 to 100 Tcf of potentially recoverable reserves. Current U.S. gas reserves are 168 Tcf, excluding Alaska (25 Tcf). Coalbed methane resources occur over a large portion of the United States with 37 states containing some amount of coalbed methane. The author shows the major provinces for coalbed methane.
OSTI ID:
5275675
Journal Information:
World Oil; (USA), Journal Name: World Oil; (USA) Vol. 209:5; ISSN 0043-8790; ISSN WOOIA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English