Preliminary economic assessment of the commercial potential for deep-coalbed methane production from the Red Mountain Unit, Piceance Basin, Colorado. Topical report, January-March 1985

Technical Report · Sat Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6034194

Seccombe, J C; Sakashita, B J

The Red Mountain Site, leased and operated by Resource Enterprises, Inc. is the focus of a field-oriented R and D project with the objective to develop, improve, evaluate, and communicate the technology required to produce gas from deeply buried coal with reduced uncertainty and increased economic return. This study evaluates the economics of producing the D Coal Seam at the Red Mountain Site based on data acquired under the project and state-of-the-art reservoir and economic models. The results presented in this report are of a theoretical nature and specific to conditions at the site. The findings presented in this study show that it is unlikely that economic production can be obtained at the Red Mountain Unit using conventional hydraulic fracturing techniques. However, the successful development of improved fracturing technology and/or application of novel stimulation methods could result in economic production of deeply buried coal reservoirs.

• Research Organization: Resource Enterprises, Inc., Grand Junction, CO (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6034194
• Report Number(s): PB-86-136421/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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