On October 21, 2002, the United States Supreme Court declined to review an appeal filed by the Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation LEAF in the ongoing battle over Alabama's underground injection control program. This decision ended an eight-year court battle, but did not end the ongoing controversy surrounding coal-bed methane gas...
The paper mentions that Coal-bearing basins in the United States are in competition for frontier coal bed methane CBM resources. Acreage position and knowledge of the best geological and engineering methods for evaluation and developing CBM resources are needed for successful exploitation. The paper stresses that the focus on developing...
The paper mentions that after 10 years, new technologies continue to increase both interest and production in previously discovered coal bed methane CBM plays. These technologies, plus the discovery of new CBM resources, and plays, continue to attract new players to a number of Rocky Mountain basins. The paper also...
Stockerblog submits: Methane is a greenhouse gas with global warming potential. However, it is one of the cleanest burning fuels, as it is the purest form of natural gas and is much cleaner than burning coal. The sources of methane gas are natural gas fields, decaying organic wastes of...
Numerous coals in the Pennsylvanian section of the Mid-continent area (encompassed by Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma) are appropriate to consider for coal bed methane CBM exploration. The number of potential targets, coupled with the region's industry experience in drilling and stimulation and its pipeline infrastructure, make CBM operations economically attractive.
This article describes the RCCD system, which can be used to drill and produce tight low- or under-pressured formations that, otherwise would be damaged by conventional drilling, and may not even produce shows when drilled with mud. It can be applied to a wide range of low-porosity/permeability formations including shale...
In an era of declining production and increasing demand, economically producing gas from unconventional sources is the next level of the fossil-fuel recovery challenge. The mammoth volume and long-term potential of coal bed methane CBM, tight gas, and hydrate resources are driving technical progress. Attractive gas prices in North America...
From its beginning in 1998, New Dominion, L.L.C. NDL has been focused on producing high-water-saturation reservoirs, such as the Hunton limestone in central Oklahoma. Wells in this environment had been conventionally produced and typically abandoned, or bypassed entirely, because of high water production and the economic factors associated with the...
