Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing, and Applications, Volume 1: Natural Gas Formation and Extraction

Contents
Contributors
About the editors
Preface
Reviewer acknowledgments
Section I: Natural gas formation and properties
	1 Introduction to natural gas importance and characteristics • Fatemeh Salahi, Fatemeh Zarei-Jelyani and Mohammad Reza Rahimpour
	2 Natural gas resources, emission, and climate change • Ayat A.-E. Sakr
	3 Role of natural gas in the world energy consumption • Rafica Akter and Minhaj Uddin Monir
	4 Environmental challenges of natural gas extraction and production technologies • M.O. Jimoh, A.O. Arinkoola, T.O. Salawudeen and M.O. Daramola
Section II: Natural gas extraction from non-renewable resources
	5 Characteristics of natural gas reservoirs • Himanshu Kesarwani, Fahad Khan and Shivanjali Sharma
	6 Natural gas production associated to oil from oil and gas reservoirs • Daniel E. Páez
	7 Natural gas from oil production: Gas-lift technologies • Sara Zolghadri and Mohammad Reza Rahimpour
	8 Methods and technologies of coal-bed methane extraction • Fahad Khan, Himanshu Kesarwani and Shivanjali Sharma
	9 Shale gas extraction technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Ali Behrad Vakylabad, Zahra Manafi, Mohammad Mahmoudi Momenabadi, Ahmad Moghooeinejad, Hossein Karti and Milad Moayed Mohseni
Section III: Synthetic natural gas (SNG) from non-renewable resources
	10 Synthetic natural gas from coal • Amit Saxena
	11 Synthetic natural gas from oil shale • Faraz Ghafarnejad and Mohammad Reza Rahimpour
Section IV: Bio-synthetic natural gas (Bio-SNG) from renewable resources
	12 Natural gas production from biomass: Lignin, starch, sucrose, cellulose • N. Asikin Mijan and Abdulkareem Ghassan Alsultan
	13 Natural gas production from sewage • Victor Joseph Aimikhe, Oscar Ikechukwu O. Ogali and Emeka Emmanuel Okoro
	14 Natural gas production from food waste • Faysal Ahamed Akash, Shaik Muntasir Shovon, Minhaj Uddin Monir and Mohammad Tofayal Ahmed
	15 Natural gas production from microalgae and macroalgae • G.S. Anisha
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