Coalbed Methane: Scientific, Environmental and Economic Evaluation

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Coal Seam Gas in Queensland — From There to Where?....Pages 1-10
Developing a New Coal Seam Gas Regime for Queensland....Pages 11-21
The Fairview Coal Seam Gasfield, Comet Ridge, Queensland Australia....Pages 23-31
Cost Benefit Analysis of Coalbed Methane Recovery Activities in Australia and New Zealand- Implications for Commercial Projects and Government Policy....Pages 33-54
The Use of Monte Carlo Analysis to Evaluate Prospective Coalbed Methane Properties....Pages 55-66
Defining Coalbed Methane Exploration Fairways: An Example from the Piceance Basin, Rocky Mountain Foreland, Western United States....Pages 67-87
Improving Coal Gas Recovery with Microbially Enhanced Coalbed Methane....Pages 89-110
Coalbed Methane Exploration in Structurally Complex Terrain....Pages 111-121
Coalbed Methane Exploration Results of the Liulin Permit in China....Pages 123-138
Residual Gas Content of Coal in the Light of Observations from the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland....Pages 139-153
Coal Composition and Mode of Maturation, a Determining Factor in Quantifying Hydrocarbon Species Generated....Pages 155-185
The Relation between Gas in Coal Seams and Artificial Coalification Gas Under Hydrothermal Pressure Systems....Pages 187-206
Coal Bed Gas Content and Gas Undersaturation....Pages 207-231
Higher Hydrocarbon Gases in Southern Sydney Basin Coals....Pages 233-255
Source and Timing of Coal Seam Gas Generation in Bowen Basin Coals....Pages 257-269
The Development of an Understanding of the Origins of the Sydney and Bowen Basin Gases....Pages 271-277
Mineral-Catalyzed Formation of Natural Gas during Coal Maturation....Pages 279-296
The Role of In-Situ Stress in Coalbed Methane Exploration....Pages 297-303
Mechanical and Thermal Control of Cleating and Shearing in Coal: Examples from the Alabama Coalbed Methane Fields, USA....Pages 305-327
The Microstructure of Pore Space in Coals of Different Rank....Pages 329-365
Coalbed Methane Characteristics of the Mist Mountain Formation, Southern Canadian Cordillera: Effect of Shearing and Oxidation....Pages 367-384
Decrease of Desorption Intensity of Coalbed Methane due to Hydraulic Fracturing....Pages 385-393
Coal Seam Gas Emissions from Ostrava — Karvina Collieries in the Czech Republic during Mining and after Mines Closure....Pages 395-409
Countermeasures and Researches for Prevention of Methane Emission into the Atmosphere in a Japanese Coal Mine....Pages 411-422
Modeling the Hydrothermal Generation of Coals and Coal-Seam Gas....Pages 423-434
Simulating the Conductive and Hydrothermal Maturation of Coal and Coal Seam Gas in the Bowen Basin, Australia....Pages 435-448
Modelling of Petroleum Formation Associated with Heat Transfer due to Hydrodynamic Processes....Pages 449-460
Floral Influences on the Petroleum Source Potential of New Zealand Coals....Pages 461-492
The Influence of Depositional and Maturation Factors on the Three-Dimensional Distribution of Coal Rank Indicators and Hydrocarbon Source Potential in the Gunnedah Basin, New South Wales....Pages 493-515
The Physics and Efficiency of Petroleum Expulsion from Coal....Pages 517-543
Jurassic Coals and Carbonaleans Mudstones: The Oil Source in the Junggar and Turpan-Hami Basins, China....Pages 545-553
Examples of the methane exchange between litho- and atmosphere: the coal bearing Ruhr basin, Germany....Pages 555-558
Desorption as a Criterion for the Estimation of Methane Content in a Coal Seam....Pages 559-564
Grading of Reserves and Resources of Coalbed Gas in China....Pages 565-569
Anhydride Theory....Pages 571-580
Looking Back on Development History of Coalbed Methane in China....Pages 581-588
The Study of the Influence of Pressure on Coalbed Permeability....Pages 589-592