Coalbed methane (CBM) produced water can be managed as a waste product or put to beneficial use, depending on water quality and quantity, legal and regulatory issues, permitting constraints for ...

MISSION WOODS, Kan., Aug. 12, 2003 — Layne Christensen Co. has signed a letter of intent with Triple A Minerals, L.L.P. to develop a large coalbed methane (CBM) project in the Illinois Basin. The ...

Coalbed methane (CBM) is an unconventional natural gas held within micro-porous coal seams and cleat systems, released by desorption when reservoir pressure falls. Resource assessment integrates ...

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Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. The Powder River Basin doesn’t end at the state line; about one-third of the sprawling basin lies in Montana. Though the coal seams are ...

The only well in North Dakota trying to extract coal bed methane will be plugged this spring. Coal bed methane - a gas that's trapped in coal formations - is a huge and relatively recent energy source ...

GILLETTE — About 30 miles southwest of Gillette, molasses is being injected into coal seams hundreds of feet below the surface. Cowboy Clean Fuels, a clean energy and climate technology company with ...

BUFFALO — If its methanogenesis technology is successful, a new company could bring a second life to some of the Powder River Basin’s tens of thousands of coalbed methane wells. The Denver-based clean ...

A unanimous Montana Supreme Court has voided water-discharge permits for the state’s largest coal-bed methane producer, saying the state must require the company to treat salty water from the wells ...

Coalbed methane has become a valuable source of energy in several countries in recent decades. In India, its contribution could help to meet government targets on securing energy self-sufficiency.

H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005. IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall enter into an arrangement under which ...