Development of Technology for Coalbed Methane Recovery Program Planning

摘要

A program option for the development of technology for economic recovery of coalbed methane was developed during the course of this study. As a first step in the planning process, an assessment of technology currently used in the oil and gas industry was conducted to determine its suitability for use in recovery of methane from coalbeds. It was determined that the most limiting technology was stimulation of water and gas flow from the deeper, more gassy, coal formations. Twenty R&D projects addressing stimulation techniques and related topics were selected by the GRI and the GRI project advisors and plans for their conduct developed. These individual project plans were consolidated into a representative program plan option which describes how the individual stimulation tests can be integrated into three types of production scale tests--each targeted at a particular class of coal formation.