Development of Coalbed Methane as Unconventional Natural Gas

Coalbed methane is one of unconventional natural gas, such as shale gas and methane hydrate. Shale gas was developed aggressively a few years ago in United States. In Japan, the development of technology for producing methane hydrate has been carried out. Coalbed methane was produced commercially si...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of MMIJ
Main Author: Kotaro OHGA
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Japanese
Published: The Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan 2016
Subjects:
uncoventional nutural gasses
coalbed methane
Mining engineering. Metallurgy
TN1-997
Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials
TA401-492
Methane hydrate
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2473/journalofmmij.132.160
https://doaj.org/article/e8778eec7cf8430882624643da1a3990
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Summary:Coalbed methane is one of unconventional natural gas, such as shale gas and methane hydrate. Shale gas was developed aggressively a few years ago in United States. In Japan, the development of technology for producing methane hydrate has been carried out. Coalbed methane was produced commercially since 1990's in United States and it has been produced continuously. In this paper, detail of coalbed methane such as generation of coalbed methane, measurement of methane contents, resources in the world and production system are described. Finally, resources and development plan in Japan are also described.

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