Coal Bed Methane

<p>Section A: Origin, geology, and reserve for CBM reservoirs<br>1a. The origin of coalbed methane<br>2. Geology of North American coalbed methane reservoirs<br>3a. United States Lower 48 coalbed methane-Benchmark (2010)</p> <p>Section B: CBM reservoir characteristics<br>4. Gas storage in coal<br>5. Gas transportation in CBM reservoir<br>6. Estimating the gas in place and reserves<br>7. Material balance equation for CBM reservoirs<br>8. Production behavior and performance predictions<br>9. Modeling and simulation for CBM production<br>10. Enhanced CBM recovery</p> <p>Section C: Vertical wells and their applications<br>11. Improved wireline logging<br>12. Improved construction of vertical wells<br>13. Enhanced hydrofracturing<br>14. Gas production and decline from vertical wells</p> <p>Section D: Horizontal wells and their applications<br>15. History and methodology of horizontal drilling<br>16. In-mine horizontal drilling and applications<br>17. Horizontal drilling from surface and applications<br>18. Hydrofracturing of Horizontal Wells<br>19. Gas production and decline for horizontal wells<br>20. CO2 sequestration and underground coal gasification with horizontal wells</p> <p>Section E: Production engineering for coalbed methane<br>21. Postfrac engineering design<br>22. Produced water management<br>23. Preliminary gas gathering and intermediate compression<br>24. Plugging of CBM wells</p> <p>Section F: CBM processing and utilization<br>25. CBM gathering, compression, and dehydration<br>26. CBM processing with related costs<br>27. CBM utilization with economics</p>