Coalbed Methane Operations

This online engineering PDH course provides information on the development and operation of coalbed methane (CBM) reservoirs.

In 1980, the U.S. Congress passed the legislation that came to be known as the “Section 29 Tax Credit for Unconventional Fuels” that was the facilitating event for worldwide development of natural gas production from coal beds called Coalbed Methane in the U.S.  Prior to this legislation, the Oil & Gas Industry knew the location of significant gas in coal fields but lacked the technology to exploit it. All of these things that we did not know were going to be expensive to learn and gas prices were low enough that the industry did not anticipate an adequate risk/reward balance. Without the Section 29 tax credits it is unlikely that the technology and knowledge required to make any of the CBM/CSG fields in the world viable.

This online engineering PDH course reviews field experience concerning the development and operation of coalbed methane (CBM) reservoirs from the point of view of processes that have worked and processes that are common and where those two mindsets diverge.  It deals with the unique method of gas storage in coalbed reservoirs, the relationship between reservoir pressure and free gas, and an approach to determine when energy can most effectively be added to improve the recovery process.