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Comparison of Select CSG Projects

Basin

Field

Area

(sq. miles)

Coal h

(ft)

Coal

Rank

Gas Content (scf/ton)

Perm

(md)

Well

Spacing (acres)**

No. Seams

San Juan (US)

Ignacio Blanco

60

(Basin: 14,000 - 21,000)

40-70; 15 - 05

Bituminous

300-600

5-50+

1+

0.1 - 60

60-320

5?

Unita (US)

Drunkwards Wash

120

(Basin: 14,450)

4-48


Bituminous

425

5-20

160

6

Black Warrior (US)

Cedar Grove

65

25-30

Bituminous

250-500

1-25

80


Powder River (US)

Recluse Rawhide Butte

620

(Basin: 26,000)

35-110;

50-200

Sub

Bituminous

55-110;

70

5+

50 - 1500

80


WSCB (AB)

Horseshoe Canyon

620

35-110

Sub

Bitumous

200-400

0.1 - 100

80-160


Bowen Basin (AU)

Fairview

430

50-100

Bituminous

200-400

100

80


Qinshui Basin

Yangcheng Qinshui

22

20-40

Anthracite

300-900

< 1 - 5

40


Surat (Australia)




Sub Bituminous

3.14 g/cc

500 (high)



WCSB

Horseshoe Canyon



Hi volu

0.9 - 3.8

1-5++

Perm. Growth


10-30

WSCB

Mannville




7-13 g/cc


6.5 - 40

3

Sydney





0 to 18 m3/tonne

1 to 100+

0.1 md



Gunnedah Basin





6 - 12 m3/ton

0 - 1091;

Depending on Seam



References:

  • C D. Jenkins, C. M. Boyer 11, Coalbed and Shale Gas Reservoirs, JPT, February 2008

  • Thakur, Pramod, Advanced Reservoir and Production Engineering for Coalbed Methane, 2017, Gulf Professional Publishing

  • John Seidle, Fundamentals of Coalbed Methane: Reservoir Engineering, 2011, PennWell Corporation.

  • Bustin, R. M. Geology & Some Engineering Aspects of Coalbed Methane, 2001, CBM Solutions,