... coalbed methane model test upper end metals & mining complex reservoir immediate roof weighting coal bed methane Upstream Oil & Gas Prop Strata Movement roof behavior coal seam gas displacement Strata Behavior Strata Control DEM model stability dip angle dip direction...

... of in- and researchers as witnessed by the contributions ~reased computational power, the understand- to two symposia on coal bed methane extraction Ing of hydraulic fracturing processes has consid- (Proceedings of the Coal bed Methane Sympo- e~ably improved and models have evolved from sium, 1987 and 1989...

... of clean energy that lends itself to development with today's technology at today's prices. In the United States alone, estimates indicate that the total coal bed methane resource is between 400 and 850 trillion cu ft - at least two times the total domestic conventional gas resource (Rightmire, 1984). When...

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