Description
Author John Seidle has written this much-needed introduction to a unique unconventional gas resource for students and practicing engineers as well as a basic handbook for those who are involved in coalbed methane on a daily basis and require straightforward, practical answers in the fast-paced business world.
Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Coal fundamentals
- Geologic aspects of coal gas reservoir engineering
- Measurement of coalbed gas content
- Sorption of gas on coals
- Coal permeability
- Coal well pressure transient tests
- Gas and water mass balances in coals
- Gas and water flow in coals
- Depletion of gas and water in coals
- Simulation of coal well performance
- Enhanced coalbed methane recovery and CO2 sequestration
- Index
416 Pages/Hardcover/8.5 x 11 inches/October 2011
ISBN10 1-59370-001-6
