Coal and Coalbed Gas
Fueling the Future
Description
Key Features
- Covers environmental issues in the development of coalbed gas
- Includes case studies, field guides and data, examples, and analytical procedures from previous studies and investigations
- Accessible by a large multidisciplinary market by one of the world's foremost experts on the topic
Readership
Geologists, exploration geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, petroleum engineers, biogeochemists, environmental scientists, microbiologists, resource economists, water management specialists, hydrologists, land managers, ecologists, and policy makers and government manager in natural gas/petroleum and mining
Table of Contents
Author’s Biography
Romeo M. Flores
Foreword
Preface
SI/Metric Units
Chapter 1. Introduction and Principles
Abstract
Key Items
Introduction
Philosophical Overview and Scope
Learning Metaphors
Definitions and Terminologies
Basic Principles
Global Coal Endowment
From Past to Future Coal Production
Coal Use in a Carbon-Constrained World
Summary
Chapter 2. Coal as Multiple Sources of Energy
Abstract
Key Items
Overview of Resources
Coal as Resource of Coalbed Gas
Coal Resources vs Gas Production Potential
Coal Mining Development and Gas Outbursts
Gas Outbursts vs Coal Development
Global Exploitation and Utilization of CMM and AMM
Petroleum Derived from Coal
Coal Hydrocarbons as Petroleum Systems
Summary
Chapter 3. Origin of Coal as Gas Source and Reservoir Rocks
Abstract
Key Items
Coal as Source and Reservoir of Coalbed Gas
Genesis of Peat to Coal: Concepts
Peat-Forming Environments
Types of Peatlands
Controls on Development of Peatlands
Evolution of Peatlands
Marsh to Bog Progression
Metaphors for Peatlands
Peat Types: Fibric, Hemic, and Sapric
Processes of Peatification, Gasification, and Diagenesis
Origin of Peat Gas: A Biogenic Generation
Depositional Systems of Peat (Coal)
Transformation of Peat to Coal: Differences in Concept and Time
Analogs of Economic Coal and Coalbed Gas Reservoir
Attributes of Peat Bog Relevant to Coal
Rates of Vertical Peat (Coal) Accumulation
Transformation of Peat Bogs to Coalbed Gas Reservoirs
Scaling Peat Facies to Reservoir Level
Summary
Chapter 4. Coalification, Gasification, and Gas Storage
Abstract
Key Items
Transformation of Peat to Coal
Bituminization, Debituminization, and Graphitization of Organic Matter (Metamorphism)
Influence of Coalification on Gas Reservoir Properties
Coal Rank Classification System
Effects of Maturation on Coal Properties
Role of Vitrinite Reflectance
Types of Gas Generation during and Post Coalification (Maturation)
Gas Sorption, Storage, and Diffusion
Role of Hydrostatic Pressure in Gas Desorption
Summary
Chapter 5. Coal Composition and Reservoir Characterization
Abstract
Key Items
Introduction
Coal Composition
Variations and Values of Microlithotypes in Coalbed Gas Reservoirs
Relationship of Permeability and Porosity in Coal
Reservoir Characterization
Insights of Reservoir Characterization of Gas Plays in the Powder River Basin
Summary
Chapter 6. Resource Evaluation Methodologies
Abstract
Key Points
The Methodology Conundrum
Coal Resources vs Gas Resources
Universal Guidelines to Coal Resources Assessment
Coal Resource Assessment Methodology
Data Collection
Coalbed Gas Resource and Reserve Assessments
Assessment of Coalbed Gas as a Petroleum System
Methodologies: Room for Improvement
Summary
Chapter 7. Coalbed Gas Production
Abstract
Key Items
Introduction
Drilling Technology
Well Completion
Role of Coal Geology in Completion Strategy
Reservoir Stimulation
Coal Reservoir Characterization vs Well Completion and Stimulation
Wireline Logging Tools
Basic Logging Tools
Virtues of Hi-Tech Logging Tools
Toward Coalbed Gas Development
Gas Gathering Systems
Fueling the Future with Coalbed Gas
Summary
Chapter 8. Co-Produced Water Management and Environmental Impacts
Abstract
Key Items
Introduction
Co-Produced Water
Origin of Co-Produced Water
Isotopic Signatures of Co-Produced Water
Volume and Composition of Co-Produced Water
Composition of Water
Environmental Impacts and Concerns on Co-Produced Water Disposal
Beneficial Uses of Co-Produced Water
Managing Australian Co-Produced Water
Summary
Chapter 9. Worldwide Coalbed Gas Development
Abstract
Key Items
Introduction
Global Gas Supply and Demand
Role of World's Coal to Coalbed Gas Exploitation
Global Coalbed Gas Regions: OECD vs NOCED
United States
Canada
Australia
United Kingdom
China
Russia
India
Indonesia
Other Potential Tertiary Coal Basins
Summary
Chapter 10. Coal and Coalbed Gas: Outlook
Abstract
Key Items
Introduction
Historical Perspectives on Natural Gas and Associated Biogenic Gas
Biogenic Natural Gas
Biogenic Coalbed Gas
Future Sustainability of Coalbed Gas
Future Challenges of Coal to Biogenic Gas
Coal Outlook
Coalmine Gas Outlook
Conclusions
Science of Coal and Coalbed Gas
Technology of Coal and Coalbed Gas
References
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 720
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier Science 2013
- Published: October 19, 2013
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- eBook ISBN: 9780123972811
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123969729
About the Author
Romeo Flores
Dr. Romeo M. Flores is a consulting geologist and conducts assessments, workshops/lectures, and field trips on coal and coalbed gas for energy companies and scientific organizations. He is an Associate with Cipher Coal Consulting, consulting, advising, lecturing, and training personnel/staff of clients on assessments of coal and coalbed gas. Expert member of Science Advisory Board/Technical Consultant with Next Fuel Inc. advising and providing expertise on coal and biogenic gas in projects on sustaining gas production in low rank coals worldwide. Scientist with AECOM Technical Services Inc. advising AECOM/BLM on hydrostratigraphic modeling of groundwater using coalbed gas wells in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming. Consultant with Mitchell (Beijing) Energy Technology Services Ltd Co. (China) on shale gas. He has advised and conducted workshops on coal reservoirs as well as conducted field trips in the Powder River Basin for the CBM Group of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (Denver, Colorado). Carried out lectures and advised on shale gas for Chongqing Energy Group (China). Consulted and conducted lectures/workshops on coal, coalbed gas, and biogenic gas for Shanxi Lanyan Coalbed Methane Group Co., Ltd (China). Trained/lectured on coal and coalbed gas for the staff of Ephindo CBM Energy (Indonesia).
Dr. Flores is a retired Research Scientist of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) where he assessed and investigated coal and coalbed methane resources in the United States from 1975 to 2010. He was project chief and group leader managing estimation of coal and coalbed methane reserves in the conterminous U.S. and Alaska coal basins. He worked with State Geological Surveys, Federal Agencies, and coal mining and coalbed methane companies to implement the USGS National Coal, Oil, and Gas Assessments Programs.
Dr. Flores managed Technical Assistance projects on coal and coalbed methane in Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, China, Indonesia, New Zealand, Philippines, and South Africa. He advised and trained staff of foreign government and non-governmental agencies to explore, develop, and commercialize coal and coalbed methane.
Dr. Flores authored over 500 publications in national and international scientific journals, edited 15 special journal volumes, and presented over 250 talks at national and international scientific conferences. He graduated BS from University of the Philippines, MS from Tulsa University, and PhD from Louisiana State University. He is a recipient of the U.S. Department of Interior Meritorious Service Award and Distinguished Service Award, Geological Society of America Gilbert Cady Goal Geology Award, University of the Philippines Distinguished Alumni in Geology Award, and a Erskine Fellow of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Coal Geology for two decades.