According to a new report from Wood Mackenzie, a consultancy, CBM will make up a third of unconventional gas supply in China by 2030 and account for 14% of total domestic supply, despite slow production growth.
CAMAC Energy has started drilling as part of its programme to develop the CBM in its Zijinshan gas asset.
The Shenhua Baotou Coal to Olefins project, one of the largest units of its kind in the world, has successfully started up in China. The unit uses advanced coal gasification technology provided by GE.
New Zealand coal miner, Solid Energy, plans to build an underground coal gasification plant on its Huntly West Coal Mining Licence area, Waikato. The plant, which is subject to approval of the relevant applications, will convert up to 30,000 t of coal into syngas and builds on 5 year’s of investigation by the company.
Following the announcement on Sunday that a new super tax will be levied on resources, coal seam gas stocks were sent tumbling.
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) has signed an agreement with BG Group of Australia for the purchase of 3.6 million tpy of LNG for the next 20 years.
Westside Corp. has announced a joint venture with Mitsui & Co. to develop the Dawson Seamgas fields.
Coal mine ventilation exhaust air constitutes the largest single source of coal mine methane emissions to the at¬mosphere. Catalytic and thermal oxidation are techniques that can be used to destroy ventilation air methane (VAM) at active underground coal mines.
If captured and recovered for energy, coal mine methane is a cost-effective resource. Coal mines around the world are increasingly focusing on the commercially available, cost-effective opportunities to capture and use this often wasted resource.