Controls of coal fabric on coalbed gas production and compositional shift in both field production and canister desorption tests

SPE Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 111-119

  Cui, Xiaojun ^a   Bustin, R Marc ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b RMB Earth Science Consultants   (Canada)

^c CBM Solutions Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESORPTION; DEWATERING; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

APERTURE WIDTH; CLEAT SPACING; COAL FABRIC; COALBED GAS PRODUCTION;

COAL GAS;

EID: 33645818932     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/89035-pa     Document Type: Article

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