Can UK coal resources contribute to a gas renaissance?

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue 0, 2005, Pages 715-722

  Jones, N S ^a   Holloway, S ^a   Creedy, D P ^b   Garner, K ^b  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b Wardell Armstrong LLP   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coal; Coal mining; Coal resources; Coalbed methane; Underground coal gasification

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052545298     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0060715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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