The hypothesis of the Caulton paper, that the new shale gas wells are enabling the escape
of coal bed methane, is certainly plausible but they only clearly document one example.
So clearly, there is in fact some amount of
extracted coal bed methane that would otherwise be nowhere near release, and therefore not eligible for GHG reduction credits.
• The U.S. and India will increase cooperation on unconventional natural gas including
on coal bed methane, natural gas hydrates, and shale gas.
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre sampled deep methane gas from an
exploratory coal bed methane field in central Scotland and disused coal mines in central England.
China's post-2020 national climate action plan, known as an INDC, indicates commitment to addressing both of these emission sources, setting goals for
increased coal bed methane production and controlling emissions from rice fields.
Within the markets we analyse (North America, Europe, and the LNG export market), two - thirds of
new coal bed methane and Arctic projects are in the danger zone; half of the supply in new LNG projects is unneeded and very little new capacity will be needed in the US and Canada in a 2 ˚C scenario.
The World Bank approved a loan of $ 80 million to help China increase the development and utilization
of coal bed methane and coal mine methane.
If you include unconventional, hard to access reservoirs, such as shale gas or
coal bed methane, estimates indicate that gas deposits will last for at least 100 years,» says Pérez - Ramírez.
China, for example, is still struggling to tap
its coal bed methane and other sources of gas, and a viable large - scale business model for gas doesn't fully exist in that country.
Coal bed methane is produced from many wells specifically drilled for that purpose in the area, with about 12 billion cubic feet produced in 2012 in Greene and Washington counties.
Shale gas and
coal bed methane and maybe methane hydrates are large resources.
Over half of the unneeded LNG capex analysed relates to unconventional gas projects — like shale, tight gas and
coal bed methane — in the United States and Canada.
Impacts of so - called «
coal bed methane» projects do not stop with roads across several Western US States, noisy generators and compressors near ranches, and toxic wastewater overflows into trout streams.