Devon (amex: DVN - news - people) was a big buyer of Rocky Mountain coalbed methane deposits in the early 1990s when nobody wanted them.

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In Marshall County, West Virginia, Consol has begun work on a field test to determine the viability of injecting carbon dioxide permanently into coalbed methane wells 1, 500 feet underground.

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Suddenly this spring, coalbed methane was hot.

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