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This brings yawns from the multinational companies, which snubbed the whole idea of exploiting coal-bed methane.
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It owns 200 miles of gas pipelines and operates coal-bed methane gas wells in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.
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Now others are attracted: no fewer than 17 states, including many in the Ohio River basin, are studying coal-bed methane production.
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The average coal-bed methane shaft in Wyoming produces only about 166, 000 cubic feet (4, 700 cubic metres) of useful stuff each day.
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Colorado's San Juan basin began tapping coal-bed methane early in the 1980s.
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Unconventional sources of oil and gas that are set for further exploitation include Canada's tar sands, shale and coal-bed methane deposits around the world.
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The Energy Information Administration (EIA) puts it at around 37tcm of recoverable reserves, two-thirds of which is shale gas and the rest tight gas and coal-bed methane.
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"As we can see from the experience in the US, the exploration of shale gas and coal-bed methane has the potential to raise billions of pounds, resulting in reduced energy bills, " he said.
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In June the court ruled that the federal government could not claim to own coal-bed methane on land where it holds rights over the coal itself but leaves other things to the homesteader.
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In 2007 Consol bought rights to develop coal-bed-methane on 1 million acres controlled by rival coal giant Peabody Energy, and formed a smaller partnership with Massey Energy.
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