Using Vertical Boreholes to Remove Methane from the Mary Lee Coalbed, Warrior Basin, Alabama – a Case Study

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• Personal Author:
  Lambert, Stephen W. ; Trevits, Michael A.
• Description:
  One of the primary interests of the United States Department of Energy's Mine Planning Division is to fully develop avenues of technical research which potentially offer positive effects on coal mine productivity. One such area of research involves the removal of methane gas from unmined portions of coalbeds through vertical wells drilled from surface locations. As coalbed methane content is reduced, less gas is available for flow into the mine, and consequently ventilation requirements are decreased and/or coal extraction rates increase. Another attractive aspect of the veritcal borehole drainage method is that it presents an opportunity to recover and utilize significant quantitites of methane gas, which would otherwise be wasted to the atmosphere. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Case Reports Coal Coal Mining Methane Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Case-studies Coal-mining Gases Methane-control Methane-drainage Methanes Mine-gases Mining-industry Surface-mining
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISBN:
  0895202719
• Publisher:
  American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  265-274
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028079
• Citation:
  Second International Mine Ventilation Congress, November 4-8, 1979, Reno, NV. P Mousset-Jones, ed., New York: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc., 1980 Oct; :265-274
• CAS Registry Number:
  Methane (CAS RN 74-82-8)
• Editor(s):
  Mousset-Jones P
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1981
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Second International Mine Ventilation Congress, November 4-8, 1979, Reno, NV
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2220f07988d515046560c47918791499885c6f4cd385d5cd3a274f26b6fc2c76a2f9afc93f764a1d20e882d13a7ebc8c62af5422ff8ea2228d10c643e92dced7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221081/cdc_221081_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.29 MB ]