The Deep Carbon Observatory is an initiative dedicated to achieving a transformational understanding of Earth’s deep carbon cycle, including its poorly constrained reservoirs and fluxes, the unknown role of deep biology, and unexplored influences of the deep carbon cycle on critical societal concerns related to energy, environment and climate.
Two projects in the Surat Basin of Queensland, Australia, plan to produce coal bed methane from wells, condense it into liquefied natural gas and transport it to markets. More at TCEToday.com.
Competition between different forms of gaseous fuels might increase in China as coal-bed methane, conventional natural gas, shale gas and LNG sources compete in the marketplace. More at the Business with Wall Street Journal website.
Russia has an estimated 87 trillion cubic meters of coal-bed methane distributed through coal seams in many parts of the country. Gasprom has a plan to produce 1.5 billion cubic meters of methane in 2012 from coal seams in Siberia. Gasprom is the largest extractor of natural gas in the world and the Russian government holds a controlling interest in the company. More in an article in The Moscow Times.
