Front Cover -- Copyright -- Coal and Coalbed Gas -- Contents -- Author's Biography -- Foreword -- Preface -- SI/Metric Units -- Chapter 1 - Introduction and Principles -- INTRODUCTION -- PHILOSOPHICAL OVERVIEW AND SCOPE -- LEARNING METAPHORS -- DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGIES -- BASIC PRINCIPLES -- GLOBAL COAL ENDOWMENT -- FROM PAST TO FUTURE COAL PRODUCTION -- COAL USE IN A CARBON-CONSTRAINED WORLD -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 2 - Coal as Multiple Sources of Energy -- OVERVIEW OF RESOURCES -- COAL AS RESOURCE OF COALBED GAS -- COAL RESOURCES VS GAS PRODUCTION POTENTIAL -- COAL MINING DEVELOPMENT AND GAS OUTBURSTS -- GAS OUTBURSTS VS COAL DEVELOPMENT -- GLOBAL EXPLOITATION AND UTILIZATION OF CMM AND AMM -- PETROLEUM DERIVED FROM COAL -- COAL HYDROCARBONS AS PETROLEUM SYSTEMS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 3 - Origin of Coal as Gas Source and Reservoir Rocks -- COAL AS SOURCE AND RESERVOIR OF COALBED GAS -- GENESIS OF PEAT TO COAL: CONCEPTS -- PEAT-FORMING ENVIRONMENTS -- TYPES OF PEATLANDS -- CONTROLS ON DEVELOPMENT OF PEATLANDS -- EVOLUTION OF PEATLANDS -- MARSH TO BOG PROGRESSION -- METAPHORS FOR PEATLANDS -- PEAT TYPES: FIBRIC, HEMIC, AND SAPRIC -- PROCESSES OF PEATIFICATION, GASIFICATION, AND DIAGENESIS -- ORIGIN OF PEAT GAS: A BIOGENIC GENERATION -- DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS OF PEAT (COAL) -- TRANSFORMATION OF PEAT TO COAL: DIFFERENCES IN CONCEPT AND TIME -- ANALOGS OF ECONOMIC COAL AND COALBED GAS RESERVOIR -- ATTRIBUTES OF PEAT BOG RELEVANT TO COAL -- RATES OF VERTICAL PEAT (COAL) ACCUMULATION -- TRANSFORMATION OF PEAT BOGS TO COALBED GAS RESERVOIRS -- SCALING PEAT FACIES TO RESERVOIR LEVEL -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 4 - Coalification, Gasification, and Gas Storage -- TRANSFORMATION OF PEAT TO COAL -- BITUMINIZATION, DEBITUMINIZATION, AND GRAPHITIZATION OF ORGANIC MATTER (METAMORPHISM) -- INFLUENCE OF COALIFICATION ON GAS RESERVOIR PROPERTIES.

COAL RANK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM -- EFFECTS OF MATURATION ON COAL PROPERTIES -- ROLE OF VITRINITE REFLECTANCE -- TYPES OF GAS GENERATION DURING AND POST COALIFICATION (MATURATION) -- GAS SORPTION, STORAGE, AND DIFFUSION -- ROLE OF HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE IN GAS DESORPTION -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 5 - Coal Composition and Reservoir Characterization -- INTRODUCTION -- COAL COMPOSITION -- VARIATIONS AND VALUES OF MICROLITHOTYPES IN COALBED GAS RESERVOIRS -- RELATIONSHIP OF PERMEABILITY AND POROSITY IN COAL -- RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION -- INSIGHTS OF RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION OF GAS PLAYS IN THE POWDER RIVER BASIN -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 6 - Resource Evaluation Methodologies -- THE METHODOLOGY CONUNDRUM -- COAL RESOURCES VS GAS RESOURCES -- UNIVERSAL GUIDELINES TO COAL RESOURCES ASSESSMENT -- COAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY -- DATA COLLECTION -- COALBED GAS RESOURCE AND RESERVE ASSESSMENTS -- ASSESSMENT OF COALBED GAS AS A PETROLEUM SYSTEM -- METHODOLOGIES: ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 7 - Coalbed Gas Production -- INTRODUCTION -- DRILLING TECHNOLOGY -- WELL COMPLETION -- ROLE OF COAL GEOLOGY IN COMPLETION STRATEGY -- RESERVOIR STIMULATION -- COAL RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION VS WELL COMPLETION AND STIMULATION -- WIRELINE LOGGING TOOLS -- BASIC LOGGING TOOLS -- VIRTUES OF HI-TECH LOGGING TOOLS -- TOWARD COALBED GAS DEVELOPMENT -- GAS GATHERING SYSTEMS -- FUELING THE FUTURE WITH COALBED GAS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 8 - Co-Produced Water Management and Environmental Impacts -- INTRODUCTION -- CO-PRODUCED WATER -- ORIGIN OF CO-PRODUCED WATER -- ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES OF CO-PRODUCED WATER -- VOLUME AND COMPOSITION OF CO-PRODUCED WATER -- COMPOSITION OF WATER -- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND CONCERNS ON CO-PRODUCED WATER DISPOSAL -- BENEFICIAL USES OF CO-PRODUCED WATER -- MANAGING AUSTRALIAN CO-PRODUCED WATER -- SUMMARY.

Chapter 9 - Worldwide Coalbed Gas Development -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBAL GAS SUPPLY AND DEMAND -- ROLE OF WORLD'S COAL TO COALBED GAS EXPLOITATION -- GLOBAL COALBED GAS REGIONS: OECD VS NOCED -- UNITED STATES -- CANADA -- AUSTRALIA -- UNITED KINGDOM -- CHINA -- RUSSIA -- INDIA -- INDONESIA -- OTHER POTENTIAL TERTIARY COAL BASINS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 10 - Coal and Coalbed Gas: Outlook -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON NATURAL GAS AND ASSOCIATED BIOGENIC GAS -- BIOGENIC NATURAL GAS -- BIOGENIC COALBED GAS -- FUTURE SUSTAINABILITY OF COALBED GAS -- FUTURE CHALLENGES OF COAL TO BIOGENIC GAS -- COAL OUTLOOK -- COALMINE GAS OUTLOOK -- CONCLUSIONS -- SCIENCE OF COAL AND COALBED GAS -- TECHNOLOGY OF COAL AND COALBED GAS -- References -- Index.