Course Content:

  • Coal Reservoir Characteristics
    • Coal as a Reservoir
    • Physical and Chemical Properties of Coal
    • Porosity and Permeability in Coal
    • Gas Storage and Transport Mechanisms in Coal

  • Coalbed Methane Reservoir Properties
    • Properties that Control Gas-In-Place
    • Properties that Control Fluid Flow
    • Fluid Properties

  • Basic Reservoir Engineering for Coal Reservoirs
    • Acquiring and Integrating Data
    • Calculating Gas-In-Place
    • Analyzing and Forecasting Production

  • Testing Coalbed Methane Wells
    • Theory of Coalbed Methane Well Testing
    • Designing, Performing and Analyzing
    • Single Well Tests
    • Designing, Performing, and Analyzing
    • Multi-well Tests

  • Developing and Managing the Coalbed Methane Reservoirs
    • Assessing Production Potential
    • Pilot Test Program
    • Full-Scale Development
    • Managing the Reservoir
General Information:
INTENDED AUDIENCE Engineers, Geologists, Geophysicists, and Managers
TOPICS During this short course following material will be covered:
  • Coalbed as a Natural Gas Reservoir
  • Reserve Estimation
  • Production Prediction
  • Well Test Analysis
COURSE MATERIAL
  • A notebook containing the course material (hard copy & electronic version):
  • A CBM software package developed exclusively for this short course containing:
    • Reserve Calculation for CBM Reservoirs (Volumetric & Material Balance)
    • Deliverability Prediction
    • Reserve Calculation with uncertainty (Monte Carlo Simulation Method)
    • Well Test Selection Expert System
    • Well Test Analysis Expert System


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P. O. Box 14 - Morgantown, WV 26507
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