Insights of Cleat Attribute of Barakar Coal Deposits of Son Valley Basin, India: Implication for Coal Bed Methane Exploration

Cleat attributes and coal quality have been evaluated through field observation, SEM images analysis and proximate-ultimate analyses on representative coal samples collected from four different underground coal mines of Son-Valley coal Basin of central India for the characterization of coal bed methane prospective. The coal samples were characterized as durainic-clarodurainic-vitrainic type to durocalrainic-clarainic type based on litho-type composition. Cleats were identified as face cleat and butt cleat range 5-10 cm-1 to 2–3 cm-1 depending on the litho-types whereas, cleat density ranges 7-16 cm-2 revealed that cleat development is influenced by litho-types. The cleat orientation shows two main strikes almost NW-SE to NNW-SSE and NE-SW to ENE-WSW elucidates the face cleat and butt cleats are perpendicular to each other. SEM images for coal samples were analysed to validate the cleat geometry at micro-scale, illustrates that face cleat and butt cleats are orthogonal to each other. The technological properties viz. moisture (Wa), volatile matter yield (VMdaf) ash yield (Ad) of coal samples are placed in the range of 0.66–11.80, 32.0–50.05 and 13.23–43.73 wt.% respectively. The fuel ratios of all the samples varied from 1.05–2.35 indicating that coal samples were of sub-bituminous to bituminous rank. The carbon and hydrogen (Cdaf, Hdaf) content of samples ranges from 68.89–86.08 and 5.22–6.60 wt.% respectively. The atomic ratio H/C and O/C through van-Krevelen diagram demonstrate the predominance of type-III/IV kerogens usually derived from terrestrial source in studied coal belongs to the gas genesis window.

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COAL BED METHANE POTENCYOF TANJUNG FORMATION IN TANAH BUMBU SOUTH KALIMANTAN

Buletin Sumber Daya Geologi ◽

10.47599/bsdg.v5i2.256 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 50-57

Author(s):

David P Simatupang ◽

Deddy Amarullah

Keyword(s):

Coal Mine ◽

Environmentally Friendly ◽

Calorific Value ◽

Coal Bed ◽

Coal Bed Methane ◽

Energy Sources ◽

Gas Chromatograph ◽

Coal Seams ◽

Deep Coal Mine ◽

Coal Deposits

Coal deposits distributes widely in Indonesia, mainly in Sumatera and Kalimantan. These deposits become an indication for a huge quantity of coal-bed methane (CBM) potency. As an environmentally friendly source of energy, CBM could be one of Indonesia's future energy sources. Centre for Geological Resources (CGR) started the exploration for this energy since 2005, while the study was conducted in 2008 at Tanjung Formation in Tanah Bumbu Area, South Kalimantan.CSAT-1 well was drilled to provide CBM resources and deep coal mine potency data for Tanjung Formation (Eocene) in Asem-asem Basin. This well went through 10 coal seams with three main seam, which is E seam at 212.34-213.30 m depth, I seam at 261.93-264.20 m, and J seam at 270.20-275.35 m depth. Calorific value from this three main seam categorized as high rank coal, vary from 6197-6745 cal/gram (adb), with total moisture between 4.51-7.11 %, adb.Total coal resources used for CBM resources quantification is 112,733,226 tons (between 300 to 1000 meters depth). Based on desorption test and gas chromatograph measurement from samples at various depth from three main seams, those coal gives methane resources estimation about 430 MSCF, with methane content vary between 1.2 - 6.6 cu-ft/ton of coal.

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Impact of geomechanics in coal bed methane development and production, Barakar coals in central India

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering ◽

10.1016/j.petrol.2020.107515 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 194 ◽

pp. 107515

Author(s):

Karthikeyan G ◽

Jagadish Chand ◽

Rima Chatterjee

Keyword(s):

Central India ◽

Coal Bed ◽

Coal Bed Methane

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EVALUATION OF INITIAL GAS VOLUME OF COALBED METHANE USING FOUR METHOD

Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics ◽

10.33021/jmem.v3i1.535 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 28

Author(s):

Heri Susanto ◽

Karen Sondakh ◽

Ratnayu Sitaresmi ◽

Ryodi Hananda

Keyword(s):

Coalbed Methane ◽

Alternative Energy ◽

Volatile Matter ◽

Gas Content ◽

Coal Bed ◽

Coal Bed Methane ◽

Resource Potential ◽

Volume Calculation ◽

Initial Volume ◽

Gas Volume

Coal bed methane (CBM) is an unconventional energy resources in which the main ingredient is methane gas formed in the process of formation of coal (coalification). Based on research Advance Resource International inc. (ARI), the CBM resource potential is 453 Tcf spread across 11 basins in Indonesia. CBM technology is expected to be one of the alternative energy can play a role in helping to suppress the natural gas needs of oil as one of the energy commodities di Indonesia. This paper discusses about a calculated initial volume of gas in place (Gas in Place) on CBM reservoir “X” field. This initial gas volume calculation first calculating the gas content is becoming an important parameter in calculating the initial volume. This content gas value can be obtained through data analysis proximate such as ash content, moisture content, volatile matter, fixed carbon which such data can be obtained from laboratory results. But there is also the calculation of the gas content which can be obtained by simply using coal density data using several methods of calculation, such as the Mavor method, Bambang, Modified Kim, and Mullen method. In the “X” field there are five wells coalbed methane drilling has been done, namely, SS-1, SS-2, SS 3, SS-4 and SS-5 and there are five layers are seam-1, seam-2, seam-3, seam-4, and seam-5. Based on the calculations were also obtained in the “X” field coal rank, the average is sub-bitminous. Of the five wells will be calculated gas content and the initial volume of gas using a method Mavor, Bambang, Modified Kim, and Mullen. Using four methods then the gas content in the SS well ranged between 200-500 SCF / ton. And assuming that the well drainage area (A) covering an area of 100 acres, the obtained large volumes of coal bed methane wells SS-1 with the four methods ranged from 3-9 BSCF, the SS-2 ranged between 1-3 BSCF, wells SS- 3 are 2-5 BSCF, the SS-4 range between 1-3 BSCF and the SS-5 ranges between 1-3 BSCF. We will be compared the initial gas volume in the Field “X” using the four methods with data from the laboratory result. From that analysis it can be proved that the Bambang method is the most suitable method and represents CBM field in Indonesia. So the initial gas volume in Field “X” is using the result from Bambang method, and the result are 5312.17 MMscf on the SS-1well, 2385.77 MMscf on the SS-2 well, 3330.84 MMscf on the SS-3 well, 1635.44 MMscf on the SS-4 well, and 1608.74 MMscf on the SS-5 well. And the total initial gas volume in the “X” Field is 14273 MMSCF.

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