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• Geologic Factors Influencing the Gas Content of Coalbeds in Southwestern Pennsylvania
  1/1/1988 - Reports of Investigations
  A Bureau of Mines geologic study of Pennsylvanian and Permian coalbeds in southwestern Pennsylvania was undertaken to determine the effects of coalbed geology and petrology on in situ coalbed gas contents.
• Reducing Hazards in Underground Coal Mines Through the Recognition and Delineation of Coalbed Discontinuities Caused by Ancient Channel Processes
  1/1/1985 - Reports of Investigations
  Criteria were documented for the recognition and prediction of discontinuities in advance of mining.
• Problems Facing Coal Mining and Gas Production in the Hartshorne Coalbeds of the Western Arkoma Basin, OK
  12/1/1983 - Reports of Investigations
  Major problems facing the development of coal and gas resources of the Hartshorne Coalbeds include the complex distribution of minable and unminable coal, high methane content and bed pressure, faulting, variations in degree of dip, presence of natural ...
• Probability of Encountering Coalbed Discontinuities During Vertical and Horizontal Borehole Drilling
  1/1/1982 - Reports of Investigations
  Probabilities of encountering coalbed discontinuities during vertical or horizontal drilling in a specific coalbed can be estimated based on analysis of mined-out areas of the coalbed where the size, shape, orientation, and distribution of discontinuiti...
• Assessing the Methane Hazard of Gassy Coals in Storage Silos
  1/1/1981 - Reports of Investigations
  The Bureau of Mines investigated coal storage silos to determine how gassy coal must be for methane accumulations in a silo to become hazardous and where such accumulations are likely to occur. Methane concentrations were measured in the open space abov...
• Methane Content and Geology of the Hartshorne Coalbed in Haskell and Le Flore Counties, Okla.
  1/1/1979 - Reports of Investigations
  The Bureau of Mines developed data on the methane content of the Hartshorne coalbed, Haskell and Le Flore Counties, Oklahoma. The methane content is calculated to be between 1.1 and 1.5 trillion cubic feet. Methane increases with depth, but the rate of ...
• Methane Emissions from Gassy Coals in Storage Silos
  1/1/1978 - Reports of Investigations
  The methane gas emitted from coal samples collected from the conveyor belts dumping into silos was measured. Approximately 50 pct of the total gas desorbed into a sealed can within 1 week was released during the first 24 hours. No simple correlation bet...
• Water Infusion of Coalbeds for Methane and Dust Control
  1/1/1977 - Reports of Investigations
  This Bureau of Mines report deals with water infusion of coalbeds, which can control methane emission at face areas during developmental mining and which may sometimes suppress dust. Studies show that water infused into the coalbed flows through the fra...
• Geology and Gas Content of Coalbeds in Vicinity of Bureau of Mines, Bruceton, Pa.
  1/1/1977 - Reports of Investigations
  Two degasification test boreholes were drilled to depths of 1,238 and 1,212 feet on Bureau of Mines property at Bruceton, Pennsylvania, as part of the Bureau of Mines long-range coal degasification program.
• Geological Factors Affecting Methane in the Beckley Coalbed
  1/1/1976 - Reports of Investigations
  This Bureau of Mines study reviews the geological factors that affect methane in the Beckley coalbed in southern West Virginia, including overburden, coalbed structure, type and changes in lithology above and below the Beckley coalbed.