Gunnison Energy considers producing gas from coal mine
GRAND JUNCTION – Gunnison Energy is interested in producing gas from a coal mine on land that the Bureau of Land Management is considering offering in an oil and gas lease sale.
The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction reports that the BLM is evaluating offering 7,900 acres in the North Fork Valley for the sale that would take place in December.
Gas would be produced from a coal mine rather than traditional drilling in the case of more than 5,000 of the nearly 8,000 acres.
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Gunnison Energy’s president, Brad Robinson, to the Sentinel that the coal mine methane project — if it ever went forward — might involve drilling a single, shallow, vertical well to tap the gas there. Underground coal mining in the North Fork Valley frees up large amounts of methane that is vented to the surface during operations to reduce the danger of explosions. The vented methane is a potent greenhouse gas and also an unexploited energy source.
GRAND JUNCTION – Gunnison Energy is interested in producing gas from a coal mine on land that the Bureau of Land Management is considering offering in an oil and gas lease sale.
The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction reports that the BLM is evaluating offering 7,900 acres in the North Fork Valley for the sale that would take place in December.
Gas would be produced from a coal mine rather than traditional drilling in the case of more than 5,000 of the nearly 8,000 acres.
Gunnison Energy’s president, Brad Robinson, to the Sentinel that the coal mine methane project —…
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