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Cash flow analysis assesses China's CBM resource viability

07/05/2010
By Dai Youjin, Luo Dongkun, and Xia Liangyu
A cash flow analysis determined that the coalbed methane resources in 42 major basins in China were 36% economic, 14% marginally economic, and 50% uneconomic to develop.The analysis assumed the use of current technology, economic conditions, and China's industrial policies.CBM resource estimateChina's latest national oil and gas resource assessment, released in August 2008, shows that the country has methane-bearing coals over a 415,000-sq km area in 42 major CBM basins. These basins contain an estimated 36.8 trillion cu m (tcm) of methane (including proved resources and resources not yet proved but that could be proved with current technology) at depths less than 2,000 m. Of this resourc...
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