Exploration Potential for Coal Bed Methane in North Louisiana

Oil & Natural Gas / Coalbed Methane / Exploration

Date posted: 10/01/09

Coalbed methane (CBM) production has become well established in many basins of both the eastern and western United States. Exploration and production of CBM in the Tertiary Gulf Coast Basin has lagged behind these other basins, although the presence of lignitic coals in the Paleocene/Eocene Wilcox Formation has long been known. Some possible reasons for this lack of interest may be the perceptions that the Wilcox coals are immature (lignite) and that the extent and thicknesses of these coals is poorly known.