A Strategy for Coal Bed Methane and Coal Mine Methane Development and Utilization in China
China is short of clean energy, particularly conventional natural gas. The proven per capital natural gas reserve is only 1/12th of the world average. However, China has large coal bed methane (CBM) resources with development potential which can be...
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| Format: | Policy Note |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/01/16343868/china-strategy-coal-bed-methane-cbm-coal-mine-methane-cmm-development-utilization-china-vol-1-fo-1 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13001 |
| Summary: | China is short of clean energy,
particularly conventional natural gas. The proven per
capital natural gas reserve is only 1/12th of the world
average. However, China has large coal bed methane (CBM)
resources with development potential which can be recovered
from surface boreholes independent of mining and in advance
of mining, and also captured as a part of underground coal
mining operations. However, in order to meet its targets,
the government must improve the administrative framework for
CBM resource management, introduce more effective CBM or
coal mine methane (CMM) development incentives, raise the
technical capacity of the mining sector, expand gas pipeline
infrastructure and promote gas markets in coal mining areas.
In order to significantly reduce methane emission from coal
mines and better exploit the gas recoverable from coal
seams, the government should introduce measures to:
strengthen the CBM/CMM policy, legal and regulatory
framework to improve resource management; improve CMM
availability and quality so more can be utilized; enhance
incentives to promote expansion of CBM/CMM exploitation and
destruction of surplus drained CMM; and Promote development
of regional development strategies to take advantage of
specific local advantages. |
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