CBM & Geoscience

CDX Gas has had its roots in coalbed methane (CBM) since 1994 when the company backed the 27 well Oak Grove mine CBM project on U.S. Steel Mining’s Oak Grove mine site in Alabama. The CBM industry began efforts like this one to make coal mines safe from methane gas explosions, resulting in reduction of lives lost in coal mine explosions, the reduction of emissions from the mines, and reducing greenhouse gases released into the air. Since that time CDX Gas has continued to strive for mine safety, including having mine companies mine out shallower coals after being degassed using the Z-Pinnate^® Technology. However, the focus in the CBM industry, including CDX Gas, has expanded to harvesting gas from deeper coals that are too deep for traditional coal mining. The produced gas is composed primarily of methane which is the cleanest burning fossil fuel.

CDX Gas prides itself on properly evaluating the CBM resource potential of coals in-situ. In order to obtain high quality CBM data, CDX Gas has elected to have in-house expertise and the full complement of field and laboratory equipment necessary to perform this work. The entire process, from pre-coring of the coal, to the final interpretive report takes tremendous planning and coordination in order to obtain good quality, reliable CBM data for exploration and production purposes. This generated data is used by our geologists to assess the economic feasibility of CBM in a potential, or already established project area, and also utilized by our reservoir engineers in their CBM reserve determinations.