Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A formation in which there are strata of coal; a bed or stratum of coal.
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Examples
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Snow was not in the forecast on the day I was flying with my videographer, Jerrod Glaser, from Montana to Wyoming to do a story on coal-bed methane development.
Glimpses: Billings, Mont., October 2002 Kym McNicholas 2011
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The hope is to get old and nearly tapped-out coal-bed methane wells to double or perhaps triple gas production.
Microbes may produce marketable methane gas from old coal 2011
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A further two to 32 trillion cubic meters of shale gas may lie close to the Polish border, and up to 8 trillion cubic meters of coal-bed methane gas may be in the Donbas basin, according to estimates made last year by former President Viktor Yushchenko 's energy advisor Bohdan Sokolovsky and the Ukrainian government' s National Agency for Energy Resource Management, though these reserves have yet to be commercially proven.
Ukraine Viktor Tkachuk 2010
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JAKARTA --India's Essar Group has its eye on two coal-bed methane blocks in Indonesia, and continues to look for investment opportunities in mining and power generation in the South East Asian country.
Essar Eyeing Two Coal-Bed Methane Blocks in Indonesia I Made Sentana of Dow Jones Newswires 2011
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India's Essar Group of Cos. this week said it was looking into buying two coal-bed methane blocks.
Indonesia's Indika to Expand Coal-Mining Capacity Eric Bellman 2011
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Essar Oil is looking to acquire coal-bed methane gas blocks both in India and abroad, a top company official said on Monday.
Deals India:Morning News Roundup Deals India Staff 2011
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India's Essar Group of Cos. this week said it was looking into buying two coal-bed methane blocks.
Indonesia's Indika to Expand Coal-Mining Capacity Eric Bellman 2011
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Chinese interest is rising swiftly, both for shale gas and for another form of unconventional natural gas, coal-bed methane.
Stepping on the Gas Daniel Yergin 2011
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Essar Oil eyes coal-bed methane gas blocks in India, abroad
Deals India:Morning News Roundup Deals India Staff 2011
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State-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp ONGC has said Essar, Great Eastern Energy and Australia-based Dart Energy have evinced interest in picking up a "significant" stake in its coal-bed methane blocks located in Bokaro, Jharkhand and Raniganj.
Deals India: Morning News Roundup Deals India Staff 2011
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