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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2010
Song Jin, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Alan E. Bland, Laramie, WY (US);
Song Jin, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Alan E. Bland, Laramie, WY (US);
University of Wyoming Research Corporation, Laramie, WY (US);
Abstract
Systems for enhanced in-situ or perhaps even ex-situ biogenic methane production from hydrocarbon-bearing formations () including coal seam, oil shale, coal, coal derivates and the like are presented in embodiments such as but not limited to: increasing and perhaps even selection of microbial populations (), amending CBM water and other microbe-containing media, diminishing sulfate reduction competition, enhancing organic matter concentrations and generation of biogenic methane (), universally treating hydrocarbon-bearing formations, and introducing amendments () to hydrocarbon-bearing formations.