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Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 08, 2010
Applicants:

Song Jin, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Alan E. Bland, Laramie, WY (US);

Inventors:

Song Jin, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Alan E. Bland, Laramie, WY (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/22 (2006.01); C12P 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
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.


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