Management and Effects of Coalbed Methane Produced Water in the Western United States (2010) / Chapter Skim
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1 Methane and Water in Coalbeds
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Produced water management is thus a challenge for regulatory agencies, CBM well operators, water treatment companies, policymakers, and the public. Particularly in the arid western United States, water resources are scrutinized by many public and private concerns because of the need for water in such varied applications as agriculture, ranching, municipal and industrial consumption, and maintenance of natural habitats.
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NATIONAL CONTEXT FOR FUTURE CBM DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCED WATER MANAGEMENT Natural gas supplied about 24 percent of all domestic energy consumed by the United States' residential, commercial, industrial, and electrical power generation sectors in 2008 (EIA, 2009a)
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. Significant recoverable amounts of CBM occur in numerous sedimentary basins of the United States from the Appalachian and Black Warrior basins in the East to the Powder River, San Juan, Raton, Greater Green, Piceance, and Uinta basins of the West.
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recoverable resources and proved figure 1largest bitmap reserves (see Figure 1.4)
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recognized the importance of CBM produced water management and directed the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to enter into an agreement with the National Research Council FIGURE 1.4 The San Juan and Raton basins of Colorado and New Mexico and the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana contain the largest proportion of proved CBM reserves.
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established by the NRC has developed this report, which is intended for Congress, BLM, and other federal, state, and tribal agencies, state organizations, the general public and public groups, and industry interested in increasing the effectiveness of CBM produced water management. This report organizes the discussion in the following way: • The natural variables that affect produced water management, including the geo logical, hydrogeological, geochemical, and climatic factors specific to areas where western CBM production occurs (Chapter 2)
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Although the committee was asked specifically to address the issue of produced water from CBM basins in the western United States, the conclusions and recommendations of this report may have relevance to ongoing activities in other CBM basins in the nation and to produced water and water use issues, more broadly, associated with both renewable and fossil energy resource development. REFERENCES Barber, N.L.
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