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Volume 02, Issue 7

Published on: July 2026

ENHANCING COAL BED METHANE RECOVERY IN DEEP RANIGANJ SEAM, KULTI BLOCK: A COMPARATIVE SIMULATION STUDY

Sweta Singh Deepak Singh Panwar Ram Chandra Chaurasia V.K. Saxena A.K. Singh

Department of Chemical Engineering, SOE, P P Savani University, Surat
DOI:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i7.270

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This investigation assesses the efficacy of horizontal wellbores within a deep, low-permeability coal seam for Coal Bed Methane (CBM) extraction, contrasting conventional (unfractured) horizontal wells with hydraulically fractured multi-lateral horizontal wells. The evaluation of performance focused mainly on the ultimate gas recovery factor and the incremental recoverable reserves. The results of the reservoir simulation indicate a significant advantage of the fractured horizontal well configuration. In the base scenario, unfractured horizontal wells extracted the reservoir with a recovery factor of merely 42.14%, resulting in 20.89 million cubic meters (MCM) of recoverable methane throughout the project's duration. The restricted pressure depletion to near-wellbore regions was a result of limited reservoir contact and poor connectivity within the tight cleat system, which left a significant amount of gas-in-place stranded. The successful propagation of the fracture network enhanced the stimulated reservoir volume and created conductive pathways deep within the coal matrix. As a result, the recovery factor increased to 86.13%, resulting in an additional 21.81 MCM of methane being unlocked and elevating total recoverable reserves to 42.70 MCM from the same seam volume.

.Keyword: CBM, In-situ gas content, Adsorption isotherm, Gas recovery, Simulation, Gas analysis

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Singh, S., Panwar, D. S., Chaurasia, R. C., Saxena, V. & Singh, A. (2026). Enhancing Coal Bed Methane Recovery in Deep Raniganj Seam, Kulti Block: A Comparative Simulation Study. International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, <i>02</i>(7), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i7.270

Singh, Sweta, et al.. "Enhancing Coal Bed Methane Recovery in Deep Raniganj Seam, Kulti Block: A Comparative Simulation Study." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, vol. 02, no. 7, 2026, pp. 1-9. doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i7.270.

Singh, Sweta,Deepak Panwar,Ram Chaurasia,V.K. Saxena, and A.K. Singh. "Enhancing Coal Bed Methane Recovery in Deep Raniganj Seam, Kulti Block: A Comparative Simulation Study." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management 02, no. 7 (2026): 1-9. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i7.270.

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