Evergreen: Coalbed methane development will differ from pilots

Water injection facility will be finished this year, John Tanigawa, company’s Alaska project manager, tells the Alaska Support Industry Alliance; production equipment will be installed on eight to 12 wells to test producibility of coals

Kristen Nelson

PNA Editor-in-Chief

In 2002 Evergreen Resources Alaska Corp. drilled its first coalbed methane wells at its 72,000-acre Pioneer unit in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough north of Anchorage. In 2003, the company will fracture stimulate the wells, begin testing and do additional drilling. John Tanigawa, Evergreen’s Alaska p....

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Methods the same, technology different

Fracturing within the month

Testing denser than production

Evaluation in Nenana basin