Wainwright’s coalbed methane potential huge, could provide local energy

Farther east coalbed methane underlies the proposed southern gas pipeline route, and could be shipped in gasline along with conventional gas

Kristen Nelson

PNA Editor-in-Chief

Natural gas is a known resource on the North Slope and is reinjected at Prudhoe Bay, shipped down the pipeline as natural gas liquids and used to for enhanced oil recovery across the slope. But in addition to this conventional natural gas, associated with crude oil, three non-conventional gas sourc....

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