Coalbed Methane Exploration Results of the Liulin Permit in China

Since 1994, North China Petroleum Bureau has cooperated with Lowell Petroleum N.L to exploit coalbed methane in the Liulin Permit which is 218 square kilometers in area. The Permit is structurally situated in the southern limb of the Lishi structural nose which is in the middle of the eastern margin of Ordos Basin. Main coal seams are Numbers 4 and 5 of the Shanxi Formation, Lower Permian and Number 8 of the Taiyuan Formation, Upper Carboniferous.