Deep Industries Limited (DIL) along with its consortium members has been awarded CBM blocks under the third round of Coalbed Methane Exploration policy. Subsequently DIL signed a production sharing contract with GOI for exploration of Coalbed Methane for a period of 34.5 years. The current project deals with exploration of Methane gas entrapped within the coal seams. In case of encouraging results of exploration, development of the block for the purpose of production of Methane gas is also envisaged.
Singrauli Block
The project site (SR-CBM-2005/III) is situated in Singrauli Coal Field in Madhya Pradesh, India.
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Location
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• Lat 24o 0’ to 24 o 10’ North
• Long 82 o 05’to 82 o 23’ East
• Waidhan (Previously Sidhi Dist.)
• Madhya Pradesh
Godavari Coal field lies with in Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and Khammam District of the State Andhra Pradesh. This North West-South South East trending Master Gondwana basin stretches over a distance of around 386 kms from Maharashtra.
Coalbed Methane (CBM) offers a method of extracting methane from the coal without detrimentally affecting the physical properties of the coal. This provides many benefits:
When carried out on its own it facilitates exploitation of the coal resource in areas where the coal would unlikely to be worked by traditional mining methods.
As the coal remains in the ground there is no surface subsidence.
It facilitates extraction of gas from coal seams prior to mining the coal, thus reducing the potentially dangerous methane gas encountered when carrying out traditional mining methods.
Methane quality is such that it has the potential to be fed directly into the gas distribution network. This is one distinct difference with CMM (Coal Mine Methane/AMM (Abandoned Mine Methane) which normally has carbon dioxide content and as such is not suitable for direct introduction.
