Biogenic Methane Enhancement Technology

Enhanced Biogenic Methane Pty Ltd (EBM) is a 20% owned subsidiary of Transol. EMB has the exclusive Australian and Northern Ireland licence to biogenic methane enhancement (BME) technology, which has been granted from the Western Research Institute of Wyoming, who are at the forefront of this technology globally.

Biogenic methane enhancement (BME) involves speeding up the natural biogenic process that produces methane known as coal seam gas.

BME works by artificially stimulating the micro-organisms called methanogens that break down the coal structure. BME technology works best on lignite (brown coal), low rank black coals and oil shale. This is because of their high volatiles and hydrogen content, which if all converted to methane would yield gas quantities several times that of traditional coal seam gas.

Application of BME is expected to be via the same drilling techniques used in the coal seam gas industry. One of the advantages of BME over coal seam gas is that the groundwater does not need to be extracted. Also, as only a small amount of the coal is converted to methane, there is no surface subsidence as can happen with underground mining or underground coal gasification.

BME has been demonstrated to produce methane real time in both bench scale trials (lignite and black coal) and field tests (black coal).

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