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  • noun Plural form of coalbed.

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Examples

  • This can be a sensitive subject in Pennsylvania, since earlier “insensitive” mining yielded the permanent fire in the coalbeds underneath Centralia.

    `Appalled’ Pa. gov. shuts down reports on protests 2010

  • It will continue to focus on its three core areas: deepwater oil and gas, "unconventional gas" (for example, from shale or coalbeds) and using new technologies to squeeze more oil and gas from major mature fields.

    BP acquits itself of sole blame for gulf spill after internal inquiry 2010

  • This can be a sensitive subject in Pennsylvania, since earlier “insensitive” mining yielded the permanent fire in the coalbeds underneath Centralia.

    `Appalled’ Pa. gov. shuts down reports on protests 2010

  • Got several dozen wells that are sucking methane off coalbeds in my country (soon to be several thousand), but the feds have decided that since methane is a gas, and it's natural, that now those, too, are "natural gas wells".

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005

  • For long-term and stable methane supplies from coalbeds, however, dedicated drilling in coalbeds is more important than the methane from active underground coal mines.

    Chapter 9 2000

  • On Dominion Day of last year the Winnipeg Free Press stated that the coalbeds of the Crow's Nest Pass are estimated to contain coal enough to last for 5,000 years if mined at the rate of ¢,000,000 tons a year.

    Our National Aspirations 1906

  • When in answer to the reiterated questions of the members he said that he had come to Orbajosa with a commission to explore the basin of the Nahara for coal, and to survey a road, they all agreed that Senor Don Jose was a conceited fellow who wished to give himself airs, discovering coalbeds and planning railroads.

    Dona Perfecta Benito P��rez Gald��s 1881

  • It will continue to focus on its three core areas: deepwater oil and gas, "unconventional gas" (for example, from shale or coalbeds) and using new technologies to squeeze more oil and gas from major mature fields.

    Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • His home state is natural gas producer Wyoming, where environmentalists are in a tough fight over similar and equally polluting extraction of natural gas from coalbeds.

    Consumer Watchdog Updates 2009

  • Virginia, making us vulnerable to risks associated with having our gas production concentrated in one area; other persons could have ownership rights in our advanced gas extraction techniques which could force us to cease using those techniques or pay royalties; our ability to acquire water supplies needed for drilling, or our ability to dispose of water used or removed from strata at a reasonable cost and within applicable environmental rules; the coalbeds and other strata from which we produce methane gas frequently contain impurities that may hamper production; the enactment of

    Coal Division Again Drives CONSOL to Record Revenue, Totaling $1.319 Billion; Quarterly Gas Production Grows 44% to Record 35.8 Bcf - Yahoo! Finance 2010

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