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Article: Cutting costs with coalbed gas. (Alaska's coalbed methane reserves; Lapp Resources)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- September 1, 1995
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With half of the country's known coal, Alaska owns immense wealth in coalbed methane reserves. The resource could dramatically cut heating costs in rural Alaska. The only catch: Can anyone bring this natural gas to market? Here's one independent Alaska operator who wants to try, hoping he can pave the way for other small producers to work in the state.
After four years of hard work, Dave Lappi is on the brink of becoming Alaska's first commercial producer of coalbed methane, an abundant but unproven natural gas resource that could be a practical solution to the state's rural energy needs.
"Alaska contains about half of the known U.S. coal reserves, so we have ...