Coalbed Methane: Boom, Bust and Hard Lessons |
WEBMar 29, 2015 · Coalbed Methane: Boom, Bust and Hard Lessons. Dustin Bleizeffer. Sunday, March 29, 2015. Today Wyoming's coalbed methane gas play in the Powder River Basin is a bust. Few of the 24,000 wells drilled during the heyday of the 2000s produce much gas, many sit idle and approximately 3,000 wells are left orphaned—a .