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Natural Gas in China’s Coal Measures
March 7, 2012 | USGS

“The U.S. Geological Survey estimated a mean of 448 billion cubic feet of potential technically recoverable unconventional natural gas in Carboniferous and Permian coal-bearing strata in the eastern uplift of the Liaohe Basin, Liaoning Province, China.” Quoted from the USGS press release.


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