Coal Bed Methane in Montana

CBM content, production, well permits, exploratory wells, maps
Coal Bed Methane Production in Montana, Issue Paper, Montana Department of Environmental Quality, January 2001

CBM Well Permits Issued by the Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation,  (BOGC), as of February 2002

Proposed Exploratory CBM Wells, (BOGC), as of November 2000

General Map of CBM Activity in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Northeastern Wyoming (See slide 4 - PowerPoint slide presentation courtesy of the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.)

Montana DEQ permits to discharge under the Montana Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (MPDES)
Fidelity Exploration & Production Company Authorization to Discharge under the Montana Pollutant Discharge Elimination System from coal bed methane dewatering wells near Decker, Montana in Big Horn County, to receiving waters named Tongue River. (modified July 5, 2001)

Redstone Gas Partners, LLC, Environmental Assessment of the application for a wastewater discharge permit to Redstone Gas Partners for discharge of produced water from CBM wells in Big Horn County, to the Tongue River, June 2000.  Permit No. MT-0030457