Approximate relationship of coal bed methane and magnetic characteristics of rock via magnetic susceptibility logging

In coal bed methane (CBM) exploration, how to improve the accuracy for locating and evaluating the CBM deposits is still a problem due to the rarity of occurrence of CBM. Combined with the distribution of the CBM content in the Huainan coalfield, the approximate relationship between the occurrence of CBM and the magnetic properties of the coal bed and adjacent mudstone have been widely discussed by magnetic logging. Experimental results show that magnetic susceptibility of the coal bed and adjacent mudstone would clearly increase with the CBM content in a coal bed. According to the results of the experiment, the prediction of the CBM content has been accomplished for different coal beds, and the results are consistent with the distribution of the CBM content throughout the whole coalfield. Preliminary data analysis reveals that there is indeed a correlation between the changes of magnetic rock characteristics and the occurrence of the CBM, and this finding may shed some light on the evaluation of CBM