Coalbed methane resources in USA & Europe • Coalbed methane in the United States - Analogues for worldwide development • Coalbed methane potential of some Variscan foredeep basins • Geological controls on coalbed gas prospectivity in part of the North Staffordshire coalfield, UK • Coal thickness distributions on the UK continental shelf • Assessment of the West German hardcoal resource and its relation to coalbed methane • Main factors controlling CBM distribution in the Ruhr district, Germany • Opportunities for the development and utilization of coalbed methane in three coal basins in Russia and Ukraine • Coal as a reservoir • Coal clasts in the upper Westphalian sequence of the South Wales coal basin: implications for the timing of maturation and fracture permeability • Thrust related permeability in the South Wales coalfield • Nature and origin of fractures in Permian coals from the Bowen basin, Queensland, Australia • Cleat mineralization of Upper Permian Baralaba/Rangal Coal Measures, Bowen basin, Australia • Coal microstructure and its effect on methane recovery • Enhanced methane desorption characteristics from South Wales anthracites affected by tectonically induced fracture sets • Model study of the influence of matrix shrinkage on absolute permeability of coal bed reservoirs • Characterization of anthracite • Measuring of gas permeability in coal and clastic sedimentary rocks under triaxial stress conditions • Relationship between the hydrogen content of coal and the lithological characteristics of rocks overlying the coal seam • Coal geological studies related to coalbed methane • Analysis of the problems associated with the use of image analysis for microlithotype analysis on solid coal mounts • Petrological and spectroscopic structural characteristics of Bohemian and Moravian coals and their possible relation to gas proneness • A coal depositional model, based on petrological studies of the Zacler Formation, Lower Silesian coal basin, SW Poland • Minerals and major elements in density separated coal fractions from Point of Ayr coal, Wales • Mineralogy, geochemistry and pyrite content of Bulgarian subbituminous coals, Pernik basin • Subsurface correlation of Carboniferous coal seams and inter-seam sediments using palynology: application to exploration for coalbed methane • Coal geology, chemical and petrographical characteristics, and implications for coalbed methane development of subbituminous coals from the Sorgun and Suluova basins in Turkey