Contents

### **Preface XI**


Shahrir Abdullah, Wan Mohd Faizal Wan Mahmood, Saad Aljamali and Azhari Shamsudeen

#### **X** Contents

### **Section 3 Advances in Natural Gas Alternative 171**

Chapter 8 **Biomass as an Alternative for Gas Production 173** Liliana Pampillón-González and José Ramón Laines Canepa

#### Chapter 9 **Shale Gas in Poland 191** Jadwiga A. Jarzyna, Maria Bała, Paulina I. Krakowska, Edyta Puskarczyk, Anna Strzępowicz, Kamila Wawrzyniak-Guz, Dariusz Więcław and Jerzy Ziętek

Chapter 10 **An Overview of Principles and Designs of Hydraulic Fracturing Experiments and an Inquiry into the Influence of Rock Permeability and Strength on Failure Mode 211** Kenneth Imo‐Imo Eshiet and Yong Sheng
