The paper presents methods for in situ evaluation of coal permeability paying special attention to methods invented in the Oil and Gas Institute-National Research Institute (INiG-PIB). Included are: • a slug test method and alternative interpretation of slug test data using procedure devised in INiG-PIB, • a method which uses injection of water with a constant flow rate into a horizontal drainage well and accounts for the three dimensional flow (invented in INiG-PIB), • a method which uses air pressure decay in an isolated segment of a horizontal/vertical well to calculate permeability and skin effect (invented in INiG-PIB).