Farmers turn up the heat against coal seam gas mining
On Monday, a group of farmers, including Ms Balmain, gathered in Toowoomba in Queensland to sign a "gasfield free" declaration against coal seam gas mining. "We are declaring our farms 'gasfield ...
The coal seam gas debate – Parliament of Australia
The coal seam gas debate. In this section. Dr Alex St John, Science, Technology, Environment and Resources. Key issue. Coal seam gas (CSG) is a polarising issue in some communities. Proponents argue that …
Top-down Quantification of Methane Fluxes in the Surat Basin …
The Surat Basin is a significant region of coal seam gas (CSG), agricultural and coal mining activities. The main aim of the study was to quantify CH 4 emissions across the region using long-term in-situ observations of atmospheric CH 4 concentrations from two stations which were 80 km apart and established on either side of existing and future ...
History, Geology, In Situ Stress Pattern, Gas Content and
Coal seam gas (CSG), also known as coalbed methane (CBM), is an important source of gas supply to the liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting facilities in eastern Australia and to the Australian domestic market. In late 2018, Australia became the largest exporter of LNG in the world. 29% of the country's LNG nameplate capacity is in …
$10 billion Surat Gas Project set to pump gas into the market
In April 2020, Arrow Energy sanctioned the first phase of the $10 billion Surat Gas Project (SGP), a world-scale coal seam gas (CSG) project aimed at …
Impacts of coal mining and coal seam gas extraction on …
This paper presents an assessment of the hydrological impacts of proposed coal mines and coal seam gas (CSG) developments in the Gloucester, Hunter, Namoi and Galilee subregions of eastern Australia. Surface water and groundwater modelling was carried out to assess the cumulative regional-scale hydrological impacts of multiple coal …
Stable isotopic and molecular composition of desorbed coal seam …
This study used compositional and stable isotopic analysis to test hypotheses on the distribution and origins of Walloon Subgroup coal seam gas (CSG) in the eastern Surat Basin, Queensland, Australia. The Middle Jurassic Walloon Subgroup play differs from many other low-rank CSG plays—particularly in methane carbon isotopic signature, …
Queensland approves Arrow Energy's $7.1bn Surat Gas Project
In December 2017, Arrow Energy signed a 27-year deal with the Shell-operated QCLNG joint venture to commercialize the majority of its gas reserves in the …
Advice to decision maker on coal seam gas project
Surat North Coal Seam Gas Project Advice. 07 February 2019 that overlap parts of the project area: one a subsidiary of Glencore for open cut coal mining east of the project …
Clough Downer awarded circa $600m contract for GLNG
The Project sources gas from Santos' gas fields in the Bowen and Surat basins and transports the gas via a 420-km underground pipeline to a two-train LNG plant with a nameplate capacity of 7.8 ...
Cumulative risk management, coal seam gas, sustainable …
One of the most productive regions for CSG, the Surat Basin in South-East Queensland, covers an area of 180,000 km 2. Within the Surat, ... Table 4 Cumulative risk matrix for coal seam gas (CSG) mining impacts on groundwater as influenced by the extent of the CSG field and the sensitivity of groundwater to CSG mining.
Coal Seam Gas | Landtrak Corporation
Explorations have confirmed that the Bowen Basin and Surat Basin have commercial CSG accumulations. Coal Seam Gas Queensland's coal seam gas (CSG) industry has grown rapidly over the past 15 years — the annual number of wells drilled increasing from 10 in the early 1990s to almost 600 in 2010–11.
Revised geology and coal seam gas characteristics of the Walloon
Multi-seam co-production of CBM and coal series gas (CSG) has been widely carried out in many CBM basins across the world, such as the Alberta Basin in Canada, the Surat Basin in Australia, the ...
Probabilistic assessment of the impact of coal seam gas …
Modelling cumulative impacts of basin-scale coal seam gas (CSG) extraction is challenging due to the long time frames and spatial extent over which impacts occur combined with the need to consider local-scale processes. The computational burden of such models limits the ability to undertake calibration and sensitivity and uncertainty …
CSIRO PUBLISHING | The APPEA Journal
Abstract. Coal seam gas (CSG) production began from the Walloon Coal Measures of the Surat Basin in 2005. Initial field developments were located within a …
Biogenic methane potential for Surat Basin, Queensland coal …
Viable methanogenic consortia recovered from Surat Basin produced water samples. Coal-to-methane potential demonstrated using native Walloon coal. Coal-to …
Coal Seam Gas – Australia Pacific LNG
The coal seams are generally filled with water and it is the pressure of the water that keeps the gas as a thin film on the surface of the coal. The technical term for this is 'adsorption'. Natural gas in coal seams in Australia is not a new discovery. It was first identified when coal mining began in the early 1900s.
Surat Gas Project, Surat Basin, Queensland, …
Surat gas project is located 160km west of Brisbane in the Surat Basin, Queensland, Australia. The A$10bn ($7.1bn) project is expected to produce 5,000 petajoules (PJ) of coal seam gas (CSG) for LNG export as well …
Methane emissions higher than previous estimates in Queensland's Surat
An international team of scientists mapped out methane emissions in Queensland's Surat Basin. The coal seam gas emissions were up to three times higher than some previous estimates. Other ...
Regional-scale modelling and predictive uncertainty analysis …
The geological formation of the Jurassic period of the Surat Basin, and formations of the deeper Bowen Basin, holds significant quantities of coal resource in its coal seams. Coal mining and coal seam gas (CSG) development from these formations can potentially impact groundwater resources in the aquifers of the GAB.
surat basin coal seam gas mining
and coal mining the Surat CMA was amended to include coal mining tenures located within the Surat and Clarence Moreton basins. The amended CMA was declared following community consultation and in consideration of: the location of coal mining operations the cumulative impact of water extraction by petroleum and mining tenure holders.The …
Making Gas Mining Safer For Agriculture In Australia
The Conversation.. A study from 2017 found that air pollution from CSG mining could pose a significant threat to public health, particularly in terms of respiratory diseases A Ali, V Strezov, P Davies, I Wright (2017, Jul 21). Environmental impact of coal mining and coal seam gas production on surface water quality in the Sydney basin, …
Existing and proposed coal mining in the Surat Basin
This document provides contextual information about coal mining activities in the Surat Basin including production methods, rates and proposed production scheduling – as …
(PDF) Quantifying methane emissions from Queensland's coal seam gas …
sil fuel production and use (gas, oil, coal mining, and indus-try) at 31 % (Saunois et al., 2020). However, a study using. ... sides of the main coal seam gas belt of the Surat Basin
Santos wins new gas exploration acreage in Queensland
Santos today announced it has been awarded four new gas exploration permits in the Surat Basin east of Roma in Queensland. Two of the permits are for domestic-only supply and …
Biogenic methane potential for Surat Basin, Queensland coal seams
Surat Basin methane is produced from multiple seam groups across the Taroom and/or the Juandah Coal Measures. For the Dalby and Roma fields sampled in this study, the top of the Walloon Subgroup is less than 100 m and 100–400 m below ground level, respectively.An average Dalby CBM well contains 20–30 m of net coal, while an …
Coal seam gas and associated water: A review paper
The separation of CO 2 from flue gas and injection into the unminable coal zones of the Powder River Basin seam, can increase recovery of methane by 17% and can sequester over 86,000 t/ac CO 2. However the CO 2 -baded process is currently uneconomical because the cost to separate CO 2 from flue gas is the major cost driver …
Managing groundwater impacts of coal seam gas
The coal seam gas (CSG) industry is expanding rapidly in the Surat and Bowen Basins of Queensland. CSG production involves pumping water from the coal seams to release the gas adsorbed to coal particles. The reduction in water pressure in the coal seams will cause some reductions in water pressure in overlying and underlying aquifers because …
Farmers turn up the heat against coal seam gas mining
On Monday, a group of farmers, including Balmain, gathered in Toowoomba in Queensland to sign a "gasfield free" declaration against coal seam gas mining. "We are declaring our farms ...
Santos wins fracking approval for Towrie gas …
Coal mine approved. Lock the Gate Alliance, Western Rivers Alliance, The Wilderness Society and their supporters will soon present a petition with more than 10,000 signatures to the Palaszczuk …