Sentences with phrase «degasifying coal seams»

Strike Energy was one of the few Australian stocks to end the day in positive territory, after drilling results intersected one of the thickest coal seams recorded to date in South Australia's Cooper

The unusually thick reservoir's pay zone is an extraordinary 30m, which is approximately six times larger than a typical Queensland coal seam pay zone of around 5m in thickness.

Coal seam gas usually taps out at around 700m due to pressure constraints at depth that prevent the removal of water from the coal seam.

Strike's ambitious 2000m well is expected to be the deepest pure coal seam gas well drilled in the southern hemisphere — and possibly the world.

Strike Energy's share price has been on a white knuckle ride over the last few weeks as investors desperately try to work out if it is going to be the next large cap gas producer in Australia, or fail whilst daring to create a new technical frontier in the search for coal seam gas riches.

That deal allows Stanbroke to take control of 40 QGC properties spread across the heart of Queensland's coal seam gas country, from west of Chinchilla to south - west of Dalby and help it secure supply of cattle for its processing business.

The Office of Water Science is leading the Australian Government's efforts to improve our understanding of the water - related impacts of coal seam gas and large coal mining development.

The best available science informs the Australian Government's approach to managing the environmental impacts of coal and coal seam gas development.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fraccing, for coal seam gas uses a host of chemicals; however this type of mining operation has operated on organic farms where the farmer and company have been able to negotiate suitable arrangements and not compromised the organic integrity of the property.

«The NSW government can not approve the Narrabri coal seam gas scheme when such critical information is missing,» it said.

NSW will cancel coal seam gas exploration licences applications covering 43 per cent of the state as part of a new plan to regain community support for a few carefully vetted strategic projects.

The release of Santos» formal response to the 23,000 submissions it received on its $ 3.6 billion Narrabri coal seam gas project in NSW has spurred another wave of protests.

The venture has been repeatedly delayed over several years amid changing state regulations for coal seam gas and a lack of capital to move forward after the collapse in oil prices.

The release of Santos» formal response to the 23,000 submissions it received on its $ 3.6 billion Narrabri coal seam gas project in NSW has s...

The Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development (the IESC) provides scientific advice to decision makers on the impact that coal seam gas and large coal mining development may have on Australia's water resources.

The sparring on energy was one of the most heated exchanges in the debate with both candidates trying to attract economically minded voters along coal seams, in oil patches and in industrial towns.

In mountaintop - removal mining, underground coal seams are exposed by blasting away summits or ridges above them.

To the horror of anyone concerned about climate change, modern miners want to set fire to these deep coal seams and capture the gases this creates for industry and power generation.

Similar examples of the federal government at work range from the creation of an industry for producing natural gas from coal seams to the ongoing Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA - E), a small - scale funding agency with outsized ambitions.

Born in 1873, he spent his childhood in eastern Kansas, in a landscape whose hills rippled with exposed coal seams.

Another method for reducing methane emissions, whether underground or on tracks of surface mining, lies in degasifying coal seams prior to extraction.

If a coal seam burns through the road, asphalt could crack open and sink, swallowing people and cars and unleashing a hellish scenario that might finally make people pay attention to what is going on beneath their feet.

Other surface fires occur where coal seams that sit close to the earth's crust are ignited by lightning strikes, forest fires, or brushfires.

These passages allowed the fire to spread to the coal seam underneath the town and expand along four fronts, eventually affecting a surface area about two miles long and three - quarters of a mile wide.

People have reported fires in coal beds close to the earth's surface for thousands of years — in fact, Australia's Burning Mountain, once thought to be a volcano, sits atop a coal seam that has been on fire for some six millennia.

One cat repository, found by farmers in 1888, was reported to have «a stratum thicker than most coal seams, 10 to 20 cats deep.»

Pilot projects in Algeria, Japan, and Norway indicate that CO2 can be stored in underground geologic formations such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs, deep coal seams, and saline aquifers.

«Helium found in coal seams could aid safe shale gas extraction.»

The discovery of high levels of helium in UK coal seams could help scientists to monitor the secure recovery of coal or shale gas from underground sites.

Research integrity and governance in a contentious policy arena: The case study of coal seam gas research in Australia Presenter: Naomi Smith Devetak, University of Queensland, Australia Co-authors: Deanna Kemp, University of Queensland, Australia; Carol Bond, University of Queensland, Australia

Research integrity and governance in a contentious policy arena: The case study of coal seam gas research in Australia

The top map, produced during the Civil War, shows the «oil district» of West Virginia, and includes locations of oil and gas wells, as well as coal seams.

She also has held senior project managerial positions on an oil refinery project in Thailand, a coal seam gas to liquid natural gas plant in Queensland, Australia, and roles in construction field engineering on a variety of nuclear power projects.

What I'd like to know is, taking all of these factors into account, how much extra we, the consumers, will have to pay for a kilowatt - hour of coal - fired electricity 5, 10, 20 and 30 years from now (a point in time which even WV's own Nick Rahall says will be when the most productive coal seams have been mined out) because our leaders today decided to facilitate an increase in the consumption of coal through the laughably mis - named «climate bill.»

«This indicates that there are processes occurring — e.g. emissions from coal seams during the drilling process — that are not captured in the inventory development process,» he said.

Scientists think that carbon dioxide could potentially be stored in three types of underground locations: depleted oil and gas fields, unminable coal seams and briny aquifers.

A screenshot of the Bureau of Land Management's home page displays a photo of a «large coal seam at the Peabody North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming.»

The name reputedly derives from the thick Staffordshire coal seam and from the area's industrial past.

In Pennsylvania miners appropriated coal seams on company property and sold the ore for what they could get daily.

Day Two — Walkaway, Tabletop Hill, Coal Seam National Park, yellow and white everlastings, Morawa for lunch, Pintharuka, Wreath Lechenaultia, Fire Bush, Gutha, Tardun, Wilroy, Mullewa, Ambania, Eradu, Northern Gully to Geraldton for overnight.

If you love engaging in passionate conversations, try chatting to locals about these controversial subjects — fluoride in the water, immunisation, and coal seam gas.

Could there be something different about the local source material — ocean plankton producing one kind of sediment exposed to the atmosphere, versus say peat bogs or coal seams being washed out upstream and delivering locally derived material directly to the sediment beds?

Re: # 17 (Johnno): My understanding is that most of the coalbed methane being extracted and burned is from coal seams that are due to be mined in the next couple decades.

He explained that an article I wrote in 2002 about fires, both natural and human caused, smoldering in coal seams around the world, inspired him, while he was completing a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, to switch from studying risks posed by smoldering combustion in spacecraft to those back on Earth.

Extinguishing all the coal seam fires in the world would make a substantial difference.

Here's the take - home section of the new paper, which uses the acronym MTM / VF for mountaintop mining and valley fill (the rock removed to expose coal seams is pushed into adjacent valleys):

Factor in the «carbon light» CO2 from coal seam gas projects in the East (and other LNG expansion in the north and west) and you're talking about Australia's fossil fuel emission exports equating to TWO Saudi Arabias by 2020, not one as I've been saying to many disbelieving ears.

210 Mr. Know It All, well coal seam gas wells don't take up much land area.

Here's a Dot Earth «Postcard» from the outback — specifically from the Bimblebox Nature Refuge, a 20,000 - acre patch of drylands ecosystems in Queensland, Australia, whose owners are fighting a plan to mine surface and subterranean coal seams to supply China's relentless needs.

The situation reminds me of the uncontrolled fires burning in coal seams from Australia to Pennsylvania, which in 2001 were estimated to be releasing hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide a year into the atmosphere.