The geologists on the job were not surprised at the extraordinary amount of coal revealed — they commented that every province they had explored
for coal seam gas in Australia, the US, China and India had similar results (as will Antarctica).
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.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
Perth company Underground Services is targeting the
coal -
seam gas sector
for further growth on the back of already burgeoning revenue.
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.
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.
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.
The Australian Landscape Guardians are a vociferous anti-wind-power group that seem to take very little other action to protect landscapes; they seem to be unconcerned about
coal mining and
coal -
seam gas exploitation
for example.
The extraction of
coal -
seam gas often involves drilling many wells through aquifers with the potential
for the contamination or loss of water from those resources;.
Coal to gas: the influence of methane leakage; an interesting paper on how methane leakage from the natural gas industry could prove worse for climate change than burning coal (and it doesn't seem to consider the leakage from coal seam g
Coal to
gas: the influence of methane leakage; an interesting paper on how methane leakage from the natural
gas industry could prove worse
for climate change than burning
coal (and it doesn't seem to consider the leakage from coal seam g
coal (and it doesn't seem to consider the leakage from
coal seam g
coal seam gas).
Natural
gas (including shale
gas and
coal seam gas) is largely methane, which is, volume
for volume, a much more potent greenhouse
gas than carbon dioxide.
Accelerated depreciation
for oil,
gas and
coal seam gas projects, estimated $ 3.14 billion over next 4 years;
-- Injection of
gas for storage purposes in a workable
coal seam, whether or not it is being or has been mined, is prohibited.
In fact, he says, the oil sands, combined with Alberta's growing mania
for extracting natural
gas from
coal seams by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground — thereby poisoning some of the dwindling supply of drinking water — threaten to create a parched, deforested, polluted wasteland.
Unfortunately
for the exploration company the
gas in the
seams was not economically viable — not enough water or pressure in the
seams or something like that (at the moment) as were the
coal seams themselves given the shallower deposits already being exploited nearby.
The resource boom in minerals,
coal and
coal seam gas has provided Aboriginal people in the QSNTS region unprecedented economic opportunities
for present and future generations.