Sentences with phrase «of coal seams»

Coal companies are increasingly using this method because it allows for almost complete recovery of coal seams while reducing the number of workers required to a fraction of what conventional methods require.

Coal companies in Appalachia are increasingly using this method because it allows for almost complete recovery of coal seams while reducing the number of workers required to a fraction of what conventional methods require.

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.

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

Once Peabody was done mining a section of coal seam at Vermilion Grove, the company put wire fencing against the ceiling to keep loose pieces of the shale roof from falling to the tunnel floor.

The «stuff on the bottom» of a coal seam is the tail end of a glacial period, she said.

Brief remarks: Mr. Ben JARVIS, Senior Manager of Coal Seam Gas Regulation, Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, Australia

Not exact matches

Perth company Underground Services is targeting the coal - seam gas sector for further growth on the back of already burgeoning revenue.

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

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 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.

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 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.

Some 300 metres beneath the plains east of Tashkent, Stalin's engineers and their successors have been burning a seam of brown coal that can't be mined conventionally.

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.

Yes, it's true that many major banks invest in companies that engage in the environmentally destructive practice of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining, whereby the tops of mountains are removed by explosives to expose thin seams of recoverable coal.

Groundwater can be another source of sulfur in rivers when it comes in contact with underground coal or pyrite seams.

For decades the main industry was coal, drawn from seams that underlie much of the region.

Momentum is growing worldwide to look closely at the idea, a 150 - year - old technique of igniting seams of coal deep under the ground to produce electrical power or chemicals.

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.

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

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.

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.

Re # 29 (yartrebo): Two points: First, upon further examination, I found that in fact credits are usually given for «Coal Mine Methane» which is considered the subset of «Coal Bed Methane» that are in seams meant to be mined.

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.»

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.»

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.

Re # 29 (yartrebo): Two points: First, upon further examination, I found that in fact credits are usually given for «Coal Mine Methane» which is considered the subset of «Coal Bed Methane» that are in seams meant to be mined.

Mining and ballads have gone together through the ages, from the early days of coal extraction in Britain and Wales on through another standard I sing in Uncle Wade — Merle Travis's «Dark as a Dungeon» — and forward to Sting's tune «We Work the Black Seam.»

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.

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):

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.

Over 75 % of the coal in the deposit can be extracted from panels of coal that can extend 3 km through the coal seam.

Longwall mining involves the full extraction of coal from a section of the seam, or «face» using mechanical shearers.

Question How long does it take citizen Smith to generate as much electric energy from a 1 - meter ^ 2 solar panel as she could generate by strip - mining one square meter of her coal - seam?

A fan of * MORE * discourse: Question How long does it take citizen Smith to generate as much electric energy from a 1 - meter ^ 2 solar panel as she could generate by strip - mining one square meter of her coal - seam?

Billions of tonnes of carbon are held in coal seams, sequestered from the atmosphere over millions of years in a process that started in the carboniferous period several hundred million years ago.