Evaluation of social externalities in regional communities affected by coal seam gas projects: A case study from Southeast Queensland

2017 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 300-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna (Anya) Phelan ◽  
Les Dawes ◽  
Robert Costanza ◽  
Ida Kubiszewski
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Southeast Queensland

Informal and Nonformal Adult Learning in the Coal Seam Gas Protests: Mobilizing Practices and Building an Environmental Justice Movement for Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 074171362110053
Author(s):  
Tracey Ollis
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
The Earth

This case study research examines informal adult learning in the Lock the Gate Alliance, a campaign against mining for coal seam gas in Central Gippsland, Australia. In the field of the campaign, circumstantial activists learn to think critically about the environment, they learn informally and incidentally, through socialization with experienced activists from and through nonformal workshops provided by the Environmental Nongovernment Organization Friends of the Earth. This article uses Bourdieu’s “theory of practice,” to explore the mobilization of activists within the Lock the Gate Alliance field and the practices which generate knowledge and facilitate adult learning. These practices have enabled a diverse movement to educate the public and citizenry about the serious threat fracking poses to the environment, to their land and water supply. The movements successful practices have won a landmark moratorium on fracking for coal seam gas in the State of Victoria.

Simulating the impact of coal seam gas water production on aquifers

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Strand ◽  
Reem Freij-Ayoub ◽  
Shakil Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Water Production ◽  
Hypothetical Case ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Coal Resources ◽  
Victorian Department ◽  
Gippsland Basin ◽  
The Impact

Derived from a larger scale project, which studied geomechanical issues associated with coal seam gas (CSG) production, this paper investigates a hypothetical case study based on the Latrobe Valley, Gippsland Basin, Victoria. The paper focuses on examining aquifer water management associated with CSG production-related water extraction. As such, the paper limits itself to determining the volume of water production from a hypothetical case study area in the Latrobe Valley. A simplistic property model and methane production strategy has been used. The impact of extraction of this water on the hydraulic head in aquifers underlying the produced seams is quantified. The Latrobe Valley Depression contains 129,000 million tonnes of coal resources and is one of the world’s largest, and lowest cost, energy sources. Most of Victoria’s electricity is generated using coal from the Loy Yang, Morwell and Yallourn mines. In addition to these massive operations, significant additional coal resources are available and unallocated at this time. Opportunities exist for the continued usage of these resources for electricity production, gasification, liquefaction and other coal conversion processes, as well as solid fuel for industrial, domestic and other uses. The existence of data from the Victorian Department of Primary Industries 2003 coal resource model was the main reason for the selection of the case study, and their data was used to form a model of the stratigraphy of the Latrobe Valley. Aquifer models were simulated in MODFLOW, based on extraction figures modelled in the CSG simulator COMET3.

Case study of the effects on coal seam gas well production with installation of well head compression (oil-flooded rotary screw type): early outcomes of an Australian trial of four wells in the Bowen Basin

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 629
Author(s):  
Terrance Presley ◽  
Evilia Kurnia ◽  
Basia Wronski
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Lower Surface ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Potential Wells ◽  
Energy Field ◽  
Operational Issues ◽  
Rotary Screw

This paper discusses the early outcomes of a trial of well head compression on coal seam gas (CSG) wells to lower surface pressure at the well head. This is a case study of four Johnson Controls Frick rotary screw compressor packages that were installed on CSG wells in an Origin Energy field in the Bowen basin and the early effects of lower well pressures on increased gas production due to the installation of compression. In mid-2016 Johnson Controls installed four compressor packages on Origin Energy wells with different characteristics (age, flow pressure), with a view of determining uplift of gas flow over the remaining life of the well, as well as operational issues with having well head compression. The expected versus actual uplift is compared for the different wells, with a view of providing some guidance on future potential wells that will benefit from this type of compression. Operational issues, such as effects on water flow, effect of oil and overall design considerations for well head compression, are also discussed.

Increasing Coal Seam Gas Field Productivity with Horizontal Well Technology: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuejun Lin ◽  
Graham Sutherland ◽  
Duncan Cumming ◽  
Brian Thomas ◽  
Ali Sani
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Horizontal Well ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Gas Field

Magnetotelluric monitoring of coal seam gas depressurisation

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 466
Author(s):  
Nigel Rees ◽  
Graham Heinson ◽  
Lars Krieger ◽  
Goran Boren ◽  
Dennis Conway ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Subsurface Environment ◽  
Aquifer Systems ◽  
Conductivity Structure ◽  
Electric And Magnetic Fields ◽  
New Processing

The depressurisation of coal seam gas (CSG) formations causes in-situ fluids to migrate through pores and fractures in the earth. The removal of large volumes of water from coal seams has the potential to affect water table levels and groundwater flow in surrounding aquifer systems. Magnetotellurics (MT) is a passive electromagnetic technique that uses the natural fluctuations of electric and magnetic fields at the Earth’s surface to determine the Earth’s conductivity structure. The bulk movement of fluids during CSG depressurisation causes a conductivity change in the subsurface and this change can be monitored using MT. An electromagnetic survey was conducted at a CSG production scientific test site. Electric and magnetic field instruments were deployed, measuring continuously at 651 Hz across three months. New processing software was developed to generate MT responses in the bandwidth of 100–0.1 Hz across the experiment. The theory of monitoring subsurface fluid movement using MT is presented, as well as instrumentation and a case study to demonstrate the potential of the magnetotelluric method. Results from this approach can provide an inexpensive means of monitoring CSG depressurisation, as well as an improved understanding of the potential impacts on the subsurface environment during CSG production.

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