SURFACE FACILITIES FOR THE SOUTH WEST QUEENSLAND GAS PROJECT

1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Richard G. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
Operating Experience ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
Wet Gas ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Gas Fields ◽  
Cooper Basin ◽  
Hydrocarbon Development

The South West Queensland Gas Project is the first greenfield gas development in the Cooper Basin for around 10 years. This has allowed a decade of operating experience from wet gas fields in the region to be applied in the design of the new facility. The design also took into consideration potential future expansion of the facility for increased throughput and the production of sales gas to service markets to the east and north.A greenfield hydrocarbon development in such a remote location is much more than just a gathering system and processing facility. A full range of infrastructure was also developed including telecommunications, roads, airstrip, accommodation and utilities.The project offered opportunities for a wide variety of Australian vendors and construction contractors. Many demonstrated a high level of capability to meet the cost, schedule and quality demands of a hydrocarbon development in the 1990s. Unfortunately, a number failed to demonstrate that capability.

scholarly journals Impact of barriers on formation and development of urban transport network (case of South-West Moscow)

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
G.G. Kamkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
Contact Barrier ◽  
Spatial Size ◽  
High Level ◽  
Characteristic Part ◽  
Equilibrium Growth

The article is devoted to the analysis of urban “highways-barriers” (on the example of the South-West of Moscow) – the largest highways and railways, which are characterized by a combination of a high level of contact and barrier functions. Three of their key functions are identified: limiting, stabilizing, function of unevenness and no equilibrium growth. The main transport hubs have been identified on the basis of which highway barriers are divided according to the degree of contact (barrier) into three categories. It is shown that, as a rule, the larger the spatial size of the highway-barrier, the larger its volume of traffic flow, however, there are many exceptions. In the South-West of Moscow, with a relatively even settlement, the placement of metro stations plays a key role in overcoming the barrier. On less significant highways, the role of metro stations in overcoming the barrier is especially great. In some areas, highways-barriers form barrier topological tiers. A key feature of the South-West of Moscow is the presence of two barrier tiers. Inside the first barrier tier there are objects that mark it as a special urban area. A characteristic part of the first tier is the approach to the periphery in the area where Leninsky Prospekt and Vernadsky Prospekt meet. The second barrier tier is quite small and in- cludes the area between the Cheremushkinskiy market and Profsoyuznaya street. The existing system of highways-barriers was formed by the time of registration in 1968–1970. South-West of Moscow as a whole and manifests itself at the present time.

scholarly journals Rugby-playing history at the national U13 level and subsequent participation at the national U16 and U18 rugby tournaments

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Durandt ◽  
Ziyaad Parker ◽  
Herman Masimla ◽  
Mike Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
South African ◽  
Rugby Union ◽  
Young Age ◽  
The South ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Cost

Background. The South African Rugby Union has adopted the model of competition at a young age (U13 years) to identify talent. There is concern however that bigger players who mature early are selected at this age, and that the majority of these players do not play rugby at a high level after puberty. Objectives. The aim of this study was to establish how many players in the 2005 U13 Craven week (n=349) participated in subsequent U16 Grant Khomo and U18 Craven week tournaments. Design. Longitudinal. Results. 31.5% of the players who played in the U13 Craven week, were again selected to play at U16 Grant Khomo week and 24.1% were selected for the U18 Craven week. Conclusion. Seventy-six per cent of the players selected for the U13 tournament do not play at the U18 national Craven week tournament. These data need to be considered when decisions are made about the cost-effectiveness of staging the U13 tournament, particularly if the main goal of this tournament is for talent identification.SAJSM, vol 23 No. 4 2011

scholarly journals Caveat emptor NICE: biased use of cost-effectiveness is inefficient and inequitable

F1000Research ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Dowie ◽  
Mette Kjer Kaltoft ◽  
Jesper Bo Nielsen ◽  
Glenn Salkeld
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Health Gain ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
The South ◽  
Constrained System ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
Undesirable Consequence ◽  
The Cost

Concern with the threshold applied in cost-effectiveness analyses by bodies such as NICE distracts attention from their biased use of the principle. The bias results from the prior requirement that an intervention be effective (usually 'clinically effective') before its cost-effectiveness is considered. The underlying justification for the use of cost-effectiveness as a criterion, whatever the threshold adopted, is that decisions in a resource-constrained system have opportunity costs. Their existence rules out any restriction to those interventions that are 'incrementally cost-effective' at a chosen threshold and requires acceptance of those that are 'decrementally cost-effective' at the same threshold. Interventions that fall under the linear ICER line in the South-West quadrant of the cost-effectiveness plane are cost-effective because they create net health benefits, as do those in the North-East quadrant. If there is objection to the fact that they are cost-effective by reducing effectiveness as well as costs, it is possible to reject them, but only on policy grounds other than their failure to be cost-effective. Having established this, the paper considers and seeks to counter the arguments based on these other grounds. Most notably these include those proposing a different threshold in the South-West quadrant from the North-East one, i.e. propose a 'kinked ICER'. Another undesirable consequence of the biased use of cost-effectiveness is the failure to stimulate innovations that would increase overall health gain by being less effective in the condition concerned, but generate more benefits elsewhere. NICE can only reward innovations that cost more.

FLANK PLAYS AND FAULTED BASEMENT: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE COOPER BASIN

1991 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
S. Taylor ◽  
G. Solomon ◽  
N. Tupper ◽  
J. Evanochko ◽  
G. Horton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gas Flow ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Source Rocks ◽  
Gas Flows ◽  
The South ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
South West ◽  
Basement Reservoirs ◽  
Reservoir Potential ◽  
Cooper Basin

The Moomba and Big Lake Gas Field area has been actively explored for 25 years. However, recent drilling and field studies have identified new reservoir objectives for appraisal of established fields and for exploration in wildcat areas. Cooper Basin reserves have been increased and further additions are likely. Integration of drilling, production and pressure data for the Moomba and Big Lake Fields has resulted in the discovery of a structural-stratigraphic trap on the south-west flank of the Moomba Dome. Moomba-65 flowed gas at 9.8 MMCFD (0.27 Mm3/d) from deltaic sandstone of the Epsilon Formation (Early Permian). Similar plays are likely to be found on the flanks of other Cooper Basin fields and will become increasingly important as opportunities for conventional crestal tests of anticlines diminish.Exploration to the south-west of the Moomba Field has established the first significant gas flows from rocks beneath the conventional reservoirs of the Cooper Basin. Lycosa-1 drilled a faulted anticline and achieved a maximum gas flow of 5.0 MMCFD (0.14 Mm3/d) from fractured metasiltstone of the Dullingari Group (Ordovician). Moo- lalla-1 drilled a low-side fault terrace and flowed gas at 9.6 MMCFD (0.27 Mm3/d) from 'protoquartzite' tentatively assigned to the Dullingari Group. Consequently, structures where 'basement' reservoirs are faulted against mature Patchawarra Formation source rocks are attractive exploration targets.Petrological studies have identified 'glauconitic illite' in the Cooper Basin sequence suggesting hitherto unrecognised marine conditions. A reassessment of the source and reservoir potential of the region will be necessary if the presence of marine environments is substantiated by further studies.

DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION OF NEW OILFIELDS IN THE COOPER-EROMANGA BASINS

1986 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 250
Author(s):  
L.H. Lavering ◽  
V.L. Passmore ◽  
I.M. Paton
Keyword(s):  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Gas Reservoirs ◽  
Development Activity ◽  
Rapid Appraisal ◽  
Single Field ◽  
High Level ◽  
Gas Fields ◽  
Eromanga Basin ◽  
Cooper Basin

Since 1975 the level of petroleum exploration in the Cooper-Eromanga basins has undergone an unprecedented expansion due to the discovery and development of an increasing number of oil reservoirs, largely in the Eromanga Basin sequence. The commercial incentive provided by the Commonwealth Government's Import Parity Pricing and excise arrangements have been instrumental in the lead up to and continuation of this series of discoveries.Three types of oil discovery in the Eromanga Basin sequence are evident; firstly, shallow pools above Cooper Basin gas fields; secondly, separate single-field discoveries in areas of limited exploration; and thirdly, as multifield discoveries along major structural trends. Exploitation of the Eromanga Basin oil discoveries has been made possible by a combination of rapid appraisal and development drilling and early commencement of production.The initial Eromanga Basin oil discoveries overlie major Cooper Basin gas fields and were located during appraisal and development drilling of deeper Cooper Basin gas reservoirs. Wildcat and appraisal drilling on Eromanga Basin prospects, such as Wancoocha and Narcoonowie, has upgraded the prospectivity of the Eromanga Basin sequence in the southern Cooper Basin—an area where earlier exploration for Cooper Basin gas was unsuccessful. Significant oil discoveries in Bodalla South 1 and Tintaburra 1, in the Queensland sector of the Eromanga Basin, have extended the range of exploration success and generated considerable interest in lesser known parts of the Eromanga Basin.Three successive phases of Cooper-Eromanga exploration have led to the present high level of success. Early exploration, before 1969, led to the initial discovery and development of Cooper Basin gas fields and was largely supported by the Petroleum Search Subsidy Acts (19571974). The results of the second phase, between 1970 and 1975, provided little encouragement to operators to extend exploration beyond the limits of the then known gas accumulations. In the decade since 1975, the oil potential of the Eromanga and parts of the Cooper Basin sequences has become a major factor in the exploration and development activity of the region. Since 1975, the favourable commercial conditions prevailing under the Import Parity Pricing scheme and the concessional crude oil excise arrangments for production from 'newly discovered' oilfields provided a significant incentive for development and exploitation of the post-1975 oil discoveries.

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