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Coal Seam Gas DevelopmentEnvironmental Impacts
Dave CampinQueensland International Fellow
Chief Technical AdvisorEnergy Resources and Enforcement Services
Department of Environment and Heritage Protection
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Outline
• Unconventional gas resources and CSG• Resource management in Queensland and
elsewhere• Environmental authorities• Environmental impacts• Hydraulic fracturing• Other issues
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Unconventional gas resources and CSG
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World Energy Consumption(Quadrillion Btu)
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Hydrocarbon resource triangle
High qualit
y
Medium quality
Low quality
Tight gas
Coal seam gas
Shale gasGas hydrates
1,000 md
10 md
0.1 md
0.001 md
Small volumes easy to develop
Increasing
technology
Increasing cost
Large volumes difficult to develop
Decreasing permeability
Increasing need for hydraulic
fracturing
DC 12/11
Oil shale hydrates
Low perm oil, shale hydrates
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US Coal Seam Gas Basins
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Australia Conventional Gas and CSG
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Petroleum Tenures
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Resource management in Queensland
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Queensland Legislation and functions• Petroleum and Gas
(Production and Safety) Act– Department of Mines
and Energy– Tenure– Process safety– Front line management
• Environmental Protection Act
– Department of Environment and Heritage Protection
– Environmental protection
– Audit/compliance
Tenure Environmental authority
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CSG regulation in the US (Wyoming)
• Oil and Gas Conservation Commission• State Engineers Office• Department of Environmental Quality• Bureau of Mines and Geology• Environmental Protection Agency (Fed)• Bureau of Land Management (Fed)
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Environmental authorities
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Environmental Authority Model Conditions• General conditions • Water• Groundwater• Regulated structures• Land• Disturbance to land• Environmental nuisance• Air• Waste• Rehabilitation
• Well construction, maintenance and stimulation activities
• Community issues• Notification• Sewage treatment• Release to water of good
quality CSG water• Disturbance to land with
biodiversity values
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Environmental impacts
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Seismic line
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Light weight vertical drill rig
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CSG well, power supply and water
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Pennsylvania countryside
•Shale gas wells
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Instant tank
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Aggregation dam
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Severe erosion to dam wall
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Pivot irrigation, Wyoming
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Pipeline and cattle crossing
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Condamine River crossing
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Compressor station
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Compressor station
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Main line compressor
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Well integrity problem
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Surat Basin Hydrogeological Model
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Cumulative Management Area
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Hydraulic fracturing
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Typical frac spread for shale
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Frac Fluid Make-up
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Hydraulic fracturing risk
• Detailed understanding of the local stratigraphy including aquifers, faults, linear features, hydraulic conductivity, porosity, seismic risk and groundwater dependent assets
• Installation of a multi-barrier casing string isolating hydrocarbon bearing formations from water resource aquifers and currently demonstrating internal and external mechanical integrity
• Requiring the presence of vertically
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Hydraulic fracturing risk mitigation: 2
• Ensuring injected fluids have low human toxicity, eco-toxicity and contain no persistent, bio-accumulating constituents
• Applying advanced process control incorporating real-time analysis, fracture modelling and formation understanding utilising techniques such as microseismic measurements
• Detailed engineering understanding of the impacts of production drawdown on connectivity to aquifers above and below the fractured zone subsequent to the hydraulic fracturing activity
• To initiate and maintain a high level of effective
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Barnett Shale gas wells, Texas
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Other issues
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Land access issues
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Issues
• Strategic Cropping Land• Health issues• Competing tenures• Salt• International Network for Environmental
Compliance and Enforcement
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