Coal Gas Research Promises Economic Benefits
Researchers at The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide’s have won an ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Research Council Linkage Project which promises economic benefits to ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s gas industry and improved understanding of natural gas production.
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The project, supported by major ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n energy company Santos, aims to develop new technology to significantly increase the efficiency of gas production from coal beds.
Coal seam gas (CSG) is the world’s fastest-growing unconventional gas resource and offers potential for much cleaner power than traditional coal.
Production of CSG has become an important industry providing an abundant, clean-burning fuel in an age when pollution, climate change, fuel shortages and fuel prices are major public concerns.
However CSG production offers borderline economic efficiency because of low-production rates from the low permeability of typical coal seams. Companies are faced with strategies such as drilling costly horizontal or multilateral wells or locating a sweet spot from the use of detailed structural geological methods or through expensive drilling of exploration wells.
This project looks at developing cost-effective engineering solutions to increase cleat system permeability and well productivity. The novel technology uses a combination of new theoretical models for suspension transport in cleats, innovative mathematical modelling, laboratory studies and validation against field tests to develop strategies.
A multi-disciplinary team has been formed for the project uniting world-class specialists to develop a new integrated technology for well productivity enhancement in CSG, shale, tight gas and geothermal reservoirs.
The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide team consists of Prof , Prof Anthony Roberts, A/Prof Andrei Kotooussov, Prof Mark Biggs, Dr Mark Tingay, and Dr John Codrington, along with collaborators at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of New South Wales and Santos.
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[caption id="attachment_2903" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Professor Pavel Bedrikovetski, The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide"]
[/caption]The project, supported by major ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n energy company Santos, aims to develop new technology to significantly increase the efficiency of gas production from coal beds.
Coal seam gas (CSG) is the world’s fastest-growing unconventional gas resource and offers potential for much cleaner power than traditional coal.
Production of CSG has become an important industry providing an abundant, clean-burning fuel in an age when pollution, climate change, fuel shortages and fuel prices are major public concerns.
However CSG production offers borderline economic efficiency because of low-production rates from the low permeability of typical coal seams. Companies are faced with strategies such as drilling costly horizontal or multilateral wells or locating a sweet spot from the use of detailed structural geological methods or through expensive drilling of exploration wells.
This project looks at developing cost-effective engineering solutions to increase cleat system permeability and well productivity. The novel technology uses a combination of new theoretical models for suspension transport in cleats, innovative mathematical modelling, laboratory studies and validation against field tests to develop strategies.
A multi-disciplinary team has been formed for the project uniting world-class specialists to develop a new integrated technology for well productivity enhancement in CSG, shale, tight gas and geothermal reservoirs.
The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide team consists of Prof , Prof Anthony Roberts, A/Prof Andrei Kotooussov, Prof Mark Biggs, Dr Mark Tingay, and Dr John Codrington, along with collaborators at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of New South Wales and Santos.
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