Australian natural gas explorer Elixir Energy has given a positive update on expanding activities in Queensland’s onshore Bowen Basin, which supplies feed gas for LNG plants and could potentially help avert a security of supply crisis on the East Coast.
Australian coal-seam gas explorer Elixir Energy, the developer of CSG projects in Queensland and Mongolia and whose executive officers are industry veterans, has issued warnings about energy security in Australia.
Australian LNG project operator Santos is on its way to making Chief Executive Keven Gallagher one of the highest paid executives in the country as he develops projects in five key natural gas basins in Australia.
Royal Dutch Shell and Santos, the operators of two LNG export plants in eastern Australia, Queensland Curtis LNG and Gladstone LNG, plan to work in partnership on new coal-seam gas acreage in the Surat and Bowen Basins.
Gladstone LNG, one of three coal-seam-gas to-LNG plants built on Curtis Island in the Australian state of Queensland over the past three years, has delivered its 200th cargo.
Santos, the Australian operator of the Gladstone coal-seam-gas-to-LNG plant in Queensland, said it would invest more than A$400 million (US$302M) with its partners in the Arcadia gas project in the inland Bowen Basin.
Australian LNG asset holder Santos, including the operatorship of the Gladstone coal-seam-gas-to-LNG export joint venture in the eastern state of Queensland, said it completed the commissioning and start-up of the Scotia natural gas expansion project.
Two of the three Australian coal-seam-gas-to-LNG export plants on Curtis Island near the port of Gladstone in Queensland have successfully tendered for an exploration and production licence for a key block in the Bowen Basin to boost natural gas supplies.
Gladstone LNG, the coal-seam-gas-to-LNG plant in the eastern Australian state of Queensland, plans to invest A$900 million (US$700M) in upstream development to underpin production and exports.