Bonaparte Basin

The Bonaparte Basin is located primarily offshore in coastal waters off the north coast of Australia, straddling the border between Western Australia and the Northern Territory. The offshore portion of
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Review of Taranaki Basin

Discovered more than 100 years ago, the Taranaki Basin holds recoverable gas reserves estimated at 5.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) through many different types of reservoirs ranging from large, deep gas
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Selling gas to New Zealand’s mass market

While natural gas accounts for around 29 per cent of New Zealand’s total primary energy usage, quite a low proportion of this is used by households, with the major users being electricity generators
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Bass Strait – delivering gas for 40 years

The first successful Gippsland Basin well, East Gippsland Shelf 1 (later known as Barracouta 1), was drilled by Esso in 1964-65. The well discovered a 102.5 m gas column at a depth of 1,060 m. Following
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Blacktip gas goes into production

The Blacktip Gas Field will bring gas onshore via a 110 km offshore pipeline to supply Northern Territory’s Power and Water Corporation, with supply rising to 18,000 barrels of oil equivalent per
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Boomin’ Bowen

The Surat-Bowen Basin comprises two major zones; the southern Bowen Basin and Surat Basin in southern Queensland, and the northern Bowen Basin, which extends to Townsville. According to the Queensland
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Wrapping up major gas projects in Australia

While LNG has dominated the focus of the Australian gas industry in recent times, a number of major gas projects, including power generation and transmission, are progressing, promising to deliver natural
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New Zealand unlocks new gas potential

A case of unrealised potential The New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development commissioned McDouall Stuart in early 2009 to produce an independent report outlining ways in which government
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Gas shortfall expected in WA: DomGas

DomGas said that the 2010 Western Australia Natural Gas Demand and Supply Forecast predicted a gas shortfall of up to 600 terajoules per day (TJ/d), equivalent to half of the state’s current gas
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Western Australia – an economy built on gas

The Western Australian economy relies on natural gas more than any other Australian state or territory. Natural gas fuels over half of Western Australia’s primary energy needs and 60 per cent of
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