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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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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Gas generating interest in NSW

It’s an eventful time for gas-fired power generation in New South Wales. The State Government is in the process of partially privatising its energy sector. Although it will maintain public ownership
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Coal seam gas: the new Star of NSW

New South Wales has long been seen as the state between two major gas producers, but Eastern Star Gas (ESG) is looking to change this reputation. The state may even become a net gas exporter, says ESG,
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Gas gets going around Gippsland

Construction of the South Gippsland Natural Gas Project (SGNGP) began in 2006. In total, the project cost $55 million, partially funded by the Victorian Government’s commitment of $70 million to
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