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CSIRO starts gas monitoring in NT

1st August 2018

By: Esmarie Iannucci

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

     

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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (Appea) has welcomed an announcement by the Northern Territory government that the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has started work to monitor landscape methane concentrations in the Beetaloo sub-basin.

The monitoring will measure the amount of naturally occurring methane already present in the area and identify sources where elevated methane levels are found. These baseline figures will help determine the level of any future potential fugitive emissions from the onshore gas industry. 

“The independent scientific report into hydraulic fracturing found that risks could be mitigated if all the recommendations of their report were implemented.

“As recommended in the independent report, the methane monitoring will take place over six months and, by starting now, it will cover both the dry season and the wet season,” Primary Industry and Resources Minister Ken Vowles said on Wednesday.

“Monitoring will provide the government and the community with robust, transparent and representative baseline measurements of background methane emissions. 

“This will give a true representation of existing methane readings. The results from the survey will be made available to the public.”

Appea director of external affairs Matthew Doman said the start of this six-month monitoring programme is an important step towards the resumption of exploration activity in the 2019 dry season.

“It is vitally important that the Northern Territory government meets its commitment to implement the inquiry’s pre-exploration recommendations by the end of the year.

“Appea’s members stand ready to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in further exploration activity over the next few years to further understand the potential of the Northern Territory’s onshore shale gas resources.

“Businesses, contractors and workers in the Territory are counting on the resumption of exploration activities and private investment to help get the Territory economy moving again,” Doman said.

Doman said natural gas was a key part of the move to a lower emissions future, both as a lower emission energy source in its own right and as a natural partner with growing renewable energy use.

“The development of an onshore gas industry in the Territory can position it as a key player in this cleaner energy future,” he said.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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