History, Geology, In Situ Stress Pattern, Gas Content and Permeability of Coal Seam Gas Basins in Australia: A Review
| Autor: | Christopher R. Clarkson, Mojtaba Rajabi, Peter J. McCabe, Carmine C. Wainman, Bronwyn Camac, Alireza Salmachi, Steven Mackie |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Technology
Control and Optimization Coalbed methane coal seam gas in situ stress 020209 energy Geochemistry Borehole Energy Engineering and Power Technology 02 engineering and technology Structural basin 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Engineering (miscellaneous) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences gas content Hydrogeology Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Coal mining coalbed methane Permeability (earth sciences) Fracture (geology) permeability business deep coal seams Geology Energy (miscellaneous) Liquefied natural gas |
| Zdroj: | Energies, Vol 14, Iss 2651, p 2651 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1996-1073 |
| Popis: | Coal seam gas (CSG), also known as coalbed methane (CBM), is an important source of gas supply to the liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting facilities in eastern Australia and to the Australian domestic market. In late 2018, Australia became the largest exporter of LNG in the world. 29% of the country’s LNG nameplate capacity is in three east coast facilities that are supplied primarily by coal seam gas. Six geological basins including Bowen, Sydney, Gunnedah, Surat, Cooper and Gloucester host the majority of CSG resources in Australia. The Bowen and Surat basins contain an estimated 40Tcf of CSG whereas other basins contain relatively minor accumulations. In the Cooper Basin of South Australia, thick and laterally extensive Permian deep coal seams (>2 km) are currently underdeveloped resources. Since 2013, gas production exclusively from deep coal seams has been tested as a single add-on fracture stimulation in vertical well completions across the Cooper Basin. The rates and reserves achieved since 2013 demonstrate a robust statistical distribution (>130 hydraulic fracture stages), the mean of which, is economically viable. The geological characteristics including coal rank, thickness and hydrogeology as well as the present-day stress pattern create favourable conditions for CSG production. Detailed analyses of high-resolution borehole image log data reveal that there are major perturbations in maximum horizontal stress (SHmax) orientation, both spatially and with depth in Australian CSG basins, which is critical in hydraulic fracture stimulation and geomechanical modelling. Within a basin, significant variability in gas content and permeability may be observed with depth. The major reasons for such variabilities are coal rank, sealing capacity of overlying formations, measurement methods, thermal effects of magmatic intrusions, geological structures and stress regime. Field studies in Australia show permeability may enhance throughout depletion in CSG fields and the functional form of permeability versus reservoir pressure is exponential, consistent with observations in North American CSG fields. |
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