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Schroder, I.F. | Totterdell, J.M. | Stacey, A.R.
Abstract
Over the last 10 years there has been a rapid expansion in the coal seam gas industry in Australia. Exploration and production of coal seam gas is primarily focused on sedimentary basins along Australia's eastern seaboard. To provide a sound basis for a national assessment of coal seam gas resources, Geoscience Australia is identifying and mapping the distribution of coal in Australia's onshore sedimentary basins into a single Geographical Information System (GIS). Data are being collated for the three key geological time periods for coal, i.e. the Permian-Triassic, Jurassic-Cretaceous and Cenozoic. Information is being sourced from a wide range of publications and publicly available datasets and includes the distribution, thickness and depth of coal measures, and key attributes such as thermal maturity/rank, water content, porosity/permeability and depositional environment. Other relevant national datasets such as basin polygons, wells, mines and cultural data are also being compiled. While national in scale, work to date has focused on coal measures in the key eastern Australian basins, such as the Permian coals of the Bowen, Gunnedah, Sydney and Galilee basins, and the Jurassic Walloon Coal Measures in the Surat and Clarence-Moreton basins. The GIS forms a fundamental tool for Geoscience Australia's national unconventional hydrocarbon resources assessment. This compilation for the first time provides a single, national-scale coal basins dataset for use by government, industry and the public, reflecting Geoscience Australia's role to improve the information available to support the exploration and management of Australia's hydrocarbon resources.
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- hydrocarbons
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2012-01-01T00:00:00
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