Geoscience Australia and Geological Survey of Queensland Surat and Bowen Basins Groundwater Surveys Hydrochemistry Dataset (2009-2011)

Recent national and state assessments have concluded that sedimentary formations that underlie or are within the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) may be suitable for the storage of greenhouse gases. These same formations contain methane and naturally generated carbon dioxide that has been trapped for millions of years. The Queensland government has released exploration permits for Greenhouse Gas Storage in the Bowen and Surat basins.

An important consideration in assessing the potential economic, environmental, health and safety risks of such projects is the potential impact CO2 migrating out of storage reservoirs could have on overlying groundwater resources. The risk and impact of CO2 migrating from a greenhouse gas storage reservoir into groundwater cannot be objectively assessed without knowledge of the natural baseline characteristics of the groundwater within these systems. Due to the phase behaviour of CO2, geological storage of carbon dioxide in the supercritical state requires depths greater than 800m, but there are no hydrochemical studies of such deeper aquifers in the prospective storage areas.

Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Geological Survey of Queensland (GSQ), Queensland Department of Mines and Energy, worked collaboratively under the National Geoscience Agreement (NGA) to characterise the regional hydrochemistry of the Denison Trough and Surat Basin and trialled different groundwater monitoring strategies. The output from this Project constitutes part of a regional baseline reference set for future site-specific and semi-regional monitoring and verification programmes conducted by geological storage proponents. The dataset provides a reference of hydrochemistry for future competing resource users.

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Date (Publication)
2014-01-01T00:00:00
Edition date
2014-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/78549

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/25/5452D04771CCF

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Geoscience Australia

 Canberra Australia
Author

Feitz, A.J.

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Ransley, T.R.

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Dunsmore, R.

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Kuske, T.J.

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Hodgkinson, J.

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Preda, M.

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Spulak, R.

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Author

Dixon, O.

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Author

Draper, J.

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Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

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Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Temporal extent

Time period
2008-07-01 2011-11-02
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Keywords

  • GIS Dataset

  • Regional

Theme

  • hydrochemistry

Theme

  • carbon dioxide

Theme

  • greenhouse gas emissions

Theme

  • isotopes

Theme

  • gas

Keywords

  • Queensland

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Hydrogeology

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

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CC-BY

Edition

4.0

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

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License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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OnLine resource

File download

Download the file (xlsx)

Distribution format

  • xlsx

Resource lineage

Statement

Geoscience Australia and the Geological Survey of Queensland established a project in 2009 called the "The Greenhouse Gas Storage Groundwater Project" under a National Geoscience Agreement. The purpose of the project was to characterise the regional hydro-geochemistry of the Denison Trough and trial different groundwater monitoring strategies. Data from the Project constitutes part of a regional baseline reference set for site specific and semi-regional monitoring and verification programmes conducted by CCS proponents.

Hydrochemical surveys of groundwater bores were conducted in the Surat and Bowen Basins over 2009 - 2011. Water and gas field measurements were undertaken and samples were collected for trace metal, isotopic, trace organics, gas composition, gas isotopic composition, and major and minor ion analysis.

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Description

The purpose of the "Greenhouse Gas Storage Groundwater Project" was to characterise the regional hydro-geochemistry of the Denison Trough and trial different groundwater monitoring strategies. Data from the Project constitutes part of a regional baseline reference set for site specific and semi-regional monitoring and verification programmes conducted by CCS proponents.

Hydrochemical surveys of groundwater bores were conducted during 2009-2011, initially in the Dension Trough (Bowen Basin), and later expanded to include the Surat Basin. Water and gas field measurements were undertaken and samples were collected for trace metal, isotopic, trace organics, gas composition, gas isotopic composition, and major and minor ion analysis. The dataset represents a comprehensive grounwater analysis of key areas in the Bowen and Surat Basins.

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25000

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Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/ec824c5e-38db-6c16-e044-00144fdd4fa6

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GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/78549

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ec824c5e-38db-6c16-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-20T06:04:17
Date info (Creation)
2013-12-02T00:00:00

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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Keywords

carbon dioxide gas greenhouse gas emissions hydrochemistry isotopes

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