Maranoa Region Business Overview - Sold Out to Surat Basin Corporation
Please have a look at The Surat Basin Corporation Website. Click Here to Go to Website. It has a Blog and a Forum. If your not up to speed with how the Surat Basin Corporation is helping Queensland, please see below for their list of major projects:-
The Stage 3 proposal is to expand the existing New Acland open cut coal mine from 4.8 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) to produce up to 10 Mtpa of thermal coal for sale on the domestic and export energy markets.
The Wandoan Joint Venture (WJV) is proposing a new open cut thermal coal mine and supporting infrastructure with the capacity to the produce around 30 million tonnes per annum of run of mine (ROM) coal, over a 30 year period.
Syntech Resources Pty Ltd proposes to expand the Cameby Downs mine, located approximately 360 kilometres west, north-west of Brisbane and 16km north-east of Miles, in south-east Queensland. The mine extracts thermal coal from the Juandah Formation in the Surat Basin.
The Elimatta project site is situated within the Western Downs Regional Council area, approximately 35 kilometres west of the Wandoan township. The project would have an open-cut pit mining thermal coal at up to 8 million tonnes a year (Mt/y) run-of-mine (ROM) coal to produce 5 Mt/y of product coal for export.
The proposalis for the operation of an open cut mine and a dimethyl ether (DME) pilot plant to produce syngas for the production of 455 tonnes per day of DME and the co-generation of electricity.
This project is situated west of Gulugaba. The proposed open cut coal mine would produce an initial rate of 3 million tonnes a year (mt/y) run of mine (ROM) thermal coal for export.
Water
Future coal mines and associated communities as well as power station development in the Surat Basin will require significant water in coming years. Planning has already started around the building of a significant dam 70 km downstream of Taroom.
Electricity Generation and Transmission
Energy
Recently there have been a number of gas fired power stations built with others being proposed. There are both solar generated power and wind generated power projects being proposed in the Western Downs
Braemar 3 will be an integrated 520MW open-cycle gas-fired power station and high-pressure gas pipeline. Initial construction of the project is planned to occur in 2012 with commercial operations expected to start by the end of 2013. The project will create 400 jobs.
The proposed Kogan Creek Solar Boost Project will be the largest solar thermal project in the southern hemisphere. The project will increase the amount of electricity generated by up to 44 megawatts during peak solar conditions, providing an additional 44,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year.
The Wandoan Power Project is a proposed 400 MW power station using Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) with carbon capture and storage technologies
The proposed Coopers Gap wind farm is located between Dalby and Kingaroy. The proposed installed capacity of the wind farm is approximately 350MW, to be delivered in two stages.
The project is the construction of a new 275kV high voltage transmission line between the Columboola Switching Station (located approximately 9km east of Miles), and a proposed new substation, to be known as Wandoan South, in the Woleebee area south-west of Wandoan.
This project is the construction of a new 275kV high voltage transmission line between Western Downs Substation near Kogan Creek Power Station and a proposed substation (to be known as Columboola East) adjacent to, and connecting to, the Columboola Switching Station (located approximately 9km east of Miles on the Warrego Highway).
The proposed Western Downs to Halys 275kV transmission line is the second phase of the Western Downs to Halys transmission project, which is needed ensure a reliable supply of high voltage electricity is maintained to Southern Queensland.
Gas
The Surat Basin is about to become one of the boom economies in Australia, challenged only by the LNG regions in Western Australia with the potentially massive export industry of coal seam methane gas. Queensland coal seam gas projects are part of a larger boom in the Australian LNG industry, which has A$200 billion worth of projects that are expected to make Australia the world’s second-largest LNG exporter by 2015.
The project is the development of an LNG facility on Curtis Island off Gladstone which will play an important role in meeting growing world demand for cleaner burning fuels. The proposed LNG Plant Project will be supplied with coal seam gas from reserves located in the Surat Basin.
The project involves the development of substantial CSG resources in the Surat and Bowen Basins; building a 450 km transmission pipeline; and construction of a multi-train LNG facility on Curtis Island, near Gladstonewith a total capacity of up to 18 million tonnes of LNG per annum.
This project aims to produce ultra-clean synthetic liquid fuels through the underground coal gasification process. Located south-west of Chinchilla the goal is a commercially-viable GTL plant producing approximately 40 000 bpd of diesel, as well as using the syngas to produce 200 megawatt of power in combined cycle power generation plant.
This project proposes to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility at Gladstone to commercialise coal seam gas (CSG) resources in the Comet Ridge and Roma region.
The Queensland Curtis LNG project proposes to develop an integrated liquefied natural gas project in Queensland comprising the expansion of coal seam gas operations in the Surat Basin to provide gas for two liquefied natural gas plants or trains and gas for domestic markets as well as the development of a gas and water pipeline network of approximately 800 kilometres.
This project proposes an open-cut coal mine, a large scale syngas production facility using UCG and an electrical power generation station approximately 40 km west of Dalby.
This project will construct a LNG plant near Chinchilla to convert coal seam gas to liquefied natural gas (LNG) on a commercial scale to create fuel for trucks from coal seam gas.
This project proposes to develop coal seam gas production wells and associated facilities within an area covering approximately 8,000 square kilometres. The tenures cover an area from Wandoan to Chinchilla, extending further south to Cecil Plains in the Darling Downs through to Goondiwindi in southern Queensland.
The pipeline proposed is to deliver coal seam gas (CSG) from Kogan North near Dalby to a proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility at Fisherman’s Landing near Gladstone
This project proposes to develop a mid-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Fisherman’s Landing Wharf (FLW) near Gladstone. The proposal has an expected life of 25 years and the first stage would produce up to 1.6 million tonnes of LNG per year. A proposed second stage would double the capacity within three years of Stage 1.
Dams
The Nathan Dam and Pipelines Project
Is a major initiative aimed at providing long-term, reliable water supplies to mining, power, urban and agricultural customers in the Surat Coal Basin and the Dawson-Collide sub-region of Central Queensland. Visit the Department of Local Government and Planning or the SunWater websites for more information.
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