News & events

UQ Master of Petroleum graduate, Ben Wu, has been snapped up by industry, joining Shell’s well integrity team as a Production Technologist.

There has been an large amount of interest in the novel transparent well housed at the St Lucia campus, with the team at the UQ Centre for Coal Seam Gas giving a steady stream of tours of the technology to politicians, researchers, industry, farmers and other stakeholders.

The University of Queensland’s Professor Andrew Garnett spent time in Canberra in July, briefing a broad range of politicians from all sides of politics on the importance of gas in the energy mix and how the current policy void and legislative settings are counter to the government’s objective of increasing supply.

The latest results from two multi-year studies into what happens when gas comes to town points to the beginnings of a much awaited stabilisation phase and slowly improving levels of trust in the CSG industry.

UQ’s Centre for Coal Seam Gas had a stand at APPEA 2019 and reported strong interest from attendees in UQ’s portfolio of research into natural gas.

Event promotion for a 1.5 hour workshop on what happens when CSG comes to town. Regional workshops in Roma, Miles, Chinchilla, Dalby and Toowoomba in June 2019

A specially engineered bentonite plug is showing potential as an even more effective and permanent seal of bores than the cement-based plugs used currently.

The University of Queensland Centre for Coal Seam Gas (UQ-CCSG) congratulates UQ researcher Dr Christopher Leonardi who was recently awarded a prestigious mid-career Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship.

Over 110 industry, government, university and community stakeholders attended UQ-CCSG’s showcase event, the Annual Research Review, on 7 December 2018.

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