News & events

Canadian Foundation CMG (FCMG) has awarded UQ's Centre for Coal Seam Gas (CCSG) the inaugural Industrial Research Chair in Onshore Gas Reservoir Modelling. UQ Professor Suzanne Hurter holds the new chair.

Advanced Queensland Innovation Partnership funding awarded for bentonite abandonment plugs project, which will run for two years.

Schlumberger has supplied master students and researchers within petroleum engineering and petroleum geoscience with access to Schlumberger’s world-class computer modelling software.

Brisbane will host a full week of events highlighting the importance of gas for the Australia-Asia-Pacific region. Industry, government, academia and students are welcome.

Dr Mahshid Firouzi from the School of Chemical Engineering has been awarded the prestigious 2017 Advance Queensland Fellowship.

The University of Queensland, Centre for Coal Seam Gas and the UQ Energy Initiative, co-hosted the 5th IEA Unconventional Gas Forum at the Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre On 24 February 2017. More than 75 delegates from 15 different countries participated.

IAH (the International Association of Hydrogeologists) is hosting the first IAH Queensland branch event this year on Wednesday, 15 February, at QUT. The topic is the new 3D Water Atlas, presented by Associate Professor Sue Vink from UQ's Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry.

The UQ Centre for Coal Seam Gas has entered into an agreement with the internationally accredited training provider Fendley Skills Development, who are now offering their internationally certified well-control courses at UQ’s Long Pocket campus in Indooroopilly. Yesterday, the first engineers from the oil and gas industry started their training.

The Centre has developed an open access 3D view of groundwater data in the Surat Basin

CCSG researchers and students attended the China-Australia Unconventional Natural Gas Forum in Beijing.