News & events

Centre Director, Professor Andrew Garnett, was recently invited to share his energy expertise on a panel delving into the innovative thinking needed to address Australia's energy predicament.

UQ has made inroads into understanding and managing large and complex groundwater systems, announcing the release of a compendium of the latest, peer-reviewed research on the Great Artesian Basin at key industry event, the Australasian Groundwater Conference, in November.

The latest science and technology applied to exploration and development of unconventional resources was profiled at the global premier conference for the sector, which this year was hosted in Brisbane 18-19 November.

Energy industry leaders, including Energy Security Board Chair Dr Kerry Schott and UQ Centre for Natural Gas, Professor Andrew Garnett, came together to discuss the role Australian natural gas may need to play in the transition to a clean energy future.

UQ Centre for Natural Gas Chair, Professor Raymond Johnson Jr, gave a well-received update on hydraulic fracturing at the 24 October, monthly luncheon of the Brisbane section of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA).

UQ is renaming its Centre for Coal Seam Gas as the UQ Centre for Natural Gas, giving the centre scope to broaden its research portfolio to the production of other forms of natural gas.

UQ Honorary Professor, Jim Underschultz has been furthering UQ's engagement with China on low carbon energies and Coal Seam Gas

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.