More gas fired power stations = more gas water ...

New facility brings home the bacon for Darling Downs community

Monday 23 January 2006

Energy Minister John Mickel says a new electricity installation being facilitated by Ergon Energy will provide a significant boost to a major Darling Downs employer while delivering environmental benefits to the local community.

Mickel says agreement has been reached to build a $6 million, 4.5 megawatt electricity co-generation facility to provide on-site power for Toowoomba's KR Castlemaine (KRC) meat processing factory.

Mickel launched the project, in which DDCE Pty Ltd will design, build, own and operate the facility for the Darling Downs icon.

KR Castlemaine and Ergon Energy have begun building the $6 million gas fired facility at the processor's Mort Street site.

"It is also another step towards Ergon Energy meeting its commitment to the Queensland Government's Gas Scheme requirement of energy retailers to source 13% of their power from gas-fired generation."

The new co-generation facility is expected to be operational by October this year.

See - More demand for gas.

Coal seam gas flows from Surat Basin

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Arrow Energy has become the first company to deliver supplies of coal seam gas from the Surat Basin in southern Queensland.

The gas is being extracted and piped from Arrow's Kogan North field 40 kilometres west of Dalby.

Chief executive Nick Davis says it is a major milestone for the basin.

"We've shown over the course of the last two years, us and others, that gas can be produced in small quantities from small pilot programs, but nobody has yet shown in a full scale development the whole field will behave in the way we hoped it would behave and that full scale development has now proved that," he said.

See - More coal seam gas.