Removing salt from the coal seam gas equation
- From: Vol 12, Issue 11 (November 2011)
- Category: General
- Region: Asia
- Country: Australia
- Related Companies: GE Water, Penrice Soda and QGC
Brine disposal is one of the thorniest problems facing Australia’s coal seam gas producers. It remains to be seen whether a new initiative to extract and market CSG salts is commercially viable. Max Borchardt reports.
Queensland gas producer QGC has engaged GE Water and Penrice Soda to build a brine processing plant to test the economic viability of extracting and selling salt from coal seam gas brine streams.
“For the purposes of this trial, a plant will be built at operating scale on the company’s site north of Adelaide to demonstrate the capital and ...
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