What is coal seam gas?
Coal seam gas is one of several “unconventional” sources of gas that formerly was too costly or inaccessible to produce. But, technology improvements have now made production economic and practical. This is similar to the situation with shale gas in the United States that AOH wrote about on August 4 and June 10. The situation with Australian coal seam gas also is similar to American shale in that growth in the volume of known supplies of both have been enormous, as Bloomberg notes of Australian seam gas and as AOH noted in a University of Pennsylvania shale study. Australia’s east coast has gone from a looming gas shortage to abundance: production is up 34 percent in one quarter and proven reserves have almost doubled, giving Australia enough coal seam gas to meet its needs and export abroad, notes PeakEnergy blog, which offers impressive color graphics depicting Australia’s coal seam supply. Conclusion Environmentalists will urge that the responsible global citizen-nation should incur
