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Couple more recollections from last night's Lateline Business, this time Woodside's Don Voelte. He said coal seam methane will need a lot of cleanup before it can be liquified. Yet we know some NW Shelf gas has a lot of CO2 that will be extracted and pumped beneath Barrow Island. The obvious question is where will they put the CSM scrubbings, down a coal mine? Voelte asks why coal gets kid glove treatment but the free permits criterion seems designed to exclude gas.
Boof,you should have realized by now that coal is a protected animal in Australia.
There are probably plans for gulags to be set up for those who seriously threaten the coal industry.Maybe that is what that white elephant on Christmas Island is for.
Just joking. Just.
Its Gorgon that has all the CO2 that needs to be pumped under Barrow Island, not the North West Shelf.
Voelte has also previously commented that CSM takes a lot of drilling to keep production up. How this compares economically to all the infrastructure you need to develop offshore gas fields isn't clear (yet).
Did he say that CSM is rich in CO2 specifically, or just that it needs scrubbing ? The second doesn't necessarily imply the first (landfill gas needs scrubbing too if you want to put it into a pipeline).
If I had to guess, I'd say the CO2 would be stuffed back into exhausted coal seams. As always, I'm dubious about how long it will stay there.