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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT STORIES
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Oz biofuels push
(Monday, 12 July 2010)
QUEENSLAND is set to lead the way in biofuels following the official opening in Mackay of a new $10 million bio pilot plant that will use biomass to manufacture sustainable biofuels and other renewable products.
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CSIRO, CUCBM working on joint project
(Wednesday, 7 July 2010)
CSIRO has teamed up with China United Coalbed Methane Corporation on a $10 million demonstration project in China’s Shanxi province that will store 2000 tonnes of carbon dioxide underground and extract methane for use.
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CO2CRC well funded to continue CCS research
(Friday, 2 July 2010)
RESEARCH into carbon capture and storage is set to continue after CO2CRC secured an extension of funding under the federal government’s Cooperative Research Centre program.
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New time-lapse technologies to boost production, reserves
(Monday, 14 June 2010)
TECHNOLOGY companies Ikon Science and Stingray Geophysical have teamed up to develop and market new time-lapse technologies to allow oil and gas companies to increase production and reserves.
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New tax changes could hurt oil & gas research
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(Thursday, 22 April 2010)
RESEARCH and development in the oil and gas industry could be hit hard by a provision in the federal government’s second draft of its proposed changes to the R&D tax credit system.
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Spectrum improves seismic offering
(Thursday, 11 March 2010)
NORWAY-based Spectrum has enhanced its seismic processing technology in response to growing demand for advanced 3D prestack depth imaging services.
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Fugro leveraging new technology
(Thursday, 11 March 2010)
FUGRO Offshore Survey is working on a new suite of modular software based on the latest technology to cater for all survey work the company carries out worldwide.
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Red Sky aiming for greater CSG yield
(Thursday, 11 March 2010)
RED Sky Energy has signed a binding terms sheet with Enhanced Biogenic Methane to access new technology that could enhance the gas production capacity of coals in its Queensland and New South Wales acreage.
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CSIRO making waves to help Oilies, platform owners
(Thursday, 3 December 2009)
RESEARCH carried out by CSIRO could one day help oil and gas companies and platform owners deal with giant rogue waves.
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Neptune dives to new depths
(Tuesday, 13 October 2009)
NEPTUNE Marine Services says the recent developments to its NEPSYS dry underwater welding technology will offer significant opportunities for the ongoing use of its technology in the international oil and gas industry.
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CO2CRC to investigate further CO2 options at Otway project
(Thursday, 17 September 2009)
CO2CRC is planning to carry out new research at its Otway carbon dioxide geosequestration research and demonstration facility project to study how carbon dioxide is trapped in deep reservoir rocks.
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Oil, gas drilling made easier
(Thursday, 27 August 2009)
ACCESSING deep oil and gas deposits could soon become easier and less costly with the development of equipment designed to accurately model the environments encountered when drilling at great depths.
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APIA welcomes energy pipeline research centre
(Thursday, 13 August 2009)
A NEW $17.5 million energy pipeline research centre will help underpin the safety and security of Australia’s low carbon energy future, according to the Australian Pipeline Industry Association.
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Coretrack close to commercialising CLRS
(Tuesday, 11 August 2009)
DRILLING technology specialist Coretrack is aiming to have its Core Level Recorder System ready for an in situ field coring job in October after successfully testing its Core Barrel Telemetry system.
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CO2CRC bags $20M for further CCS research
(Tuesday, 11 August 2009)
THE federal government’s Cooperative Research Centres program has allocated $20 million to CO2CRC to help it continue researching the use of carbon capture and storage technology.
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Grants to aid industry innovators
(Tuesday, 4 August 2009)
SMALL companies developing new products for coal dust suppression and exploration in coal and coal seam gas are some of this year’s recipients of federal government funding under the Commercialising Emerging Technologies program.
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Research uncovers new way to find oil
(Friday, 10 July 2009)
PETROLEUM companies could soon save time and money in exploration efforts after a French PhD student at Western Australia’s Curtin University of Technology developed a new way to find oil.
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Greenearth working with RMIT on geothermal power, water
(Monday, 29 June 2009)
GREENEARTH Energy has formed a research partnership with RMIT University aimed at generating both electricity and drinking water from geothermal reservoirs.
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Coffey boosts safety with new positioning system
(Thursday, 4 June 2009)
COFFEY International subsidiary Coffey Geotechnics has developed a geo-marine barge positioning system that improves the safety and project cost of geotechnical sea-bed surveys.
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Govt calls for CCS flagships proposals
(Thursday, 21 May 2009)
THE federal government is calling state and territory governments to nominate project proposals to be considered for funding under the $2 billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) flagships program.
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Otway carbon sequestration safe at halfway point
(Tuesday, 19 May 2009)
The country’s first demonstration project of deep geological storage of CO2 has marked its halfway point, reaching the 50,000 tonne “securely stored” milestone late last month. The CO2CRC Otway Project, which was kicked off in April 2008 at the site in south-western Victoria, is also going to plan in terms of storage dynamics.
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Research to boost exploration in Victoria
(Friday, 15 May 2009)
CSIRO and the Victorian Department of Primary Industries have formed a new research partnership to help oil and gas companies carrying out exploration in Victoria.
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CSIRO model key to InterOil discoveries
(Tuesday, 10 March 2009)
CSIRO scientists were instrumental in helping InterOil discover the Elk and Antelope gas finds in Papua New Guinea.
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CO2CRC looking to lower CCS costs
(Monday, 23 February 2009)
NEW research has suggested the cost of capturing and storing carbon dioxide from Australian power stations could be considerably reduced, according to CO2CRC.
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Super subtle nano-sensors to boost oil searches
(Tuesday, 25 November 2008)
FINDING new oil reserves could become a lot easier with the introduction of new nanochemical sensors, designed by CSIRO researcher Dr Andrew Ross and his team to detect trace hydrocarbons.
BY KARL BEIDATSCH
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Group to advise on WA approvals process
(Tuesday, 18 November 2008)
THE Western Australian government has launched a 12-member working group, which includes a number of mining and petroleum industry identities, to advise on ways to improve the state’s exploration and development approvals process.
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Research excites oil industry
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(Friday, 31 October 2008)
GEOSCIENTISTS at the University of Sydney are quietly working on research that is revolutionising the understanding of petroleum-producing basins in the heart of continents.
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Methanol: greenhouse gas to liquid asset
(Tuesday, 21 October 2008)
CONVERSION of gas to methanol offers a viable alternative to commercialising stranded gas fields, including fields with high CO2 content, while also providing relatively clean fuels.
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Chinese oilies boosted by CSIRO
(Friday, 17 October 2008)
TECHNOLOGIES developed by CSIRO are helping Chinese petroleum companies, such as PetroChina, improve predictions on the presence and quantity of oil to reduce the risk of drilling dry wells.
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Cool change for gas processing, CO2 storage
(Thursday, 16 October 2008)
AN AUSTRALIAN company says its gas sweetening technology offers significant economic and environmental benefits.
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