Arrow finds traces of benzene in CSG wells

摘要

Sydney-Arrow Energy has become the sec- ond Australian coalseam gas producer in recent weeks to find traces of carcinogenic benzene in fluid samples from wells in the eastern state of Queensland. The company advised Queensland state government authorities and landholders November 8 that its monitoring tests had detected minute traces of benzene in three of 60 fluid samples taken from wells in the northern Bowen Basin in central Queens- land. The preliminary results relate to two wells in the area of Arrow's Moranbah gas project and one well in an adjoining explo- ration tenement.