MANY have been questioning the pace at which energy giants seem to be rushing to get gas out of the ground. There may be public misconceptions about the industry particularly surrounding access to the abundant resource, but there's 'also some concern with the gas extraction methods. This aside, Australian companies mostly apply world class practices where the practice has been refined over many years. However, with CSG, this is not necessarily the case and in fact a different economic and technical model is mostly required before the project is viable. Scaling any system whether it includes technology, business processes or resource management requires careful operational consideration and generally a lot of trialling. It may have worked for the initial production, but will it work for full production? Even if we think we have the solution, you can be assured you will still be modifying and adapting to the new scale to maintain your position as a low cost producer.
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