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“ We ’ d been eyeing this coal [ development ] for a while ,” said Cole , who serves as the company ’ s Managing Director . “ It ’ s a Gas field project and our strongest background was in oil and gas , not mining . So we headed over there to market our air compressors and started gaining contracts as an air compressor operator . We did that for a few years and from there it was a natural progression to [ coal seam gas ].”
Coal seam gas [ CSG ] takes advantage of Australia ’ s immense coal deposits to produce methane gas , or natural gas . In coal seams roughly 300 to 1,000 meters below the surface , methane gas is trapped in fractures in the coal deposit — known as cleats — and the matrix of the coal deposit itself .
CSG currently supplies roughly 90 percent of Queensland ’ s natural gas supply and accounts for roughly 17 percent of its electricity generation , according to Arrow Energy .
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