A roadmap for community and investor satisfaction from unconventional gas development

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Goldstein ◽  
Anthony Hill ◽  
Michael Malavazos ◽  
Sandra Menpes ◽  
Alexandra Wickham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Unconventional Gas ◽  
Land Access ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Balance Of Trade ◽  
World Class ◽  
To Come ◽  
Unconventional Gas Development ◽  
Sustainable Projects

If a fraction of the national potential to produce unconventional gas is realised, then Australia will benefit: security of domestic and export gas supplies for decades to come; supply-side competition for decades to come; improved balance of trade and transport fuel security as Australia's supplants imports with gas-based transport fuel; billions of dollars invested in environmentally sustainable projects; thousands of jobs; considerable royalties and tax for revenues public good; and, world-class intellectual property that can be converted into export services and equipment. Given these drivers, the SA State Government convened a Roundtable for Unconventional Gas Projects in October 2010. Participating in this roundtable are a total of 260 organisations plus individuals, including: peak representative bodies focused on economic, social, and natural environment outcomes; and, companies, universities, and key agencies from all state, NT, and commonwealth governments. This roundtable informed a Roadmap for Unconventional Gas Projects in South Australia that was published in December 2012. The objectives of this roadmap are to credibly inform industry strategies, government policies, and public perceptions. In particular, this roadmap explains how people and enterprises potentially affected by unconventional gas operations are given information and time to draw considered views so their rights to object in part or full to activity—and location-specific land access—are supported. This will facilitate the efficient, profitable, and welcomed deployment of capital, technologies, and infrastructure for the commercialisation of unconventional gas. This extended abstract details the findings of this roadmap.

Regulatory nirvana for low-permeability gas reservoir development

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Goldstein ◽  
Michael Malavazos ◽  
Belinda Hayter ◽  
James Coda ◽  
Michael Jarosz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Multiple Use ◽  
Unconventional Gas ◽  
Stakeholder Consultation ◽  
Land Access ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Geophysical Surveys ◽  
Risk Management Strategies

‘Trusted land access is both the first factor and the final outcome of a virtuous exploration and production life-cycle’ (Goldstein et al, 2007). Governments are under pressure to deploy trusted regulatory frameworks that enable profitable and environmentally sustainable development of unconventional gas resources for matters including, but not limited to, fracture stimulation operations. Nirvana regulation will entail: attractive licence tenure; regulatory certainty and efficiency without taint of capture; regulators and licensees with trustworthy capabilities (competence and capacity); effective (informative) stakeholder consultation well-ahead of land access; public access to details of risks and reliable research to reduce key uncertainties, and to back-up risk management strategies so the basis for regulation is contestable anytime, everywhere; timely notice of entry with sufficient operational details to effectively inform stakeholders; potentially affected people and organisations who can object to land access without support for vexatious objections; fair and expeditious dispute resolution processes; fair compensation to affected land-users for costs, losses, and deprivation due to operations; risks that are reduced to low or as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP) while also meeting community expectations for net outcomes; licensees who monitor and report on the efficacy of their risk management processes, while the regulator probes the same; regulators who can prevent and stop operations, require restitution, levy fines and cancel licences; and, industry compliance records, which are made public so the efficacy of regulation is transparent. This paper will describe how these principles are deployed in SA where: 24 unconventional gas play-trends are being explored, each with giant gas potential; hundreds of wells have been safely hydraulically fracture stimulated to enhance flow rates from both petroleum and geothermal reservoirs, and in doing so, enable economic development; and, since implementing SA’s Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000, more than 11,000 notices of entry for petroleum operations have led to just one court action, and that was to establish legal precedent that geophysical surveys can extend outside a licence to attain full-fold control in a licence. The introduction of new energy development technologies is inevitable, so regulatory nirvana will remain an aspiration. Regulation for compatible, multiple-use of land in Australia is undertaken with community ownership of subsurface resources in mind. SA aspires to achieve regulatory nirvana for the upstream petroleum sector. Expeditious, welcomed access to land for compatible, multiple uses is the metric for performance, and leading practice is based on the principle that trust is the most valuable lead factor and lag outcome in sustaining welcomed land access for resource exploration, development and production.

East coast gas: resource potential at different gas price scenarios (Part 2: commercialisation of unconventional gas resources)

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 542
Author(s):  
Joe Collins ◽  
Ian Cockerill ◽  
Zain Rasheed
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
Economic Cost ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Unconventional Gas ◽  
Market Experience ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Gas Market ◽  
To Come ◽  
Unconventional Gas Development ◽  
Supply Costs

Rising gas prices in the eastern Australian gas market, as well as forecast supply shortages in years to come, are driving speculation about LNG import requirements for the market. There are significant similarities with the gas market experience in the USA in the early 2000s which led to the construction of many LNG import terminals, the parallel rise of unconventional gas production and the subsequent mothballing of the LNG import facilities at huge economic cost. A comprehensive east coast gas market study has been carried out based on the 2P reserves positions for domestic gas producers. This data has been paired with a range of gas demand forecasts to identify the probable supply gap on the east coast over the next 10 years. A market response to the high gas pricing in the form of new developments is already underway. In a separate paper (Part 1) all potential domestic sources of unconventional gas to fill that gap were analysed to determine likely gas supply rates, development schedules and breakeven supply costs for each of the major demand centres. This paper (Part 2) illustrates the required gas prices to drive unconventional gas development in Australia, the subsequent scale of new unconventional gas supplies to the forecast gaps in the market and describes how those developments can reverse the trend of rising prices over time.

Accelerating oil and gas investment and reserves by design

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 557
Author(s):  
Barry A. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Land Access ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Oil And Gas Producers ◽  
Crude Oil Prices ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Oil And Gas Operations

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence (Adams 1770). Some people unfamiliar with upstream petroleum operations, some enterprises keen to sustain uncontested land use, and some people against the use of fossil fuels have and will voice opposition to land access for oil and gas exploration and production. Social and economic concerns have also arisen with Australian domestic gas prices tending towards parity with netbacks from liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. No doubt, natural gas, LNG and crude-oil prices will vary with local-to-international supply-side and demand-side competition. Hence, well run Australian oil and gas producers deploy stress-tested exploration, delineation and development budgets. With these challenges in mind, successive governments in South Australia have implemented leading-practice legislation, regulation, policies and programs to simultaneously gain and sustain trust with the public and investors with regard to land access for trustworthy oil and gas operations. South Australia’s most recent initiatives to foster reserve growth through welcomed investment in responsible oil and gas operations include the following: a Roundtable for Oil and Gas; evergreen answers to frequently asked questions, grouped retention licences that accelerate investment in the best of play trends; the Plan for ACcelerating Exploration (PACE) Gas Program; and the Oil and Gas Royalty Return Program. Intended and actual outcomes from these initiatives are addressed in this extended abstract.

scholarly journals PELAKSANAAN PENGAWASAN KEIMIGRASIAN TERHADAP WARGA NEGARA ASING YANG MENGGUNAKAN VISA KUNJUNGAN WISATA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Fadli Saputra
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
National Development ◽  
City Government ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
To Come ◽  
The City

Padang City is a city located in the province of West Sumatra, with a very strategic geographical condition, making the city of Padang rich in natural beauty. The beauty of nature is used by people in Padang City as a tourist spot, so that it is able to steal the attention of foreign tourists to come to visit, foreign tourists who enter and leave the Padang City area, all of which are under immigration control. Immigration is a form of enforcement in the implementation of state government sovereignty, therefore to facilitate immigration in carrying out its duties and functions in the supervision sector of foreign visits, a class 1 Padang Immigration office was formed. Since the enactment of Presidential Regulation Number 21 of 2016 regarding Visit Visas in Indonesia, it is clear that 169 countries are free to visit Padang City only with their passports. The purpose of this Presidential Regulation is to increase foreign tourist visits to Padang City so that it has an impact on increasing national development in general and increasing economy in particular, foreign tourists who come are expected to have a positive impact on the economy of the people of Padang City. However, the fact is not as imagined by the Padang City Government, the tourist visit permit granted to foreign tourists is prone to abuse, especially looking for work or opening business land and settling in a place. Researchers took the research location at the Padang Class I Immigration Office, because the city of Padang is one of the most attractive cities to be visited by foreign tourists, especially its natural beauty. As a government effort in order to support the maintenance of stability, security and vigilance against all negative impacts arising from the crossing of people between countries, and the activities of foreigners in Padang City, it is deemed necessary to carry out supervision of foreigners and immigration actions in a fast, thorough, and coordinated manner, without must ignore the openness in providing services to foreigners who are at the Class 1 Padang Immigration Office.

Geological and Bioregional Assessments: a tale of two basins

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
Cameron R. Huddlestone-Holmes ◽  
Kate Holland ◽  
Luk J. M. Peeters
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Unconventional Gas ◽  
Well Integrity ◽  
Surface Disturbance ◽  
Regulatory Regimes ◽  
Local Geology ◽  
Unconventional Gas Development ◽  
Cooper Basin ◽  
Stimulation Of

The Australian Government’s $35.4 million Geological and Bioregional Assessment (GBA) Program is assessing the potential impacts of shale, tight and deep coal gas development on water and the environment in the Beetaloo, Isa and Cooper GBA regions. This paper compares the outcomes of impact assessments for the Beetaloo and Cooper GBA regions, highlighting the role that local geology, hydrogeology, ecology and regulatory regimes play when assessing potential impacts of unconventional gas development. Unconventional gas development activities between basins are broadly consistent, involving drilling, stimulation of the reservoir (typically through hydraulic fracturing), production and processing of hydrocarbons, export to market and decommissioning and rehabilitation. The characteristics of these activities and their potential impacts are strongly influenced by local factors including the geology, environment, industry practices and regulatory regimes. While subsurface impacts associated with hydraulic fracturing and well integrity are considered unlikely in both regions, regional geology means there is greater stratigraphic separation between target resources and overlying aquifers in the Beetaloo Sub-basin than in the Cooper Basin. Local ecological conditions and species influence the nature of potential impacts on protected matters in the two basins, which are mostly associated with surface disturbance and spills or accidental release of fluids. A key similarity between the two regions is the broadly consistent regulation and management of potential impacts in the two basins. Preliminary results of the causal network analysis indicate that mitigation measures are available for all pathways in which unconventional gas resource development activities may have the potential to impact on endpoints.

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