A key issue facing Australia’s globally significant liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) industry in Queensland is the treatment of brines produced from co-produced coal seam gas (“CSG”)
water. At present, these brines are stored in above ground ponds on an interim basis, whilst the industry investigates optimal ways to treat them, and dispose of any residual material.
Several methods have been reviewed and rejected, with the “last man left standing” being salt encapsulation which is a non-optimal solution, but is what the industry is facing, and which is presented here as the Base Case.
