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Journal articles on the topic "Coal industry (Australia)"
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Walters, A. D. "Coal Preparation Developments in Indonesia and Australia." Energy Exploration & Exploitation 13, no. 4 (August 1995): 361–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014459879501300407.
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There is considerable development within the coal processing industries of both Indonesia and Australia. Indonesia is rapidly becoming a major coal producer of thermal coal and there is little need for conventional coal preparation of the generally low ash coal. However, much of Indonesia's lower grade coal is high moisture, high volatile sub-bituminous and new methods of thermal moisture reduction and briquetting will have to be used to increase quality, particularly for export. The coal briquetting industry in Indonesia is also planned to grow dramatically to some 4 M tpy to conserve Indonesia's oil products. Australia's mature coal industry has been carrying out a considerable amount of practical research and development with programmes that will result in improved process control and optimization resulting in increases in yield and better quality control.
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Sappal, Krishna K. "Geology and organic petrology of some selected Permian and Jurassic coals of Western Australia." Journal of Palaeosciences 45 (December 31, 1996): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.54991/jop.1996.1216.
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The commercial coal resources of Western Australia occur in sediments ranging in age from Permian to Jurassic. The coal from each period has distinctive geographical, biological and geological characteristics which effects its utilization in industry and power generation. Currently the Permian intracratonic Collect Basin is the only producing coalfield in Western Australia. The annual production from this coalfield is approximately 6million tonnes, which is mostly used for power generation. Another Permian coal deposit in the Vasse Shelf, located in the southern part of the Perth Basin has potential for export to Asian markets. The Early Jurassic coal of the Hill River area in the northern Perth Basin has been fully explored and is ready for mining as a source for power generation. All three coal deposits represent a measured in situ resource in excess of 1500 million tonnes for Western Australia.
Similar to the Gondwana coals of Australia, the coals are finely banded and the dominant lithotypes are dull banded with minor bright and bright banded types. The maceral composition of the coal is variable, however, the macerals of vitrinite and inertinite groups dominate, and the exinite and mineral matter contents are low, particularly in the Permian coals. On the basis of petrology of coal and the inter-seam sediments the depositional environment for the Permian coal was braided fluvial and fluvio-lacustrine, with marked fluctuations in the water table. The low water table accounts for fusain and inertodetrinite in the coal. The depositional environment for the Jurassic coal was of a low delta with some marine influence, supported by the presence of framboidal pyrite and acritarchs in the coal measures.
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Dighton, P. F. "COAL SEAM METHANE—MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF BUYERS, FINANCIERS AND REGULATORS." APPEA Journal 40, no. 1 (2000): 751. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj99053.
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Significant work is taking place in Queensland and New South Wales to make the recovery of natural gas from coal seams (Coal Seam Methane) a viable industry. At this stage there are still some daunting hurdles to overcome. Australian buyers and financiers remain sceptical on resource risk and continuity of supply issues. In the USA commercial production has been taking place for 20 years, but the industry was only able to achieve credibility and viability by relying on tax breaks. Unfortunately, the same type of government incentives are not present in Australia. Whether, in the absence of these incentives, Australian producers can harness the resource on an economic basis remains to be seen.
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Kassler, M. "Robots and mining: the implications for Australian industry in the 1980's." Robotica 3, no. 1 (January 1985): 13–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263574700001429.
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SummaryAfter elucidating the terms ‘mining’ and ‘robot’, a historical background to the problem of mining is described, with emphasis on the use of technology. Various reasons for the increasing utilisation of technology are discussed, as regards the mechanisation of existing operations and those unachievable without new technology. It is asserted that the mining industry has a number of particular features that make increasing mechanisation especially attractive. The point is made that the ultimate stage of the historical tendency towards the use of new technology is fully automatic mining, a goal that may not be realised, however, in the next decade.The above historical discussion is followed by a critical appraisal of the conservative nature of the Australian industry and the study of the various factors that contribute to the slow uptake of new technology in mining.Attention is then concentrated on the general problem of robots and mining. It is shown that worldwide there were no applications of robots to mining up to the end of 1981. A wide study has been carried out to identify some uses of robots in mining, but without success.The next topic to be discussed is the widespread confusion about robots and teleoperators. The fundamental difference between the two is underlined, and particular attention is paid to Thring's teleoperator mining concept (telechiric mining). It is emphasized that telechiric mining will have no significant impact upon Australian mining in this decade.These pessimistic asssessments are followed by claims that in some areas robotic concepts, though not robots themselves, could have a considerable effect on mining automation in the 1980's, both in Australia and elsewhere. The following projects are enumerated as possible candidates for applying robotic concepts: Surface mining; Mine development; Underground coal transport; Coal winning; Coal preparation. In order to make progress, it is recommended that a robotics expert ought to be included in the interdisciplinary teams studying the problem of mining automation.The last part of this paper is devoted to Australia's need for robotic mining. A list of systems involving robotic concepts is presented that may be realised in the current decade. It is maintained that Australia ought to develop a few of such systems for the domestic and international markets, and that the short-term needs of the Australian mining industry are fundamentally different from those of other Australian industries as regards robots. Hence, decisions regarding robots for mining should be made independently from those appertaining to automation problems of other industries.
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Lambourne, A. N., B. J. Evans, and P. J. Hatherly. "The application of the 3D seismic surveying technique to coal seam imaging: case histories from the Arckaringa and Sydney basins." Exploration Geophysics 20, no. 2 (1989): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/eg989137.
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Two dimensional seismic surveying is commonly used in the coal mining industry to assist the mining and development of coal deposits by seismically imaging coal seams. A specialised three dimensional seismic surveying technique has recently been performed over coal mining leases in South Australia and New South Wales, to trial its applicability to coal mine planning and extraction operations.The first two case histories of its trial in Australia are presented, and the conclusion drawn that the specialised three dimensional technique developed to date offers the ability to image coal seams in three dimensions and thereby improve mine planning in regions of complex faulting.
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Dello, Lou. "2011 PESA industry review: production and development." APPEA Journal 52, no. 1 (2012): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj11007.
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2011 was a lacklustre year for Australian hydrocarbon production, however a stellar year for LNG development. Domestic gas production was flat despite two new gas developments, Reindeer/Devil Creek and Halyard/Spar, which came into production during the year. Oil production fell, primarily due to the redevelopment of North West Shelf oil facilities, with Kitan in the Timor Sea being the only new offshore oil field that commenced production. LNG production was also flat however, Final Investment Decisions (FID) were announced for five new LNG projects, including Ichthys early in 2012, bringing the combined value of all eight sanctioned LNG projects to more than $180 billion. This is a huge volume of development, not only for the industry but for the whole Australian economy. Importantly, it has also moved Australia closer to becoming the world’s largest LNG producer. Increasing development costs and competition for skilled labour still remain the biggest challenges for the industry. Introduction of the carbon tax was also an important development in 2011, marking a significant step towards a low-carbon economy and increasing the opportunity for natural gas, but also burdening trade-exposed industries like LNG. The success of unconventional gas in the United States and CSG in Australia has sparked a step-change in exploration and development of unconventional gas in onshore Australia. Consolidation in coal seam gas sector continued on the east coast with the two acquisitions of Eastern Star Gas by Santos and Bow Energy by Arrow Energy. Continuing to effectively engage with the community will be central to the industry’s success.
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Azadi, Mehdi, Mansour Edraki, Faezeh Farhang, and Jiwhan Ahn. "Opportunities for Mineral Carbonation in Australia’s Mining Industry." Sustainability 11, no. 5 (February 27, 2019): 1250. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11051250.
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Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) via mineral carbonation is an effective method for long-term storage of carbon dioxide and combating climate change. Implemented at a large-scale, it provides a viable solution to harvesting and storing the modern crisis of GHGs emissions. To date, technological and economic barriers have inhibited broad-scale utilisation of mineral carbonation at industrial scales. This paper outlines the mineral carbonation process; discusses drivers and barriers of mineral carbonation deployment in Australian mining; and, finally, proposes a unique approach to commercially viable CCUS within the Australian mining industry by integrating mine waste management with mine site rehabilitation, and leveraging relationships with local coal-fired power station. This paper discusses using alkaline mine and coal-fired power station waste (fly ash, red mud, and ultramafic mine tailings, i.e., nickel, diamond, PGE (platinum group elements), and legacy asbestos mine tailings) as the feedstock for CCUS to produce environmentally benign materials, which can be used in mine reclamation. Geographical proximity of mining operations, mining waste storage facilities and coal-fired power stations in Australia are identified; and possible synergies between them are discussed. This paper demonstrates that large-scale alkaline waste production and mine site reclamation can become integrated to mechanise CCUS. Furthermore, financial liabilities associated with such waste management and site reclamation could overcome many of the current economic setbacks of retrofitting CCUS in the mining industry. An improved approach to commercially viable climate change mitigation strategies available to the mining industry is reviewed in this paper.
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Kondratiev, V. B. "Australian Mining Industry: Positions and Perspectives." Mining Industry Journal (Gornay Promishlennost), no. 1/2022 (March 15, 2022): 91–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.30686/1609-9192-2022-1-91-102.
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Australia has a world-leading mining industry as a producer for some 16 commodities including gold, bauxite, iron ore, rare earths, zinc, nickel and coal. In 2021, Australia’s mineral exports (excluding petroleum products) amounted to $200 billion which was 58% of all good’s export and 46% of all exported goods and services. In 2021, mining accounted for more than 10% of gross national product. In addition, the mining industry employed some 240 000 people, with many more employed by related industries. Australia is richly endowed with many minerals, that are regarded as critical, or strategic, minerals by many trading partners. Growing markets for these commodities, particularly for those associated with emerging technologies such as battery storage, renewable energy and electric vehicles have stimulated exploration and resource delineation in Australia in recent years
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Cooney, Phillip. "2011 PESA industry review: exploration." APPEA Journal 52, no. 1 (2012): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj11006.
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A continuing high and stable oil price through the latter part of 2011, oscillating around US$120 in the case of Tapis Crude, underpinned a small increase in exploration in 2011 in Australia compared with 2010, although there were marked regional differences between the northwest and southeast parts of the country. Exploration continued to be focused on the northwest offshore seeking incremental reserve additions of conventional gas to support planned and proposed liquid natural gas (LNG) projects and although information is hard to confirm, in general this program appears to have been successful with a number of relatively smaller discoveries and at least one major find, Zola–1. In the Cooper Basin exploration activity resumed after almost being shut down by floods in 2010, although flooding continued to be a problem in 2011. In the South Australian part, 27 new field wildcat (NFW) wells were drilled in 2011 compared with 8 in 2010. The program was also marked by a high rate of success. The other current major area of activity, the Queensland coal seam gas (CSG) program was also affected by flooding early in 2011 with 524 coal seam gas (CSG) wells drilled this year, compared with 648 in 2010 and more than 900 in 2009. In many jurisdictions shale gas or shale oil wells are not reported separately and are included in conventional petroleum wells in this report. Exploration for geothermal resources continued at a relatively low level with only 10 wells drilled in Australia in 2011, the most active state was Victoria with five wells. Despite the increase in activity, preliminary indications are that total exploration expenditure in 2011 will be less than in 2010. It is interesting to note that while the exploration effort in terms of wells and seismic has not changed much in the last few years the total expenditure has steadily increased in part reflecting the movement into deeper water drilling.
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Baker, G. L., and W. R. Skerman. "THE SIGNIFICANCE OF COAL SEAM GAS IN EASTERN QUEENSLAND." APPEA Journal 46, no. 1 (2006): 329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj05018.
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The commercial production of coal seam gas [CSG] in Australia is only a decade old. Over the last 10 years it has become a significant part of the Australian gas industry, particularly in Queensland where about 31 PJ or 30% of all natural gas used in the State was recovered from coal seams in eastern Queensland. In 2005 CSG was expected to have supplied 55 PJ or 44 % of the eastern Queensland gas demand. The mining, mineral processing and power generations in northwest Queensland, serviced by the Carpentaria Gas Pipeline, will continue to use gas from the Cooper-Eromanga Basin.The CSG industry is reaching a stage of maturity following the commissioning of a number of fields while some significant new projects are either in the commissioning phase or under development. By the end of 2008 CSG production in Queensland is expected to reach 150 PJ per year, the quantity needed to meet Gas Supply Agreements for CSG that are presently in place.Certified Proved and Probable (2P) gas reserves at 30 June 2005 in eastern Queensland were calculated to be 4,579 PJ, of which 4,283 PJ were CSG. Gas reserves (2P) for eastern Queensland a decade earlier were less than 100 PJ with those for CSG being less than 5 PJ.The coal seam gas industry in both the Bowen and Surat basins—which includes major gas producers such as Origin Energy Limited and Santos Limited along with smaller producers such as Arrow Energy NL, CH4 Gas Limited, Molopo Australia Limited and Queensland Gas Company Limited—is now accepted by major gas users as being suppliers of another reliable source of natural gas.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Coal industry (Australia)"
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Clark, David. "Terotechnology : its application to the Australian coal mining industry." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1995. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36236/1/36236_Clark_1995.pdf.
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Tererotechnology evolved between 1970 and 1975. In 1968 PA Management Consultants Ltd., was commissioned by the then Minister of Technology of the UK to carry out a study of engineering maintenance in British manufacturing industry.
It reported that:-
a) the total direct cost of engineering maintenance was approximately 1, 100 Million Pounds per annum (circa 1968)
b) improved productivity of maintenance staff could have led to a reduction in
maintenance expenditure of around 250 Million Pounds per annum.
c) better maintenance could have saved about 300 Million Pounds per annum of lost
production caused by unavailability.
Using this and other information a UK Ministry of Technology working party reporting in 1970 emphasised among other things, the importance of the link between maintenance costs and the feedback of information to the designers of the plant. A steering committee ( The Committee for Terotechnology) was then set up to examine the broader findings of this report and in 1972
published their conclusions, central to which was the statement - "the nature of the maintenance activity was determined by the manner in which plant and equipment was designed, selected, installed, commissioned, operated, removed and replaced. Major benefits could come to British Industry from the adoption of a broadly based technology which embraces all these areas, and because no suitable word exited to describe such a multidisciplinary
concept, the name "terotechnology" (based on the Greek word "terin" - to look after) was adopted." In 1975 the Committee for Terotechnology defined terotechnology as follows:- " a combination of management, financial, engineering and other practices applied to physical assets in pursuit of economic life cycle costs."
The following was then added: " .... its practice is concerned with the specification and design for reliability and maintainability of plant , machinery equipment, buildings and structures, with their
installation and replacement, and with the feedback of information on design, performance and costs." (1)
The definition was subsequently utilised in BS.3811 1984.
The concept ofterotechnology is therefore, a total concept, colloquially called whom to tomb.
The Australian underground coal mining industry is a. two billion dollar a year industry, contributing greatly to the Australian economy, particularly the export economy. Appendix CI-1 gives an overview of the industry. (2)
Having spent over 30 years in the industry, most of which was in engineering and maintenance, I was acutely aware that the industry committed many millions of dollars maintaining its plant and equipment. I was also aware that the equipment design was, in the main, maintenance
unfriendly. Also, equipment failures were responsible for many lengthy and expensive delays resulting in interruptions to the production process and loss of production.
Whilst many endeavours were made to improve the situation, I became persuaded that a much deeper problem existed, the results of which were being addressed but little effort seemed to be spent on addressing the fundamental causes of the problems resulting in equipment downtime and its consequences. Having been exposed to the discipline of terotechnology through studies for a Graduate Diploma in Maintenance Management (Terotechnology), I sought to study the industry's perception of itself in the terotechnological perspective. This resulted in my initial industry survey in 1985, of its maintenance and its management. The results identified that indeed a problem did exist but
needed a more indepth and expanded industry analysis for the real details to be quantified. To my knowledge, no previous research has been conducted into the terotechnological aspects of the coal mining industry.
Consequently, the research was commenced through QUT for a Master of Engineering Degree.
This Thesis is the results of that research.
The research sought to address the fundamental issues addressed in the UK study and to determine if indeed similar savings could be achieved in the Australian coal industry. That is a) to determine the cost of engineering maintenance b) to detennine the maintenance cost savings achievable if maintenance could be improved.
c) to determine the costs of lost production costs through maintenance causes.
The research commenced by issuing a survey document in 1989 and followed this up with detailed analysis of coal industry records. Two visits to the USA in 1991 and 1992, to discuss
equipment performance and design with designers and users also contributed to the research.
The underground coal mining industry uses two basic methods of mining to mine the coal in Australia. One is Bord and Pillar extraction method using continuous miner systems and the other is Longwall extraction methods. The research concentrated heavily on continuous miners as they were identified as having the greatest impact on maintenance and productivity in the immediate
future. Longwall is the technology of the future analysed but to a lesser extent than continuous miners, as a detailed industry analysis was being conducted by the coal industry of this technology during my research of continuous miners. The Australian underground coal mining industry is being forced to become more world wide
competitive than at any time in its history. It follows therefore, that whatever the technology used
to produce the coal, the four elements of:-
a) Fit for purpose equipment b) Competent people
c) Safe work procedures
d) Controlled work environment
must be addressed. This is consistent with the terotechnological approach of this research.
Results of the research follow in this document.
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Parkin, Raymond John Mining Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "The impact of legislation and other factors on the safety performance of Australian coal mines." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Mining Engineering, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43757.
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The theme of the thesis is to investigate the current safety paradigm in the Australian coal mining industry and establish if the safety performance is improving. The number of fatalities, serious bodily injuries and high potential injuries is unsatisfactory according to community standards. People are still being killed and there is little evidence of a sustained improvement trend over the last decade. Lost time injuries have reduced dramatically, but are now plateauing and over the last few years along with high potential injuries and other safety indicators are trending upwards. This research has found that hundreds of serious injuries are not being reported which would have a significant effect on safety indicators in the Industry. Fatigue and awareness issues as well as travel times to work are having a major impact on safety at work, which is particularly evident when employees are working 12-hour shifts. The rapid expansion of the mining industry has required the growing use of contractors, hence creating a more inexperienced workforce. Another significant finding is that there is a close association between the level of fatalities recorded and the growing use of contract labour in the industry. This research has demonstrated that the current approach to prosecution is counter productive, as it inhibits thorough safety investigation and creates a defensive rather than a proactive safety culture. This approach has resulted in unwillingness by companies to examine the root causes of accidents and incidents for the fear of being prosecuted. This research has shown there is a lack of trust between mining companies, the unions and the inspectorate. It has been stated that miners lives are at risk because of the shortage of Inspectors in Queensland and that the inspectorate was not meeting its compliance obligations. There is a "disconnect" between what mining companies aspire to achieve at the corporate level with their safety management systems and what is achieved at the coal face. The thesis has demonstrated that safety performance is deteriorating and in order to improve this situation recommendations have been made regarding prosecution, contractors, fatigue, safety and health management systems, hours of work, audits and remuneration for inspectors.
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Stewart, Alyssa Mining UNSW. "An investigation of sustainability reporting by companies in the Australian coal mining industry to public & regulatory audiences." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Mining, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/24850.
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In the lead-up to the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, several documents were published by the mining industry declaring the important role that public sustainability reporting had to play in driving sustainable development and pointing to the Global Reporting Initiative???s (GRI) 2002 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines as a suitable vehicle for this. With the aim of finding ways to improve the quantity and quality of public sustainability reporting within the Australian coal mining industry, this study set out to investigate the current sustainability reporting practices of companies involved in the industry. A survey was conducted of the public financial and non-financial reporting practices of all companies with a significant interest in a New South Wales or Queensland coal mine. Three survey cycles were completed covering the 2001, 2002 and 2003 calendar years and the 2001/02, 2002/03 and 2003/04 financial years. The reporting practices were determined both in terms of frequency of report production and contents of reports. A GRI-based content analysis tool was used to measure the amount of sustainability information contained in the company reports. It was found that only around a quarter of companies produced a nonfinancial report and that almost half did not produce any public reports, with the number of unlisted companies publicly reporting particularly low. Whilst a wide range of reporting practices were observed with regard to content, the frequency of Economic, Environmental and Social Performance Indicators in reports was generally found to be low. An investigation of the regulatory reporting requirements on companies was then conducted to determine what sustainability information companies could report with data that they already had at hand. The same GRI-based content analysis tool was used to analyse a variety of regulatory documents. It was found that companies did not publicly disclose a significant amount of the environmental data that they are required to report to regulators. The study also evaluated the reporting capacity of non-reporters and found that, with the exception of Governance Structure and Management Systems elements, large unlisted companies had similar regulatory reporting requirements to listed companies. However, smaller unlisted companies had fewer requirements to report Profile and Economic elements. Finally, the influences of company ownership structure, non-financial reporting status, industrial sector, nationality and participation in voluntary initiatives on sustainability reporting practices were investigated. It was concluded that in order for public sustainability reporting to be a useful tool in driving sustainable development, focus needed to shift from ???best practice??? to ???common practice??? so that a critical mass of reporters is amassed to allow benchmarking of performance.
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Cortez, Febres Jaime Arturo. "Diseño e implementación de un programa de mejora continua para minería: Mina Blair Athol, Río Tinto Coal Australia." Bachelor's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/18990.
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En línea con la Industria y Comercio mundiales, la minería moderna se ha visto en la
necesidad de implementar programas estructurados de Mejora Continua ante la necesidad de
optimizar el uso de sus recursos. En el sector de recursos naturales, tener costos bajos es
imperativo (de ser posible ubicarse en el 1er cuartil de costos), dada la naturaleza cíclica de
los precios de los commoditites.
El presente reporte es sobre mi experiencia profesional como Analista Senior de
Mejora Continua para la mina de carbón Blair Athol, propiedad de Rio Tinto Coal Australia,
en el estado de Queensland, Australia. Mi tarea se basó en diseñar e implementar, en
coordinación con la división corporativa, un Programa de Mejoramiento Continuo de
Procesos de Negocios (PMC), que se adaptara a las condiciones y circunstancias de la mina.
Blair Athol, una de las minas de carbón más antiguas del estado y una de las mayores en el
mundo en producción de carbón termal, llegaba a sus últimos años de vida. Adicionalmente,
las industrias generadoras de combustibles fósiles comenzaban a enfrentar oposición por
consideraciones ambientales. Debido a esto, la estrategia seguida tenía que considerar los
siguientes condicionantes:
La cercanía de la etapa de cierre de mina, obliga a dar menor prioridad al
cambio cultural profundo, el cual puede demandar mucho tiempo;
Conforme la etapa de cierre se acerca, se espera un aumento en la rotación de
personal, lo cual demanda que los procedimientos estén muy bien
documentados (institucionalizados) y no dependan de las personas;
Contracción en el margen de utilidad, por el incremento de los costos
operativos, paralelo a la disminución de las ventas por la baja en la calidad del
carbón remanente; y
Nuevos desafíos propios del final de la etapa comercial de la mina (medio
ambientales, laborales, logísticos, financieros, etc.), incrementándose el riesgo
general del negocio.
Por todo lo anterior el Programa de Mejora Continua de la Mina Blair Athol debía ser
enfocado en el rendimiento económico de los procesos y en la mitigación de riesgos. El
programa debería contemplar al cambio cultural como consecuencia de la implementación de
los proyectos de mejora, y debía ser altamente estructurado y documentado.
El programa se diseñó basado en la arquitectura de un Sistema de Gestión, con
similitud a un Sistema de Gestión de Seguridad, Salud e Higiene. Una ventaja de esta
estrategia es que el Sistema de Gestión de Mejoramiento Continuo puede en algún momento
fusionarse con los Sistemas de Gestión mencionados y lograr sinergias en las plataformas y
herramientas de gestión utilizadas.
El fin último de todo programa de mejora continua es alinear la cultura de la
organización, sus procesos de negocios y sus sistemas de gestión con la estrategia corporativa
de negocios; se utiliza como recurso primario la iniciativa y el compromiso con la
organización de cada colaborador, quien idealmente deberá actuar como si fuera el “dueño”
del negocio. Este esfuerzo requiere del diseño e implementación de sistemas y herramientas
de gestión ad hoc.
El modelo de programa contenido en el presente reporte es el resultado de la
aplicación de metodologías de mejora continua en diversas organizaciones mineras de gran
escala a nivel nacional e internacional, en las cuales el autor ha prestado servicios.
El PMC propuesto va a necesitar de los siguientes elementos estratégicos para lograr
resultados sostenibles y congruentes con los principios de gestión moderna.
1. Principios Éticos de Negocios – representan la base moral que debe tener la
empresa, sobre la cual se deben desarrollar todas las actividades relativas al
negocio, incluyendo las relacionadas al PMC;
2. Dirección Estratégica – proveen dirección y foco al PMC. Están
determinadas por la Visión, Misión y Objetivos;
3. Estructura de Gobierno – determina los roles y responsabilidades para la
implementación efectiva del PMC;
4. Elementos Impulsores del PMC – son herramientas y sistemas que permiten
la ejecución exitosa del PMC. A saber:
a. Generadores de Motivación y Comportamiento; El
Reconocimiento, El Desarrollo Profesional e incentivos
económicos servirán como medios para desarrollar
compromiso en los participantes del PMC.
b. Sistema Operativo de Gestión; los mecanismos que permiten
la administración y control de la implementación del PMC.
Por ejemplo, el registro de ideas de mejora o los procesos de
reporte sobre rendimiento y avances.
c. Metodología de Mejora Continua; el método general a seguir
en la implementación de proyectos de mejora, incluyendo
técnicas de análisis y gestión de proyectos.
d. Proceso de Desarrollo de Proyecto; el proceso que sigue una
Idea de Mejora hasta llegar a ser Proyecto de Mejora.
e. Reuniones y Sesiones de Trabajo; se llevan a cabo de acuerdo
a estándares de eficiencia predeterminados.
f. Adquisición de Habilidades y Entrenamiento; una propuesta
para adquirir los conocimientos y habilidades sobre las
metodologías de mejoramiento continuo.
g. Gestión de Cambio; es crítico para generar aceptación e
involucramiento por parte de los miembros de la
organización a todo nivel.
h. Gestión de Conocimiento; el sistema que captura, documenta
y permite compartir el conocimiento adquirido a través de la
implementación del PMC.
5. Plan de Implementación – es el paquete de instalación del PMC, el cual
incluye un cronograma de actividades conducentes al lanzamiento del PMC;
6. Procesos de Revisión y Reporte – monitorean el desarrollo del PMC
brindando información oportuna a la Gerencia y permitiendo la aplicación de
medidas correctivas en caso haya desviaciones del plan original;
7. Herramientas Generales y Recursos – facilitan la estandarización de las
actividades relacionadas a la implementación de proyectos de mejora continua
El PMC, al ser ejecutado y ser probado en circunstancias reales, generará
oportunidades de mejora y/o cambios en sí mismo, que pueden ser de formato, metodología e
incluso de estrategia. Así. el PMC, se considera un Sistema Vivo y autorregulado.
A continuación, un cuadro esquemático que muestra el flujograma del proceso de
implementación del programa como también, los pasos requeridos para su revisión y
modificación o mejoramiento.
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Sinclair, Darren. "Workplace health and safety in the Australia coal mining industry: mistrust, management and regulation." Phd thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/16993.
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Over the last 10 to 15 years, Australian coal mining companies have implemented
sophisticated management systems designed to substantially improve workplace heath
and safety (WHS). This has led to a distinctive WHS ‘architecture’ across the industry,
and has coincided with steadily declining fatality and injury rates. In conjunction with
these developments, government regulators have progressively modified the external
regulatory framework. In particular, new forms of regulation have shifted away from
prescription towards ‘management-based’ initiatives. The expectation is that
companies will go ‘beyond compliance’ to achieve WHS improvements greater than
that required by law.
The combination of internal company WHS architecture and external managementbased
regulation has coincided with substantial improvements in WHS outcomes
across the Australian coal mining industry. Since the mid 1990s, fatalities have fallen
substantially, along with other recorded injuries. However, in the last few years it
appears that these earlier gains have not been sustained. Further, WHS outcomes
vary widely between individual mine sites of the same company. Against this backdrop, the thesis addresses two overriding research questions. First,
what factors have hindered the continued and consistent improvement in WHS
outcomes across mine sites? Second, and from a normative perspective, what policies
and strategies may be employed to overcome such factors?
In answering these questions, the thesis addresses several inter-related themes,
namely: the implementation of corporate-wide WHS management systems; the role of
culture, especially mistrust, in influencing the operation of such internal WHS management systems; the role of mistrust in undermining the operation of external
regulation, including management-based regulation; the tendency of WHS codes of
practice to be used as a form of creeping prescription; and the competencies,
capacities and enforcement strategies of WHS regulatory agencies.
The thesis draws on interview-based fieldwork, desktop research and literature reviews
competed between 2007 and 2012. Face-to-face interviews were conducted at three
Australian coal-mining companies, as well as with regulatory officials across Australia
and officials from national and state mining industry associations and trade unions. In
addition, phone-based interviews were conducted with WHS management from over
20 metalliferous and coal mining companies. The thesis also draws on a range of
safety statistics, both from the public domain and internal company records. Finally,
interviews and statistical data were supplemented by reviews of both the domestic and
international literature.
The thesis’ findings suggest that WHS management systems may be, to a
considerable extent, subservient to the culture into which they are received. And high
levels of organisational mistrust, in particular, are more prevalent in those mine sites
that appear to have resisted most strongly the imposition of corporate wide WHS
management systems and standards. Beyond internal culture, the tools, behaviour and
attitudes of mining inspectorates also influence WHS behaviour and outcomes. As
such, the thesis considers how mining inspectorates should interact with mining
companies in seeking to enforce WHS compliance, what inspectoral competencies,
characteristics and behaviours should they possess, and what enforcement guidelines
should they operate under. In this respect, the findings of the thesis may resonate
beyond the Australian coal mining industry.
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"The investment potential for a South African mining house in the Australian coal mining industry." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/13194.
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M.Phil. (Mineral Economics)The energy crises in the seventies and eighties had led to an awareness in the world's business community about the profit potential in the energy mineral supply market. All the sectors in this industry came under scrutiny, also the coal export sector. This awareness and rising interest in the world's coal export market caused amongst others, two major developments : a) a significant rise in investments in coal exporting ventures b) a higher expectation by shareholders with respect to capital returns and future growth Most companies participated in this expansion campaign, and committed resources to achieving the higher objectives. The downturn in'the world's economy , and the resultant diminished demand for energy minerals, caused the coal export market to come under pressure. The long lead time existing in the establishment of mining projects, and the fact that mines under construction cannot be mothballed until times improve, also contributed to the over-capacity situation that eventuated in the coal export industry worldwide. Many companies faced a battle for survival, and participants in the industry had to re-appraise their long term strategies. Established coal producing companies had to determine which strategies would best answer their requirements : a) whether it be to divest from coal production b) whether they should diversify their operational base and many others...
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Mumford, Karen. "Wage determination and strike activity in the New South Wales coal industry : trade union and employer bargaining." Phd thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/131457.
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The New South Wales (NSW) coal industry has been one of the most strike torn industries in the world, with violent and bitter battles between trade union and employer. This thesis seeks a greater understanding of the determination of wages and strike activity in this industry.
The thesis is presented in two parts. Part one considers difficulties encountered when modelling the objectives of a trade union, and the outcome of bargaining between a trade union and firm. Part two applies models of the objectives of trade unions, and bargaining, to issues of wage determination, and strike activity in the NSW coal industry.
The process of wage determination in the NSW coal industry is investigated using the reduced form of Svejnar's (1986) model. The major prediction of Svejnar's model, that there is a positive relationship between the industry surplus and the industry wage, is strongly supported. The results are improved upon by adapting Svejnar's model. A first-order dynamic adjustment model is used to allow for a more complicated dynamic structure than that assumed in the theoretical model. Furthermore, by taking into account some of the aspects of the bi-sectoral (open cut and underground) structure of the coal industry and the heterogeneity of its labour force, Svejnar's model is generalised from its specific reduced form.
The thesis also provides a survey of the major, and more influential, models of strike activity. Some of these models are then applied to data from the NSW coal industry, resulting in three major conclusions: (i) with the exception of the Hayes' (1984) model, the theories considered do not provide acceptable explanations of strike activity in the NSW coal industry; (ii) there are common empirical relationships that are predicted by authors of very different theories; and (iii) there is a need to treat measures of strike activity as potentially different, rather than alternative, indicators of strike. An eclectic model of strikes is then developed. This eclectic model is based on Tracy's (1986) world-wise approach and was greatly influenced by: the theoretical survey of strike models; the empirical application of these models to the NSW coal industry; and familiarity with the NSW coal industry. Each of the different measures of strike activity is modelled using a common set of explanatory variables in an attempt to ascertain the commonality, or uniqueness, of the relationships determining strike activity.
The results suggested that the explanations for strike frequency, the size of strike, strike intensity, and the average duration of strikes are not the same. Indeed, the only variable which was found to have a significant effect on all four of these measures of strike activity is the level of market concentration in the NSW coal industry. (This variable also had the highest elasticity, at the sample mean, of all the significant variables in the regressions for strike frequency, average duration, or strike incidence in the NSW coal industry.) The explanation for this dominance of market concentration on the results is unclear. From both empirical and theoretical perspectives, there appears to be a need to consider the role of industrial relations more fully. Despite this common theme that runs through the regressions for strike frequency, average duration, and strike intensity, it should be stressed that each of these regressions also exhibits combinations of significant empirical relationships which are unique to itself. This result rejects the use of these measures of strike activity as simple alternatives for each other.
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Benyahia, Sefiane. "A comparative study of the resilience of coal logistics chains in Australia, South Africa and Canada." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/8680.
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Au cours des dernières années l'industrie du charbon a connu un essor important. L'importance du charbon dans l'économie mondiale provient d'une demande mondiale soutenue et de niveaux de production en hausse constante. De ce fait, le nombre élevé d'importateurs et d'exportateurs est à l'origine d'un système d'échange complexe où la compétition est féroce. En effet, un nombre grandissant de pays importateurs se partagent les sources d'approvisionnement tandis qu'un nombre limité de pays exportateurs s'efforcent de répondre à la demande tout en essayant de s'accaparer le plus de parts du marché mondial.
L'objectif de cette recherche s'inscrit dans ce contexte en démontrant les bénéfices associés aux chaînes logistiques résilientes pour tout acteur de l'industrie soucieux de devancer la compétition. Une analyse de la logistique de l'industrie du charbon permet entre autres de se pencher sur les questions suivantes: Comment les infrastructures influencent-elles la résilience d'une chaîne logistique? Quels risques est-ce que les catastrophes naturelles présentent pour une chaîne logistique? Comment la gouvernance influence-t-elle la résilience d'une chaîne logistique?
Une chaîne logistique représente le trajet effectué par un bien ou produit au cours de son cycle de vie, du point d'origine au point de consommation. Ceci étant dit, le meilleur moyen de régler les problèmes inhérents aux chaînes logistiques est de maintenir de hauts niveaux de résilience. Cette recherche évaluera donc la résilience de chaînes logistiques du charbon des industries australienne, sud-africaine et canadienne. Pour ce faire, trois variables seront étudiées: les infrastructures, les catastrophes naturelles et la gouvernance. La comparaison des trois cas à l'étude se fera par un nombre défini d'indicateurs (12 au total) pour chacune des variables étudiées. Les résultats de cette recherche démontrent que la résilience des trois cas à l'étude se ressemble. Cependant, certaines chaînes logistiques détiennent des avantages comparatifs qui améliorent grandement leur résilience et leur compétitivité. Plusieurs sujets de recherche pourraient être utilisés pour compléter cette recherche. L'analyse comparative pourrait être appliquée à d'autres chaînes logistiques pour vérifier la viabilité des résultats. Une analyse semblable pourrait également être entreprise pour le secteur en aval de la chaîne logistique. Finalement, une méthodologie basée sur des interviews pourrait ajouter un regard différent sur les questions abordées.In recent years, the importance of coal in the world economy has been put to the forefront by a strong demand and consequently, increasing levels of production. The increasing number of buyers and the limited number of sellers has created a system where competition is fiercer than ever. On one hand, importing countries are trying to secure sources of supply while on the other hand, exporting countries are striving to meet demand and secure as many export markets as possible. In this context, the objective of this research paper is to demonstrate how resilient logistics chains can help decision makers of the industry to stay ahead of the competition. To do this, an analysis of the logistics chain of the industry is the best way to verify whether or not the industry is operating as well as it should be. Such an analysis allows us to tackle the following issues: How do infrastructure issues impact the resilience of the logistics chain? What risks do environmental hazards pose to the logistics chain? Does governance have a positive or negative influence on the resilience of the logistics chain? “Logistics chain” designates the journey of any kind of product or commodity through the various steps of its life from its creation or point of origin to its point of consumption. This being said, the best way to solve problems in the logistics chain is to find ways to maintain high levels of resilience. This research paper will evaluate the resilience of logistics chains within the Australian, South African and Canadian coal industries. This evaluation will be based on three variables: infrastructures, environment and governance. The methodology necessary to accomplish this task is based on twelve indicators. As the main evaluation tool, these indicators are used to compare the case studies in the context of each variable. The results of this research paper show that the three case studies have similar levels of resilience. However, some case studies have areas in which they outperform their counterparts. While this research provides an in-depth look at the coal industry, several research avenues could still be explored. First of all, expanding the comparative analysis to different coal exporters could add nuance. This task could be undertaken in a different research paper providing decision makers with even more examples of how to improve resilience. A similar comparative approach could also be applied to the downstream section of the logistics chain. Furthermore, a methodology based on interviews with stakeholders could bring in a new perspective on the issue at hand.
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Hanson, Charlotte. "Regulating the known unknowns : how environmental uncertainty is addressed in the regulation of the coal seam gas industry in Queensland and New South Wales." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109600.
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Environmental regulation issues surrounding Australia's mining sector have received
relatively little attention from environmental law scholars. 1 This neglect has meant
there has not been a concerted attempt to draw lessons for environmental law and
regulation from the experience of this sector. This thesis aims to contribute to that
field of scholarship with an examination of the regulation of Australia's burgeoning
coal seam gas (CSG) industry.
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(13114611), Wesley James Foi Nichols. "Surface and borehole geophysical analysis of structures within the Callide Basin, eastern Central Queensland." Thesis, 2001. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Surface_and_borehole_geophysical_analysis_of_structures_within_the_Callide_Basin_eastern_Central_Queensland/20334999.
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Traditional geophysical techniques, such as electrical, magnetic, seismic and gamma spectroscopic methods, have been deployed across the Callide Basin, Eastern Central Queensland, intent on delineating basin -wide structures. Further, innovative surface and borehole geophysical techniques have been applied for coal mine -scale exploration and production with the intention of reducing global geological ambiguity and optimising exploration resources at Callide Coalfields.
A very low frequency electromagnetic surface impedance mapping method, the SIROLOG downhole technique, acoustic scanning, electromagnetic tomography and
full wave -form sonic borehole logging have been trialed for geological hazard and mine design applications at Callide Coalfields as the precursor to their wider
application and acceptance in the Australian coal industry.
In this thesis, the theoretical basis for these techniques is provided. However, more importantly, the case studies presented demonstrate the role that these geophysical
techniques have played in identifying geological structures critical to mining.
Reverse faults that daylight in highwalls and intrusions constitute geological hazards that affect safety, costs and scheduling in mining operations. Identification of the limit
of oxidation of coal seams (coal subcrop) is critical in mine design. During the course of this thesis, the application of geophysical techniques resulted in:
a) a major structure (the "Trap Gully Monocline") being redefined from its original
interpretation as a normal fault to a monocline that is stress -relieved by minor scale thrust faulting;
b) two previously unidentified intrusions (the Kilburnie "Homestead" plug and The Hut "Crater" plug) that impinge on mining have been discovered;
c) the delineation of two coal subcrop lines has resulted in the discovery of an additional 1.5 million tonnes of coal reserve at Boundary Hill mine and the successful redesign of mining strips at The Hut Central Valley and Eastern
Hillside brownfield sites; and
d) the first ever attempt to petrophysically characterise the lithotypes within the Callide Basin.
Books on the topic "Coal industry (Australia)"
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Custodio, Rolando. Australia joint government and industry clean coal technology mission to the US and Canada: Mission report. [Perth]: Government of Western Australia, 2003.
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Regulatory governance and risk management: Occupational health and safety in the coal mining industry. New York: Routledge, 2011.
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Piggin, Stuart. The Mt. Kembla disaster. South Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press in association with Sydney University Press, 1992.
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Spillman, Ken. A rich endowment: Government and mining in Western Australia, 1829-1994. Nedlands, W.A: University of Western Australia Press for the Dept. of Minerals and Energy, in association with the Centre for Western Australian History, University of Western Australia, 1993.
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Commission, Australia Productivity. The Australian black coal industry: Inquiry report. Melbourne: The Commission, 1998.
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Pemberton, P. A. Pure merinos and others: The "shipping lists" of the Australian Agricultural Company. Canberra: Australian National University, Archives of Business and Labour, 1986.
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Bowden, Bradley, Barry Michael, and Peter Brosnan. The Fallacy of Flexibility: Workplace Reform in the Queensland Open Cut Coal Industry. Allen & Unwin, 1999.
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Yang, Binglin. Regulatory Governance and Risk Management: Occupational Health and Safety in the Coal Mining Industry. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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Yang, Binglin. Regulatory Governance and Risk Management: Occupational Health and Safety in the Coal Mining Industry. Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.
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Yang, Binglin. Regulatory Governance and Risk Management: Occupational Health and Safety in the Coal Mining Industry. Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.
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Bird, Deanne, and Andrew Taylor. "Disasters and Demographic Change of ‘Single-Industry’ Towns—Decline and Resilience in Morwell, Australia." In The Demography of Disasters, 125–51. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49920-4_7.
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Abstract In 2014, an open-cut coal mine fire burned for 45 days in the small single-industry town of Hazelwood in Victoria (Australia) spreading smoke and ash across the adjacent community of Morwell. This chapter examines the extent to which the mine fire acted as a catalyst for demographic and socio-economic change and considers how, if at all, it impacted Morwell’s resilience to disasters. We report on a range of secondary data analyses augmented with qualitative insights captured in government reports (namely, the Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry reports), as well as from related research papers and media articles. We suggest that a succession of structural and demographic changes meant that the town and its residents were accustomed and resilient to relatively large shocks. In this sense, the Morwell and broader Latrobe Valley population banded together around various community-led initiatives to fight for a better future for their community.
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Pandey, Sanjeev, Randall Cox, and Steven Flook. "Cumulative Groundwater Impact Assessment and Management – An Example in Practice." In Groundwater [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.95278.
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Production of coal seam gas (CSG), or coal bed methane, requires large-scale depressurisation of a target formation by extracting groundwater, which, in turn, has the potential to affect overlying and underlying aquifers. This leads to wide-ranging stakeholder concerns around the impacts on groundwater assets such as water supply bores, groundwater-dependent ecosystems and connected watercourses. Around 2010, the CSG industry in Queensland, Australia grew rapidly with the expansion of operations in the Surat and Bowen basins by multiple operators. This particularly raised concerns about the cumulative effects, because the target coal seams are part of the Great Artesian Basin – one of the world’s largest aquifers. To respond to this challenge, an innovative framework was developed to provide for an independent cumulative impact assessment and to set up arrangements for managing those impacts. This chapter describes the main thrust of that framework.
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"Playing the Media Game: The relative (in)visibility of coal industry interests in media reporting of coal as a climate change issue in Australia." In Environmental Journalism, 107–22. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315829494-14.
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Hardin, Garrett. "From Jevons's Coal to Hubbert's Pimple." In Living within Limits. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195078114.003.0018.
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In a commercial society like ours it is understandable that money-makers should be the ones who pay the greatest attention to the implications of economics. Historians have been a breed apart, with most of them (until recently) paying little heed to the ways in which economics affects history. Yet surprisingly, a basis for the eventual integration of economics, ecology, and history was laid in the nineteenth century. The Victorian who tackled history from the economic side was William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882). The distinction made in the previous chapter between living in a area and living on it was a paraphrase of what Jevons wrote about the material basis of English prosperity: "The plains of North America and Russia are our cornfields; Chicago and Odessa our granaries; Canada and the Baltic are our timber forests; Australia contains our sheep farms, and in South America are our herds of oxen;.. . the Chinese grow tea for us, and our coffee, sugar, and spice plantations are in all the Indies. Spain and France are our vineyards, and the Mediterranean our fruit-garden.'" A century before the term "ghost acres" was coined, Jevons had clearly in mind the idea behind the term. Half a century before Jevons was born—in fact in the year the Bastille was stormed by French revolutionaries (1789)—an English mineral surveyer by the name of John Williams had asked, in The Limited Quantity of Coal of Britain, what would happen to the blessings of the industrial revolution when England no longer possessed the wherewithal to power the machinery that produced her wealth? Optimism is so deeply engrained a characteristic of busy people that this warning, like most first warnings, was little noted. It remained for Jevons to rouse the British public in 1865 with the publication of his book, The Coal Question. Jevons's life coincided in time with the period when the nature and significance of energy (in its prenuclear formulation) was becoming manifest to physical scientists. Since energy was needed to turn the wheels of industry, and coal was the most readily available source of energy, Jevons reasoned that the continued political dominance of Great Britain was dependent on the bounty of her coal. This naturally led to the double question, How long would English coal and the British Empire last?
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LEIGH, J., and A. N. WILES. "FACTORS AFFECTING PREVALENCE OF MUCUS HYPERSECRETION AND AIRFLOW OBSTRUCTION IN THE COAL INDUSTRY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA." In Inhaled Particles VI, 1186–88. Elsevier, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-034185-9.50143-1.
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Lunarzewski, L. W. "The Australian black coal mining industry." In Mining in the New Millennium Challenges and Opportunities, 55–61. CRC Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003078692-7.
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Alger, Justin. "A “Paper Park” in the Australian Coral Sea." In Conserving the Oceans, 105–32. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197540534.003.0005.
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This chapter examines the fraught efforts of subsequent Australian governments to protect the Australian Coral Sea over a 10-year period. The political economy of the Australian Coral Sea made efforts to protect it a contested stakeholder battle between the government, environmental groups, the ecotourism sector, and the commercial and recreational fishing sectors. Moderate levels of commercial activity in the area forced the government to repeatedly water down regulations over its decade-long consultation process. The end result, this chapter argues, was a “paper park” that does little to protect ocean ecosystems. The Coral Sea process demonstrates the outsized influence that even relatively minor extractive industry interests can often have over conservation policy.
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Windram, Craig. "Greenhouse control technologies and strategies for the Australian coal mining industry." In Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies 4, 785–90. Elsevier, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-008043018-8/50125-9.
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Windram, Craig. "The implications of climate change policy for the Australian coal mining industry." In Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies 4, 541–46. Elsevier, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-008043018-8/50087-4.
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Mosse, Laurent, Stephen Pell, and Thomas Neville. "IDENTIFICATION OF BREAKOUT BEHIND CASING: METHODOLOGY TO OBTAIN OPENHOLE EQUIVALENT CALIPER MEASUREMENTS THROUGH SLOTTED LINER USING THE DENSITY TOOL." In 2021 SPWLA 62nd Annual Logging Symposium Online. Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30632/spwla-2021-0046.
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Growth in the coal seam gas industry in Queensland, Australia, has been rapid over the past fifteen years, with greater than USD 70 billion invested in three liquified natural gas export projects supplied by produced coal seam gas. Annual production is of the order of 40 Bscm or 1,500 PJ, with approximately 80% of this coming from the Jurassic Walloon Coal Measures of the Surat Basin and 20% from Permian coal measures of the Bowen Basin. The Walloon Coal Measures are characterized by multiple thin coal seams making up approximately 10% of the total thickness of the unit. A typical well intersects 10 to 20 m of net coal over a 200 to 300 m interval, interbedded with lithic-rich sandstones, siltstones, and carbonaceous mudstones. The presence of such a significant section of lithic interburden within the primary production section has led to a somewhat unusual completion strategy. To maximize connection to the gas-bearing coals, uncemented slotted liners are used; however, this leaves fluid-sensitive interburden exposed to drilling, completion, and produced formation fluids over the life of a well. External swellable packers and blank joints are therefore used to isolate larger intervals of interburden and hence minimize fines production. Despite these efforts, significant fines production still occurs, which leads to failure of artificial lift systems and the need for expensive workovers or lost wells. Fines production has major economic implications, with anecdotal reports suggesting up to 40% of progressive cavity pump artificial lift systems in Walloon Coal Measures producers may be down at any one time. The first step in solving this problem is to identify the extent and distribution of fines production. The wellbore completion strategy above, however, precludes use of mechanical calipers to identify fines production-related wellbore enlargement. A new caliper-behind-liner technique has therefore been developed using a multiple-detector density tool. Data from the shorter spacing detectors is used to characterize the properties of the liner as well as the density of the annular material. This is particularly important to evaluate as the annulus fill varies between gas, formation water, drilling and completion fluids, and accumulated fines. The longer spacing detector measurements are then used in conjunction with pre-existing open-hole formation density measurement to determine the thickness of the annulus, and hence hole size, compensating for liner and annulus properties. This methodology has been applied to several wells completed in the Walloon Coal Measures. Results have demonstrated the ability to identify zones of borehole enlargement behind slotted liner, as well as intervals of either gas or fines accumulation in the annulus. In addition, the technique has been successful in verifying the placement of swellable packers and their integrity. The application of this solution has been used to drive improvements in the design of in-wellbore completion programs and in the future will help drive recompletion decisions and trigger proactive workovers.
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Jaques, Susan. "Same Yet Different: A Comparison of Pipeline Industries in Canada and Australia." In 2000 3rd International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2000-106.
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Canada and Australia are remarkably similar countries. Characteristics such as geography, politics, native land issues, and population are notably similar, while the climate may be considered the most obvious difference between the two countries. The pipeline industries are similar as well, but yet very different in some respects too. This presentation will explore some of the similarities and differences between the pipeline industries in both countries. The focus of the discussion will be mainly on long-distance, cross-country gas transmission pipelines. The author of this paper spent 4 years working for TransCanada PipeLines in Calgary in a pipeline design and construction capacity, and has spent 2.5 years working for an engineering consultant firm, Egis Consulting Australia, in a variety of roles on oil and gas projects in Australia. Topics to be addressed include the general pipeline industry organisation and the infrastructure in both countries. The history of the development of the pipeline industry in each country provides insight as to why each is organised the way it is today. While neither system is “better” than the other, there are certain advantages to Canada’s system (nationally regulated) over Australia’s system (currently state-regulated). The design codes of each country will be compared and contrasted. The pipeline design codes alternate in level of detail and strictness of requirements. Again, it cannot be said that one is “better” than the other, although in some cases one country’s code is much more useful than the other for pipeline designers. Construction techniques affected by the terrain and climate in each country will be explored. Typical pipeline construction activities are well known to pipeliners all over the globe: clear and grade, trench, string pipe, weld pipe, coat welds, lower in, backfill and clean up. The order of these activities may change, depending on the terrain and the season, and the methods of completing each activity will also depend on the terrain and the season, however the principles remain the same. Australia and Canada differ in aspects such as climate, terrain and watercourse type, and therefore each country has developed methods to handle these issues. Finally, some of the current and future opportunities for the 21st century for the pipeline industry in both countries will be discussed. This discussion will include items such as operations and maintenance issues, Canada’s northern development opportunities, and Australia’s national gas grid possibilities.
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McMaster, Scott Y., Dean R. Campbell, and Eric Jas. "Pipeline Shore Approach Design: Case Study." In ASME 2011 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2011-49937.
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An insight is provided into the design of a large diameter high pressure gas pipeline shore approach for an LNG project off the coast of North Western Australia. The shore approach is located in a challenging and congested area, within one of Australia’s busiest ports. In close proximity to the pipeline route are two existing high pressure gas pipelines, several major shipping channels, a large spoil ground and environmentally sensitive coral reefs. Throughout the design process, careful consideration has been given to environmental and heritage constraints. In the case of the pipeline shore approach, prevention of coral mortality due to dredging induced turbidity has been a key priority. Ensuring the preservation of the heritage site adjacent to the landfall site has also been a major consideration. This paper describes the numerous challenges faced in designing the pipeline shore approach. A description of the design processes used to develop the secondary stabilisation and accidental external impact designs is provided. The unique methods employed to install the trunkline system across an operating shipping channel are also described. The information provided in this paper can be applied to the design and development of numerous pipeline shore approaches in the future. Individuals interested in pipeline secondary stabilisation, impact protection, shore crossings and pipelay techniques will also find this paper of value. This paper contributes to the technical knowledge base of the offshore industry by displaying the benefits of effectively combining relevant theoretical approaches with state of the art physical model testing methods and best practice installation techniques. This work demonstrates how innovative design practices can be successfully applied to produce a safe, cost effective and robust pipeline shore approach design in a challenging area.
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Macfarlane, Gregor J., Nicholas T. M. Johnson, Lauchlan J. Clarke, Ross J. Ballantyne, and Kevin A. McTaggart. "The Floating Harbour Transhipper: New-Generation Transhipment of Bulk Ore Products." In ASME 2015 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2015-41337.
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Bulk products such as iron ore and coal are usually shipped directly from shore facilities using large bulk carriers. This often involves significant cost due to major dredging operations, long jetties, large storage sheds and the acquisition of large tracts of coastal land. The costs of direct shore to an ocean-going export vessel (OGV) loading often run into billions of dollars — prohibitive for small- to medium-scale mining operations, particularly in remote regions with only distant access to deep water ports. The current industry standard for mitigating these issues is transhipping; the bulk cargo is transported from a smaller shore based facility to the export vessel moored in deep water by a small feeder vessel. Transhipment, while mitigating many of these issues, does introduce other concerns with respect to limiting seastate, environmentally harmful dust and potential spillage during materials transfer. The Australian company Sea Transport Corporation and the Australian Maritime College at the University of Tasmania are developing new technology for bulk ore transhipment: the floating harbour transhipper (FHT). The FHT is essentially a large floating warehouse with an aft well dock to support material transfer operations from the feeder vessel. The major advantages to the mining export industry are in the form of environmental and economic improvements, in some cases completely avoiding expensive dredging while minimising the environmentally invasive onshore infrastructure. In addition, the whole process is enclosed, therefore eliminating grab spillage and dust transport issues common to other transhipping methods. This paper presents an overview of the main hydrodynamic issues currently being investigated: primarily the interaction between multiple floating bodies close to one another in a seaway. The two primary ship-to-ship interactions that are being investigated are the effects experienced by the feeder vessel when it is docking or undocking within the FHT well dock and the interactions between the three vessels when operating in close proximity in an open seaway. A combination of physical scale model experiments and numerical techniques is employed, with a significant portion of the experimental program dedicated to the validation of the numerical simulation codes used to investigate the behaviour of the vessels. ShipMo3D is an object based library developed by DRDC for the purpose of analysing the seakeeping performance of vessels operating in a seaway in either the frequency or time domain. The capabilities of ShipMo3D are applied to this novel application in an attempt to provide realistic simulations of the interaction between the vessels of the FHT system. DualSPHysics, an open source Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code, is being applied to the domain within the very restricted water environment of the FHT well dock to investigate the fluid flow behaviour and the effect that this has on the feeder vessel when entering/exiting.