Arrow Energy's Surat basin CBM field on stream

Jan. 24, 2006
Arrow Energy NL, Brisbane, has made its first natural gas deliveries from Kogan North coalbed methane field in Queensland's Surat basin.

Rick Wilkinson
OGJ Correspondent

MELBOURNE, Jan. 24 -- Arrow Energy NL, Brisbane, has made its first natural gas deliveries from Kogan North coalbed methane field in Queensland's Surat basin.

Gas is flowing into the Roma-Brisbane pipeline at 2 terajoules/day (1.86 MMcfd) to Arrow's 50-50 partner, Queensland government-owned explorer and gas utility CS Energy Ltd., also of Brisbane.

Kogan North Joint Venture will supply 4 petajoules/year (3.72 bcf/year) of gas from the field to CS Energy over a period of 15 years.

The Kogan North project is the first to flow CBM from the Surat basin. The deliveries come just 12 months after Arrow committed to development of the field.