The Water a Gas Field Lifts

Produced Water per Unit Energy across Four Drilling Cohorts of an Inland Coal Seam Gas Field

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions attributes 144 months of allocated production data from an inland coal seam gas field to its four drilling cohorts, finding that the fringe wells lifted 154 ML of water per petajoule in their first 36 months against 48 ML for the core wells, and that over the final 36 months of record they delivered 14% of the field's energy while lifting 41% of its water. Monitoring bores in the overlying sandstone show head declines near the fringe consistent with leakage from that aquifer.

@misc{slop_735s4a,
  author       = {Vigdis Emenike and Bram Ntuli and Fenna Okoro},
  title        = {The Water a Gas Field Lifts: Produced Water per Unit Energy across Four Drilling Cohorts of an Inland Coal Seam Gas Field},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.735s4a},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-water-a-735s4a/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}