Gas & Energy Transition Research Centre

Awards and achievements

Advance Queensland Fellowship supports innovative research into optimising CSG production

Published on: 29 January 2019
The University of Queensland Centre for Coal Seam Gas (UQ-CCSG) congratulates UQ researcher Dr Christopher Leonardi who was recently awarded a prestigious mid-career Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship.

New UQ facility will improve existing CSG well decommissioning technology

Published on: 7 August 2017
The new UQ built Well Simulator Facility was launched when the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology (EAIT) cut the red ribbon to officially declare its inaugural start.
Successful UQ ARC Linkage projects in coal seam gas

Australian Research Council Linkage proposals successful

Published on: 27 June 2017
Two ARC-Linkage research proposals in chemical engineering for coal seam gas projects have been awarded $521,385 in total.
CCSG, EAIT Postgraduate Conference

And the CCSG award goes to ...

Published on: 15 June 2017
At the 9th EAIT Postgraduate Conference of UQ, the Director of the Centre for Coal Seam Gas, Professor Andrew Garnett, presented CCSG "best in the field of unconventional gas resources" award to Phd student Ms Gloria Monsalve Bravo.
ARC-Linkage UQ project Mitigation of silica nano-particle scaling in water treatment

Australian Research Council-funded UQ project focusing on silica mitigation

Published on: 26 May 2017
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has awarded $165,000 for the UQ research project "Mitigation of silica nanoparticle scaling in water treatment" under the "Linkage projects" scheme.
UQ's CCSG awarded Australia's first research chair in onshore gas modelling

UQ and CCSG awarded Australia's first research chair in onshore gas modelling

Published on: 16 May 2017
Canadian Foundation CMG (FCMG) has awarded UQ's Centre for Coal Seam Gas (CCSG) the inaugural Industrial Research Chair in Onshore Gas Reservoir Modelling. UQ Professor Suzanne Hurter holds the new chair.
UQ CCSG team awarded $175,000 grant for bentonite project

CCSG team receives $175,000 grant for bentonite project

Published on: 10 May 2017
Advanced Queensland Innovation Partnership funding awarded for bentonite abandonment plugs project, which will run for two years.

Researcher receives the Advance Queensland Fellowship

Published on: 29 March 2017
Dr Mahshid Firouzi from the School of Chemical Engineering has been awarded the prestigious 2017 Advance Queensland Fellowship.

Advanced Queensland Innovation Partnership funding secured

Published on: 19 September 2016
New funding will enable development of improved methods for cost-effective bentonite plugging and abandonment technology to plug old coal exploration bores and water wells with deteriorated or non-existing casing.