Tools

The Boomtown Toolkit enables defining, collecting and analysing town-level indicators to inform strategic planning and decision-making. This Toolkit approach is now being employed to characterise changes in a total nine towns across four local government areas where CSG development is occurring in Queensland.  Elements have also been adopted by the Queensland government.

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The 3D Water Atlas is knowledge base that integrates a wide range of groundwater chemistry, water level and geological data sources into a single open access, interactive platform for visualising and analysing the data.The platform is designed to support research and understanding of groundwater and the impact of coal seam gas extraction and water re-use, treatment and disposal in the the Surat Basin.

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This tool is a novel plug-in for Schlumberger’s Petrel software. The geostatistical modelling plug-in is designed to better differentiate and represent areas of high and low permeability, and identify the preferred flow pathways between areas, which is critical to understanding the rate and volume of subsurface gas and water flows.

Access the UQ Copula Plug-in for Petrel

Town booklets are published for key communities which have hosted coal seam gas developments. Each booklet provides explanations of the interplay of an array of factors in the town and is a valuable tool to aid decision-making in local and state government, the resource industry, small business, landholders, community organisations, and individual households.

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