AGL has released the schedule for stage one of its rehabilitation of coal seam gas (CSG) wells over 2017-2018 at the Camden Gas Project, southwest of Sydney.
In February 2016, AGL announced that it will extract gas from the existing wells at Camden, enabling the facility to close in 2023.
The Camden site and wells will be progressively decommissioned and the sites rehabilitated.
The Camden Gas Project has been supplying gas to Sydney homes and businesses since 2001. A total of 144 wells have been drilled, with 92 currently producing.
Executive General Manager, Group Operations, Doug Jackson, says rehabilitation work began in 2016 with six wells completed and a further 17 undergoing rehabilitation beginning in early 2017.
Rehabilitation of these remaining wells is expected to take approximately two years.
“At the conclusion of stage one of this program, 41 of the original 144 gas wells will have been rehabilitated,” Mr Jackson said.
“This work is undertaken with a high level of regulatory oversight by the NSW Government’s Division of Resources and Energy and the NSW EPA as lead regulator, and to standards set in the NSW Government’s Code of Practice for Coal Seam Gas.”
AGL will determine the next stage of wells to be decommissioned based on operational requirements. The wells in Spring Farm, drilled in 2009, are also expected to continue to operate until 2023.