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The coal seam gas industry has recently become one of the fastest growing industries in Australia with a majority presence in Queensland. To illustrate this, in 1999 there were approximately 150 wellheads and today there are roughly 3000. Further to this, industry estimates predict a total of 40,000 wellheads will be required to mine all the proven and profitable coal seam gas reserves. As coal seam gas drilling grows in size, so do the communication and control systems. Due to the fast pace of expansion, legacy systems and regulations, companies can find it difficult to keep up with the unique demands of a coal seam gas communications network. This presentation investigates typical CSG communication systems, ideal future architectures and the challenges companies face in getting there. Ben Hamilton, Senior ICT Consultant, Titan ICT
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Presentation Title: Integrated Communications Networks for Coal Seam Gas Speaker: Ben Hamilton
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Agenda
What is Coal Seam Gas (CSG)
Industry Challenges
Communication Designs
Technologies (Inc. 5G)
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What is CSG? By-product of coal formation process
CSG is trapped in coal seams by water &
pressure
When pressure is reduced, gas is
released
CSG is about 95-98% methaneCOMMS CONNECT 2014
What is CSG?
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Challenges Large number (10,000+) remote sites
Resources to efficiently maintain &
operate Wellheads
High labour & maintenance costs
Operational risks
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DesignsIndustry trends centred around:
Internetworking
Wellhead bandwidth
Protocol standardisation
Decreasing costs per well head
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Selecting the right technology with the right
integration partner ensures lower
maintenance costs for the life of a wellhead
Old School
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Process Control System
ControlLAN
Repeater / Admin
Repeater
Terminal & RTU
Terminal & RTU
Terminal & RTU
Terminal & RTU
Serial Server
Wi-Fi
Fibre
UHF
UHF
UHF
Considerations
Modular
Low latency
Plug & Play units
Systems based on open standards
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New Design
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Kiosk Layer Fibre or RadioLinks
Well head switch Layer
Aggregation / DMZ
Operational reporting, Integrated planning, scheduling, Data store &
Technical systems.
Enterprise Applications & Real time data analiytics
BusinessLAN
ControlLAN
Cluster
Cluster
Cluster
New Designs
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SCADA (Gas, Water, power); Telephony; Security CCTV; Access control
Kiosk Layer
Fibre or RadioLinks
Well head switch Layer
Technologies
LTE
WiMAX
Narrow Band / MiMOMax (12.5-
25kHz)
Wi-Fi
Fibre to the WellheadCOMMS CONNECT 2014
WiMAX
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LTE/3G
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5th Generation
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