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Solid Energy Starts UCG Pilot Plant

Solid Energy has announced the commencement of  its $22 million Underground Coal Gasification Pilot Plant near Huntly in the Waikato, New Zealand. The plant is now producing synthetic gas from coal. The company believes it is the first in the world to access energy from a single coal field using...

L&M Energy Kaitangata CSG Update

In an update regarding its Kaitangata CSG appraisal programme within PEP 38219, located 60km south of Dunedin, L&M Energy has said that its Taratu-1 well is at a current depth of 323m and is drilling towards an expected total depth of approximately 350m. The well has intersected approximately 23m...

L&M Energy Spuds Second Well

L&M Energy has spudded the second of  five coal seam gas wells that it is drilling on the northern portion of PEP 38219, New Zealand. The well, Taratu-1 is located about 3 kilometres west of the first well, Wangaloa-2, and will be drilled to a total depth of about 350 metres, Proactive Investor...

Exploiting New Zealand’s Oil and Gas

The oil and gas industry will be squirming over recent headlines shouting that the North Island’s East Coast is set to become the “Texas of the south”. Tag Oil, a Canadian exploration company with interests in Taranaki and the East Coast, has been talking up its New Zealand prospects...