The Challenge
Our mining client is at the forefront of decarbonising its open cut coal mining operations by piloting novel ways to capture fugitive emissions and beneficially use them. As such, the client had embarked on an ambitious pilot project to drill wells in advance of the mining operations to degas the coal seam at its Central Queensland site before it was going to be mined. The captured methane was then to be used as a fuel substitute for part of the client's truck fleet requiring a number of trucks to be retrofitted with an alternative CNG fuel system. After the completion of a large part of the pilot project, Devbase was engaged to conduct lookback and lessons learned workshop for the client and its team of contractors.
The Solution
Our Executive Advisors were engaged to lead a discovery process from project inception to operations including documentation and interviews with all stakeholders as well as project sponsors. The process also included an independent peer review. This exercise culminated in a facilitated workshop eliciting a number of technical, delivery and commercial lessons. On the basis of the outcome of the workshop, Devbase was able to identify a number of follow up actions for the client:
- Next steps for the pilot project resetting the operational requirements
- Executive education on coal seam gas from reservoir to commercialisation
- Improvements to Project Governance
Our Impact
Devbase was able to bring clarity to the client, to chart a way forward leading the way in open cut metallurgical coal fugitive emissions capture and beneficial use.
