Fairview Coal Seam Gas Water Irrigated plantation and fodder crop beneficial-use project - Stage 1 Project management

Specifications

• Scope:

  Project management of the overall Stage 1 Fairview irrigation project implementation (~$25 million) including:

  • Drip irrigation system installation
  • Water treatment plant construction
  • Storage dam construction
  • Pivot irrigation system construction
  • Forest plantation establishment
  • Leucaena crop establishment

  
  Overall project management included:

  • Development of a project charter
  • Documentation of project procedure
  • Establishment of a project governance and management structure
  • Project scheduling
  • Project coordination and milestone control
  • Resource management
  • Occupational Health and safety management and reporting
  • Risk management
  • Development of a stakeholder engagement plan
  • Project reporting and communication
• Challenge:

  Santos required an irrigation solution for management of treated and amended coal seam gas (CSG) water that provided a constructive means to engage with rural landholders. 

• Solution:

  In assertion with developing an irrigated forest solution, Verterra also assisted Santos develop approaches to irrigation of the high protein fodder crop, Leucaena on Santos’s own land prior to implantation in association with rural landholders within areas covered by Santos’s Petroleum Leases. 

• Benefit to Client:

  The project delivered the target areas of irrigated forest and fodder plantations and associated irrigation systems, water treatment plant and water storage dam on time and on-budget, allowing the client to manage associated water from coal seam gas operations and, in turn, enable gas production and associated revenues from gas sales.

• Market Sector: Oil and Gas
• Capabilities:
  • Risk management and planning
  • Project management
  • Land access arrangements and stakeholder engagement
• Location: Queensland
• Year: 2008 - 2009