Overview of aquitard and geological fault simulation approaches in regional scale assessments of coal seam gas extraction impacts

2018
Chris Turnadge, Dirk Mallants and Luk Peeters

This report was commissioned by the Department of the Environment and Energy and was prepared by CSIRO.

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This report summarises approaches to the simulation of the impacts of CSG extraction in regional scale groundwater flow models. It summarises the literature relating to regional scale groundwater modelling approaches and discusses two aspects of the modelling process in detail, specifically:

  • strategies for parameter upscaling and spatially interpolating, and,
  • numerical representations of fault and fracture systems in groundwater flow models.

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