Themes/Feature Articles

Cover Feature

• Oil and Gas in New South Wales
• Sydney Gas aiming high
• Competitive reform and new pipelines reshape gas market
• Oil exploration steps up a gear in Sydney Basin
• PEL 238: Gunnedah Basin coal seam methane
• Coal seam methane (CSM) in the Gloucester area
• Gas recoveries from the Great Australian Basin
• CSM exploration in the Clarence-Moreton Basin

Discovery 2000

• Cobar and Nymagee geophysical data
• Peel geophysics data
• DIGS on the Net connects with the world

Feature

• Mine modelling with Internet-based virtual reality tools

Minerals

• NSW shows minerals investment advantages
• Review of industrial minerals royalties in NSW
• NSW attracts global investment
• Investmin highlights developments
• Australasian Minerals and Markets 2000
• Upcoming events
• Important NSW mineral projects
• Exploration Licences (ELs):
• ELs granted October 1999 - December 1999
• ELs in force December 1999 (map)
• Summaries of terminated ELs
• ELs terminated before July 1999

Coal & Petroleum

• Strategic study of the Northern NSW coalfields
• Coal industry updates
• Coal authorisations/ELs - December 1999
• Coal mining proposals - December 1999
• Petroleum titles - December 1999

Environment

• Old 'Bagtown' Commonwealth Mine rehabilitated

General

• Native title update; Murray Basin study
• Publications released, Nov 99 - Jan 2000