The Condamine Power Station is a 140MW combined cycle power station located in remote Queensland, 8km east of Miles on the south side of the Warrego Highway.
The plant was the first combined power station in the world to be fired using untreated coal seam gas and the first in Australia to use water obtained from coal seam methane production in the evaporative cooling tower. To achieve this, a Water Treatment Plant (WTP) was co-located with the power station.
The CSG water was harvested then transported to the power station where it was processed through several stages of treatment: pre-treatment with clarifiers, membrane micro-filtration, reverse osmosis, and Continuous Electro-Deionisation (CDI) to demineralise it so that it could be used in the cooling tower.
One of Arche Energy’s team members was the Project Manager for the Owners’ Engineer team for the Construction Phase. This role also included semi-secondment into QGC as the Owner’s Project Manager.