Minister for Resources The Honourable Scott Stewart
The Palaszczuk Government has given the green light to a new Surat and Bowen Basin project which will see more gas made available for the domestic market.
Resources Minister Scott Stewart said energy company Santos has been granted an Authority to Prospect over a 764 square kilometre parcel of land located 65km east of Surat in the gas rich Bowen and Surat Basins.
“We are serious about finding gas to keep power stations generating, stoves burning and workers working and have imposed strict conditions that any gas produced from this venture heads straight to the Australian market,” Mr Stewart said.