The document discusses QER's vision to help secure Australia's energy future through the sustainable development of a shale to liquid fuels industry in Queensland. It outlines QER's plans to build a demonstration plant and later commercial plants to produce fuels like diesel and jet fuel from shale in a way that reduces emissions and creates jobs, while engaging with communities to obtain a social license to operate. The shale to liquids industry is positioned as having the potential to significantly reduce Australia's fuel imports and trade deficit by 2030.

1. Social Licence and
Sustainable Development:
QER’s Perspective
28 June 2011

2. QER’s vision:
Help secure Australia’s energy future
Our mission is to build and operate a safe,
economically viable and sustainable
shale to liquid fuels industry
in Queensland.

3. July 2009

4. Sustainable Development
• Reduce • Restore
• Remove processes • Rehabilitation
• Reliable plant • Plantations
• Renewables & energy reduction
• Recycle
• Fuel gas
• Reuse
• Cogeneration
• Waste streams
• Byproducts

5. Australia’s growing oil demand-supply gap
Business as Usual
Assumed 23%
Efficiency Gains
Imports in 2030 = 335 MMbbls
Unconventional fuels
Conventional oil supply
MMbbl
Source: EnergyQuest 2009

6. Australia’s fuel trade deficit
A$Bn
140 $128b*
120 High Price Scenario
100 $92b*
Low Price Scenario
80
60
40 $30b*
20 $12.6b* Federal Government
Projection
0
2007 2015 2030 2030
* Excludes LNG exports Source: ACIL Tasman 2009

7. Sustainable Development
Positioning STL

8. Economic benefits to QLD of a STL industry
4000 jobs regional Qld
2000 long term construction jobs
$800mpa taxes & royalties
$12.4B pa trade deficit reduction

9. Economic case for an Australian STL fuels industry
73 million barrels of oil annually
Australian refinery feedstock
$33bn to Australia’s GNP (2030)
Technology for 3T bbls of oil
Source: ACIL Tasman 2009

10. Supporting the community

11. Social licence: engaging our communities

14. Social licence - understanding our community’s
requirements and valuation
• What is the maximum value we
can add?
• What opportunities and prospects
are our communities looking for?
• Are there basic requirements
missing now?
• What capability could the
community fulfill in the future?
• Where should the work be done?
• What other linkages can we
introduce?

15. Existing
Plantation –
Gibbs Property,
Future Calliope
Optimisation
NSF Trial Trial Future ERE
Recreation
Area ANorth
Trial
Future
Strip
NSF/GA Trial Grazing
Area ASouth Trial

16. Environment: Technology to reduce emissions
• Thermal oxidizers
• Lower temperatures
• Lump processing
• Lower gas and liquid volumes
• Sealed processes and tanks
• Iso-kinetic sampling
• Process and emissions measurement

18. QER’s planned project development stages
~ 2017 - 2019
Commercial
2014-15 Stage II at
Commercial 20,000 bbls per
day
Stage I plant
2011
Technology
demonstration
plant - QLD
2007
Colorado pilot plant
trials

19. Demonstration plant objectives.....
• Demonstrate safe and environmentally sound performance
to community and government
 $100m capital (70% regional
QLD)
 150 construction/50 permanent
• Develop product market acceptability
• Maximize technical and process
development
• Build operational expertise

24. The fuels QER will produce in Queensland
• Synthetic crude oil for Australia’s
refineries
• High cetane
• High energy density
Wide Cut QER
• Ultra-low sulphur diesel Naphtha Low
USA
Sulphur No. 2
Diesel Diesel
• High quality jet fuel

25. Shale to liquids can be part of a positive future
“Australia could find itself with a clean
shale-oil industry employing 6000
people and adding $30 billion to the
economy over the next 20 years.
It has the potential to sit alongside
clean coal, geothermal, coal seam gas,
Hon Peter Beattie
biofuels, solar and wind in a realistic
Former Queensland Trade Commissioner
The Australian newspaper
future global energy mix.”
14 August 2010

26. Questions and Points of
View?
Social Licence and
Sustainable Development:
QER’s Perspective