For integrated accounting and taxation solutions, step this way. When it comes to integrated accounting and taxation solutions for businesses, we are here to work with you, to understand your needs and lead you forward. Taxation Advice
Business Reviews
Accounting Solutions
Strategic Planning
Business Advice
Business Improvement
Call 07 3832 8555 and talk to the accounting team who understands where you’re coming from, and more importantly, where you want to go. We’re ready to help you, every step of the way. www.pauldharris.com.au | mail@pauldharris.com.au
adopted by the mining industry. The company was even able to weather the coal recession in 2000 and come out on top. Sigra became a major force in the burgeoning coal seam gas industry. “Underpinned by the original work on the subject by Dr Ian Gray in the early 1980s, Sigra has developed its stress path analysis to determine how the effective stresses in coal seams and other adsorbative reservoirs change with the removal of fluids; in this case, water and
152
November 2014
gas, where the latter leads to shrinkage of the coal,” the company writes. “This is important because the permeability of coals is very dependent on the effective stress that they are subject to.” Sigra has continued to work with stresses in the coal and surrounding rocks—work that requires extensive knowledge and experience. “In 2012 Sigra built, tested and proved its Gas Content Without Coring System (GCWC),” the company explains. “This enables