Interview with Cecile Wake, CEO Arrow Energy.
4PR: Can you please introduce yourself?
Arrow Energy: My name is Cecile Wake I am the CEO of Arrow Energy, a subsidiary of Shell.
4PR: What are you doing in Queensland?
Cecile Wake: I am from Queensland … I graduated from University of Queensland in Economics and Law the 1990s.
4PR: No, I mean what is Arrow Energy doing?
Cecile Wake: We are fracking and mining for coal seam gas in the Surat basin.
4PR: Where’s that?
Cecile Wake: It is a big area taking in the area south of Bowen, the headwaters of the Condamine and so on?
4PR: Where are your mines?
Cecile Wake: In places like Chinchilla on the Darling Downs not far from Dalby.
4PR: How many wells do you have there?
Cecile Wake: About 40.
4PR: Are they profitable?
Cecile Wake: Not really.
4PR: Why are you there then?
Cecile Wake: We hope to expand our mine heads by a factor of ten and then we will be profitable?
4PR: How’s that?
Cecile Wake: We need to produce more gas and the cost of production is high in this part of the world.
4PR: Why’s that? ....
Song
Our House is on Fire - Phil Monsour and the Crisis Actors
Photo
Sandstone in Karawatha Forest - Ian Curr
Please Note: Both Cecile Wake and 4PR are played by voice actors.
