Bitcoin mining in the Australian outback? Canadian oil and gas company Bengal Energy is conducting a pilot program as a way of utilizing the untapped energy from previously out-of-operation gas wells in the Cooper Basin.
to a report from The Australian, Bengal Energy is set to conduct a pilot program where roughly 70 Bitcoin mining rigs will be set up inside a portable building — known in the local mining industry as a “donga” — which will be assembled near a series of previously out-of-operation gas wells in the Cooper Basin.
Eberspacher added that the recently acquired gas wells posed an interesting problem to the energy company because they are what is known as “stranded wells.” This means that while the company can technically produce power from the gas on site, the current distribution pipelines are too far away to reach.
“We were basically looking at six months of having wells ready but without an outlet. We were dealing with stranded assets.”
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