Coal bed methane player Arrow Energy has received approval for a central Queensland pipeline to take CBM from Moranbah in the Bowen basin to Gladstone.

Arrow chief executive Andrew Faulkner said this was the latest in a string of approvals for the project. The Queensland government last month approved an environmental impact statement for Arrow’s Bowen basin gas field development.

The company also announced it has moved to the front-end engineering and design phase for the Bowen gas project.

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