Archives for August 2025

August 2025

Background to resolution on Retired members from AGM May 2025

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By Max Williamson

FCA PESA Distinguished Member

For and on behalf of the NSW Branch Executive Team

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Ltd

NSW Branch

GPO Box 625 Sydney NSW 2001

(Incorporated in WA) A.B.N 12 009 061 278

PESA GAZETTE - BACKGROUND TO RESOLUTION ON RETIRED MEMBERS

Date: 26 May 2025 5.00pm

Place: AGM PESA - Rydges Hotel Southbank

The Motion:

The Annual renewal fee for members who have retired and are not working in a paid role or paid employment be reduced to the sum of $50 per annum starting from renewals after 31 December 2025.

Business:

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SA/NT Branch Winter Warmer

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Not to be outdone by WA Branch, SA/NT Branch held their Winter Warmer on 7 August at Prohibition Gin Distillery, in Adelaide’s CBD. Over 40 hearty souls braved the cold evening in the distillery’s tin shed to sample 3 different gins (Classic, Blood Orange & Field Blend Shiraz); cleansing ales were available for purchase as well. The proprietor  provided detailed information on each of the gins (and ales) and gave us suggested drinking instructions. Unsurprisingly, most members did not require much of the latter. Pizzas a-plenty were provided to sop up the drink.

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Women’s Leadership Scholarships

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Advance your career with with an Energy Sector women's leadership scholarship, provided by Women & Leadership Australia.

Available Now: Partial scholarships for women in the Energy & Utilities Industry ranging from $700 to $5,000 per person, for one of four leadership and workplace skill development programs. These four range from workplace skills to early career managers, mid-level managers and senior & executive leaders.

These scholarships are aimed at encouraging more women to increase their impact at work, progress their career, and step into leadership roles. 

Registrations of interest close on Friday 22nd August 2025.

Via our website: https://www.wla.edu.au/industry/energy/

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Carbon Loop #011

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Hello and welcome to The Carbon Loop — a newsletter by the CCUSNA dedicated to highlighting the Australian carbon capture, utilisation and storage industry

CCUSNA Goes East ..

Three of us from the CCUSNA Committee packed our scarves (and light emotional baggage) and headed to Melbourne earlier this month for the Carbon Capture APAC Summit. We appeared on more than one panel (read: two) and did our best to champion the CCUS cause without tipping over into cringe.

Highlight of the event, at least for me, was Brett Woods, CEO of Beach Energy, who used a solid chunk of his time to praise Gorgon — a competing CCS project. He

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Exciting future events coming to WA

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We also have really exciting visitors coming to Perth during the coming months. On Thursday 2nd October Dr Brian Willis will be presenting an evening talk followed by a core workshop at Perth Core Library with Simon Lang and Tobi Payenberg. This trip is supported by Santos Ltd.

On the 6th and 7th November, we are delighted to be hosting Dr Henry Posamentier here in Perth. Henry is running a 2-day course entitled “Seismic Geomorphology and Seismic Stratigraphy: Fundamentals and Workflows”.

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WA June technical Lunch

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The Renaissance Tour: A revival of frontier basins with data-driven exploration.

By Lauren Found, Searcher.

Lauren Found of Searcher Seismic took us on a global magical mystery tour from the offshore Papuan Basin to the Scotia Basin offshore Canada on the northern Atlantic margin and the Orange Basin, offshore Namibia with its conjugate the Pelotas Basin offshore Brazil and showed us new insights from new data and interpretation in these basins that make them look more interesting than previously thought.

Lauren showed a new crustal model for the Gulf of Papua interpreted from long offset 2D seismic data suggesting the presence of new and previously overlooked depocenters and the possibility of the contin­uation of the oil provinces that are prolific in the onshore.

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SA/NT branch talk

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Sharon Tiainen (left) and Paul Strong (right), receive vote of thanks from Rob Kirk (centre) for their stimulating SA/NT branch luncheon talk

“New Geological Studies Leading to 2025 Acreage Release in the Polda and Otway Basins, SA” The July 31 meeting was attended by 35 participants

The Polda Basin is a 10,000 km2 Neoproterozoic to Jurassic basin covering the central western portion of the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia and extends westwards into the Great Australian Bight.

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Vp/Vs ratio conventional vs Web-AVO inversion

eFWI Using WEB-AVO at Delft Inversion

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By John Coffin

This year we have seen plenty of publicity and interest in elastic full waveform inversion, or eFWI and the potential benefits and advantages it can provide. At Delft Inversion we have been using eFWI for over 12 years focussing on quantitative interpretation and seismic reservoir characterisation. This article explains how and why we do this.

The eFWI technology developed at Delft Inversion is called WEB-AVO which stands for Wave Equation Based AVO inversion. So, what does this mean? We solve the integral representation of the wave equation.

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WA Winter Warmer event (includes photo gallery)

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On 18th July, PESA-WA held their “Winter Warmer” networking event at The Globe Lounge Bar in Perth CBD, which this year featured a Jazz Quartet. Sophie Kerr and her band (WAPPA and ex-WAPPA students) played fantastic mellow as well as lively jazz tunes. The event was really well attended (62 people). It was a great opportunity to socialise with colleagues, friends and new members, particularly on a cold Winter’s evening. There was an open bar until 10pm, with fantastic food platters and raffle prizes.

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