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PESA SA/NT Christmas luncheon
Thursday, 12 December @ 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm (Australia/Adelaide time)
$30.00 – $120.00
Guest Speaker(s): Rhodri Johns
Rhodri Johns was born in Cardigan, Wales, and attended Croesyceiliog Grammar School, Cwmbran. His first degree, BSc (Hons) Geology was at Manchester University (1972) .He subsequently obtained a Doctor of Philosophy at Cambridge University. His PhD thesis involved mapping thrusted Tethyan sequences in Central Greece. He then lectured in sedimentology at the University of Manchester for one year before being awarded a Royal Society Post Doctoral Fellowship to conduct research in Italy at the University of Turin where he worked on turbidite sequences in Italy and Spain with Emiliano Mutti. He joined Shell in The Hague in 1979 where he spent two years in the Seismostratigraphy team. In 1981 he was posted to Brunei where he spent four years prospect and play mapping on the Baram Delta shelf and deep water.
In 1985 he joined Sun Oil in London Office undertaking various positions reaching the position of North Sea Exploration Manager.
In 1992 Rhodri joined Santos. He occupied a number of management positions in Exploration until his retirement in 2018
He is retired but writes occasional exploration reports for Energyquest and assists PESA in running an annual field trip to the Fleurieu Peninsula.
Rhodri is a member of AAPG, Geol Soc London, PESA and SEAPEX
He is married to Maria and has two daughters Arwenna and Rhiannon.
PESA SA/NT Christmas luncheon
Annus Mirabilis
The breakthrough year when petroleum geoscience changed forever
Rhodri Johns
Abstract:
In a single remarkable year, several key papers and books were published that revolutionised the petroleum geosciences.
Some of these publications introduced groundbreaking ideas, concepts, and methodologies that stunned and astonished both academia and the petroleum industry. Others synthesised state of the art in disciplines such as sedimentology and geochemistry, building on developments from the previous decades, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle falling into place; these works not only led to a more innovative approach to petroleum exploration but also laid the foundations for systematic basin analysis, play analysis, petroleum systems analysis, and risk analysis – approaches that would emerge as essential tools for the petroleum industry in the 1980/90s and beyond.
What were these pivotal publications, and who were their authors? How and where did these ideas and breakthroughs originate, and how were they received by both academia and the industry?
Rhodri Johns will tell this story from a personal perspective, offering new insights from those closer to the action.
Event Details:
Thursday 12 December 2024
Luncheon: 12 pm for a 12:30 pm start
Place: Ayer’s House, 288 North Tce, Adelaide
The luncheon will consist of 3 courses and a 3-hour drinks package
Bookings close 1 pm Monday, 9th December 2024
Any late bookings will incur an additional $20 fee. Strictly no walk-ins.
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