Peter Hoiles – PESA Webinar Coordinator
PESA Webinar Library
It is hard to believe that we have nearly five years under the PESA Webinar Series belt. Over this time, we have heard from many speakers on a number of topics of interest to PESA members, from oil and gas exploration in Australia and from across the World, to visiting several facets of the “Energy Trilemma”. Many of these speakers have graciously given their permission for their video recordings to be made available to PESA members for viewing at their leisure. However, until now, it has been difficult for members to view recordings as they have been embedded into the original event page. Furthermore, if you weren’t paying attention you might have missed that there was a webinar on an interesting topic in the first place! Well, that’s all now going to change with the implementation of the new PESA Webinar Library. Whilst still a work in progress, PESA members are now able to view past webinars in one single, easy to find location. Having said that, getting through five years of back catalogue is no easy task, so please bear with me as I transition the recordings into the webinar library.
To view the webinar library, navigate to the “Library” tab at the top of the PESA website, and select “Webinars” from the drop-down menu. You will be able to browse all of the available webinars and when one catches your interest, you can select the video and watch.
Recent Webinars
Last week, Martin Wilkes from Risc provided an overview of the “development and production” state of the Australian industry in 2024. This was an expanded version of Martin’s overview given at AEP 2025 early this year. If you enjoyed that, later on in the year, Sue Slater, President of the Queensland Branch of PESA, will present an “exploration year in review”.
For something a little bit different, PESA members were taken on a virtual fieldtrip of the Book Cliffs of Eastern Utah recently. With no need for health and safety reviews or preparing a packed lunch, Professor John Howell from the University of Aberdeen walked us through the Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation. The virtual fieldtrip highlighted recent advances that have been made in digital outcrop acquisition techniques and how drones are useful in acquiring photogrammetric 3D models. Whilst you cannot replace boots on the ground and the comradery one experiences from a field trip, a virtual fieldtrip acts as an extremely useful supplementary training tool, especially when access to fieldtrips these days are getting fewer and far between. You can find this webinar in the new PESA Webinar Library!
Until next time……. !
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