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PESA Qld Members 2024 Christmas Party in Pictures

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By Sue Slater and Sarah Harris

On the first Friday of December, the Queensland Branch has held its annual Christmas Lunch at Brisbane’s Stamford Plaza, MC’d by Sue. A great day was had by all attendees.  

Thanks to all our loyal sponsors, we couldn’t run this event without them.  Velseis Seismic, Oceania Geo, Realtime Seismic and Comet Ridge, with lucky door prizes provided by Terrex Seismic. The annual oil price was sponsored by Clean Planet and won by Mike Bucknill and the Christmas table trivia was sponsored by ERC and won by Lindsay Horn.

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Finder Energy are seeking partners for PSC 19-11 in Timor-Leste

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Finder underwent a transformational change from a pure explorer to a developer through the acquisition of discovered oil fields in Timor-Leste.  Finder is now moving quickly to progress development activity on the Kuda Tasi and Jahal Oil Fields.  

Aaron Bond (Exploration Manager) said: "We are busy working through our commitments and developing our organisation to establish the requirements of an early production opportunity and a full field development.  Currently the project is in the concept select phase and progressing through the requirements to satisfy the gated process including targeting suitable Drilling Rigs, FPSO’s and SURF requirements.

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Geoscience workflows for CO2 storage

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A review and summary by Steve Moss

Geoenergy is a new journal co-owned between the Geological Society and the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) that was established in 2023 (Geoenergy Home). The journal is dedicated to the publication of non-hydrocarbon energy geoscience and engineering research. In a similar fashion to its stable-mate journal, Petroleum Geoscience, Geoenergy focuses on the publication of timely and topical research in subsurface geoscience, critical for this new era of sustainable energy aiming to provide high quality papers of both fundamental research and case studies of subsurface and near surface analysis.

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QLD Student and Early Career Mixer

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Despite the heavy rain, October’s joint-industry Student & Early Career Mixer was a huge hit with budding and established geologists alike, who made their way to Milton for industry networking opportunities.

The event attracted almost 100 attendees with a roughly even split between students, early careers geoscientists and established professionals.

The night’s youngest attendee, Ben Walker (who also happens to be the son of PESA Qld’s President), was the lucky recipient of one of the networking bingo rock prizes – a quartz geode from Morocco.

A big thanks to PESA Qld’s Kat Gioseffi and Martin Mackinlay for their help in organising the successful industry-collaborative event.

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“Energy Unearthed” – PESA QLD Symposium

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Authors: Kat Gioseffi, Fernando Valencia Fermin

In early September, several Santos technical staff attended the 2024 PESA QLD Symposium. Ten students submitted posters and over 90 delegates attended the full day event at the Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre. Themed “Energy Unearthed”, speakers and posters covered a diverse array of topics including:

Several Keynote speakers discussed the importance of natural gas in supporting global decarbonisation and natural gases position in maintaining Australia’s energy security. These speakers referenced the Future Gas Strategy released earlier this year recognising essential role natural gas plays in Net Zero 2050.

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Surface interaction changes in minerals for underground hydrogen Storage: Effects of CO2 cushion gas

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by Hamid Esfandyari et al

This article was originally published in Renewable Energy 237 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2024.121726

0960-1481/© 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Hydrogen (H2) offers a promising solution for the energy transition but storing it on a large scale at the surface poses significant technical and environmental challenges. Underground formations provide a practical alternative for large-scale H2 storage, yet understanding H2 behavior under various subsurface conditions is crucial for optimizing storage capacity and efficiency, which are influenced by rock properties such as wettability.

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WA Christmas Lunch

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PESA WA branch held its annual Christmas event and AGM on Thursday 12th December at the Parmelia Hilton Hotel. There were 150 members registered for the event.

The WA Branch President, Adam Craig welcomed everyone to the event and opened the AGM with a thankyou to all the sponsors who support PESA and without whom PESA would not be able to run its events for its members.

Adam presented a summary of the years events run by the branch; including the luncheon and evening technical series presentations, the webinars, YP and SSIG events, the golf day and the 'Spring Fling' social event.

Adam presented the financials for the WA branch and there was much laughter from the floor as the financials show a near miss 'balanced budget' for 2024.

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PESA ETSIG CSIRO CCS Knowledge Transfer Series

PESA / CSIRO CCS Knowledge Transfer Series wraps up

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Peter Hoiles – PESA Webinar Coordinator

In early 2023, CSIRO and PESA’s Energy Transition Special Interest Group (ETSIG) joined forces to design a carbon capture and storage (CCS) knowledge transfer series.  The aim of the series was to highlight to the PESA audience what is different about CCS compared to what we know about and understand from oil and gas operations.  The series commenced in September 2023 and concluded in September 2024, with a total of twelve webinars presented. 

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WA PESA-ASEG Golf day 15th November

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The annual ASEG-PESA golf classic event was held on 15th November in glorious weather at Meadow springs where nearly 100 golfers turned out to compete for glory and prizes.

A new game was played with the Charity hole this year. As in previous years each player paid a donation to the charity to be able to compete to get nearer to the pin than the "pro". But as an added twist this year it was possible to pay an additional sum to the charity in order to "compromise" the pro.

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