Peter Hoiles – PESA Webinar Coordinator
Running into its sixth year, the PESA Webinar Series has returned for 2025. Generally run every second Tuesday of the month from February to about November, the series offers members from all states and territories the opportunity to hear updates, challenges, stories and field examples from Australia and across the world.
The series kicked off for 2025 on Tuesday the 4th of February, with a talk by Donald Christie from Fugro.
Article by Ganesh Sahathevan. First published by Australian institute of International Affairs
Ganesh Sahathevan ERP, MGis (UNE) Grad Dip Spatial Info (UNSW) Director, Centre for Industrial Research Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia. CFRI provides research on the business and politics of this region with a particular emphasis on the oil, gas and renewables industry.
The Trump campaign war cry “we will drill, baby, drill” could lead to a resurgence of oil and gas (O&G) exploration and production in the South China Sea when (and not if) President Donald Trump removes obstacles to O&G production currently in place in the United States.
The CCUS Network Australia is hosting its next webinar on Wednesday 19 February 2025 at 11am (Perth time). In this installment of the CCUSNA Webinar Series, Julian Cheng, Partner at Gilbert + Tobin, will talk about "Navigating the Tax Landscape for CCS Projects".
Abstract:
This presentation will cover key tax considerations relevant to CCS projects including:
Speaker Biography:
With over 25 years’ experience, Julian Cheng provides tax advisory services to the full spectrum of clients. His clients include public and private corporate groups, fund managers across various asset classes, consortiums and joint ventures and high net worth individuals.
PESA members (make sure you are logged in) can access a 10% discount on registration to the upcoming Australian Energy Producers Conference & Exhibition in Brisbane from 26–29 May 2025.
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Under the theme ‘The Energy Edge | Innovation, Opportunity, Security’, the conference will set the platform for the essential discussions, debates, and knowledge sharing to explore the challenges and opportunities shaping our industry.
Australia has the resources to be a global superpower to 2050 and beyond. However, we cannot take our edge for granted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
PESA are proud to be supporting SEAPEX with the upcoming SEC 2025 conference.
Please visit https://www.seapex.org/seapexconf/ for more information.