The decision by the NSW Labor Party to vote with the Greens and a slew of independents in support of a gas moratorium was a vote against NSW jobs and for higher gas and electricity prices for NSW customers, APPEA has said in reaction to the latest political development.
APPEA Chief Executive, Andrew McConville said that the Bill moved by MLC Justin Field would, if it ever were implemented, condemn NSW to higher gas prices and a slower economic recovery, particularly in regions like...
COVID-19, and the subsequent lockdown that quarantined the popular PESA lunches, has had a creative spin-off that has proven to be spectacularly well-subscribed with dozens of Australian and overseas members gravitating to the recently introduced PESA webinars.
The initiative, inspired by WA President Helen Debenham, has attracted regular weekly participants numbering 100-160 members and has proven to be so popular that the initiative has been flagged as a regular activity in the...
Upstream Production Solutions has announced the appointment of Matthew Campbell to the role of National HSSEQ Manager.
Prior to joining Upstream PS, Matthew worked for CNOOC in Houston managing HSE across deep water projects in the Americas. Prior to this, he has worked for Shell in various locations around the world including the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Norway, Africa and Middle East.
In Australia and New Zealand, he was the Safety Manager for Shell...
Beach Energy has applied for a ‘consent to discharge trace amounts of harmful substances’ from the deck drains of a mobile offshore drilling unit as part of an exploration drilling campaign in the Canterbury Basin, off New Zealand.
This was revealed by the Environmental Protection Authority of New Zealand, which said residual amounts of harmful substances were sometimes found in deck drainage after the clean-up of minor spills.
Public submissions on the application...
The recent release by the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor of the Federal Government’s Technology Investment Roadmap discussion paper has been endorsed as “an important step to achieving a lower carbon economy”.
Welcoming the release of the discussion paper, APPEA Chief Executive Andrew McConville agreed that the path to a lower carbon future must include investing in energy technology at home and abroad.
“The discussion paper clearly identifies...
NOPSEMA is assessing a decommissioning plan submitted by Woodside for subsea infrastructure no longer required for production from the Echo Yodel field located in the Dampier Sub-Basin in permit WA-23-L.
The plan, which was was submitted on April 17, make provision for Woodside to permanently plug for abandonment purposes the Yodel-3 and Yodel-4 production wells and the Capella 1 exploration well via the deployment of a mobile offshore drilling unit.
Plugging for the three wells is...
Australian geoscientists reported a deterioration in employment in the first three months of 2020. Fears, however, that the coronavirus pandemic would have a deep and dramatic impact on employment, have not as yet materialised.
Unemployment amongst Australia’s geoscientists increased to 10.0% at the end of the March 2020 quarter compared to 7.3% at the end of the 2019 December quarter. Under-employment amongst self-employed geoscientists increased from 13.1% to 18.1% for the same...
APPEA has welcomed the announcement by Queensland Resources Minister Anthony Lynham of a range of measures to support exploration as the industry confronts challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
These measures announced will provide for relief and flexibility to support explorers. It also encourages innovative exploration activities through a direct grant process.
The package provides companies with the ability to continue to operate now, and respond quickly when the...
A new publication summarising more than 50 years of geoscience research on Western Australia’s microbialites is setting a new standard for the study of some of Earth’s oldest fossils. Created by microbes, some of these fossils date back to the Archean period, around 3.5 billion years ago.
Eminent scientist and retired Chief Paleontologist from the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA), Dr Kathleen Grey, worked with Professor Stanley Awramik from the University of California,...
An independent and authoritative review by Australia’s leading scientific agency, the CSIRO, provides further evidence there are no negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing that can’t be managed by robust regulation and high industry operating standards.
The study conducted by the CSIRO’s Gas Industry Social and Environmental Research Alliance, found the use of hydraulic fracturing to extract coal-seam gas in Queensland has little to no impact on groundwater, waterways, soils or...