PESA Branch Activities

Name: Save the Date – AEGC 2021
Start: 2021-09-15T08:00:00+10:00
End: 2021-09-20T17:00:00+10:00
Location: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

Stepping out on an ancient coastline at Peppermint Grove

21/03/2018 by Alison McLeod

Following the first technical talk of 2018, PESA WA Branch hosted the first evening field trip in partnership with the Geological Society of Australia (GSA) on 6 and 8 March, run over two evenings to cope with demand. Dr Milo Barham, an expert in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy from Curtin University, led the field trip which focused on exploring the well-exposed, Pleistocene-aged Tamala Limestone. The mini field trip covered six stops along a charming pathway next to the Swan River,...

Successful 2018 start for PESA WA Technical Series

02/03/2018 by Alison McLeod

2018 promises to be an exciting year for the WA Branch Technical Series, with many thanks to our four sponsors; Spectrum (Platinum), CGG (Gold), Searcher Seismic (Gold) and DUG (Gold). At the commencement of the luncheon, WA Branch President Helen Debenham opened the first technical series of the year with the usual Branch introduction, with special thanks to our sponsors, before announcing all the new and exciting upcoming 2018 Branch events to an audience of over 70 people. Julian...

AEGC 2018 is shaping as the don’t miss event of the new year

02/01/2018 by Dale Granger

Writing as a passionate Sydney-sider with over 60 years of living in this international city I am very sincere when I say we have been able to arrange some really great social events to support your AEGC 2018 in Sydney during February 2018. The Committee has been very upfront in focusing on networking and giving members, friends and students the opportunities to catch up, mingle, exchange ideas and concept plays over the 4 days of the Conference program. One major part has been the...

Fabulous fairway fun at PESA ASEG Golf Classic

27/11/2017 by Dale Granger

[caption id="attachment_62759" align="alignnone" width="350"] Aggregate winners The ION team of Jeromy DePledge, Gerry Spanninga, Kim McInerney and Graeme Eastwood.[/caption] To mark the 30th anniversary of the annual Golf Classic, the organisers pulled out all the stops this year to secure the Cut Golf Course in Dawesville, just south of Mandurah, to give Adam Scott wannabees the chance to drive for show, putt for prizes and then strut their stuff on the fairways. Blue skies and...

PESA WA evening talks close for 2016 on a successful note

12/12/2016 by Dale Granger

The last of the technical evenings talks was given by Anthony Gartrell, an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, on November 24 at the Mantra Hotel. Anthony has over 20 years of experience as a petroleum geologist working for WMC, CSIRO and Shell Brunei and Australia offices before he became an independent consultant geologist in 2013. Anthony shared with the WA Branch members his views on “controls on sequence stratigraphic architecture using examples...

PESA students explore the Core

10/11/2016 by Dale Granger

[caption id="attachment_51183" align="alignnone" width="350"] SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES[/caption] PESA WA organised the first student core workshop on the 21st of October 2016 at the DMP Core library, with the aim of providing the opportunity to PESA student members to view, learn, discuss and familiarise themselves with sequence stratigraphy and core logging, writes Marlene Woligroski. This event was planned and coordinated by students from Curtin University (Victoria Seesaha and Jordan...

WA workshop gets to the Core of the matter

21/10/2016 by Dale Granger

[caption id="attachment_50789" align="alignnone" width="200"] Tidal deposits, the red bar corresponds to one lunar cycle.[/caption] THE WA Branch dug to the Core with a popular and well received annual workshop which took place at the Department of Mining and Petroleum’s Core Library in Perth. The two-day workshop, conducted on September 29-30, was presented by Robert Seggie (Woodside), Dr. Simon Lang (Chevron), Bruce Ainsworth (Chevron), Prof. Peter McCab (University of Adelaide) and...

Keeping your membership details current

13/06/2016 by Alison McLeod

If any of your account details change, including your email, you can update them under the 'edit profile' tab at the very top of the page under your username. If you have forgotten your password you can click on the link 'lost your password' to the right of the LOG IN button. If all else fails, please contact membership@pesa.com.au.

36th PESA Symposium

10/06/2016 by Alison McLeod

PESA QLD/NT members and non-members are invited to the 36th PESA Symposium, to be held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on Wednesday 7th September 2016.

The QLD PESA branch has been actively promoting exploration,production and development of oil and gas through these symposia and its monthly technical meetings since 1977. Much has changed since our debut, but our purpose has remained the same; namely attracting explorers and developers into the northern states to meet the...