At the June technical meeting one of the long-standing members of the SA/NTBranch, Geoff Wood received his certificate for 40 years of continuous membership from Branch President, John Kaldi – congratulations Geoff!
Under the brilliant leadership of the PESA SA/NT Branch Vice President, Paul Strong, 2024 has seenthe regular monthly lunchtime meetings continue with a smorgasbord of topics which are highlyrecommended for other branches and webinars.
PESA WA June Technical Lunch: Demystifying Safe GCS Solutions for the Barrow-Dampier
PESA hosted a successful June Technical Lunch at the Parmelia Hilton in Perth on Thursday, June 27th.
The event attracted over 60 attendees from West Australian oil and gas companies, universities and government bodies.
SLB Exploration Lead Mr. David Barlass took centre stage, introducing a captivating presentation on safe geological carbon dioxide storage (GCS) techniques applicable to the Barrow-Dampier sub-basins.
PESA WA, fostering collaboration within the energy sector, provided a valuable platform for this critical conversation.
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The annual ASEG-PESA golf classic event was held on 24th November in scorching temperatures at the Vines golf resort in the Swan Valley. 112 golfers turned out to compete for glory and prizes.
We are happy to announce that the results were:
Team Winners
1st – Marcel Rive, Jeromy Depledge, Damien O’Rourke, Vincent Ganivet
2nd – Andrew Watts, Rafi Jerejian , Zac McCarrey and Bow Kocijan
3rd – Nick David, Paul Rheinberg, Brian Sharp, Karl Perry.
Individual Winners
$20,000 Hole in one Nearest to Pin sponsored by Xcalibur – Marcel Rive
Nearest to Pin (Charity Hole) sponsored by Searcher – Jeromy Depledge
On Friday 12th August around 60 of the WA members gathered at the Celtic Club in West Perth for our annual Winter Warmer, a night of good natured socialising.
The event was kindly sponsored by Qeye
The raffle this year was in aid of the National Rock Garden in Canberra, which aims to raise awareness of the diversity of Rocks in Australia, and foster an interest in Geology from the public and hopefully translate into starting some young people towards a dream of Geology.
The PESA SA/NT Branch has played a drum roll and announced the winners of the Branch’s two research prizes for 2021.
Once again, the Queensland Branch has held its Christmas Lunch on the first Friday of December. A good crowd enjoyed the new venue on the Pool Terrace at the Brisbane Hilton on a typical summer day after seemingly endless rain in the weeks before.
88 people attended the WA October evening talk on the prospectivity of the Perth Basin. This talk was given by Simon Molyneux at the Pan Pacific Hotel on Adelaide Terrace.
Just shy of 100 people showed up to the new WA Museum Boola Bardip for an evening of networking and looking at rocks.
The “origins” gallery was open for members to view before and during the event. This contained an amazing collection of meteorites, a whole area dedicated to stromatolites, and many displays of rocks and minerals. This included the very photogenic thin section tunnel, which is prominent in the photos shown here.
A raffle was held to raise money to supplement the travel bursary that PESA are offering for a student or early career professional to attend AEGC in Brisbane.
The recent WA golf day at Joondalup Resort was a wonderful way to round up the year. Below is the gallery of some of the most memorable shots.
For details on the event, visit the event page.
Fortunately the forecasts of +40 degree heat on the day of our golf event were unfounded, and everyone enjoyed the day, which actually only maxed out at 33 degrees.
There was lots of fun on course, with the charity hole being run by the committee. Plenty of balls got lost down into the quarry to be eaten by snakes and never seen again.