PESA Branch Activities

WA Golf event 2023 – The vines

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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

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PESA WA Winter Warmer event -photo gallery

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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.

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Christmas Lunch QLD Branch

Members make merry with a Ho, Ho, Ho at QLD Christmas Lunch

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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.

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Record turn out for WA’s evening talk

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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.

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PESA WA Winter warmer at the Museum

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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.

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WA Golf Day Gallery

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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.

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pesa wa november 2019 evening tech talk

PESA WA November Evening Talk

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Andrew Pitchford, GM Subsurface and Phil Woods, Senior Geophysicist from Western Gas presented their latest findings of the Sasanof Prospect in block WA-519-P, to a sell out crowd at The George in the CBD. The Mentorc Gas discovery by HESS Australia (now Western Gas) opened up the Barrow Delta Topset stratigraphic play to more exploration in the Northern Carnarvon Basin. Mentorc, up to 30% porosity and 12 Darcy permeability, is fill to spill and Sasanof may be where all the spilling gas is going to.

The current p50 estimations after recent inversion studies from DUG, have Sasanof at 24Tcf with a high PoS.

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SA/NT Field Trip September 2019

PESA SA/NT Geology of Wine Field Trip – September 2019

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By Dr. Simon BrealeyAs is becoming traditional, stalwart devotees of the terroir of the McLaren Vale Wine Region (yes, it’s a bona fide appellation) gathered under a darkening sky in late September to receive the wisdom and tasting notes of Professor Alan Collins of Adelaide University.

Picking up stragglers as we headed south on the 40-minute drive we examined the beautifully-produced geological maps kindly provided by the Dept. Mines (or whatever they were called last week) and met old friends and new.

First stop was on Chapel Hill Road to examine the staggeringly profound unconformity between the Umberatana Group (circa 650 million years old) and the Pleistocene Pirramimma Sandstone of the Seaford Formation (born yesterday).

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