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

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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...

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Fabulous fairway fun at PESA ASEG Golf Classic

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[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...

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PESA WA evening talks close for 2016 on a successful note

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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...

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PESA students explore the Core

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[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...

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WA workshop gets to the Core of the matter

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[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...

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PESA WA Branch – 2016 Meritorious Service Award

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This year the WA Branch is proud to announce that four members have been awarded the Meritorious Services Awards (MSA) for their contributions to Western Australian Basins Symposium (WABS). Their efforts are reflected in a series of volumes that capture geological features of hydrocarbons findings in WA as well geological concepts currently used for exploration in WA basins. The recipients of this year's PESA MSA are Dr Myra Keep, Dr Don Poynton, Ed Kopsen and Dr Steve Moss. It is also...

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Keeping your membership details current

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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.

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36th PESA Symposium

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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...

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