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PESA QLD Luncheon “Making Good Decisions under Uncertainty” – Prof. Steve Begg

22/03/2019 by Alison McLeod

On a sweaty Tuesday morning in Brisbane’s February, a diverse group of industry individuals piled eagerly into a training room at Santos’ office, ready to improve their abilities to “Make Good Decisions under Uncertainty”. Under the wise tutelage of Prof. Steve Begg, a man whose experience in the industry and in academia totals more years than most of our student members, participants from companies including Arrow, Central, Geosolve, Santos, Senex, Shell, and others, quickly found...

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Announcing New PESA-ASEG Queensland Mentoring Program

30/10/2018 by Alison McLeod

PESA and ASEG Queensland are joining forces to initiate a mentoring scheme for young professionals. This program aims to facilitate face-to-face mentoring sessions to establish a more interpersonal partnership through which industry insights, knowledge and experience are shared to foster the professional and personal development of mentees. In addition, we will also be launching a local Young Professionals’ network, with ties to federally coordinated YP networks in sister societies...

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PESA QLD 2018 Symposium Exploration: Back in the game

19/10/2018 by Alison McLeod

September 6th saw the return of the PESA Queensland annual Symposium. The theme this year was Exploration: Back in the Game, a fitting theme as increasing oil price sees an increase in activity within the state. The festivities kicked off on Wednesday evening at the Southbank Beer Garden with an Icebreaker where the presenters, organisers, attendees and sponsors mingled. This casual affair was enjoyed by all and has been a regular feature of the Annual PESA QLD Symposium. As delegates...

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SEG Distinguished Lecturer Entertains at joint PESA Qld-ASEG Qld Evening

02/08/2018 by Alison McLeod

The July technical meeting saw PESA Queensland team up with ASEG Queensland to present an evening with SEG distinguished lecturer Dr Kurt Marfurt. Dr Kurt Marfurt serves as the Frank and Henrietta Schultz Professor of Geophysics within the ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Oklahoma. His primary research interests are the development and calibration of new seismic attributes to aid in seismic processing, seismic interpretation and reservoir...

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PESA Queensland 2017 Scholarship Winner Presents to Group

31/07/2018 by Alison McLeod

PESA Queensland were delighted to welcome 2017 Scholarship winner Peter Manchee to present on his honours project at their recent technical meeting. Peter is an alumni of University of Queensland graduating from his Bachelor of Science (Geology) in 2016 before completing his honours in 2017, working with Professor Joan Esterle and Dr Valeria Bianchi. Coming from an agricultural background, he had a particular interest in the sustainable management of groundwater and was offered a research...

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PESA WA QLD June technical lunch

05/07/2018 by Alison McLeod

Queensland’s June technical lunch saw local stalwart David Lowry presenting his work on the structural restoration and maturity modelling of the Eromanga Basin. David’s long-lived career has seen him work as a field geologist for Geological Survey WA, as a well site geologist, and as an exploration geologist for WAPET, Lasmo, Sagasco and Origin Energy. He now consults from his home in the bush. The work he presented built on his previous APPEA paper (Lowry and Evans, 2011) focussed...

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PESA QLD Branch kicks off their evening talks for 2018

24/04/2018 by Alison McLeod

PESA Qld Branch was delighted to welcome Dr Nick Lee to present at their April technical meeting. Dr Lee is a petroleum geoscientist with a wealth of experience gained from working internationally and the exploration-production life cycle. He is currently the Subsurface manager at QGC, the Shell-operated venture, responsible for a multi-disciplinary team of geoscientists, engineers, petrophysicists and production technologists based in Brisbane. The talk focussed on the mega-CSG projects...

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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...

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Upcoming Events

Thu 28

PESA SA/NT Technical Luncheon: Is there any room for gravity in petroleum exploration? Let’s open the door again!

Thursday, 28 January @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (Australia/Adelaide time)
Feb 09

LIVE WEBINAR – The Energy Transition – Challenges and Opportunities for the Oil and Gas Industry and its Professionals

Tuesday, 9 February @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (Australia/Perth time)
Feb 18

PESA WA Technical February lunch talk- Spatial and Stratigraphic Controls on Burial Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality in the Triassic Mungaroo Formation

Thursday, 18 February @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (Australia/Perth time)
Sep 15

Save the Date – AEGC 2021

Wednesday, 15 September @ 8:00 am - Monday, 20 September @ 5:00 pm (Australia/Brisbane time)

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