Queensland branch kicked off their 2025 technical lunch season on 20th March at the Hilton, with Dr Julie Pearce from University of Queensland talking about CO2 storage.
Internationally experienced Julie is currently an ARC Mid-career Industry Fellow in the UQ Gas and Energy Transition Research Centre and School of the Environment, putting her expertise on gas-water-rock interactions to good use with a focus on CO2 geological storage.
By Sue Slater and Sarah Harris
On the first Friday of December, the Queensland Branch has held its annual Christmas Lunch at Brisbane’s Stamford Plaza, MC’d by Sue. A great day was had by all attendees.
Thanks to all our loyal sponsors, we couldn’t run this event without them. Velseis Seismic, Oceania Geo, Realtime Seismic and Comet Ridge, with lucky door prizes provided by Terrex Seismic. The annual oil price was sponsored by Clean Planet and won by Mike Bucknill and the Christmas table trivia was sponsored by ERC and won by Lindsay Horn.
Despite the heavy rain, October’s joint-industry Student & Early Career Mixer was a huge hit with budding and established geologists alike, who made their way to Milton for industry networking opportunities.
The event attracted almost 100 attendees with a roughly even split between students, early careers geoscientists and established professionals.
The night’s youngest attendee, Ben Walker (who also happens to be the son of PESA Qld’s President), was the lucky recipient of one of the networking bingo rock prizes – a quartz geode from Morocco.
A big thanks to PESA Qld’s Kat Gioseffi and Martin Mackinlay for their help in organising the successful industry-collaborative event.
Authors: Kat Gioseffi, Fernando Valencia Fermin
In early September, several Santos technical staff attended the 2024 PESA QLD Symposium. Ten students submitted posters and over 90 delegates attended the full day event at the Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre. Themed “Energy Unearthed”, speakers and posters covered a diverse array of topics including:
Several Keynote speakers discussed the importance of natural gas in supporting global decarbonisation and natural gases position in maintaining Australia’s energy security. These speakers referenced the Future Gas Strategy released earlier this year recognising essential role natural gas plays in Net Zero 2050.
Attendees at this year’s PESA QLD Branch Symposium were first to see items featuring thenewly rebranded PESA Symposium artwork, designed by Leah Cummins of Bunya Designs.Leah, had an extensive career at Origin Energy, is now producing art through her ownbusiness www.bunyadesigns.com.au. Leah is a proud Mayi woman from North-WesternQueensland and described the meaning of new-look PESA QLD symposium artwork asfollows; “The large circles represent the states and territories, the contour lines represent thland and ocean, the kangaroo feet represent moving forward never backwards.”Judging by attendee feedback on the day, the new branding looks to be a success!
PESA (Qld) Branch committee member and Santos Geologist, Katherine (Kat) Gioseffi, was the successful recipient of a PESA Meritorious Service Award (MSA) for 2024 in recognition of her unwavering passion for energy geoscience and her dedication to increasing society participation among early-career graduates.
Kat, who received her MSA at the Australian Energy Producers Conference and Exhibition in Perth in May, was nominated by the PESA (Qld) Branch in recognition of her steadfast pursuit of recruiting and retaining students and young career professionals to the upstream resources industry.
Kat commenced her support of PESA in 2014 as a student member, during which time she was the QUT recipient of the John Draper Award in recognition of her high academic achievement in the fields of sedimentology and stratigraphy.
Melbana Energy’s Duncan Lockhart presented to an enthusiastic crowd of energygeoscientists (and prospective Melbana Energy shareholders) at the PESA (Qld) Branch’sMay 2024 technical luncheon and Annual General Meeting.
Duncan presented the results of Melbana Energy’s Amistad-1 discovery well, whichrecovered oil from three separate reservoirs and flowed >1900bopd from Unit 1B in 2023.Duncan also walked the luncheon attendees through the company’s next planned steps inCuba, including plans for a 400km 2 3D seismic survey and potential paths to market for therecovered resource.
Word of the substantial interest in Melbana Energy’s talk spread quickly, with Duncan quicklybeing approached by enthusiastic members of the PESA NSW Branch to take hispresentation on the road.
PESA (Qld) Branch committee member and Santos Geologist, Katherine (Kat) Gioseffi, was the successful recipient of a PESA Meritorious Service Award (MSA) for 2024 in recognition of her unwavering passion for energy geoscience and her dedication to increasing society participation among early-career graduates.
Kat, who received her MSA at the Australian Energy Producers Conference and Exhibition in Perth in May, was nominated by the PESA (Qld) Branch in recognition of her steadfast pursuit of recruiting and retaining students and young career professionals to the upstream resources industry.
Kat commenced her support of PESA in 2014 as a student member, during which time she was the QUT recipient of the John Draper Award in recognition of her high academic achievement in the fields of sedimentology and stratigraphy.
PESA (Qld) Branch committee member and Santos Geologist, Katherine (Kat) Gioseffi, was the successful recipient of a PESA Meritorious Service Award (MSA) for 2024 in recognition of her unwavering passion for energy geoscience and her dedication to increasing society participation among early-career graduates.
Kat, who received her MSA at the Australian Energy Producers Conference and Exhibition in Perth in May, was nominated by the PESA (Qld) Branch in recognition of her steadfast pursuit of recruiting and retaining students and young career professionals to the upstream resources industry.
Kat commenced her support of PESA in 2014 as a student member, during which time she was the QUT recipient of the John Draper Award in recognition of her high academic achievement in the fields of sedimentology and stratigraphy.
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.