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PESA WA Winter Warmer

08/08/2018 by Alison McLeod

The PESA Winter Warmer, one of the WA branch's main mid-year social events, was held at Ku De Ta's “The Deck”, courtesy of Chemostrat, who have been sponsoring every winter warmer event since they opened their Perth office in 2013. This year's event also marked the culmination of a month long silent auction of a paddle board sponsored by TGS. The event was well attended by 46 professionals, which is consistent with last year’s numbers of 45 individuals. The attendees represented a...

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Pluto 4D – Australia’s first 4D over a gas field is an outstanding success

03/08/2018 by Alison McLeod

It was by far the most successful PESA WA event this year with over 100 PESA members attending our monthly luncheon. Our July guest speaker was a recognizable principal geophysicist Larry Tilbury from Woodside Energy presenting his long-lived contribution into planning and analysis of first Australia’s 4D seismic survey acquired over Pluto gas field, Northern Carnarvon Basin. The branch announcements by Victoria Seesaha, WA Branch Vice-President, included upcoming events such as the...

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PESA WA hosts another successful field trip for 2018 to Swan Valley

05/07/2018 by Alison McLeod

Bright and early on a Sunday morning 20 intrepid PESA members met at the Boab tree in Kings park ready to embark on a tour of the Swan Valley, and an intellectual journey that allowed for the geography of our working lives to be mapped onto the geology, geography and scale of the city we live in. The morning began with an open air “powerpoint” presentation, by trip leaders Simon Lang and Neil Marshall. From a spectacular viewpoint with most of the mid and lower reaches of the Swan...

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TGS kindly donates stand-up paddle board to PESA WA Branch for an auction to support the student members

03/07/2018 by Alison McLeod

TGS are pleased to donate a 9-foot long stand-up paddle board (valued at $2000) to PESA WA Branch to raise funds to support our student members.  TGS recognises that students are the future of our industry and their contribution provides an opportunity for someone in the PESA community to help support the students’ training efforts. For the first time in history, PESA WA Branch will be holding a silent auction for the stand-up paddle board and the winner will be announced towards the...

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Quantitative Seismic Stratigraphy Talk by 2017 Woodside – PESA WA PhD Scholarship Winner

02/07/2018 by Alison McLeod

We are already halfway through 2018 and PESA WA Branch is still doing very well for the technical lunch series, with special gratitude to our four sponsors: Spectrum (Platinum), CGG (Gold), Searcher Seismic (Gold) and DUG (Gold). The branch announcements by Helen Debenham, WA Branch President, included the upcoming July technical talk by Larry Tilbury from Woodside on Pluto 4D’s outstanding success on Thursday 19th July. This will then be followed by our annual Winter Warmer social...

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PESA – ASEG WA Mentoring Program Kick-off Session

02/07/2018 by Alison McLeod

The PESA – ASEG WA Mentoring Program has seen a fantastic response from WA PESA and WA ASEG members. The mentoring program has successfully linked up 20 mentor-mentee pairs from diverse backgrounds, ages and professional experiences. In May, Simon Molyneux facilitated the Mentees and Mentors framing sessions. These sessions aimed to explain what a mentoring program is, what are the foundations of a mentoring program, to describe an ideal mentor-mentee relationship and to explain what...

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PESA WA SHORT COURSE – Elements of Chemostratigraphy by Chemostrat

23/05/2018 by Alison McLeod

May the Fourth Be With You! Friday, 4 May was not only a great day to celebrate the Star Wars Day, but it was also the first time a Chemostrat open-training session had been made available in Perth. This short course was hosted by PESA WA Branch, and we acknowledge and thank Carnarvon Petroleum for generously sponsoring the students who attended the course. It was well attended with major O&G companies, state government, service companies and academia all represented.  Chemostrat has...

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Young Professionals in WA

11/05/2018 by Alison McLeod

In early April, PESA WA Young Professionals in collaboration with ASEG WA organised the first “Young Professionals Speakers' Night.” The aim of these nights is to encourage the lesser experienced geoscientists to present their work in a welcoming environment and assist their public speaking skills.

We were fortunate to have Amy Millar from Buru Energy present her work, titled “Ungani Oil Field, Canning Basin – Evaluation of a Dolomite Reservoir” which won the Best Oral...

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PESA WA Branch’s April Technical Talk

24/04/2018 by Alison McLeod

The April monthly technical talk was held by PESA WA Branch with over 50 people attending, with special gratitude to our four sponsors: Spectrum (Platinum), CGG (Gold), Searcher Seismic (Gold) and DUG (Gold). WA Branch President, Helen Debenham, opened the meeting with the brief introduction of upcoming Branch events. Helen also announced new activities of our sponsors, including large projects of reprocessing 3D and 2D data in Otway Basin (Spectrum) and Gippsland Basin (CGG). Both...

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PESA WA SHORT COURSE – The Practical Application of Sequence Stratigraphic Principles

19/04/2018 by Alison McLeod

PESA WA was pleased to host Dr. Simon Sturrock on 12 -13 April as facilitator of a short course in The Practical Application of Sequence Stratigraphic Principles. Chevron Australia provided the Perth CBD classroom venue and student places were generously sponsored by Carnarvon Petroleum. The sessions were descriptive, interactive, and coloured with many anecdotes. Strong attendance by students and established professional of varying backgrounds made for informative and collaborative...

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