Australian Energy Producers invites industry leaders, professionals and stakeholders to join us in Adelaide for the Australian Energy Producers 2026 Conference & Exhibition from 18–21 May 2026.
We are proud to bring the 2026 Conference & Exhibition to Adelaide, South Australia — a state that recognises and values our industry’s important role in the nation’s economic and energy future.
This annual conference is Australia’s flagship event for the oil and gas sector.
This month has seen the Taroom Trough hit the headlines as new exploration acreage was awarded and drilling results were announced. We asked Dr Alison Troup, a Queensland based geologist with over fifteen years of extensive experience working on basin research projects across Queensland, to give us the background on this basin.
The Bowen Basin is an elongate Early Permian to Middle Triassic sedimentary basin that extends from Collinsville in central Queensland into northern New South Wales. The whole basin occupies approximately 160,000 km2, with the southern half concealed underneath the Surat Basin.
DUG Technology (DUG) in partnership with Searcher Seismic is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement for the provision of multi-client 3D seismic data reprocessing offshore East Sarawak.
Under the terms of the agreement, DUG and Searcher will reprocess previously acquired 3D seismic surveys within the agreed East Sarawak multi-client reprocessing area.
DUG will reprocess over 60 legacy 3D surveys covering an area of up to 45,000 square kilometres from original field data using its advanced FWI imaging technology and pre-stack imaging workflows to produce one seamless 3D seismic volume of superior quality.
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PESA WA held their annual AGM and Christmas Luncheon at The Hilton on 18 th December, with over 135 people attending. Past events held during 2025 were summarised by Fiona Burns (PESA WA president), while Peter Hoiles (Treasurer) provided an overview of the years’ finances. During 2025, PESA WA held regular monthly talks, as well as numerous workshops and courses provided by energy experts from Australia, and from overseas such as Mark Bentley, Henry Posamentier, John Holbrock and Steve Hasiotis.
Our guest speaker, Julia Davies, is energy industry professional with over forty years of experience in the industry.
Dr Bruce Ainsworth has wrapped up his successful tour of the PESA State Branches presenting his work honouring the humble clinoform, kindly sponsored by Santos. Read on to hear more from the different branches visited.
Elixir Energy this month announced success at their Lorelle-3 pilot, interpreting 148m of total net pay across the primary, secondary and tertiary Permian reservoir targets, with associated elevated mudgas readings. The Lorelle-3 pilot was drilled in ATP2056 within Queensland’s Taroom Trough. Elixir Energy hold a 50% interest in ATP 2056 and are operator of the Lorelle 3 appraisal well. Santos hold the remaining 50% interest in the permit and will be operator of the permit thereafter.
Elixir Energy interpret the primary target, the Tinowon Dunk sandstone, to be 56m thick with 28m net pay interpreted, supported by elevated mud gas readings and fluorescence in cuttings.
Paris, France – February 18, 2026
Viridien, an advanced technology and digital solutions company, has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to transform seismic imaging workflows by leveraging NVIDIA HPC platforms and Viridien’s expertise in Subsurface Imaging technologies and HPC & Cloud Solutions.
The collaboration will focus on optimizing Viridien’s seismic imaging algorithms on NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms, including the integration of advanced techniques such as tensor cores and mixed-precision computing.
The Northern Territory of Australia have announced a petroleum exploration acreage release covering approximately 4000km2 with submissions due by Friday 31st July 2026.
The area, EPNT26-1, includes 46 full and 4-part blocks within the defined boundaries of the Beetaloo Sub-basin, within the greater McArthur Basin. The Northern Territory Geological Survey assesses the area as highly prospective for petroleum, with the Beetaloo Sub-basin representing one of Australia’s most significant onshore gas provinces.
The Crisafulli Government has awarded exploration rights in the Taroom Trough, citing it has the potential to open up Australia’s first major new oil province since the 1970s. Omega TN Pty Ltd, Tri-Star Stonecroft Pty Ltd and Drillsearch Energy Pty Ltd (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Beach Energy) have been appointed as preferred tenderers to explore for gas and petroleum in the Taroom Trough, near Miles in South-West Queensland.
The 750 square kilometre exploration tenement – around the same size as Singapore - forms part of a wider package of exploration areas opened for tender last year, aimed at unlocking future energy supplies to put downward pressure on prices.
The Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (SA/NT) branch kicked off the new year technical program on 26 February 2026 with two presentations for the 27 attendees at Ayers House!
The meeting was kicked-off by PhD candidate Aike Albers of Adelaide University, the PESA 2025 Horstmann Scholarship recipient. He introduced his PhD topic, Evaluating the feasibility of permanent carbon sequestration in mafic reservoirs in the Bass Basin, work focussed on assessing the suitability of basalts for carbon dioxide storage. Our president Paul Strong presented Aike with his certificate and we wish him well for his studies.