Geoscience Australia is contributing to global action on seabed mapping by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030; in the process becoming the first Australian Government organisation to do so.
Dr James Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of Geoscience Australia, joined Jamie McMichael-Phillips, the Director of Seabed 2030 at Geoscience Australia’s Symonston headquarters for the signing.
“We are thrilled to formalise our partnership with...
The sixth and latest annual East Coast Gas Outlook 2024 from EnergyQuest, finds that the outlook for east coast gas is now entering ‘uncharted energy frontiers’.
The new 315-page report is the leading energy consultancy’s annual in-depth analysis of the long-term outlook for the east coast gas market.
Gas supply shortfalls are expected for the east coast and Northern Territory (NT) market as soon as 2026, and with increasing certainty and impact from 2028. That much is already well...
Viridien has announced the US launch of its industrial Viridien Cloud for AI and HPC production at SuperComputing 2024. This move expands on Viridien Cloud’s established success in Europe, by now offering tailored cloud solutions and end-to-end expertise to optimize compute-intensive production workloads for US industries.
Building on decades of established HPC operations in the US that have supported its subsurface imaging business, Viridien is now introducing its innovative cloud...
By Max Williamson
CONCLUSIONS
Potential buyers and users of EV’s need to be extremely wary and questioning of the claims, counter claims and promo materials being put out by the vested interests.
If UBER is getting completely out of hybrids for its fleet, there must be economic support for EV’s versus hybrids for higher use operators and commercial fleets.
The second-hand market for older model EV’s, including Teslas is dramatically negatively impacted by the age of...
As part of its ambition to aim for near-zero methane emissions by 2030, TotalEnergies has announced it will monitor and reduce methane emissions with the deployment of continuous, real-time detection equipment at all of its operated Upstream sites.
Since 2022, TotalEnergies said it has been pursuing its ambition to aim for near-zero methane operated emissions in 2030: the Company will meet as soon as this year and target to reduce emissions by 50% compared to 2020, a year ahead of plan....
Shell has won an appeal against a 2021 ruling that ordered the supermajor to reduce its carbon footprint by 45%.
The appeals court, which was heard in The Hague, Netherlands, found that Shell did have a responsibility to cut emissions, but not by a stipulated amount.
The 2021 ruling had found that Shell should slash emissions by 45% by 2030, compared to 2019 levels.
The court said Shell was already on track to meet its own emission reduction targets and it was uncertain if demands...
SANTOS has raised eyebrows with a stern rebuttal of reports that it’s CEO Kevin Gallagher was destined to replace Chris Ellison as chief executive of Minres.
This came after Ellison, MinRes’s founder and the company’s biggest shareholder fell foul of ASX reporting on tax related issues and the company announced he would be stepping down as CEO within 12-18 months.
The West Australian had reported that Gallagher,59, Australia;’s longest serving energy CEO,...
Beach Energy announced on 17 October the successful commissioning and start-up of the Moomba Carbon Capture and Storage project.
All facilities, including five injection wells, CO2 dehydration and CO2 pipelines have been brought to capacity. The project is targeting capture and storage of 1.7 million tonnes of CO2 per annum in depleted Strzelecki and Marabooka field reservoirs.
Final Investment Decision for the project was announced in November 2021 and 60% completion was reached in...
An airborne gravity survey across southern and eastern Victoria has been completed by Sander Geophysical.
The airborne survey was collaboratively organised through Surveyor-General Victoria within the Department of Transport and Planning (DTP), Geological Survey of Victoria within the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) and Geoscience Australia (Commonwealth Government).
The objective of the survey was to collect consistent and evenly distributed gravity...
Viridien and its partners TGS and Aquila Holdings (under its subsidiary Axxis Multi-client AS) have announced the completion and delivery of the reprocessing of the Utsira ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey in the Norwegian North Sea.
Viridien said it had reprocessed the resulting data set with its latest OBN imaging technologies, including time-lag full-waveform inversion, and advanced velocity model building techniques, to yield "significant improvements in image resolution and...