PESA Gazette

PESA AGM Monday, 26 May @ 5:00 pm Rydges South Bank Brisbane

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PETROLEUM EXPLORATION SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA LTD

I have great pleasure in inviting all Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Limited (PESA) voting members to the 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held on:

Date: Monday, 26 May 2025

Time:  1700 hrs AEST 

Location: Rydges South Bank, 9 Glenelg Street, South Bank QLD(Note: To be held in the same room and directly after the PESA Deal Day)

Members can now access the Notice of Annual General Meeting and related documents via this link: https://pesa.com.au/agm-notice-2025/.

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How might the Labour election victory impact PESA?

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The Australian Labor Party's decisive victory in the 2025 federal election, securing a substantial majority, has significant implications for the sub surface energy industry. While the sector faces challenges due to regulatory uncertainties,  environmental concerns, evolving climate policies, and financial support mechanisms, the election outcome also presents some opportunities for constructive engagement and policy reform.

While the outlook may not be so rosy for traditional Oil and Gas, the current political climate offers significant opportunities for subsurface activities that fall under their renewable energy banner, like Geothermal energy.

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WA Branch held a joint YP networking event with ASEG and SPE

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PESA-ASEG-SPE YP Networking Night, held on Friday, 28th March 2025 at The Shoe Bar

The PESA-ASEG-SPE YP Networking Night, held on Friday, 28th March 2025, provided a unique opportunity for young professionals to connect with experienced industry leaders. The event featured three distinguished speakers: Steve Molyneux, a consultant geologist at Hancock Energy, Sam Howman, Director at Howman Seismic Services, and Lina Hartanto, Subsurface Technical Advisory Group Lead at Chevron. Each speaker delivered a candid 5–10-minute career overview, sharing their personal journeys, the highlights and lowlights of their careers, and the valuable lessons learned along the way.

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WA Lunch talk – all about borehole images

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What you should know about borehole images but were afraid to ask…..Forty years of hard-won lessons’ By Lawrence Bourke

Lawrence Bourke of Task Fronterra Geoscience, one of the founders of image log interpretation, took us on a trip down memory lane, back to the embryonic beginnings of image logs with the with the original 8 button high resolution dipmeter of 40 years ago through the revolution (for geologists) of the high-resolution FMS and FMI micro-resistivity devices in the late 1980s and early 1990s at the PESA WA April technical luncheon.

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WA evening talk on Basin centred gas accumulations

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PESA WA Evening Talk:  Thursday March 20th 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm @ The Shoe Bar

“Tight Gas Sand Reservoir Evaluation: Basin-Centred Gas Accumulation (BCGA) & Implications on Production & EUR”  by Greg Salter, Core Laboratories

The dark art of sub-capillary equilibrium gas, better known to us as basin centred gas, was introduced to a small but enthusiastic group of geoscientists at Faraday’s in Perth on the evening of 20th March, by Greg Salter (VP Eastern Hemisphere, Core Laboratories, based in KL).

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QLD kick off lunch series with a talk from Dr Julie Pearce

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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.

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Vale Richard (Dick) Paten 21/07/1935 – 23/03/2025

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Dick Paten was a well-known and highly respected Queensland geologist who contributed greatly to the petroleum exploration industry and its organisations – including PESA, QUPEX and APEA (the precursor of APPEA, and now AEP).

In 1977, along with Lee Pfitzner and Maurie Drew, he was instrumental in holding the first PESA Queensland Symposium, an event that lives on today.  This event was instigated by the parlous state of petroleum exploration in Queensland at the time: In the words of VG Swindon, the Chair of that first Symposium:

In 1979 Dick was the President of QUPEX, and between 1985 to 1987 he was the PESA Federal President.

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Sangomar Production Update

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Woodside, operator of the recently onstream Sangomar oil field provided a production update in February.

Sangomar is located approximately 100km offshore Senegal in a water depth of 800m. Development phase 1 saw 11 producers, 10 water injectors and two gas injectors producing oil back to the “Leopold Sedar Senghor” FPSO with over 80% of production coming from the S500 reservoirs.

The FPSO arrived at the site in February 2024 with commissioning and hooking up of the wells occurring in the first half of the year.

Sangomar came onstream in June 2024 and produced 13.

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