Peter Hoiles – PESA Webinar Coordinator
In early 2023, CSIRO and PESA’s Energy Transition Special Interest Group (ETSIG) joined forces to design a carbon capture and storage (CCS) knowledge transfer series. The aim of the series was to highlight to the PESA audience what is different about CCS compared to what we know about and understand from oil and gas operations. The series commenced in September 2023 and concluded in September 2024, with a total of twelve webinars...
By Dale Granger
US President-elect Donald Trump continues to ruffle feathers in Washington by tapping fraccing company executive Chris Wright to be secretary of energy, a key position in his new White House administration and a man with close ties to Australia.
Wright, in his capacity as chief executive of Liberty Energy, is closely linked to Australia as an investor in both Empire Energy and Tamboran Energy’s hydraulic stimulation initiatives in the Betaloo Basin in the Northern...
By Dale Granger
With the 2024 US election on the cusp of being announced, energy is once again front and centre in the tussle between Kamala Harris’s Democrats and Donald Trump’s MAGA movement for the keys of the White House.
At the time of going to press the election was balanced on a knife edge with all eyes focussed on Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral college votes, notably the prolific Utica and Marcellus shale basins, fraccing and the other “swing states”: Arizona,...
By Eugene Kharkutov and Ellen Starostina
The history, current state and prospects of development of the Russian oil market and its world impact are considered and analysed. The author uses methods of systematic and comparative analysis in the context of the global, and Mideast oil industry. The main conclusions of the article are that, despite the imposed sanctions, the highly motorized market of Russia performs so far quite well and will adapt a wider use of domestically produced...
Ford’s announcement in August that it would be shifting its focus from all electric vehicles to hybrid models has changed the gears of the world’s energy dynamics with other carmakers hinting at the possibility of adopting similar strategies.
“As the global leader in pickup trucks, we are future proofing this valuable franchise across all sizes with hybrid, electric and other electric propulsion giving individual customers and businesses choice based on how they used their...
The ink had barely dried on the Federal Government’s Future Gas Policy announced in May and the euphoria was short lived barely a month later when Canberra belatedly announced new exploration export permits for the 2022 offshore acreage release.
Those with a glass half full attitude might toast Resources Minister Madelaine King – who often appears to be fighting a lone crusade in Canberra on behalf of the mining and oil and gas sector – for reaching this milestone two years later,...
Former FAR Energy MD Cath Norman and associates of the once revered junior Melbourne explorer would be forgiven for feeling a touch of nostalgic envy in June as Woodside flowed first oil – as well as the first cargoes of black gold offshore Senegal - from the Sangomar field.
Instead, the reaction from afar was one of jubilation as former colleagues at the company reacted with euphoria, even though FAR was no longer part of the journey crossing the finish line celebrating the climax of...
Australia could unlock up to $600 billion in revenue by creating a carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry and becoming a storage hub for the Asia-Pacific region, according to a leading global energy research firm, Wood Mackenzie.
In an article published in the 2024 Australian Energy Producers Journal, Wood Mackenzie emphasised that Australia’s CCS opportunity is rooted in facilitating other countries’ net zero ambitions.
According to the article, Australia has far higher...