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PESA WA Christmas Luncheon and AGM 2025

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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.

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PESA SA Welcome Aike Albers

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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.

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2026 HICCup Tournament

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The HICCup (Hydrocarbon Industry Cricket Cup) tournament has been played and won for 2026.  The tournament has been a staple of the oil and gas industry in Adelaide since the late seventies with 2026 possibly being the 46th year of competition.  This year the trophy made a long-awaited appearance, to be handed to the winning team.

The competition was established as a way of giving ex-pat industry workers an opportunity to experience a fully organized cricket match, with all the equipment, in a social and fun atmosphere.

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SA/NT Branch 2025 Christmas Luncheon

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Around 40 SA/NT members enjoyed a convivial luncheon to celebrate Christmas and the end of 2025.

The meeting kicked off with the SA/NT Branch AGM, at which Paul Strong was voted in as the next Branch President and Sharon Tiainen as Vice-President. This was followed by a brief review of industry activity through the year by Rhodri Johns.

The guest speaker was Dave Grybowski, whose 35 years in petroleum geology have given him ample opportunity to ponder where things might have gone wrong.

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The 2025 PESA SA/NT core workshop, a fresh look at South Australia’s eastern Warburton Basin, Daralingie Shelf Area

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Author | Chris Cubitt: Geological Survey of South Australia

Chris Cubitt of the Geological Survey South Australia (GSSA), hosted the 2026 PESA SA/NT core workshop at the SA Drill Core Library on Friday November 21st, 2025, (Fig. 1). This year’s event was well attended by industry, government and academia focussing on the eastern Warburton Basin (Daralingie Shelf area) with the aim to produce a quick look GDE map and form an opinion on the basin’s prospectivity.

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PESA QLD: Combined Oil and Gas Christmas Party 2025

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The Queensland oil and gas industry came together in early December to celebrate the year’s achievements at the Combined Oil and Gas Christmas Party 2025 – an annual event hosted by the societies ASEG, PESA, SPE, QEC and QUPEX.

Held at Blackbird Bar, Dining & Events, attendees gathered in a riverside setting to reflect on the year, reconnect with colleagues and strengthen ties across the Queensland oil and gas community. The strong turnout and positive atmosphere marked a confident close to the year as the sector looks forward to a successful 2026.

Guests enjoyed an evening of celebration against the stunning Brisbane River backdrop.

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WA PESA-ASEG Golf day 2025 at Wanneroo

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The annual ASEG-PESA golf classic event was held on 4th December in glorious weather at Wanneroo Golf club where nearly 92 golfers turned out to compete for glory and prizes.

We are happy to announce that the results were:

Team Winners

1st – Kurt Chambers, Rodger Edgecombe, Murray Burling, Blair Berglin

2nd – John Coffin, Peter Chia, Darren Lee and Edward Coffin

3rd – Alex Karvelas, Kevin Moran. Aaron Pederson, Adam Vonk

Individual Winners

Nearest to Pin sponsored by Xcalibur – Greg Turner

Nearest to Pin sponsored by Delft Inversion – David Christianson

Nearest to Pin sponsored by NRG – Aaron Pederson

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PESA SA/NT Branch November 2025 Technical Luncheon

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Anthony Western of Santos gave the SA/NT Branch a very interesting and informative talk on“Moomba CCS – delivering a world leading CO 2 storage project”.

The Moomba Carbon Capture and Storage project is a large-scale CCS project at the MoombaGas Plant in the Cooper Basin, South Australia. New facilities were constructed to capture,dehydrate, transport and permanently store CO 2 emissions that were previously vented toatmosphere, and depleted gas fields were selected as the initial storage reservoirs. Five newinjection wells were drilled, and existing wells were re-purposed as monitoring wells to enable theMonitoring and Verification (M&V) plan including environmental assurance monitoring.

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PESA Queensland Christmas Party

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About 60 people gathered to celebrate the festive season and the year that was 2025 at the Stamford Plaza in Brisbane on Friday 28 November.

Thanks to our sponsors for the day, Velseis, InGauge, RealTime Seismic, Terrex (the lucky door prizes), ERC (the trivia quiz), and Comet Ridge (the oil price guess). Without this support the event would not be the same.

There were plenty of prizes and winners on the day.

The trivia quiz was ultimately won by Sam McDermott, after a tie between Sam and Peter Crosdale, who each scored 15 points from a possible 20.

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