The Australian Energy Producers conference is only a few weeks away, so for those of you planning on attending we have prepared you a summary of papers written by PESA members that would be good to go and see presented.
Tues 27 May, session 3 - 2:02–2:20 pm
“Australia is still an attractive investment destination for exploration and development”
Joe Keith from S&P…
PESA Year in Review session for AEP
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Details
Catch up on all the highlights of 2024 from across the Australian upstream industry in this session which is an annual conference staple.
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…
Vale Richard (Dick) Paten 21/07/1935 – 23/03/2025
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:
The 2025 PESA Deal Day is set to be a pivotal event for the international oil and gas industry, bringing forward high-quality exploration, appraisal, and development opportunities from both Australia and beyond. With a growing focus on sustainability, we hope this year’s event will include exciting prospects beyond traditional oil and gas, such as the search for hydrogen, helium, geothermal and other energy forms in addition to exploration and development projects for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
Held in conjunction with the 2025 Australian Energy Producers Conference and Exhibition, PESA Deal…
PESA Members Free Access to Knowledgette and Pete’s Webinar Picks
by Peter Hoiles – PESA Webinar Coordinator
As reported in the last gazette, the PESA webinar program has re-commenced for 2025. Recordings of most PESA webinars are available on the PESA website for members to view (more about this in a future gazette notice). In addition, PESA offers members free access to lecture and webinar recordings through Knowledgette. Knowledgette is a knowledge sharing platform that offers content from across the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG),…
Back to Uni mean renewal time for PESA student members
As a new academic year starts it also means it is renewal time for all of our PESA student members, whose membership will automatically lapse on 31st March unless renewed.
To continue your PESA student membership you will need to provide to PESA membership - membership@pesa.com.au:
- Evidence to support your status as a PESA Student Member (select one from the options below or similar)
- Student number and/or copy of student…
Congratulations Andrew
Congratulations to Andrew Riznyczok who has been awarded a Meritorious Service Award for his work as the Secretary of the ACT-NSW Branch for the last 10 years.
Many thanks Andrew! We look forward to presenting the award to you at the AGM in May.
Andrew Riznyczok graduated with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Geology at the University of NSW in 2015. During Andrew’s university semester break, he began in the petroleum industry working for Bridgeport Energy as…
Looking Forward to PESA deal day 2025
The PESA 2025 Deal Day will bring high quality exploration, appraisal and development
opportunities from Australia and beyond to the attention of the international oil and gas
industry. The Deal Day is to be held in conjunction with the 2025 AEP Conference (formerly
APPEA) thereby ensuring a wide exposure to industry leaders.
Company representatives will review the technical and commercial aspects of their
opportunities via short presentations, using selected data. There will be time during and
after the seminar to discuss additional details with interested…
Chris Watts – New Insights into Energy Geoscience from Postgraduate Research
The Horstman Federal Postgraduate Scholarship, initially launched by PESA in 2019,
continues to attract a growing number of talented applicants pursuing energy geoscience
focussed PhD and Masters projects at universities across Australia.
Last year, a record 21 applications were received for the PESA Horstman Federal
Postgraduate Scholarship from candidates based in Brisbane, Sydney, Wollongong,
Adelaide, and Perth. Research topics were very diverse, ranging from regional basin studies
to CO2 sequestration and storage projects as well as experimental hydrogen resource
studies.
