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2025 PESA WEBINAR SERIES: The God’s Must be Crazy: Unbelievable Play Defining Discoveries Providing Analogues for Future Success

Tuesday, 18 February @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (Australia/Perth time)

Free – $10.00

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Guest Speaker(s): Mark Lisk (Ascendience Geoscience)

A career spanning more than 30 years, with diverse experience across Petroleum, Geological Storage of CO2, Geothermal and Mineral systems, focused on delivery of innovative exploration and R&D solutions, Dr Mark Lisk is Chief Geologist for the Ascendience Group. Mark graduated from the University of Auckland in 1990, more recently completing a PhD from Curtin University. He has published widely on various aspects of petroleum systems in Australia and Internationally.

Prior to establishing Ascendience Geoscience in 2021, Mark spent 15 years engaged as an
explorationist for Woodside Energy working basins in Australia and across the world. Before joining Woodside in 2005 Mark worked for CSIRO, the Australian National Science agency, as a research scientist developing new approaches to assessment of petroleum systems across many Australian sedimentary basins. His interests now lie in providing experienced consulting services and innovative data and technology products to the energy industry.

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This live webinar will take place at:

11am | Perth
12.30pm | Darwin
1pm | Brisbane
1:30pm | Adelaide
2pm | Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney

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To coincide with the soon to be launched Ascendience Geoscience global field analogue database Dr Mark Lisk will discuss the power of geological analogues using examples of unusual oil and gas discoveries from around the world:

The God’s Must Be Crazy – Unbelievable Play Defining Discoveries Providing Analogues for Future Success

Presented by Mark Lisk (Ascendience Geoscience)

Abstract

Geological analogues provide critical information to benchmark predictions across full cycle exploration and development projects. They seed ideas to recognise new plays and prospect opportunities to deliver the next cycle of discoveries. Since 2000 global exploration spend is estimated to have exceeded 2 trillion dollars; geological analogues offer the opportunity to claw back more value from that irretrievable sunk cost. Better still that accrued benefit helps not only the companies that paid the bill, rather learnings, both good and bad, are spread across the industry like creative intellectual fertiliser to feed the next flush of geological insights.

The best geoscientist is claimed to be the one who has seen the most rocks, making a good knowledge of geological analogues an essential element of the armoury of any good geoscientist or engineer. No matter how many years of experience you, your team or your company have it can never hope to match the experience of the industry as a collective.

Discoveries from around the world will be presented to demonstrate the critical role geological analogues play in guiding future success by highlighting three key elements:

  • Ideas find hydrocarbons, technology is merely the enabler
  • Rediscovery plays a major role in finding play-opening discoveries
  • Geological success looks blatantly obvious in hindsight

As famously stated, “we once thought we were running out of oil, when in fact we are running out of ideas”. We must commit the time to draw on the power of analogues to maximise success, reduce uncertainty and deliver better future business outcomes.

For a copy of the presentation slides that contains references and attribution for the content please visit the Ascendience Geoscience website here:

https://ascendience-files-open.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/Lisk_PESA_Webinar_Final_FPR180225.pdf

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Date:
Tuesday, 18 February
Time:
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
(Australia/Perth time)
Cost:
Free – $10.00
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