March 2021
PESA WA: YPP after work drinks – The Balmoral hotel
After Work Drinks for Young professionals and Early career professionals Come along to the Balmoral Hotel from 4pm on Friday to network with other Young or early career professionals. The Student core afternoon are going to be meeting there too, so you will get a chance to meet some of the students and instructors from that course.
Find out more »PESA WA : Evening talk – A geophysicist, a petrophysicist and a geologist walk into a bar…
Hosted with thanks to our sponsors: Qeye A geophysicist, a petrophysicist and a geologist walk into a bar... Rob Ross An introduction to probabilistic seismic inversion methods without the maths or the big words. Probabilistic methods are the most recent techniques to be applied to the challenge of seismic reservoir characterization. Without using too many big words or equations this talk will explore how these methods are able to leverage knowledge from other domains, for example geology and petrophysics, to dramatically improve subsurface models.…
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PESA QLD: Evening Presentation, 22nd April – Mel Fitzell and Dr Grazia Gargiulo
This month, PESA QLD is happy to welcome Mel Fitzell and Dr Grazia Gargiulo to present an evening technical talk entitled “Legacy coal bores, overlapping tenure and the use of drone methane detection technology.” The Evening Presentation will be held at the Transcontinental Hotel, on the Platform level with drinks and finger food served in the Dining Hall and Deck Area. Please note the Early Bird ticket pricing cut-off times described below. Presentation: Legacy coal bores, overlapping tenure and the…
Find out more »PESA WA : Evening talk – Sedimentology of the Gascoyne river. An analogy for the Mungaroo.
Hosted with thanks to our sponsors: The Gascoyne Delta, Western Australia – a wave-dominated, tide-influenced, ephemeral flood-prone fluvial system along a dryland coast; a useful partial-analogue for facies juxtaposition in ancient deltaic reservoirs of the North West Shelf. Simon C. Lang1 & Robert Seggie2 1 Centre for Energy Geoscience, School of Earth Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. simon.lang@uwa.edu.au Robert Seggie, SeggieGeoscience, Nedlands, Perth, Australia. seggiegeoscience@gmail.com Marine deltas are shaped by the dominance of fluvial outflow…
Find out more »May 2021
PESA SA/NT May Evening Talk: Mixing Up the Energy Mix – the Next 20 Years
Mixing Up the Energy Mix – the Next 20 Years Peter McCabe, Professor Emeritus, Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide The energy mix is the percentage of energy consumed that comes from various energy sources including fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables. On a global basis the energy mix has been relatively constant over the last 30+ years with fossil fuels comprising 84 to 87% of the total energy consumed on an annual basis. Concerns about climate change combined with…
Find out more »June 2021
PESA QLD: Evening Presentation, 24th June – James Crowley
This month, PESA QLD is happy to welcome James Crowley to present an evening technical talk entitled “Reids Dome Revisited; New Gas in Old Places” The Evening Presentation will be held at the Transcontinental Hotel, on the Platform level with drinks and finger food served in the Dining Hall and Deck Area. Please note the Early Bird ticket pricing cut-off times described below. Presentation: Reids Dome Revisited; New Gas in Old Places. Venue: Transcontinental Hotel, 482 George Street, Brisbane QLD 4000…
Find out more »July 2021
PESA WA : Evening talk – The role of CCUS for a low-emissions Western Australia
Hosted with thanks to our sponsor Carbon-X Australia The role of CCUS for a low-emissions Western Australia Allison Hortle and Ludovic Ricard of CSIRO The recent modelling by the IEA suggests that Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) continues to be one of many key technologies necessary to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. For various industries in Western Australia with high CO2 emissions CCUS will be an important abatement option. Western Australia is in the…
Find out more »WA mentoring programme Workshop – Networking Made Easy
Our third learning workshop for 2021 will present – Networking Made Easy Not everyone finds networking easy, but it’s a big part of being successful in your career or business. So it’s important to be good at it. If you’ve been wondering… ? Why is it so hard to carry on a CONVERSATION? ? How do I EXPAND my network? ? How do I network if I’M AN INTROVERT? ? I’m WORKING REMOTELY, how do I keep networking? ? Would…
Find out more »WA Winter Warmer – WA Museum
THE PESA WINTER WARMER IS BACK! The Annual PESA Winter Warmer is back in 2021 after a long, dark, cold hiatus last year. In 2021, we will be warmed like we have never been warmed before because this year’s PESA Winter Warmer will be held at... The WA Museum Boola Bardip We have secured a space inside the hallways of the museum, just outside the ORIGINS exhibit. This is the geology exhibit for those that have not…
Find out more »August 2021
PESA SA/NT August Evening Talk – Wednesday, 25th August
Oiling the Cogs: How Cognitive Science can Improve Oil Industry Decisions Dr. Matthew Welsh, Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide The oil industry regularly makes decisions that are high-stakes, requiring long-term forecasting, accurate estimation of unknown parameters and complex modelling of scenarios. Observational and experimental evidence, however, tells us that people's natural decision-making tendencies are reliant on simple, inaccurate estimation strategies that lead to systematic biases in judgements and decisions. Preventing people from using these processes, however, is very…
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