November 2019
PESA NSW 2019 Melbourne Cup and Oil Price Prediction Lunch
PESA NSW Melbourne Cup and Oil Price Prediction Lunch Tuesday 5th November 2019, 12:00 noon for 12:30 start Celebrate the race that stops the nation! The race will be played on the big screen with raffles and a Calcutta. A prize for the winner of last year's best estimate for the Brent oil price will also be awarded. A special room has been booked exclusively for our event at the Castlereagh Boutique Hotel. For any queries regarding the event please contact the NSW Secretary at nsw-secretary@pesa.com.au.…
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PESA NSW December 2019 Christmas Party
PESA NSW Christmas Technical Meeting Tuesday 10th December 2019 Title:Electric vehicles, the resources industry and us Talk Description: One cannot look at electric vehicles without addressing their underlying key technology meaning electricity generation and storage. Electric vehicles themselves have their own design features and manufacturing quirks that are unique to their power source, each of which impact performance and running distance. In 30 minutes we are going to run through: The likely size of the electric cars market overseas and in…
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PESA NSW February 2020 Technical Lunch
PESA/ASEG NSW Technical Lunch Tuesday 4th February 2020 Sponsored by Shell Title: Regional to reservoir stress-induced seismic azimuthal anisotropy Speakers: Dr. Lisa Gavin (SEG Honorary Lecturer, Woodside Energy) Date & Time: Tuesday 4th February, 12pm for a 12:30pm start. Cost: PESA Members: $55.00 Graduate Members: $40.00 Non-members: …
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PESA NSW March Technical Lunch
Is Field Geology a Jolly?: how a dying practice in onshore exploration could have saved us time and money Field geology was conducted extensively in the past to determine the elements of a ‘new’ petroleum system. In onshore fold belt environments, surface anticlines and their stratigraphic components defined the primary drilling targets. Subsequent seismic acquisition attempted to improve subsurface target delineation following either success or failure tests. Field campaigns slowly became sample and dip gathering tasks along seismic lines and surface…
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PESA NSW November 2020 Technical Lunch
Elk Hills Monterey Formation - Challenge of Incorporating Complex Natural Fractures to Improve Production Understanding Elk Hills, initially designated as Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1, is a large anticlinal field discovered in 1911 in the southern San Joaquin Valley of California. Elk Hills is a complex structure with multiple reservoir horizons including a highly fractured bio-siliceous unit. Focus of this paper will be on the Antelope Shale (Antelope) member of the Monterey Formation which has variability in production due to variations in net pay and degree…
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PESA NSW Christmas Party 2020
MAJOR EXPLORATION SUCCESS IN THE SURINAME-GUIANA BASIN The Suriname-Guiana Basin at the north coast of South America has proven to be extremely prolific with some 11 billion BOE rec discovered since 2015. Exxon is still drilling successful exploration wells in Guyana and the past year Apache had three discoveries in Suriname. Everything indicates that there is still a lot to be found. In my talk I will give details about the geological setting and structural framework of the basin, the…
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PESA NSW March 2021 Golf Weekend Away
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A Framework for Inclusion of Faults in Coal Seam Gas Risk Assessments, Narrabri Project Case Study Assessments for Coal Seam Gas (CSG) projects may be required to consider the potential hydrological impacts of faults on surface and near-surface groundwater assets. This paper presents three distinct end member geological scenarios and outlines methods for characterising fault-related groundwater flow within a risk assessment context. Scenario 1 A regional aquitard isolates the water assets from the coal seams. There is little risk of…
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PESA NSW April Technical Meeting 2021
Hydrocarbons in a new early Paleocene sedimentary section recovered from the Campbell Plateau, south of New Zealand, by IODP Expedition 378 International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) expedition 378 “South Pacific Paleogene Climate” took place offshore New Zealand from January to February 2020. Expedition 378 recovered the first continuously cored, multiple-hole Paleogene sedimentary section from the southern Campbell Plateau at Site U1553. Coring at Site U1553 reached a maximum depth of 584.3 mbsf and recovered a 581.16 m long sedimentary succession…
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PESA NSW June Technical Meeting 2021 (cancelled)
Event cancelled Microbial enhancement of Coal Seam Gas reservoirs - A multi-disciplinary approach to enhance biogenic gas production In the subsurface, coal seams represent something of an oasis for microbial life. The environment is anoxic, warm, often wet and contains an abundant, but intractable source of carbon held in the organic matter of the coal. In eastern Australian coal seams, microbial community complexity depends on temperature with hotter, deeper coals typically hosting less diverse communities. Regardless, coal seam biodiversity ranges…
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