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Restart on strong Otway acreage position
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2021
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There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the Victorian onshore Otway Basin with the lifting on the Petroleum Moratorium in July 2021. Bridgeport holds 4500km2 of acreage within three exploration permits in the central Otway Basin near Portla...
Dining with Dinos & Rock Stars on the Brisbane River
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: RACHEL KIEFT
- Date Published: June 2021
Abstract:
THERE are many inspirational incentives for geos of all shapes, sizes and creeds to register for the upcoming AEGC21, not least with dinosaurs on a mouth-watering menu at the conference dinner. ...
Perth Basin Oil: New light on an overlooked opportunity
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2021
Abstract:
During 2018 – 2019 Triangle Energy developed a Perth Basin oil strategy initially centred on the producing Cliff Head Oil Field and the TP/15 coastal exploration permit with the Xanadu oil discovery, just offshore Dongara. Subsequently, Triangle is...
Norwegian Prime Minister to Open Global Carbon Capture Summit
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2021
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ERNA Solberg, the Prime Minister of Norway, will open the 11th Trondheim CCS Conference (TCCS-11) set to take place June 22-23, 2021. The international conference on carbon capture, transport, utilization, and storage technologies (CCS) presents the ...
Decades of digital data puts Occam Technology in the pound seats
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2021
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IT’S said that the Devil is in the detail, but in the modern-age it’s all about digital data, which Mike Wiltshire first identified decades ago as a fundamental flaw not only lacking in quantity, but also quality when it comes to well logs....
Meet Bronwyn Camac, your new PESA President
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2021
Abstract:
IT was during a lesson on plate tectonics at high school that new PESA President Bronwyn Camac, barely into her teens, made the decision to become a geologist....
The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: A.P. Dodman and J.T. Rodrigues
- Date Published: June 2021
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At the Cooper and Eromanga Basins Conference held in Adelaide on 26-27 June 1989, a presentation sponsored by the South Australian branches of PESA, SPE and ASEG reviewed the history and development of the Jackson Oil Field, which was Australia’s l...
A smorgasbord of drinks, drones & delicacies
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: RACHEL KIEFT
- Date Published: June 2021
Abstract:
PESA Queensland have had a busy couple of months with two technical talk events, a mid-way check in with the PESA-ASEG-SPE mentoring cohort and the second running of their popular Python for Geoscience virtual training course....
Elon the oil man reloads his Musket with fossil fuel to fire SpaceX off to Mars
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2021
Abstract:
The oil and gas industry hasn’t always been the most creative, or the sharpest, when it comes to promoting its products in the face of rising climate change condemnation and may have missed a massive marketing opportunity in its ongoing fight for s...
Brittany shone brightest to win Graduate Prize
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2021
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BRITTANY McDermott was the winner of the 2020 SA/NT Branch Graduate Prize, sponsored by Cooper Energy and Santos, which had a total value of $1500.
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CONNECT OFFSHORE: Achieving a work-life balance with offshore connectivity
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: JEFF IRWIN
- Date Published: June 2021
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ENABLING a healthy working and living environment has become vital to maintaining high crew morale, which is of the upmost importance in ensuring effective operations. Isolation for long periods of time can take a dramatic toll on crew wellbeing, esp...
Branch News: SA/NT
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: STEVE MACKIE
- Date Published: June 2021
Abstract:
Fall Fling Social Springs Back; COOPER STUMPS SANTOS WITH A HICCUP & A HURRAH...
Red Sky lights up and Elixir tops the pops with an old hit favourite
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: DALE GRANGER
- Date Published: June 2021
Abstract:
OIL & gas stocks continued their resurgence during the second quarter of 2021, with Red Sky Energy (ROG) and Elixir Energy (EXR) closing a 52-week period on a high at the top of the ASX pops....
The Gascoyne River & Delta Fieldtrip Around Carnarvon Town…or is it the Caley at Dorado?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: STEVE MOLYNEUX
- Date Published: June 2021
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IT was just great to get out of Perth and go on a fieldtrip after the unfortunate long wait we had endured, thanks to COVID in 2020.
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UNFANCIED JACKSON-1 WENT FROM ZERO TO A HISTORY-MAKING HERO
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2021
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WHEN greenhorn geophysicist Mick Micenko, on account of his youth and inexperience, was given the least appealing and most unlikely acreage deemed to deliver hydrocarbons in the Naccowlah Block, he could never have dreamed he was about to unveil the ...
South Australian Petroleum Review (May–2021)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2021
Abstract:
The Energy Resources Division in the South Australian Department for Energy and Mining is the lead agency for petroleum, geothermal and carbon capture and storage activities in the state. It has responsibility for the generation of royalty income, ec...
A world without Oil!
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Paul Bouloudas (a.k.a. Seismic Guy)
- Date Published: June 2021
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EVER thought of a world without oil? Is this thought frightening or joyous for you? Is it the end of oil we are concerned about and its impacts on society or the idea of the end of oil that excites? Will the end of oil signal the beginning for the en...
The road to crude oil import dependency was paved with good intentions, albeit inaction
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
Abstract:
Paul Winchester spent more than 50 years in the oil business, as a petroleum engineer with Shell, as Field Manager with CSR petroleum, State Petroleum Engineer in Tasmania, Chief Petroleum Engineer with the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, then...
Spring in the step as Rock Stars rally to a revival
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
Abstract:
Plans for AEGC 2021, due to be held in Brisbane in September 2021, are continuing to progress well. With the focus still very much on delivering a quality in person conference, the technical subcommittee have been hard at work selecting the papers fr...
How is the Hydrogen Market Evolving?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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IDTechEx investigate the evolution of the hydrogen market and the development of the hydrogen economies of the major countries around the world in their new report “The Hydrogen Economy, Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Production Methods."...
APPEA, back on the launchpad, is ready to relight the conference candles
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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The return of the APPEA Conference and Exhibition, back in Perth from June 14 to 17, was moving apace with an air of excitement synonymous with the countdown of a rocket relaunch to the Moon....
Stable Isotope & Water Quality Analysis of Production Gas & Water to Test Geological Domains in Cesar-Rancheria Basin, Colombia
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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Co-produced waters and gas samples from Coal bed Methane (CBM) production wells together with gas desorption and geological data were used to investigate the gas origin from sub-bituminous to high volatile bituminous coals from the Paleocene Cuervos ...
Carbon capture, coal & the Surat Basin was on a delicious menu at the Hilton
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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Events kicked off for the year in February when Darren Greer, Project Director at CTSCo, presented the first lunchtime talk of the schedule on CTSCo’s Surat Basin Carbon Capture and Storage Project. ...
SEG/EAGE Disk Courses
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
Abstract:
Nothing beats a book; the way it feels in your hands, the way it bends, the aroma of the pages filling your mind with random thoughts recalled from a previous time. Books help to recall memories and create new ones....
Global geos bring a global flavour to Climate Change lunch talk
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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April's Technical lunch talk proved to be a popular and wellattended gathering as almost 70 people flocked to hear guest speaker Jayne Baird, Woodside Vice President for Carbon Business, presenting the role of geoscientists in the move to a low-carb...
That’s it from me…
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Nathan Parker
- Date Published: April 2021
Abstract:
Welcome to the first edition of PESA News for 2021....
Obituary: Vale Dr Roy Woodall AO
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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The name Roy Woodall is very well known to geoscientists working in the mineral industry. Among the many discoveries he and the exploration team he led at Western Mining Corporation (WMC) made were the vast bauxite deposits in the Darling Ranges, the...
Covid cloud parting reveals pathway for the future of fossil fuels
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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Whatever the future holds for energy security and supply, the world has emerged into a different space from pre-COVID pandemic paralysis and for the oil & gas industry in Australia, a period of relative calm and an opportunity to redefine its vision ...
Inspirational Images
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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Amanda Barlow is one of those people who manages to strike an unbelievable work life/ balance shifting between her job offshore as a wellsite geo on rigs and, when off on her swing, running marathons. To be precise Amanda has run an incredible 61 mar...
IHS Markit Australian Quarterly Drilling Summary (Q1–2021)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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The first quarter of 2021 showed further decline in exploration and development drilling within Australia – beyond that of Q4 2020 which reduced to levels last seen in 2016/17. Substantial offshore exploration targets were not visited at all while ...