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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
Abstract:
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 ...
Sovereign risk flare-up in Mozambique forces Total to declare Force Majeure
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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There's no disputing the quality of the LNG bounty discovered offshore Mozambique or its potential to transform one of the poorest nations on earth. Yet, instead of becoming a Cinderellatype fairy tale, the southeast African country has spiralled int...
Mineral Resources expands Perth Basin exploration footprint
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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Mineral Resources is on the cusp of being awarded two highly- prospective gas exploration permits in the Perth and Northern Carnarvon Basins....
Members emerge from COVID hibernation to lunch, chat and reunite with friends
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
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The SA-NT Branch celebrated Christmas lunch in Adelaide and the start of December holiday festivities in some style at Ayers House, which served up a threecourse meal as Dr. Simon Brealey entertained patrons with a salivating serving entitled: Plate ...
Mark is a man for all seasons who savours the sunsets
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
Bridgeport puts six prime postal code permits on the table for farm-in
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
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Bridgeport Energy Limited (Bridgeport) is excited to offer for farm-in several newly acquired and long-life (5 yr+) tenements in the Cooper-Eromanga and Otway basins of eastern Australia. ...
Meet PESA Meritorious award winner Melanie Fitzell
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
Ironbark takes its Cue from Gorgon
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
Abstract:
After a year like no other on a COVID-19 ravaged landscape, it’s encouraging to know that there were still some rich pickings on the ASX in 2020 and in the fourth quarter, in spite of an oil and gas sector that contracted 21% in the 12 months to 30...
Festive season fun brings members back together in style
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: RACHEL KIEFT
- Date Published: December 2020
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PESA Queensland branch were delighted to be able to bring members together to see out the unusual year that was 2020 at the Stamford Plaza in Brisbane. ...
IHS Markit Australian Quarterly Drilling Summary (Q3–2020)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: SAMANTHA HUMPHREYS
- Date Published: December 2020
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Drilling activity in Australia during Q3 2020 has continued to decline due in part to the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the impact it has had on the global economy and local movement restrictions. Exploration and appraisal act...
Full house of festive cheer, jingle bells and giggles
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
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Over 150 revellers packed the Pan Pacific for the WA Branch Christmas lunch in December to reflect on a year like no other, reunite with socially distanced colleagues and then enjoy lots of laughs as geophysicist cum reincarnated comedian Phil Cook t...
CGG, PGS and TGS announce strategic partnership for shared multiclient data
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
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CGG, PGS and TGS have announced a pioneering strategic partnership to offer a shared ecosystem providing direct access to their subsurface multi-client data libraries....
PESA WA Sedimentology and stratigraphy Group Meeting Good excuse to be looking at rocks
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: VINCE CROMBEZ
- Date Published: December 2020
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As students, we all spent quite a bit of time in the field learning to describe outcrops and rocks and interpret the relationship between facies and paleoenvironments. As 21th century geoscientists, we now spend most of our time facing screens interp...
Strike on the Fairway with a Hot Iron, Right on Cue & Bright Skies for Blue
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: DALE GRANGER
- Date Published: December 2020
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Few will mourn the passing of 2020 reflecting on a battered and barren, COVID-19 induced oil & gas canvas that tumbled share prices and left red-stained ink blots on what were once even pristine, blue chip balance sheets....
PESA honours members with Distinguished & Meritorious Service Awards
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
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PESA President Nathan Parker was delighted recently to acknowledge four members who had gone beyond the call of duty in their efforts and enthusiasm to stimulate PESA as well as the Societal benefits and experiences of their colleagues.
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Musk’s Teslas are accelerating the world into the golden age of gas?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
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Elon Musk, now the second richest man in the world, says the global transition from internal combustion engines to electric cars will be a major challenge over the next two decades, doubling the world’s energy demands....
Conference organisers are thrilled as submissions roll in & AEGC21 delivers great numbers
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
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AEGC 2021 call for short abstracts closed on 7th December, having been extended from 30th October to allow for more submissions. The committee are delighted to report that as of Monday 7th, 276 submissions had been received covering both talk and pos...
Oil & gas industry continuing to support Australia’s economic recovery from COVID-19
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
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Australia’s upstream oil & gas industry is playing a vital role in continuing to support the nation’s economic recovery from COVID19, and there is opportunity to secure a new phase of long term investment and growth, creating jobs and helping rep...
Inspirational Images
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
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Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future Program has, over the past four years, undertaken field work across Northern Australia improving our understanding of minerals, energy, and groundwater. These trips included energy-related field activ...
Five Myths & Myth-conceptions of the northern Perth Basin
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
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Darren Ferdinando gave a lunchtime talk to PESA WA in September and later transcribed and edited his presentation into this format. Hence the informal tone and lack of expected formal references....
Vale Dr Roger Morgan
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: DANIEL MANTLE, NIGEL HOOKER & ADAM CHARLES
- Date Published: December 2020
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A titan of Australian industrial palynology, Roger Morgan was a pioneer in the use of microfossils in the Australian oil and gas industry, as well as a mentor to a generation of palynologists....
Funny Phil is cooking up some festive cheer for the Christmas Lunch
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2020
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The PESA WA Branch has pulled a funny bunny out of the hat for this year’s December lunch in which the traditional Christmas laughter and irreverence is set to continue, but this time featuring a semiprofessional stand-up comic who also happens to ...
Roebuck Basin, WA/527-P
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: 3D OIL
- Date Published: October 2020
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Awarded in March 2017 for an nominal three year exploration term requiring Geological and Geophysical studies and 3D seismic acquisition. The permit is large, covering an area of ~6,500km2. It is under-explored with sparse open-file 2D seismic and no...
Multiple farm-in opportunities within New Zealand’s prolific Taranaki Basin
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: DR MIKE MARTIN, WESTSIDE
- Date Published: October 2020
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Westside NZ is an exploration and production company holding three fully compliant tenements, covering approximately 600 km2 in the oil and gas-rich Taranaki Basin (PMP38155, PMP38151 and PEP60402). The basin is NZ’s premier hydrocarbon province in...
Inspirational Images
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2020
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It was a close call, but PESA News is delighted to announce that WEIDI KOH, a commercially qualified drone video enthusiast who also happens to be a geophysicist, is the winner of this year’s Inspirational Images competition. Ultimately, it came do...
Industry-nominated Acreage Release brings 100,000km² in 42 areas to the table
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2020
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Australia’s 2020 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release unveiled 42 areas in Commonwealth waters off Western Australia, Northern Territory and the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands....
Well Data For Your Exploration Needs
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: WILTSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SERVICES
- Date Published: October 2020
Abstract:
In today's environment, ready access to high-quality data plays a critical role in decision making. Good due diligence requires an independent and timely source of high-quality data to validate exploration plays. Unfortunately, public domain data in ...