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- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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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....
That’s it from me…
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Nathan Parker
- Date Published: April 2021
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Welcome to the first edition of PESA News for 2021....
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 ...
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 ...
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....
Elixir leads the charge as oil & gas stocks rally to a revival in Q1
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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Oil & gas engines were purring again in the first quarter of 2021 as the anxiously awaited post COVID recovery took off on the Australian Securities Exchange....
Spring in the step as Rock Stars rally to a revival
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2021
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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...
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....
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
Ironbark takes its Cue from Gorgon
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
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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...
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...
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....
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....
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....
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...
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....
Meet PESA Meritorious award winner Melanie Fitzell
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2020
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. ...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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....