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Industry News: Government Torpedoes Ningaloo Reef Exploration Program
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
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Apache Energy has hit headwinds in its bid to conduct an oil and gas exploration program near Ningaloo Reef off north Western Australia with the Federal Government rejecting the application for seismic activity close to the marine reserve.
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Company News: DownUnder GeoSolutions Opens London Office
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Perth-founded geoscience company, DownUnder GeoSolutions, recently opened an office in central London, which is its seventh international office. ...
Uncle Duster’s Opinion Repository: Uncle Nostradusterus’ Thoughts on 2013
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Now old Uncle Duster isn't one for new age philosophising, spiritualism, metaphysics, soul searching and the like; in fact, if it isn't already blindingly obvious to regular readers of this column, Duster is firmly of the old school, more of a meat-a...
Industry News: Pickard Questions Whether Billions Will Flow to Australia
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Shell Australia boss Ann Pickard says that unless Australia finds an effective way of curtailing spiralling costs, stimulating productivity and stabilising regulatory uncertainty, the country's petroleum industry risks the prospect of becoming a shri...
Company News: Lakes Oil Spikes as Gina Rinehart Buys into Oil and Gas Industry
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Lakes Oil has watched its share price soar 130% since mining magnate Gina Rinehart threw the embattled Australian explorer a lifeline, securing a diluted 18.6% stake in the company in buying $4.25 MM of unsecured notes as part of an extended capital ...
President’s Report: 2013: A Busy Year
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Gordon Wakelin-King
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Dear members,
I finished my column last issue on the Footy tipping, so I'll open this one on the same note, hoping that members and friends will join up again this year. We had 31 up from 20, so we are getting few numbers in. I'm also hoping som...
Industry News: Kimberley Activists ‘green-light’ FLNG for Browse
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Environmentalists campaigning against Woodside's controversial LNG plant at James Price Point will support floating LNG as a compromise solution to the beleaguered Browse project going ahead offshore. ...
Company News: WHL Energy Cashed Up
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Australian oil and gas company WHL Energy announced in January that it remains well positioned to fund its current work programs with $8.205 MM in cash available at the end of December. ...
Branch Activities: 48th Annual Drillsearch – PESA (NSW) Golf Tournament
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Barry Smith, on behalf of the Oilmen of NSW Golf Committee
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
The 2012 Drillsearch - PESA (NSW) golf day, organised by the Oilmen of NSW golf committee, was held at the Killara Golf Club on Thursday 18 October. Ninety society members and their guests attended the golf day, which included the Schlumberger lunch ...
Industry News: Call for New Native Title Framework
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Australia must reform legal and taxation laws that stop indigenous people from benefitting fully from the nation's mining boom, leading indigenous scholar Professor Marcia Langton AM told an Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference...
Technology: Stress from Seismic
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: John K. Davidson, Predrill Stresses International Pty Ltd
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
The most important variable in the conventional and unconventional gas and oil sectors is the direction and magnitude of the horizontal stresses approaching and at the target horizons. Why rely on sparsely measured data which are insufficient to dete...
Industry News: AAPG 2013 Geosciences Technology Workshops
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Members have the opportunity to collaborate and learn at an AAPG workshop in 2013. ...
Aussies Overseas: Aleator Energy Looks to Ukrainian Production
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Aleator Energy CEO Wal Muir may well have rolled the dice when he decided to leave AWT at the end of October last year, but as he explained to PESA News Resources (PNR) it was a calculated decision based on the lure of highly prospective acreage in U...
Industry News: API Proposal Will Impact Australia
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has called on the US Department of Energy to approve and fast-track the export of liquefied natural gas "without delay"....
Aussies Overseas: Hawkley Achieves Commercial Flow Rates
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Australian company, Hawkley, has successfully tested commercial gas flow rates from its Sorochynska well 202, Ukraine, with high condensate content....
Industry News: Geoscientist Unemployment Rate Doubles
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
The unemployment rate for geoscientists in Australia doubled in the six months to 31 December 2012 as a direct result of the downturn in Australia's mining fortunes in the second half of the year. ...
Aussies Overseas: Ophir Taps into Ghana
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
In December the Contractor Group executed a farmout of a portion of their interests in the Offshore Accra Contract Area, Ghana....
Industry News: Gas Deposits a Lottery for Indigenous Benefits
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Leading West Australian Aboriginal MP Ben Wyatt has called for greater empowerment of Indigenous communities in self-determination and governance at the December national Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference, hosted by The Univ...
Company Profile: Polarcus in for the Long Haul
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Polarcus CEO Rolf Ronningen rates 2012 as a year of important milestone. Last year, for the first time in the life of the Dubai-based marine geophysical operator, it put its full fleet of eight vessels into play. 2012 also saw the company's first for...
Diary of Events
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
2013 Conferences and Courses ...
Company News: Award of Exploration Acreage in the Maryborough Basin
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Blue Energy with its JV partner Beach Energy were granted two exploration tenements, ATP674P and ATP733P, in Queensland's Maryborough Basin in early January....
South Australia: A Road Across the Desert
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Heli Wopfner
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
The 1950's Premier of South Australia, Sir Thomas Playford was known to channel any conceivable advantage towards the betterment of South Australia. Soon after we had commenced our operations in the northeast corner in 1957 he suggested that Santos s...
Industry News: What WA Farmers want: A Slice of the Shale
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
The influential WA Farmers Federation has no objection to fraccing on agricultural lands to release Australia's latent shale gas resources, but the peak industry group says it would ideally like its members to enjoy the same rights as farmers in the ...
Company News: AWE to Drill in New Zealand
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
AWE stated on 29 January that the PMP 38158 (Tui) JV has approved the drilling of two additional wells in the second half of 2013: the Pateke-4H infill development well and the Oi exploration well. ...
South Australia: Petroleum Seismic Exploration by the Department of Mines 50 Years Ago – a Personal Retrospective
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: GW (Bill) Kendall, South Australia Department of Mines employee, 1962-69
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
In this article I would like to acknowledge the pioneering work that Ken Seeds man, Bernie Milton and Ted Moorcroft, employees of the Petroleum Section of the then Department of Mines, did in furthering the structural subsurface knowledge of petroleu...
Industry News: Update on the ASEG-PESA 2013 Conference Preparations
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
The organising committee and many helpers are working at full pace to deliver a conference that they hope will provide delegates with their very own eureka moment! Registration is open and the early bird full conference pricing ($995 for members) clo...
Company News: Chevron Goes Big Game Hunting and Fishing on Shale Safari
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Chevron's big game hunting endeavours in South Africa, joining the shale safari in partnership with Toronto-listed Falcon Oil and Gas, are giving the supermajor potential future gas-to-liquid options in Africa's biggest economy, flowing from its clos...
Words: Elements of Style
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Peter Purcell
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Gemma Sapwell, a journalist with the ABC, currently studying Spanish in Mexico has discovered a sure way to identify fellow Australians. She had found clothing a fair guide: 'girls wearing brown Havaiana thongs, denim shorts, travelling in a pack, an...
Industry News: Central Petroleum and Total Announce Strategic Alliance for Exploration in Southern Georgina Basin
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2012
Abstract:
Central Petroleum has announced a multistage farm-out agreement with French energy company Total for the exploration of approximately 6 MM acres in the southern Georgina Basin....
Seismic Technology: The Value of PRM in Enabling High Payback lOR
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Martin Bett, TGS
- Date Published: December 2012
Abstract:
Innovative uses of seabed seismic technology can help operators achieve considerably higher returns from new and mature fields. High potential returns with low risk and lower lifetime cost of ownership are increasingly attractive. ...