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Acreage Release: SA Cooper and Otway Basins Acreage Release
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
The South Australian Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, the Han Tom Koutsantonis, opened bidding for the 201 2 South Australian petroleum acreage release on 4 September 2012. Two new petroleum exploration licences (PELs) are being offered in ...
Industry News: BHP to Focus on Aussie-US Assets
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Mining giant BHP Billiton has announced that a key focus for the future will be developing its "world-class" oil and gas discoveries in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, as it seeks to channel exploration activities towards its Carnarvon Bas...
Technology Focus: Innovations in Visualisation Open New Possibilities for Interpreters
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Bruno de Ribet, Paradigm
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Visualisation technology is continuously evolving, with the growing availability of rendering and transparency capabilities scalable to common computer architectures. To date, this evolution has followed two main trends. The first has the objective o...
Branch Activities: 33rd Annual PESA/SPE Golf Day
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
The 33rd Annual South Australian PESA/SPE Golf day held on Friday, 30 March was another resounding success with $25,000 raised for the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). ...
Industry News: Santos Farms-in as Operator to Onshore Amadeus and Pedirka Basin Permits
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Santos recently announced a farm-in agreement across permits in the Amadeus and Pedirka basins in the Northern Territory. ...
Acreage Release: Seven New Offshore Permits Awarded
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
The Australian Federal Government has granted seven new petroleum exploration permits offshore Western Australia and the Northern Territory in the second round of the 2011 Exploration Acreage Release. ...
Industry News: Natural Gas Replacing Diesel?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Innovative technologists are finding new ways to substitute cheap natural gas in place of expensive diesel. ...
Environment: UWA Building New CO2 Lab to Boost Carbon Capture Storage Research
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
The University of Western Australia will have a new CO2 research facility built on its campus in 2013. ...
Branch Activities: Careers in Geoscience
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
On Tuesday 21 August at City West Reception Centre, West Perth, PESA WA Branch hosted a Careers in Geoscience night for High School and University students....
Industry News: Drillsearch Announces Takeover for Acer Energy
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Drillsearch is acquiring Acer Energy shares on-market and the bid values Acer at approximately $118 MM or 25.5 cents per share....
Onlaps: In Praise of Older Cycles – Part 2 of 3
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Rob Kirk, Rob Kirk Consultants
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
This article is the second of three on lower order cycles that may help us to better predict our geology. Note that figure numbering follows on from the first article which ran in the August/September (No. 119) edition of PESA News Resources....
Industry News: Nexus Looks to FLNG
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Nexus Energy believes its Crux gas-condensate field in the eastern Browse Basin off Western Australia could be developed as a stand-alone floating LNG project. Based on the Crux partner Shell that is in the development of FLNG technology. ...
Environment: Downer Wins $70 Million Dollar Contract
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Only a day after the announcement of the 131 MW Mercer wind farm project in Victoria, Downer EDI has won a $70 MM contract on the project. The $260 MM, 131 MW Mt Mercer wind farm, located 30 km south of Ballarat, will provide enough renewable energy ...
Branch Activities: PESA, ASEG, SPE Quiz Night 2012
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
A joint Quiz night attended by members of South Australia's PESA, ASEG and SPE societies raised $2,200 for RFDS on 27 July 2012.
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Seismic Technology: A Regional Velocity Cube for Depth Conversion on the Northwest Shelf
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Maighréad Ni Dheasúna, Mark Ballesteros, Searcher Seismic; James Leven, Aker Solutions
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Accurate knowledge of the speed at which seismic waves travel through subsurface rocks is critically important for seismic processing, imaging and interpretation, in essence because seismic data is acquired in the time domain, whereas prospect evalua...
Words: A Reminder from Papa
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Peter Purcell
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms' is one of the most famous novels of the 20th Century. Frederick Henry and nurse Catherine Barkley, volunteers in Italy in WW1, fall in love but she dies in childbirth, as does their child. The ending is one of ...
Special Focus: The Cure
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Troy Douglas
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson has commented to PESA News Resources that the Dutch Disease is a phenomenon not being experienced in Australia; he claims that Dutch Disease is mainly relevant as a result of declining reserves. Howe...
Industry News: Viral Sabotage Clone Website Hits Shell Where It Hurts
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
A spectacular exercise in corporate sabotage unfolded across social media sites and the internet in July as environmental activist group Greenpeace and the Yes Men created a Shell clone website, stood back, and watched the mayhem spark across the wor...
Aussies Overseas: The Little Company that Could
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Observers may be forgiven for thinking that the team at WHL Energy have a crystal ball secreted somewhere in their West Perth boardroom.
It's one explanation for the extraordinary trajectory the once re newables-focused firm has experienced...
Seismic Technology: Submarine Fan Chronostratigraphy from Wheeler-Transformed ION BasinSPAN Seismic Data, Late Cretaceous – Tertiary, Offshore Tanzania
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Katie-Joe McDonough, Eric Bouanga, Claire Pierard, Edward J. Sterne, James W. Granath, Al Danforth, Jon S. Gross
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Great excitement has recently flowed from the East African and international press at the news of major gas discoveries in Tanzania and Mozambique. Gas discoveries of approximately 100 Tcf in Mozambique and close to 30 Tcf in Tanzania have been annou...
Uncle Duster’s Opinion Repository: Duster’s Ad Hoc, Somewhat Discursive, and Shamelessly Self Indulgent Country Profile: China
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
More and more of Duster's time of late has been spent slogging it out in the office quarters, studiously leant back in the Chesterfield while presiding over a forever evolving opus of ideas, furrow-browed and eyes focused, noble countenance an evocat...
Safety: Australia Lagging Despite Safety Improvements
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Australia lags behind in safety compared to international benchmarks despite the rate of major offshore injuries has been reduced since 2008, according to APPEA Chairman David Knox...
Industry News: Senex Energy Raises Funds for Cooper Basin
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
A fully underwritten institutional placement will raise $50 MM and a two-for-13 accelerated entitlement offer for the remaining S 1 OS MM. The offer price is 74c a share, which compares with Senex's last sale price of 88.5c a share. Senex's biggest s...
CSG: Innovation May Offer Solution to CSG ‘Cross Communication’ Concerns
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
The perceived or real concerns the public have about the issues surrounding CSG and aquifer 'cross communication' continued to rumble on in the winter months of 2012. ...
Industry News : CABS 3 Focuses on Australia’s Centre
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
The 3rd Central Australian Basins Symposium (CABS 3) was held on 16-17 July in Alice Springs at the Lassiters Casino I Hotel Convention Centre. A total of 102 delegates attended from both industry and government with 28 papers delivered on...
Unconventional Gas: Beach and Icon Forge Ahead with Vertical Drilling Plan
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Beach Energy Limited and Icon Energy Limited announced in July that they had agreed to leverage off Beach's PEL 218 success to date by initiating the unconventional exploration program in the ATP 855P permit with a vertical exploration well, some thr...
Branch Activities: PESA WA Awards Best and Brightest
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Every year, PESA WA proudly recognises its best and brightest students (geology/geophysics) from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Curtin University. It does so by awarding scholarships throughout the whole range of year levels, from firs...
Industry News: Encounter-1 Produces Shale Gas for Beach Energy
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Beach Energy has produced shale gas from its Encounter-1 well in central Australia's Cooper Basin, which has tested at a combined rate of over 2,000 MMcf/day, the company said in July. ...
LNG: Japanese Firms Snap Up Aussie LNG
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
An agreement between Australia Pacific LNG Pty Limited and the Kansai Electric Power Company was inked recently, securing the supply of approximately 1 MM tonnes of LNG per year for the next 20 years to the Japanese market.
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Industry News: Do APPEA and the Sustainable Energy Association Want the Same Thing?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
APPEA and the Sustainable Energy Association (SEA) want subsidy intervention to be more rigorously scrutinised and both are calling for a market-based system approach....