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Seismic Technology: Seismic Characterisation of Unconventional Plays in North America
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Lee Bell, Mary Edrich, and Alvaro Chaveste, Geokinetics
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Unconventional resource plays have revolutionised the oil and gas industry across North America. Resource plays include shales, where the shale is both source and reservoir, and other ultralow-permeability rocks that contain hydrocarbons which have m...
Technology Focus: Reservoir Modelling in Australian Shale: Challenges and Opportunities
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Raj Damodaran, Emerson Process Management
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
For many operators today, 3D reservoir modelling has become the standard platform for the mapping, understanding and predicting of behaviour in oil and gas reservoirs. Furthermore, as reserves continue to decrease and operators look towards deeper an...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
Safety: Engineers Can Become Convicted Criminals
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Lawyers are an engineer's new best friend. Why? Engineers working in Australia could be held personally liable for their designs where someone using or working on it dies or is injured in a workplace accident. Although corporate manslaughter currentl...
Editor’s Comment: Mind Our Ps and Qs
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Adrian Williams
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
I don't often get feedback on my Editor's Column but when I do it commonly includes a reference to the fact that I actually look a lot older and greyer in person than I do in my picture at the top of this page. That could have something to do with th...
Company Focus: Empire Oil Set to Add Value to Assets
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
While Empire Oil & Gas NL is already progressing towards becoming a conventional gas and condensate producer by January 2013, confirmation of a large unconventional gas resource will add further value to its assets....
Company Focus: Ambassador Firms Up Cooper Basin Unconventional Gas
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Ambassador Oil and Gas is currently in discussions with a number of people to gain a strategic partnership to exploit gas resources in their Cooper Basin acreage. ...
Company Focus: LandCorp CEO Challenges the Oil and Gas Industry
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Western Australia's resources sector is key to the State developing infrastructure that will form the backbone to the long term economic and social development of Australia. Landcorp CEO, Ross Holt, believes that the various industry sectors, and the...
Company Focus: Troy’s Got it on Tap
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Tap Oil
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Since taking over the reins at Tap Oil nearly two years ago, CEO and Managing Director, Troy Hayden looks back at the path that has taken him there, and how it has shaped his future growth plans for the company. ...
Education: Could Hemp Support our Future Energy Demand?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
Hemp will play a critical role in shifting the planet's fuel sources from unsustainable towards sustainable, renewable and environmentally friendly.
This was claimed by Gareth Jones, from the University of WA addressing the topic, "Where sho...
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 ...
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. ...
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....
Words: Humpty Dumpty Thinking
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Peter Purcell
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
A few months back I mentioned hearing an ABC announcer defend her use of the words agreeance and disputation, as in There was a big disputation but we have agreeance now.
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President’s Report: EABS Terrific, Government Decisions Iffy
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Gordon Wakelin-King
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
We're generally told to avoid forward-looking statements, but writing on the Eve of EABS I'm prepared to take a punt: fantastic. ...
Branch Activities: PESA NSW: Walcott Student Night
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
On Tuesday 28 August, the PESA NSW branch hosted its annual student night. The event celebrates the achievements of students in the geoscience industry and, in particular, the efforts of one special student. ...
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). ...
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....
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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Obituary: Jodie Gillespie
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: October 2012
Abstract:
The passing of Jodie Gillespie, Business Development Manager for Fugro Geoscience division, is received with great sadness....
Diary of Events
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
2012-2013 Conferences And Courses...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
Industry News: Fugro Celebrates 50th Anniversary
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
2012 marks Fugro's 50th anniversary. During that time Fugro has expanded its services from solving foundation problems in the Netherlands to being involved in global developments in energy, transport water management and the exploration of natural re...
Industry News: Disappointed AWE Points Finger at Origin as Costs Blow Out on BassGas Project
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
AWE Limited has made no secret of its disappointment following a progress update on the BassGas Mid Life Enhancement (MLE) project from the project's operator, Origin Energy Limited. ...
Industry News: Clean Energy Plant Shows Strategic Foresight
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
A unique power facility that will turn gas, wind, solar and geothermal energy into electricity is set to be a major strategic factor in local energy industries supplying the maturing minerals industry in the area. ...