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Industry News: Drill Lined Up for Highly Prospective Tunisian Play
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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Jacka Resources has taken a decisive step forward towards production by securing the GSP Jupiter jackup rig for its forthcoming well at Hammamet West, offshore Tunisia. ...
Recruitment Training and Migration: Where Have all the Engineers Gone?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
It's an issue affecting many sectors of the resources industry, but in the case of engineering professionals, the shortfall between those required to work on projects, and those available is particularly stark.
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Industry News: CGGVeritas Opens Melbourne Processing and Imaging Centre
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
In June CGGVeritas announced it has opened a new processing and imaging centre in Melbourne. The centre extends the services and accessibility of CGGVeritas in Australia where it has had an ongoing presence since 1981 and opened its main Perth office...
Special Focus: Have We Caught the Dutch Disease?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Troy Douglas
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
In an exclusive interview, Murdoch University's Senior Economist, Ranald Taylor offers his opinion on Australia's current predicament: The Resources Curse.
Australia is currently experiencing a gas bonanza, which sounds gre...
Industry News: Dinosaurs Out of Step with Woodside
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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It's a decision which has, in the words of Paul Vogel, Chairman of the EPA, 'divided the community and sparked unprecedented debate'....
View from the Top: Everything Comes Back to Security
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Preserving the environment around a new uranium mine in the middle of the sacrosanct Kakadu National Park has given DomGas Alliance Chairman Tony Petersen a unique perspective on how many of the major economic forces at play in Australia impact on en...
Seismic Technology: It’s the Fluids that Matter: Solutions To Reservoir Property Prediction
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Andrew Long and Folke Engelmark, PGS
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Fluids in a rock
Oil or gas in a reservoir rock is not a simple case of a fluid occupying a space such that the fluid can occupy all the pore space (1 00% saturation) and then be completely replaced by water during ...
Diary of Events
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
2012-2013 Conferences And Courses...
Special Focus: Are We Chasing Tulips?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
We have all witnessed a real estate bubble, the stock market bubbles and the dot.com bubble, just to name a few.
In each instance when these bubbles burst people stood around afterwards and said; "What were we thinking?"...
Industry News: ‘Positive Step’ to Develop Timor Sea Plays (a)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Santos has entered into an agreement with ConocoPhillip and SK E&S (SK), an affiliate of South Korean conglomerate SK Group, to progress the development of the Caldita and Barossa gas discoveries located in the Timor Sea. ...
View from the Top: Get a Hair Cut and a Real Job
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Geokinetics is an international land and shallow water geophysical service company offering specialised geophysical solutions to the petroleum and mining industries, worldwide.
CEO Richard F Miles began his career in the swinging 60s with GS...
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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....
Onlaps: In Praise of Older Cycles – Part 1 of 3
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Rob Kirk (robkirkconsultants@bigpond.com)
- Date Published: August 2012
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In this group of articles I would like to discuss our geology and seismic within different 'orders' of cycles with the aim of possibly better predicting reservoir distribution....
Branch Activities: WA Members Brave Winter Chills
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Late in June, the PESA WA branch held its annual Winter Warmer at Perth's Belgian Beer Cafe....
Industry News: Pressure Rising on KLC
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Controversy continues to swirl around the Browse LNG project in the Kimberley, in relation to a dispute between Woodside, WA's State Government and the Kimberley Land Council (KLC). ...