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View from the Top: Get a Hair Cut and a Real Job
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. ...
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 : CABS 3 Focuses on Australia’s Centre
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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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...
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.
...
Branch Activities: WA Members Brave Winter Chills
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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Late in June, the PESA WA branch held its annual Winter Warmer at Perth's Belgian Beer Cafe....
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....
Industry News: Pressure Rising on KLC
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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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). ...
LNG: Australian Hat-trick for Aker Solutions’ Subsea Umbilicals
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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In July Aker Solutions signed a contract with McDermott, the main EPCI contractor for the Ichthys gas-condensate field development subsea umbilical, riser, flowline (SURF) project, for INPEX in Australia. The contract value is approximately NOK 440 m...
Branch Activities: 2012 AWE-PESA NSW Family Golf Weekend
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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The Oilmen of NSW golf committee held its 2012 weekend away in the Hunter Valley, staying in Pokolbin Village from Friday 9 March to Sunday 11 March. A total of 32 PESA members and their guests were in attendance with most of those playing in the two...
Industry News: Fugro Celebrates 50th Anniversary
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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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...
Women in Petroleum: Mother’s Pride: Ten Years On
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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Back in 2002, PESA News ran an article revealing how women - particularly mothers- in the industry were faring, juggling the work/life balance in a traditionally male-dominated sector.
Ten years on, we revisit some of those same women: Karen...
Industry News: Petroleum and Geothermal Open Day
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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The Western Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum (WA DMP) Petroleum and Geothermal Open Day will be held at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle Thursday 6 September 2012 immediately after the Good Oil Conference. ...
LNG: MEG Reclamation Plant Deal Lined Up for lchthys
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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The Ichthys LNG behemoth plant has taken another step towards its goal of full operational activity by the fourth quarter of 2016....
Branch Activities: PESA NSW Branch Awards
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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Over recent months the NSW branch of PESA has been actively supporting geosciences students at NSW's universities through a range of activities and awards....
Industry News: Disappointed AWE Points Finger at Origin as Costs Blow Out on BassGas Project
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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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. ...
President’s Report: Around the Branches
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Gordon Wakelin-King
- Date Published: August 2012
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Community engagement is the order of the day: from giant gas hubs to one seismic line across a paddock we find ourselves having to justify our existence like never before.
...
Industry News: ‘Positive Step’ to Develop Timor Sea Plays (b)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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Santos has announced that it had 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....