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LNG – Global LNG: Over-supply or Big Opportunity?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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5uspicions of over supply in the gas market with the abundance of LNG projects in Australia and around the world have been called into question....
View from the Top: As PGS CEO Comes Full Circle, Journey Has Just Begun
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
PGS Chief Executive Jon Erik Reinhardsen may be a mathematician, but he's not a numbers man just looking at the bottom line. ...
Editor’s Comment: Eat My Words
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Adrian Williams
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
A couple of issues ago my column addressed the weighty issue of corporate management, in particular lamenting the fact that short, skinny guys like me are easily overshadowed by our larger corporate counterparts in the climb up the heavily reinforced...
Industry News: Price Shock Worries Deepen Economic Fears
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
In Australia's oil bread basket, Western Australia, there have been warnings about the dire state of oil production amid fears of an impending oil price shock that could threaten the recovery of a fragile global economy. ...
President’s Report: AGM A Time To Reflect
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Gordon Wakelin-King
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
As I write my report, it's the AGM time of year, and that's when I get to see all the branch annual reports: the first thing I think of is that a lot of work has gone in to keeping PESA running for another year. ...
View from the Top: lchthys Innovation, Scale All Par for the Course for Serceau
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
As a Frenchman heading up a landmark innovative project of a Japanese company in Australia, INPEX's lchthys project Managing Director Antoine Serceau has a unique perspective on the challenges of progressing a large-scale project in a multicultural e...
Unconventional Gas: Arrow Seeks to Alleviate Fears with Comprehensive Water Strategy, Education
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
Arrow Energy has acknowledged that its LNG project activities have the potential to reduce agricultural productivity and increase costs of farm management, with crop losses or disturbance of stock, disturbance of soil and cause "loss of amenity" (dis...
Industry News: Bourne to Head ARENA
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
Former BP Australasia Regional President and WWF-Australia CEO Greg Bourne has been appointed as acting Chair of the board of Australian Renewable Energy Agency, which starts on 1 July as a key part of the Government's Clean Energy Future package, co...
LNG: Oil Search Gearing Up for Another Papua LNG Project
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
Australian company Oil Search believes it has enough reserves in the gulf of Papua to justify another LNG project in Papua New Guinea (PNG). ...
Recruitment Training and Migration: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
While technology forever changes, the need for old-school charm and social graces remain as essential as ever, according to the head of one of Australia's biggest projects and a leading behavioural consultant....
Unconventional Gas: Skills Shortage Just Tip of Iceberg for Arrow LNG
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
The Arrow LNG project will exacerbate the very problems it most needs to address as it plans for its multi-billion dollar project, one of its Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) has declared....
Industry News: Energy Security: Free Market or Intervention?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
The debate over energy security across Australia is being turned on its head, with Australian and overseas policies and project developments leading both energy producers and users to question long-held views about whether increased capacity will in ...
LNG: Government Unites Industry Titans, Threats Divide Them
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
The Federal Government is piling unwanted pressure on investor uncertainty at a time when Australia's LNG market and its flow-on effects to the national economy are under threat from a number of fronts, industry heads said at the APPEA national confe...
Recruitment Training and Migration: Oil and Gas not Immune to the Organisational Psychopath
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
Psychopaths are inside almost every Australian company and are getting promoted, according to Barbara Abbott from consultancy firm Behaviour Matters. ...
Unconventional Gas: Warro Edges Closer
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
The end of a 25-year journey looks to finally be within sight as independent US experts confirm that the troublesome Warro field could flow gas at high rates once the water issue is managed. ...
Industry News: Resist Pressure for Gas Reservation Policy – Macfarlane
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
A perfect storm is brewing that will increase pressure for more states to enforce a gas reservation policy, Shadow Minister for Energy and Resources Ian Macfarlane said. ...
Onlaps: Shelf Sands
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Rob Kirk, Rob Kirk Consulting
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
In this article I would like to discuss shallow marine sands that may be isolated out on the marine shelf away from deltas and fluvial units and often surrounded by marine muds - 'shelf sands'. ...
President’s Report: Conference Time
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Gordon Wakelin-King
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Last month's PESA News Resources was a great pleasure to read, why? Fraccing was spelled correctly that's why. If I see that feral 'k' one more time I'll scream. Of course PESA News Resources is always a brilliant read and last issue was no exception...
Industry News: Perth Basin Shale Gas Rush is On
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
The shale gas rush is on in the Perth Basin now that the WA Government has given four shale and tight gas proof-of-concept proposals the all-clear. The companies that stand to benefit from this decision are AWE Ltd, Norwest Energy and Latent Petroleu...
Environment: Fugro-TSM and Carbon Neutral Partner to Offset Emissions
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
The Fugro-TSM Group of Companies has long held that a high standard of environmental performance is essential to the success of its business. This is the foundation that led to its decision to partner with Carbon Neutral on a three-year program to re...
Basin Prospectivity: The Mt Kitty Prospect: Regional Thrust Belts in the Southern Amadeus Basin Host Numerous Wet Gas and Helium Plays
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Nathan Palmer, Greg Ambrose, Central Petroleum
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
The Mt Kitty prospect resides in the heavily structured southern Amadeus Basin approximately 220 km southwest of Alice Springs in Northern Territory Exploration Permit EP-125. The initiation of the Amadeus Basin in this area probably coincided with t...
LNG: Gorgon Puts WA on Quarantine Management Pedestal
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Western Australia has become a centre of excellence - a world leader - in quarantine management due to the strict protocols developed in the State for a Gorgon LNG project that is in some cases unprecedented in its scale, its Downstream Manager Paul ...
Industry News: Searcher’s New Staff Facilitate Expansion
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
5earcher Seismic has taken on two well-respected industry heads to expand its business in Norway, Southeast Asia and Australia....
Environment: Global Warming Research Funding Urgently Sought
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: John Gorter, ENI.
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
What are these?
Congratulations if you answered trace fossils, bonus if you identified the substrate as snow! Remember, a trace fossil consists of an imprint of or a mark left by an organism, as opposed to physical remains....
Shale Exploration: Unconventional Methods for Unconventional Plays: Using Elemental Data to Understand Shale Resource Plays
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Ken Ratcliffe and Milly Wright, Chemostrat; Dave Spain, BP USA
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
In the last edition of PESA News Resources (No 116), the use of chemostratigraphy to help refine stratigraphic understanding of shale resource plays was discussed. Following on from Part 1, we here look at what additional information can be gathered ...
2012 South Australia Supplement
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
South Australia is emerging as one of Australia's major jurisdictions for mineral and energy exploration and taking a place among the world's mining titans. ...
LNG: Vietnam Considering LNG Imports From Australia
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Australia could soon be exporting gas to Vietnam, following government-owned Petro Vietnam Gas' (PV Gas) discussions with Australian companies to meet its gas shortfall....
Industry News: 2012 The Year of Big Spenders
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Oil and gas industry leaders have forecast a regional shift in who has greatest potential, according to a new Economist Intelligence Unit report commissioned by industry technical advisor GL Noble Denton....
Words: The Moment I Sinned
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Peter Purcell
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
No sooner had I signed off on my last column and sat back to listen to the cricket than I heard that Michael Hussey had a nice leave. I assumed this meant he'd enjoyed his holidays as a welcome break from his busy schedule. Not so. The commentator we...
Shale Exploration: Shale Gas In Australia – Drivers And Road Blocks
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Waf Muir, AWT International
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
During the past 20 years or so, the gas industry in the US has been undergoing a slow but dramatic change. The US has been gradually morphing from a voracious user of others' natural gas to drive its industry and commerce to a voracious user of its o...