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Canning Basin: Buru Recruit Loving Thrill of Challenge
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Marie Malaxos' arrival at Buru Energy has signalled that the company is now into overdrive: pushing its Canning Basin assets from resources to reserves, and getting them out of the ground to give Western Australia energy security. ...
Environment: Coal Emissions Solution Adaptable to Gas – CSIRO
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Post-combustion carbon dioxide capture (PCC) technology, which has been proven for coal-fired power stations could also be applied to gas-fired power stations, CSIRO researchers said. ...
Industry News: Fugro Multi Client Services Expands Perth Office
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Fugro Multi Client Services (FMCS) recently appointed Dr. Patricio Silva Gonzalez as Chief Geologist and Paul Rheinberg as Business Development Manager. ...
Aussies Overseas: Anthropologist Hunting Dragon Gas
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
You won't catch Chevron career man Gavin Harper pondering what might have been had he gone on with the anthropology career he missed out on, especially given the project he's currently sitting on. ...
Canning Basin: Hess Joins Canning Unconventional Hunt
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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U5 major Hess has joined the Canning Basin hunt for shale gas by buying Queensland mining magnate Clive Palmer's Kingsway Oil as part of its Australian expansion plans. ...
Diary of Events
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
2012-2013 Conferences And Courses ...
Environment: Aeons Away from an Answer
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
Did environmentalism all begin with a photograph?
Earthsrise, the popular name given to a picture taken by US astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, is argued to be the picture that altered mankind's p...
Industry News: Chemostrat Australia Opens up in Perth
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Specialist stratigraphic services company Chemostrat, born from doctoral research, has opened an office in Perth to service the booming oil and gas sector. ...
Words: Sympathetic Magic
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Peter Purcell
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
Sympathetic magic often swirls around the Words column, I find, as post-publication events align with the column's theme....
Canning Basin: Key Turns in a Big Way
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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From bust to boom, Key Petroleum has been a quintessential reflection of the economic turnaround in WA's mining sector. Only last October it was looking down the barrel of financial disaster and forced to cut staff numbers and its own 1 OOo/o onshore...
Uncle Duster’s Opinion Repository: Duster Pads Up, , Takes Guard, and Plays a Straight Bat on the Skills Crisis
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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As president of the Goosebury Hill and Associated Districts Suburban Turf Cricket Club, one of the more influential community sporting bodies this side of the Darling Scarp, Duster has encountered many challenges both on and off the field over the co...
Environment – Australia a Model for Improving Energy Efficiency – lEA
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
The International Energy Agency's (lEA) latest report has selected The Australian Government's Energy Efficiency Opportunities (EEO) program as a case study and was presented as a model for improving energy efficiency outcomes and addressing informat...
2012 Acreage Release: New Offshore Petroleum Opportunities
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Thomas Bernecker and Jennifer Totterdell, Geoscience Australia
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
2012 Acreage Release areas include Australia's southern margin
The Australian Government formally released new offshore petroleum exploration areas at the annual APPEA conference on 14 May 2012. The Federal Minister for Res...
Basin Prospectivity: Targeting Fracture Permeability for Geothermal Developments in the North Perth Basin
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Mark Ballesteros, Gary Meyer, Jim McDairimid, Adrian Larking, Green Rock Energy Ltd; Ralf Oppermann, OPPtimal Exploration and Development Pty Ltd
- Date Published: June 2012
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The northern Perth Basin (NPB) offers one of the most attractive areas for Hot Sedimentary Aquifer (HSA) geothermal projects in Australia. Key geological ingredients for a working geothermal system include a heat source and a heat trap in the form of...
Industry News: INPEX Takes Stake in Prelude
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Japanese company INPEX is ramping up its goal to become a 1 MM boed integrated energy company by 2020 by taking a 17.5% stake in Shell's $12.6 B Prelude FLNG project. ...
Environment: Surf’s Up for Offshore Oil and Gas Workers
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Experienced Australian offshore oil and gas workers could soon be working the waves with the first Western Australian wave energy project commencing next year. ...
Safety: Toolkit to Give Critical Confidence in Industry
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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The Subsea First Response Toolkit (SFRT) which the petroleum industry will fund to handle gas well blow outs is likely to be based in Perth, PESA News Resources can reveal. ...
Industry News: DMP Round 5 Co-Funded Drilling Program Closes
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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Applications for the West Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) funding for round five of the Co-Funded Exploration Drilling Program closed on 30 March. The program promotes exploration in greenfields and under-explored areas of the Stat...
Aussies Overseas: Aussie Explorer Marches into Old Cold War Territory
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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Australian petroleum explorers and investors are moving into old Cold War territory, negotiating a still tangled web of intrigue to unlock the old eastern bloc's considerable gas resources. ...
Recruitment Training and Migration: UK To Help Solve Aussie Skills Shortage
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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A new era of cooperation between the UK and Australian and Territory governments has been ushered in to encourage more companies from the Old Dart to do business in Australia's rapidly expanding LNG industry. ...
Branch Activities: The “Las Vegas” Ball
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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After the success of last year's ball, the WA Branch is pleased to announce that it will again hold a charity ball raising funds for the RFDS. This year's theme is "Las Vegas Cabaret". ...
Seismic Technology: Noise Attenuation Challenges for Combined OBC, Transition and Land Seismic Survey
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Valarie Hamilton and Merrie-EIIen Gunning, Down Under Geoso/utions
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Sandwiched between two existing 3D seismic surveys, the Antares 30 marine and Heytesbury 30 land, the Speculant 30 survey was acquired by Origin Energy Ltd with a combination of Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC), land geophones, airguns and Vibroseis. This ra...
Industry News: WA CCS Project Reaches Drilling Milestone
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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Western Australia's first onshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has started research drilling operations....
Aussies Overseas: UK Research Gives Pura Vida the Nod
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
A leading UK broking and advisory firm has initiated independent research on Perth-based African oil explorer Pura Vida Energy giving it a risked value of $232 MM....
Recruitment Training and Migration: Rapid Asian Growth Places Local Industry At Critical Juncture
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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The oil and gas industry faces an immediate challenge to ensure the continued flow of adequately skilled professionals to cater for the next 12 months that are expected to be a record-breaker for the Asia Pacific region, with Asian economies likely t...
LNG: Chevron Discoveries to Expand WA LNG
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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5uccessive gas discoveries offshore Western Australia are helping the $29 B Wheat stone project achieve Chevron's single biggest addition to the company's reserves pool, leading to flagged expansion of both Wheatstone and Gorgon projects....
Industry News: Offshore Gas States Oppose Cash Bidding
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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The cash-bidding system that the 2011 d raft Energy White Paper proposed for acreage releases is unlikely to prompt exploration or development as the Commonwealth hopes it will, Australia's offshore gas powerhouses said....
Aussies Overseas: Aussie CBM Specialists Tap into South African Market
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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South Africa is launching into a new era of a transformed energy equation and Perth companies Kinetiko Energy and Sunbird Energy are leading the way to solve the troubled country's energy supply - and even some social - issues. ...
Recruitment Training and Migration: Chevron on Hunt for Hundreds of Facilities Engineers
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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Chevron Australia has launched a major recruitment drive Australia-wide for hundreds of engineers required to work on its Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects. ...
LNG: Darwin has the Last Laugh
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
The Northern Territory Chief Minister's desire to make Darwin Australia's version of Aberdeen is turning out to be more than a pipe dream, with the lchthys project set to cause a ripple effect to reposition the city in Australia's energy picture. ...