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Recruitment Training and Migration: Industry Facing Gaping Hole – IGU
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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An aging oil and gas industry is causing a gaping hole that will require drastic action to source hundreds of thousands of technical professionals, the International Gas Union revealed ahead of its 4- 8 June World Gas Conference (WGC) in Kuala Lumpur...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
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
Abstract:
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...
Basin Prospectivity: Seabed Environments of the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf and Timor Sea
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Rachel Przeslawski, Scott Nichol, Geoscience Australia
- Date Published: June 2012
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Seabed mapping reveals significant habitats and potential hazards
Offshore northern Australia is a focus for both the energy industry and marine management agencies (Figure 1). In particular, the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf...
Editor’s Comment: Eat My Words
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Adrian Williams
- Date Published: June 2012
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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...
Unconventional Gas: Arrow Seeks to Alleviate Fears with Comprehensive Water Strategy, Education
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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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...
Unconventional Gas: Skills Shortage Just Tip of Iceberg for Arrow LNG
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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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....
Unconventional Gas: Warro Edges Closer
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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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. ...
Unconventional Gas: Early Bird Can Get That Worm
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Western Australia's shale and tight gas industry has a golden opportunity that was not afforded to NSW's struggling CSG industry: to sell its environmental responsibility and gain the social license it needs to realise its game-changing potential....
Environment: Climate Science or Climate Politics?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Climate Scientist William Kininmonth was head of Australia's National Climate Centre and a consultant to the World Meteorological Organisation and their Commission for Climatology, yet is labelled a 'heretic' in the science community for having views...
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. ...
Environment: Aeons Away from an Answer
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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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...
Environment – Australia a Model for Improving Energy Efficiency – lEA
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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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...
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. ...
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....
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. ...
LNG: Oil Search Gearing Up for Another Papua LNG Project
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Australian company Oil Search believes it has enough reserves in the gulf of Papua to justify another LNG project in Papua New Guinea (PNG). ...
LNG: Government Unites Industry Titans, Threats Divide Them
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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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...
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'. ...
Company Focus: Aussies Tap into China CBM ‘Goldmine’
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
Meeting the energy demands of a Chinese province with nearly twice Australia's population is a challenge transforming ASX-listed Sino Gas & Energy Holdings from a junior explorer into a mid-cap gas developer with a big future. ...
Aussies Overseas: Geologist Swaps Tools for Camera in Swamps of Nigeria
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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When Brendan Butcher was studying Geology in the leafy, pristine campus of the University of Western Australia, he never dreamed he'd be lurching through the muddy swamps of the Niger Delta, carrying a camera of all things. ...
Aussies Overseas: Anthropologist Hunting Dragon Gas
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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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. ...
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....
2012 South Australia Supplement
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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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. ...
Diary of Events
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
2012-2013 Conferences And Courses...
PESA Contacts
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Directory of Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia
- Board of Directors 2011 (as of March)
- Branch Presidents
- Branch Secretaries
- PESA Publications Sub-Committee
- PESA News Sub-Committee ...
Uncle Duster’s Opinion Repository: Uncle Duster’s Allegorical and Enlightening Vacation
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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It's a long-held tradition at Camp Duster to take off in the New Year, getting in some well-deserved leisure time ahead of the year proper kicking into gear - and along with it the inevitable flood of requests, speaking engagements, technical advice ...
Industry News: DMP Round 5 Co-Funded Drilling Program Closes
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
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...