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THE PROJECT (A Play About Not Working Together)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: David Grybowski
- Date Published: January 2023
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The actors wear crown hats of thick construction paper with job titles (GEOLOGIST, etc) written on them. They sit on stools in a row; from left to right – GEOPHYSICIST, GEOLOGIST, empty stool, ENGINEER, MANAGER. The PETROPHYSICIST stands off to the...
TECH TALK: Resources & Energy Exports to Drop From Record Highs… Still Third Highest Ever
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: David Woods
- Date Published: January 2023
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(Forecasts for the value, volume and price of Australia’s major resources and energy commodity exports.)
Australia’ Office of the Chief Economist, David Woods, has released The Resources and Energy Quarterly (REQ) report containing the Offic...
Australia’ Office of the Chief Economist, David Woods, has released The Resources and Energy Quarterly (REQ) report containing the Offic...
Tech Talk: IEA Says 55% Expected Decline in Russia’s Pipeline Unprecedented Pressure on Both European and Global Gas Markets
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: January 2023
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The global natural gas market began 2022 with expectations of modest demand growth, but that all changed with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. In addition to representing a massive human tragedy, the invasion triggered a major energy su...
CEO’s Corner: Government’s Price Provision Dictate Will Have the Opposite Effect
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: January 2023
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SAMANTHA McCULLOCH, Chief Executive of the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association, and MORNE ENGELBRECHT, Chief Executive Officer of Beach Energy, are singing off the same hymn sheet saying government’s “reasonable price provis...
Drilling & Discoveries: Well Done as Activity and Discoveries Rebounded in 2022
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: January 2023
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Drilling of high-impact oil & gas prospects rebounded in 2022 after a disappointing 2021, when success rates plunged towards record lows, Rystad Energy research shows. ...
OP Wins Bentley Going Digital Award for Infrastructure Excellence
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: January 2023
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OQ’s asset performance optimization of pipelines in Oman has edged out Shell’s Deepwater Project Delivery Digital Platform for the Gulf of Mexico as a winner in this year’s Bentley Going Digital Awards Infrastructure event....
Time to review exploration DSTs: Second Chance oil discovery – the Tarbat oil field story
- Publication Name: PESA Symposium QLD 2022
- Authors: Don McMillan
- Date Published: September 2022
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Second chance Oil Discovery - The Tarbat oil field story
The first well drilled (Tarbat 1) was plugged and abandoned over the Hutton Sandstone after an on-depth, mechanically sound DST flowed 1080 BWPD 1% oil. Tarbat 2 was drilled 7 year...
Queensland Resources Industry Development Plan
- Publication Name: PESA Symposium QLD 2022
- Authors: Lana Bartholomew
- Date Published: September 2022
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Queensland Resource Industry Development Plan: Progress to Date
We know that the world is changing, and trends such as decarbonisation, increased scrutiny on corporate social governance, and emerging technologies are impacting on Queensl...
2022 SAPPHIRE PILOT DRILLING PROGRAMME NORTH BOWEN BASIN
- Publication Name: PESA Symposium QLD 2022
- Authors: Josh Whitcombe, Cam Runge
- Date Published: September 2022
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The North Bowen Bas – Solution to the East Coast Gas Crisis
Although being one of the longest producing CSG basins in Australia, there has been little recent appraisal work in the North Bowen Basin. The Northern Bowen has the largest u...
Keynote – Energy for the future… but which future?
- Publication Name: PESA Symposium QLD 2022
- Authors: Andrew Garnett
- Date Published: September 2022
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Energy for the future .... but which future?
A number of scenarios attempt to map out the future of our energy mix. Some of these are normative, they start in 2050 with ‘net zero’ and work backwards, and some are exploratory, they ...
Trusted Environmental and Geological Information
- Publication Name: PESA Symposium QLD 2022
- Authors: Sarlae McAlpine
- Date Published: September 2022
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Trusted Environmental and Geological Information
Two new programs at Geoscience Australia are providing trusted, high-quality science to support decision making and the Australian resources industry. The Trusted Environmental and Geologi...
Moonie Resurrection
- Publication Name: PESA Symposium QLD 2022
- Authors: Stephanie Kovach
- Date Published: September 2022
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Moonie Resurrection
Moonie, Australia’s first commercial oil field, was discovered in 1961 and 60 years hence, is on track to be Australia’s first carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) project. Carbon utilisation involves en...
CO2 geological storage in the Surat Basin
- Publication Name: PESA Symposium QLD 2022
- Authors: Julie Pearce
- Date Published: September 2022
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Carbon dioxide geological storage in the Surat Basin
Carbon dioxide (CO2) storage is a vital part of the energy transition to low emissions. The Jurassic age Precipice Sandstone of the Surat Basin in Queensland, Australia, has been inves...
Natural hydrogen exploration in South Australia
- Publication Name: PESA Symposium QLD 2022
- Authors: Elinor Alexander
- Date Published: September 2022
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Natural hydrogen exploration in South Australia
South Australia has taken the lead nationally in enabling exploration licences for natural hydrogen. On 11 February 2021 the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Regulations 2013 were amended to...
Alternative Exploration in the Denison Trough
- Publication Name: PESA Symposium QLD 2022
- Authors: James Crowley
- Date Published: September 2022
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Alternative Exploration in the Denison Trough
State Gas was formed in 2017 to develop an historic shallow gas resource at PL-231 Reid’s Dome in the Denison Trough. The company used simultaneous inversion to define the extent of the gas...
Estimating methane flux rates from drone concentration measurements
- Publication Name: PESA Symposium QLD 2022
- Authors: Grazia Gargiulo, Sebastian Hoerning
- Date Published: September 2022
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Estimating methane flux rates from drone concentration measurements
In its Climate Transition Strategy, the Queensland Government has set a zero net emission target by 2050, with an interim target for at least a 30% reduction in emission...
Conceptual Framework for Hydrologic Modelling of Faults
- Publication Name: PESA Symposium QLD 2022
- Authors: Titus Murray, William L. Power
- Date Published: September 2022
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Modelling the Impact of Faults on Near Surface Aquifers in Environmental Impact Statements for Unconventional Oil and Gas
Unconventional oil and gas developments may require considering the potential hydrological impacts of faults on nea...
Comet Ridge’s 100% Mahalo Hub Blocks
- Publication Name: PESA Symposium QLD 2022
- Authors: Tor McCaul, Melanie Fitzell
- Date Published: September 2022
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Comet Ridge’s 100% Mahalo Hub Blocks – ATPs 2048, 2061 & 2063
Comet Ridge has established a very large acreage position at the Mahalo Gas Hub in the southern Bowen Basin which comprises the Mahalo Gas Project (joint venture project w...
2022 Killara Golf Club Tournament Entry Form
- Date Published: September 2022
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Entry form for the 56th annual Oilfield Piping Systems / PESA (NSW) Golf Tournament on October 6, 2022. The tournament is open to all PESA members, guests, and industry representatives....
CSIRO Launches Virtual Hydrogen Knowledge Centre
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2022
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An online centre consolidating Australian hydrogen research and industry activities has been launched by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, aimed at supercharging the development of a clean and competitive hydrogen industry....
CABS IV – EXPLORING AUSTRALIA’S RESOURCE FRONTIER – Darwin Convention Centre, August 29-30
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Rhodri Johns
- Date Published: August 2022
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The fourth Central Australian Basins Symposium (CABS IV) kicks off at the Darwin Convention Centre on Monday the 29th of August. Two days of talks, posters, and a core workshop, with an exciting line up of speakers from Australia and overseas, will d...
Exploration & Appraisal Year in Review 2021: Exploration Ramped up with Positive Indicators Moving Forwards
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Adam Craig
- Date Published: August 2022
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Petroleum exploration and appraisal activity increased in 2021. Exploration spend increased for the year, continuing a positive trend. Onshore exploration and appraisal activity continues to dominate the petroleum exploration scene in Australia....
A Brighter Future Dependent on Which Path is Navigated: 2021 Development & Production Review
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Martin Wilkes
- Date Published: August 2022
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The Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA) Year in Review Development and Production review looks back at the oil and gas production and development activities in Australia in 2021, with a look at both the historical context of these activ...
PESA Australia Business Environmental Review 2021: Oil & Gas Industry at a Pivotal Point in the Energy Transition
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Candice Bell
- Date Published: August 2022
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With a backdrop of energy transition and an accelerating need to decarbonise, the oil and gas business environment was complex and conflicted through 2021. The complexity of the energy transition was continually highlighted by academia and internatio...
Book Review: The Hydrogen Revolution – A Blueprint for the Future of Clean Energy (by Marco Alvera)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2022
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'The Hydrogen Revolution' is a thought-provoking, often times frightening, eye-opening but essential read for any informed citizen. It is is no longer a question of how much oil we have left, but rather, how much more can we afford to burn? This is m...
Fortune Favours the Bold is our Mantra When it Comes to Fracking
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Alex Underwood - Empire Energy Managing Director/CEO
- Date Published: August 2022
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During my five years at the helm of Empire Energy, I’ve periodically been asked why I left the relative sanctuary of the banking sector to sail into the choppy seas of unconventional drilling in frontier territories of Australia and elsewhere....
30 Years of PESA News (Where Did The Time Go?)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Phillip Cooney
- Date Published: August 2022
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When our publisher/editor Dale Granger suggested that 30-years of PESA News was worth celebrating, I agreed too enthusiastically and as a result was asked to write a few words. ...
Carpentaria Pops the Cork and Serves Up a Gourmet of Gas in the Beetaloo
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger
- Date Published: August 2022
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In the culinary world it’s said that the proof of the pudding is in the eating and it’s no different in the resource realm, where Empire Energy has been able to declare a gourmet of gas from record-breaking flow rates showing minimal declines at ...
Seismic Snapshot – Third Quarter 2022
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2022
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Seismic Snapshot:
Microfossils from Earliest Land Plants Provide Clues About Australia’s Petroleum Potential
Shearwater GeoServices Wins 4D Baseline Survey Award for Woodside
Shell Seeks Development Drilli...
H2 Highlights
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2022
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