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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....
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....
Industry News: Walk Tall, Carry a Big Stick
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
South Australia manages the risk of 'warehousing' of acreage by carrying a stick it hasn't had to use which at the same time stimulates investment....
Industry News: Long Road Ahead for Australian Renewable Energy
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Australia still has a long way to go before being a global leader in renewable energy production, despite the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics' latest report stating Australia has increased its renewable energy contribution to Australia's ele...
Industry News: Perth Basin Shale Gas Rush is On
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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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...
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....
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....
Recruitment Training and Migration: APPEA Steps Outside Comfort Zone for Labour Reform
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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APPEA has gone outside of its comfort zone to call for a reform of the current industrial relations framework, due to the oil and gas industry struggling with the skills crisis....
Recruitment Training and Migration: Rising FIFO Demand Heats Up Debate
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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The rising demand for fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers in Western Australia is intensifying the debate over its effects on mental and emotional stability and family life. ...
Recruitment Training and Migration: Petroleum Sector Call to Arms on Training
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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West Australian Energy Minister Peter Collier has issued a call to arms to the oil and gas industry to stop whining about the Federal Government's handling of skilled migration - which he said was appalling on both sides of politics - and get crackin...
Recruitment Training and Migration: UK To Help Solve Aussie Skills Shortage
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
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. ...
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...
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. ...
Basin Prospectivity: Natural Hydrocarbon Seepage in Offshore Northern Perth Basin
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Nadege Rollet, Andrew Jones, Emmanuelle Grosjean, Chris Nicholson, Geoscience Australia; Jens Greinert, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research; and SS052011 Survey Party
- Date Published: April 2012
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Evidence For An Extension Of Active Perth Basin Petroleum Systems
Geoscience Australia has recently completed a marine survey in the offshore northern Perth Basin off Western Australia (Jones et al., 2011a; Jones, 2011b, Upton and Jon...
Basin Prospectivity: Reducing Exploration Risk In The Offshore Northern Perth Basin
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Richard Kempton, Laurent Langhi, Yanhua Zhang, CS/RO Earth Science & Resource Engineering; Chris Nicholson, John Kennard, Nadege Rollet, George Bernardel, Geoscience Australia.
- Date Published: April 2012
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Trap integrity study addresses a key exploration risk
Geoscience Australia is currently reassessing the petroleum prospectivity of the offshore northern Perth Basin (see AusGeo News 103 and 104). Part of the reassessment was a trap in...
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...
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 ...
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...
Seismic Technology: The Ultracube: Revitalising Vintage Surveys
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Mark Ballesteros, Maighread Nf Dheasuna, Paul Tredgett, Searcher Seismic; Jim Dirstein, Alistair Stanley, Total Depth
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Twenty years ago 3D seismic data was widely considered an expensive technology and was generally applied to relatively limited survey areas, most often for field appraisal and development. Times have changed, of course. As a result of improvements in...
Editor’s Comment: Welcome to the APPEA Edition of PESA News Resources
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Adrian Williams
- Date Published: April 2012
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With the eyes of the world once again on the Australian oil and gas industry, what better time to raise its profile with the average man in the street and to reverse some of the "rape and pillage" publicity we receive the other 99% of the year(OK, pe...
Seismic Technology: Azimuthal Anisotropy – A New Interactive Approach Leads To More Accurate Imaging
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Graeme Eastwood, Fugro Seismic Imaging
- Date Published: April 2012
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0ver the last few years, it has become common practice to account for vertical or tilted transverse anisotropy (VTI!TTI) during the migration process. This takes account of the velocity anisotropy caused by seismic waves travelling through layered me...
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
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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...
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....
LNG: Darwin has the Last Laugh
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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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. ...
LNG: lchthys Key to INPEX Global Upscale
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
In the 1999 James Bond Hollywood blockbuster The World Is Not Enough, the geopolitical minefield that the famous spy had to negotiate involved a fictionalised version of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan [BTC] pipeline.
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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...
LNG: Gorgon Puts WA on Quarantine Management Pedestal
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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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 ...
LNG: Vietnam Considering LNG Imports From Australia
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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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....
Drilling: Pitless Drilling: a Strategy for Coexistence
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Carey Bradford, Arrow Energy
- Date Published: April 2012
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Pitless drilling is being trial-led by Arrow Energy to improve coexistence on its tenements with good quality agricultural land.
The trial is also expected to produce cost savings through reducing drilling waste and fluid handling and dispos...
Tight Gas: Drill Club Out, But Hope Springs Eternal
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
The 'drill club' that Western Australia's Department of Mines and Petroleum has been trying to initiate to facilitate unconventional exploration in the southwest of the State has been plugged and abandoned. ...