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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...
Diary of Events
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
2012-2013 Conferences And Courses...
Drilling: Pitless Drilling: a Strategy for Coexistence
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Carey Bradford, Arrow Energy
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
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...
Environment: NOPSA Takes on Environment
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on the Macondo drilling well blew up in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, 11 men were killed. Yet the world's media largely focused on the substantial environmental damage....
Recruitment: Industry Tackles Recruitment Dilemma
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being pumped into high-level training and qualification to ensure the plethora of LNG projects being rolled out in Queensland, Western Australia and Darwin over the next decade are delivered on time to benefit Aust...
View from the Top: From Geologist to Ultra-marathon Runner, Ikon Geophysicist Stares Death in Face
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
For all the hype of travelling the globe in the oil and gas industry, it can also be distinctly life-threatening.
It didn't occur to Ikon Science's Fractured ReservoirNSP (vertical seismic profile) imaging expert Simon Emsley that he would ...
Industry News: APPEA Urges Status Quo
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
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APPEA has pleaded with the Federal Government to maintain the status quo regarding retention leases despite the latest draft Energy White Paper suggesting a "use it or lose it" regime. ...
Environment: New Face Set to Make Waves in Australia’s Offshore Regulation
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
It all started with Harry Butler.
While conservationist and naturalist Harry Butler's TV show In the Wild with Harry Butler fed his childhood imagination, Cameron Grebe's passion was for engineering, and when the time came to enter universit...
President’s Report: Two Speed Better Than No Speed, But Costs a Worry
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Gordon Wakelin-King
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
Consultants (like me anyway) always live a little hand-to-mouth and a couple of things lately have made me think about our business....
Industry News: Acreage in Four Basins to be Released
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson will release acreage over 28 areas in the Carnarvon, Browse, Gippsland and Otw ay basins at the 13- 16 May APPEA National Conference and Exhibition in Adelaide. ...
Onlaps: Seismic Facies Mapping (Part 3)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Rob Kirk, Rob Kirk Consultants
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
In this final (of three) facies mapping article we will briefly discuss the role that automated facies work takes. This is usually only applied to 3D data and in my opinion is rarely done by geologists who should have full 'ownership' of the region's...
Diary of Events
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
2012-2013 Conferences And Courses
...
Recruitment: Worst Manufacturing Skills Crisis in 45 Years – Expert
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
Australia is in the midst of its worst manufacturing crisis in over 45 years, says the man the Federal Government has appointed as its Steel Supplier Advocate.
Dennis O'Neill has over 45 years in export, manufacturing, distribution, constru...
Industry News: The 15 Areas from the 2011 Acreage Release Open Until 12 April 2012
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
- Money Shoal Basin, NT
- Scott Plateau, Browse Basin, WA
- Rowley Sub-basin, Roebuck Basin, WA
- Northeastern Exmouth Plateau, Northern Carnarvon Basin, WA
- Southern Carnarvon Basin, WA
- Perth ...
LNG: Darwin Braces For Japanese…Again
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
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Darwin is bracing for an influx of people after Japanese major INPEX and French joint venture partner Total announced on 13 January that the final investment decision had been made on the $34 B lchthys LNG project. ...
Words: Remembrance Of Words Past
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Peter Purcell
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
Having ended 2011 with some words for the future, it is appropriate that we begin 2012 with some troublesome words from the past; alas, still going strongly in the present....
Recruitment: Australians to Build QCLNG Project’s Future
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
QGC is placing a significant emphasis on training to secure an operational workforce for its CSG-LNG project for over 20 years into the future.
While the oil and gas industry is being hit with the chronic skills shortage that is affecting th...
Industry News: APLNG Transmission Pipeline Kicks Off
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
The arrival in Port Gladstone of the first shipment of steel pipe for the $14 B Australia Pacific LNG Project on 23 January signalled the start of the construction phase for the main gas transmission pipeline of the CSG to LNG project. ...
LNG: Operator Challenges in the CSG·LNG Industry In Australia
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Michael Scott, Petroleum Engineer, Arrow Energy
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
Coal seam gas (CSG) has been a key component of domestic gas supply in Queensland for the last decade. However, the industry has only recently gained significant traction with the proposal of international liquefied natural gas (LNG) export. The goal...
PESA Contacts
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 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 ...
Safety: History Buff Sparkie To Capture Offshore Oil History
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
History has a funny way of creeping up on you, then consuming you. It certainly was the case for offshore oil rig electrician-turned historian John Holt, who is undertaking a PhD in History at the University of WA and working to get a Capturing the E...
Industry News: Central Australian Oil Discovery No Surprise
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
Central Petroleum's persistence looks to have paid off with the recent oil discovery Surprise- 1 set to see the company transit from an exploration to an exploration and production company. The implications of this milestone oil discovery w ill form ...
Editor’s Comment: Facing The Inevitable
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Adrian Williams
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
Last issue saw me lording it up in the restaurants of Rome following a rather arduous geological tour of the vineyards of Umbria and Marche. This issue I write to you from the back blocks of Bendigo where I have had the dubious pleasure of sampling f...
Uncle Duster’s Opinion Repository: Christmas and the Breatharians
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
Christmas at Camp Duster was, as usual, a lively affair. Festivities kicked off early, with the extended Duster clan rolling in from all corners of Western Australia - from Bindoon to Booragoon, Mount Magnet to Marble Bar, and everywhere in between. ...
Safety: What Value, Our Heritage? A Sparkie Reflects
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: John Holt
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
"What is the value of 'heritage' to an industry such as the petroleum industry?"
I wish I had a dollar for every time I have been asked that question. The petroleum industry is 'forward looking', 'challenge driven' and we create 'benc...
Industry News: ATCO Strategy to Work with Government
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
Canadian power, energy infrastructure, operations and logistics giant ATCO is prepared for a strong 2012 after an impressive first year of its Australian affiliate saw the successful acquisition of WA Gas Networks, now called ATCO Gas. The coming yea...
LNG: Survival Scheme Turns Into Jobs Solution
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Janet Hann
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
What started as a survival move by Origin Energy has turned into an opportunity to pro-actively address the chronic skills shortage that is now plaguing Australia's rapidly expanding resources sector - which includes getting landholders to work for t...
Media Plays: Playing the Media Game
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
The mainstream media treatment of oil and gas issues is often predictable and observant of a tried and tested formula. As a petroleum play is determined by a geological set of circumstances, "media plays" are similarly determined by a combination of ...
Shale Exploration: Unconventional Methods For Unconventional Plays
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Ken Ratcliffe and Milly Wright, Chemostrat; Dave Spain, BP USA
- Date Published: February 2012
Abstract:
Using Elemental Data To Understand Shale Resource Plays
Shales are an important hydrocarbon resource; yet understanding them as reservoirs remains problematic. Their fine-grained, organic-rich yet superficially homogenous character ma...