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Branch News: Congratulations to Queensland’s branch MSA Awards winners
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
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PESA Queensland would like to congratulate DR. RACHEL KIEFT and DR. TOBY COLSON on their Meritorious Service Awards.
Also featured: FOSSIL FUTURE FOCUS IN A DECARBONIZED MARKET. QUEENSLAND Branch have kicked off their season of events with a tech...
Branch News: SA/NT Branch announces two prestigious awards for 2021
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
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The PESA SA/NT Branch has played a drum roll and announced the winners of the Branch’s two research prizes for 2021. The 2021 NTGS / PESA Student Prize for the best NT-focussed and energyrelated thesis or paper has been awarded to Darwinaji Subarka...
Geoscience For The Future
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
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Geosicentists will be crucial in meeting society's future challenges, be that through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change, or through other important policies to protect the environm...
Collaboration agreement delivers special APPEA Conference for PESA members
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
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PESA’s contra agreement with APPEA has delivered a special discounted rate to members for the APPEA 2022 Conference at the Brisbane Convention Centre in May, but to take full advantage delegates should book before April 1 to benefit from the additi...
Carbon Capture and Storage around the world
- Authors: Ishtar Barranco
- Date Published: March 2022
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Energy geoscience has an important role to play in the energy transition and decarbonisation. Members are now able to join the Energy Transition Special Interest Group (ETSIG) which is a free benefit to all PESA members, providing access to webinars,...
Conferences: AEGC 2021 – Prized Award Goes to the Core of the Matter
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2021
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The core we were lucky enough to be able to use as awards for the best papers and thanks for our keynotes is from the Mount Morgan Mine in Queensland, south of Rockhampton. The Au-Cu ore deposit is part of the Middle Devonian Capella Creek Group. The...
Conferences: AEGC 2021 – Despite COVID Challenges, an Excellent Virtual AEGC Surpassed Expectations
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: R. Kieft
- Date Published: December 2021
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The Third Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2021), jointly hosted by the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG), the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA) and the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (A...
Tech Talk: Canberra Swings into Action to Stave off Looming Gas Shortages in Eastern Australia
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2021
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The Australian Government is putting its foot on the gas and has flagged potential gas supply shortages within a few short years, unless exploration is urgently expedited and new pipelines are built to transport gas to market from both existing and n...
Branch News: WA – Hot irons come out of the fire and Birdies sang sweetly at PESA Golf Day
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2021
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An excellent field of over 170 aspiring wannabe Tigers leapt on to the pristine fairways of Joondalup Golf Country Club in the annual PESA WA Golf Day in early December....
Tech Talk: Oil & gas companies build momentum as they look to reinvent themselves
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: A. Chronis, K. Hardin, A. Mittal
- Date Published: December 2021
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To understand the outlook and perspectives of organisations across the energy, resources, and industrials industries, Deloitte fielded a survey of more than 500 US executives and other senior leaders in September 2021. The survey captured insights fr...
Branch News: QLD – Awards & rewards in a delicious smorgasbord of data, biscuits & trivia treats
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: R. Kieft
- Date Published: December 2021
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In September, PESA Queensland welcomed Kate Wathern-Dunn from GSQ and Simon Atkinson from Axiom Geoscience to talk about the Geoscience Queensland (GSQ) Open Data Portal. ...
Fossil Futures: Intellectual Capital for Exploration is Running on Fumes
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: D. Granger
- Date Published: December 2021
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The Federal Government’s acknowledgement of ever encroaching east coast gas shortages, compounded with a looming supply squeeze confronting future LNG export delivery and the scarcity of skilled explorationists to reverse the decline, has produced ...
Branch News: VIC
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Kevin Hill
- Date Published: December 2021
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From Friday 25th March to Wednesday 30th March 2022, the University of Melbourne will run a geological field trip for Master’s students to the Otway Ranges....
Seismic Snapshot: Fourth Quarter 2021
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: December 2021
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The latest industry news for the fourth quarter of 2021. Carpentaria-2H strikes a chord in the Top End, APPEA lauds ‘Big Step Forward’ for CCS, Western Gas secures MS-1 semi-sub to drill Sasanof-1 exploration well, CGG produces Screening Study fo...
HYDROCARBON FLUSHING IN THE EROMANGA BASIN FACT OR FALLACY?
- Publication Name: Eromanga Basin Symposium Summary Papers (1982)
- Authors: K.C. Moriarty, A.F. Williams
- Date Published: November 2021
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Application of Hubbert's equation to the hydrodynamic regime of the Eromanga Basin yields angles of tilt of the oil water interface of about 0.1°. Since mapped closures on oil fields such as Jackson, Herrimelia, Dullingari and Strzelecki are at leas...
Almost automatic geological mapping from AEM surveys
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: David Annetts, Juerg Hauser
- Date Published: September 2021
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Interpretation of electromagnetic survey data for underlying geology is a common task that is complicated by the volume of data collected in airborne electromagnetic (AEM) surveys. We test a supervised learning approach for AEM data collected in the ...
Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning for Komatiite-Hosted Nickel Prospectivity Mapping
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Minsu Kwon
- Date Published: September 2021
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Thanks to the brilliant progress in machine learning, many research works have conducted data-driven mineral prospectivity mapping. However, it is challenging to integrate highly multidisciplinary geoscientific data with machine learning algorithms. ...
Yaouré Seismic Survey: Defining a Complex 3D Structural Framework with High Resolution Seismic Data
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Greg Turner, Cissé Amadou, Peter Turner, Graeme Hird, Doug Jones
- Date Published: September 2021
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Approximately 4Moz of gold have been discovered to date at the Yaouré gold deposit in Côte d’Ivoire, demonstrating the high endowment of the area despite little exploration at depths beyond 350m. With the objective of accelerating its search for ...
Inversion-based automatic processing of AEM data
- Publication Name: AECG 2021
- Authors: Gianluca Fiandaca
- Date Published: September 2021
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Data processing is a mandatory step before inversion for any geophysical inversion, because data outliers significantly affect the inversion process, often forbidding to reach reasonable inversion models and misfits. In the processing of Airborne Ele...
Laboratory measurements of seismic properties and forward seismic modelling at the Thunderbox gold mine, in Western Australia
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Andre Eduardo C. M. Souza, Stephanie Vialle, Joel Sarout, Mustafa Sari
- Date Published: September 2021
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Laboratory measurements on 126 samples and forward seismic modelling over a 2D geologic representation of the Thunderbox gold mine, in Western Australia, were conducted to investigate the seismic response of the gold-hosting rocks and structures at t...
Australian geomagnetic observatory network monitors space weather hazard – 180 years on
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Liejun Wang, Andrew Lewis, Bill Jones, et al.
- Date Published: September 2021
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Geoscience Australia’s geomagnetic observatory network covers one-eighth of the Earth. The first Australian geomagnetic observatory was established in 1840 in Hobart. This almost continuous 180-year period of magnetic-field monitoring provides an i...
Structural controls on late Cambrian mineralisation in the Stavely Arc
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Robert Holm, Chris Cairns, Jennifer Murphy, et al.
- Date Published: September 2021
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The middle-late Cambrian Stavely Arc forms the eastern boundary of the Delamerian Orogen in Victoria, Australia. A pulse of mineralised magmatism at ca. 500 Ma coincided with the collision of VanDieland and related deformation. Porphyry intrusion dur...
If you can’t go to the Anomaly then let the Anomaly come to you – Rubens Cage Surveys
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Clive Foss, Keith Leslie, Phil Schmidt
- Date Published: September 2021
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We use small-scale surveys in a three-axis, uniform field generating coil set (a Rubens cage) to emulate the Black Hill Norite magnetic field anomaly in South Australia. We then run further surveys with the source rotated to provide a vertical magnet...
The genesis and evolution of laminar carbonates in lacustrine basin: implications for shale oil accumulation
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Chenyang Bai, Shujun Han, Zhenhuan Shen
- Date Published: September 2021
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Shale oil has become a popular topic for global unconventional oil and gas research in the petroleum industry. Recent exploration efforts have indicated that laminar carbonates are closely related to the favorable depositional strata of lacustrine sh...
Exploring for gold using radiometrics, magnetics, and petrophysical information in the Warrawoona greenstones of the East Pilbara, Western Australia
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Yvonne Wallace, Heather Ballantyne, Steve Sheppard
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Warrawoona Gold Project is located 25 kilometres southeast of Marble Bar in the East Pilbara region of Western Australia. Key prospects include the Klondyke deposit, which forms the main share of the 1.25 Moz gold resource owned by Calidus Resour...
Optimising Land Seismic Acquisition for Modern Noise Suppression in Processing
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Graeme Eastwood, Christof Stork
- Date Published: September 2021
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Land seismic data is known to be far noisier than its marine equivalent – the questions we want to begin to address are why and is there anything that can be done about it? Noise issues with land data are often just explained by ‘poor coupling’...
Multi-scale magnetotelluric surveys – mapping from the lithosphere to the near surface for mineral systems
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Wenping Jiang, Jingming Duan, Anthony Schofield, Ross C. Brodie, Andrew Clark
- Date Published: September 2021
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Geoscience Australia has undertaken a series of integrated studies to map the footprint of mineral systems at multiple scales. We have used long-period data from the Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP) to resolve la...
PERMEABILITY MODELLING USING DIGITAL ROCK IMAGES FROM MICRON SCALE
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Lionel Esteban, Mojtaba Seyyedi, White Cameron, Giwelli Ausama, Valeriya Shulakova, Marina Pervukhina, Sam Jackson, Joel Sarout, Amir Aryana, Yoshitake Kato, Mai Shimokawara, Ryuta Kitamura, Fei Jiang, Takeshi Tsuji, Tatsunori Ikeda, Maxim Lebedev
- Date Published: September 2021
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Recent technology improvements allow gaining a digital 3D replica of natural rock using fast and non-destructive tomographic techniques. Combining core-scale images from medical X-Ray with micron resolution images from micro CT scanners, natural rock...
A new era for the Australian National Gravity Grids – adding airborne data to the mix
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Richard Lane, Yvette Poudjom Djomani, Phillip Wynne
- Date Published: September 2021
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Since 1976, Geoscience Australia has produced grids of gravity anomalies to support geological mapping and exploration applications across Australia. The five editions of the national grids up to 2016 have been based on ground gravity observations, s...
Rock Property and Depth Mapping from magnetic data applied to greenfields exploration targeting in the Cloncurry District
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: David Pratt, James Austin, Clive Foss
- Date Published: September 2021
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A new method for building a model of the rock property distribution on an unconformity surface (Pratt et al., 2019) presents new opportunities for greenfield exploration in complex geological environments. The method uses the inherent 3D information ...