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OIL ONLINE: CARNARVON UNVEILS PIONEERING RENEWABLE DIESEL PLANS IN WA
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
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West Australian exploration and development company Carnarvon Energy has significantly accelerated its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. After implementing annual sustainability reporting in 2020 and 2021, the Perth-headquartered company inve...
Seismic Snapshot – First Quarter 2022
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
Abstract:
Seismic Snapshot Highlights:
- Shearwater awarded 4D Ocean Bottom Seismic survey by Lundin
- Fleet Renewal (Shearwater)
- Petrobras signs up for Reveal
- ConocoPhillips Deal
- Schlumberger S...
The Empire Strikes Back with Spectacular Results in the Beetaloo
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger
- Date Published: March 2022
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A series of transformational events over the past six months has put Empire Energy on the cusp of an epoch making, energy supply transition for Australia in the Beetaloo Sub-basin....
Exploring Australia’s Resource Frontier – CABS IV August 29 and 30 this year
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
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After a 10-year hiatus the PESA Central Australian Basin Symposium is back with a rich and diverse program covering the geological evolution and resource potential of central Australian basins. Named “Exploring Australia’s Resource Frontier” CA...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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: 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. ...
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: 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....
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 ...
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...
Examples of integrating hyperspectral, geochemical and petrophysical drill core data using Australia’s National Virtual Core Library infrastructure
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Carsten Laukamp, Jessica Stromberg, Neil Francis, et al.
- Date Published: September 2021
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Drill core analytical tools are used for objectively measuring geoscience parameters that aid mineral exploration or groundwater research. Multiple types of geoscience parameters are frequently compared alongside each other, but underlying physicoche...
Vertically integrated geoscientific data at the Geological Survey of New South Wales
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Ned Stolz
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Geological Survey of New South Wales (GSNSW) has a vertically integrated workflow for delivering geophysical data and products. Raw geophysical data are acquired through regional scale, statewide and national surveys, laboratory measurements, and...
Seismic velocity analysis in the presence of AVO polarity reversals by fuzzy c-mean clustering
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: M. Javad Khoshnavaz, Duy Thong Kieu, Hamidreza Siahkoohi, Andrej Bόna
- Date Published: September 2021
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Routine seismic imaging algorithms often require velocity models. Therefore, accuracy of velocity models obtained by velocity analysis plays a crucial role in seismic imaging. Seismic velocity analysis in CMP domain has been dominated by the use of a...
Calibrating BMR T2 Distribution logs to well test data
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Keelan O’Neill, Mario Reyes, Benjamin Birt, Timothy Hopper
- Date Published: September 2021
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Sustainable groundwater management plans are of critical importance to the future of increasingly scarce water resources. Borehole magnetic resonance (BMR) is a wireline logging technique used to provide in-situ formation evaluation. BMR can be utili...
The Do-It-Yourself Geophysicist
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Anton Kepic
- Date Published: September 2021
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The proliferation of open software and hardware, such as Micropython and other GNU-based licensing of generic embedded computing platforms provides largely readymade data acquisition and data fusion platforms that allow many geophysicists to make the...
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Bamaga Basin
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Wolfgang Fischer
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Gulf of Carpentaria was extensively explored in the 1970s and 1980s targeting the Carpentaria (Jurassic-Cretaceous) and Karumba (Tertiary) sag basins, the sediments of which show little or no structuring. This activity failed to recognise the pre...
Environmental Site Assessment at a Mining Operation in Western Australia Using the Loupe TEM Profiling System
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Remke L. van Dam, Greg Maude, Brendan Ray, Graham Jenke, Russell Mortimer
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Loupe TEM is a transient electromagnetic profiling system for efficient mapping of near-surface ground conductivity. The system is operated by a two-person crew who carry the transmitter coil and 3-component receiver coils on backpacks. Benefits ...
Halloysite Nanotubes – The New Economy Mineral to Ensure Every Organisation Achieves Net Zero Carbon Emissions
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Antonio Belperio
- Date Published: September 2021
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Halloysite, a nanotubular version of the more common, platy clay mineral, kaolinite is globally-rare, but present in great abundance in several world-class kaolinhalloysite deposits recently defined on western Eyre Peninsula. Conventionally, halloysi...
Spatio-temporal distribution of igneous rocks and seismic facies analysis of buried volcanoes of the Prawn Platform, offshore Otway Basin
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Yakufu Niyazi, Ovie Emmanuel Eruteya, Mark Warne, Daniel Ierodiaconou
- Date Published: September 2021
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Volcanic rocks occur in different types of sedimentary basins, especially those evolving from lithospheric stretching. While volcanoes and other igneous rocks are widespread in the onshore Otway Basin, well-preserved volcanoes have not been documente...
Magnetic inversion constrained by probabilistic magnetotellurics models: methodology and application
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: J. Giraud, H. Seillé, V. Ogarko, G. Visser, M. Lindsay, M. Jessell
- Date Published: September 2021
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We introduce a sequential inversion workflow where we integrate magnetotelluric and magnetic data. We first perform probabilistic MT inversions, from which we derive 2D or 3D probabilities of observing an interface between rock units of contrasting e...
Radio Image Mapping at the Polymetallic Rosebery Mine, NW Tasmania
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Asbjorn Norlund Christensen, Jon McLoughlin, Roland Hill
- Date Published: September 2021
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In 2019, MMG conducted a suite of thirteen deep crosshole Radio Image Mapping (RIM) tomographic surveys along the northern extension of the polymetallic Rosebery Mine in North-Western Tasmania. The RIM method is based on the attenuation of an electro...
Recognising the impact of uncertainty in resource models
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Steve Sullivan
- Date Published: September 2021
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The research aimed to test the variability of geological modelling due to the interpretation bias of the person building the model. Measuring this innate uncertainty in modelling allows stakeholders to have confidence in the models, knowing the level...
Australian Proterozoic Thermal Aureole Gold Mineral Systems: the Critical Role of High Crustal Geothermal Gradients and the Insights of Vic Wall
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Lesley Wyborn
- Date Published: September 2021
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Thirty years ago, Wall (1990) proposed the name ‘Thermal Aureole Gold (TAG)’ for a distinctive class of plutonrelated gold deposits (now more commonly known as Intrusion-related Gold (IRG)). Initially based on the Pine Creek, Tanami and Paterson ...
Maximising the value of high-definition 3D coal seismic data
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Margarita Pavlova, Matt Grant, Tim Dean
- Date Published: September 2021
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The acquisition of seismic data over coal mining leases in Queensland’s Bowen Basin first commenced over 30 years ago. Since then, coal seismic data has been predominantly utilised for structural interpretation, particularly fault delineation. In t...
UAV Magnetic Survey Planning, QAQC and Data Processing
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Brett Adams, James Jensen, Brendan Ray
- Date Published: September 2021
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UAVs have been deployed increasingly to collect magnetic data, however acquisition using these systems often lack QAQC checks that are typically expected from fixed-wing or helicopter-based acquisition. Furthermore, survey parameters such as line spa...