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Branch News: WA (PESA News Issue 164)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
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Branch News (WA) Highlights:
- “Ho Ho Hos” were had by all at the Christmas Lunch
- Full Signs went up for Annual SPE-PESA WA Joint Meeting
- Illuminating Dalkeith Foreshore Field Trip Was Thirsty Work
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...
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 – 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....
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...
Automated facies classification in borehole log data
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Roman Beloborodov, James Gunning, et al.
- Date Published: September 2021
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Seismic facies inversion relies on accurate facies-specific elastic parameter models determined from borehole log data. Typically, velocity depth trends and corresponding standard errors are manually determined for each of the facies by using cross-p...
Impacts of Uncertainty in Minimum Horizontal Stress Determination on Wellbore Stability
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Matthew Musolino, Simon Holford, Rosalind King
- Date Published: September 2021
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The purpose of this study is to highlight sources of uncertainty in the determination of minimum horizontal stress estimates from leak-off tests (LOTs) and their effect on wellbore stability modelling. To achieve this, we use petroleum datasets from ...
Petroleum Source Rocks, Generation and Primary Migration: insights using new direct nano-scale Tof-Sims SEM analysis and Re-Os radiometric dating
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Greg Smith, William Rickard, Zhen Li, Svetlana Tessalina
- Date Published: September 2021
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Exactly how maturation, generation and primary migration in and from source rocks works at the nano-scale remains largely a mystery. The theories and concepts rely mostly on destructive analytical techniques that by their nature do not allow direct o...
Constraining regional-scale groundwater transport predictions using multiple geophysical techniques
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Chris Li, Rebecca Doble, Michael Hatch, Graham Heinson, Ben Kay
- Date Published: September 2021
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Due to often spatially discontinuous and sparse datasets from traditional geohydrological techniques, it is becoming more common to incorporate geophysical data in groundwater models. Not only are the geophysical data sets more continuous, but they c...
Laboratory study of temperature variation effects on Distributed Acoustic Sensing measurements
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Sidenko E., Pevzner R., Tertyshnikov K. and Lebedev M.
- Date Published: September 2021
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Fibre-Optic sensing is being actively used nowadays in various exploration and monitoring applications. Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) is used for measurements and monitoring of the temperature. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is used to re...
Controls on organic matter accumulation in the Mesoproterozoic: Insights from the stratigraphic modelling of the Velkerri Formation of the Beetaloo Basin (Northern Territory, Australia)
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Vincent Crombez, Mohinudeen Faiz, Claudio Delle Piane, Marcus Kunzmann
- Date Published: September 2021
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The ability to understand and predict the distribution of the primary organic content in a basin is key when exploring for unconventional hydrocarbons. Many pathways lead to the formation of organic-rich rocks through combinations of primary producti...
MobileMT for porphyry exploration – model studies and field examples
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Alexander Prikhodko, Andrei Bagrianski
- Date Published: September 2021
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Resistivity methods are an important part of the arsenal of geophysical techniques for the exploration of porphyry-style mineralization. One of the geophysical techniques that could be used to detect the porphyry targets, or its attributes is MobileM...
H2- From Scientific Research to Commercialised Energy
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Max Williamson
- Date Published: September 2021
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H2 has been and is a tantalising opportunity against which companies and Governments around the world are throwing serious research dollars and resources. Our Federal Government has followed with its National Hydrogen Strategy, plus current start-up ...
Ground Penetrating Radar Investigation as Part of a Multidisciplinary Archaeological Project, The Plain of Jars, Lao PDR.
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Jamie Speer, Dr. Dougald O’Reilly, Dr. Louise Shewan
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) investigation was undertaken within the multidisciplinary team undertaking the “Plain of Jars Archaeological Research Project”, a joint Lao-Australian project funded by the Australian Research Council. The inter...
Continental shelf marine MT feasibility study in the Spencer Gulf, South Australia
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Graham Heinson, Kate Robertson, Goran Boren, Steven Constable, Jacob Perez, Stephan Thiel, Jingming Duan, Darren Kyi
- Date Published: September 2021
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Data from 12 new marine magnetotelluric (MT) stations have been acquired on the ocean-bottom of the Spencer Gulf, extending the land MT profile that crosses the Eyre Peninsula. The primary goal of the project was to determine the feasibility of colle...
Case Studies using Loupe – Mapping Geology in Near-Surface
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Gregory Street, Andrew Duncan
- Date Published: September 2021
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Surveys were conducted over five prospects in the southwest of Western Australia with aims of mapping, geology, sulphides, graphite and clay. The high resolution of the Loupe system lends itself to a role similar to ground magnetic data in mapping ge...
Overburden measurement for coal mine management with 3D high resolution compressional and shear velocity seismic inversion
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Claudio Strobbia, Martin Bayly, Denis Sweeney, et al.
- Date Published: September 2021
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High resolution surface seismic surveys can provide useful images of coal bed reflections to depths as shallow as 50 to 100 metres. There is also a need, to gain information of the overburden properties above these depths. This information gap can be...
Attenuation of ice-sheet reverberations in teleseismic P-wave receiver functions
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Dale Harpley, Steve Hearn, Shaun Strong
- Date Published: September 2021
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Teleseismic P-wave receiver functions (PRFs) in icecovered regions are contaminated by reverberations within the ice-sheet. The crustal conversion events which are commonly used for identifying lithospheric structure are concealed by these ice reverb...
Lithospheric-scale magnetotellurics over the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Kate Selway, Mike Dentith, Klaus Gessner
- Date Published: September 2021
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Long-period magnetotelluric (MT) data were collected in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, in a ~200 x 250 km grid that crosses parts of the heavily mineralised Eastern Goldfields Superterrane and parts of the adjacent, less mineralised Youanmi T...
Estimate elastic moduli of arenites from micro-tomographic images with digital rock physics
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Jiabin Liang, Boris Gurevich, Maxim Lebedev, Stephanie Vialle, Alexey Yurikov, Stanislav Glubokovskikh
- Date Published: September 2021
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Numerical computation from high resolution 3D microtomographic (micro-CT) images of rocks (known as digital rock physics) has the potential to predict elastic properties more accurately. However, successful examples are limited to samples with simple...