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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...
Branch News: WA (PESA News Issue 164)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
Abstract:
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...
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
Abstract:
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...
Earthquake monitoring in the Southwest Seismic Zone, Western Australia
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Ruth E Murdie, Lucy Brisbout, Hugh Glanville, Trevor Allen, Vic Dent
- Date Published: September 2021
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The southwest Yilgarn Craton, in Western Australia is one of the most seismogenic areas of mainland Australia. There are many small earthquakes happening daily and the occasional larger earthquake such as the destructive Meckering (M6.6) earthquake o...
The North Australian Craton 3D Gravity and Magnetic Inversion Models – A trial for first pass modelling of the entire continent
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: James A Goodwin, Richard J L Lane
- Date Published: September 2021
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As part of the Federal Government’s Exploring for the Future program, whole-of-crust 3D gravity and magnetic inversion models have been produced for an area encompassing the North Australia Craton (NAC). These models were created to aid 3D geologic...
The Winu-Ngapakarra deposit in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, a Neoproterozoic Intrusion-related Cu-Au-Ag deposit
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Hilke Dalstra, Adam Black, Inna Mudrovska
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Winu Cu-Au-Ag deposit was discovered in late 2017 and is hosted in metamorphosed sandstones and siltstones and lesser mafic rocks which are most likely correlatives of the upper Malu Formation of the Yeneena Basin. The deposit structure is domina...
In-situ stress pattern along the Jellinbah Fold Thrust Belt in the Bowen Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Saswata Mukherjee, Mojtaba Rajabi, Joan Esterle, Renate Sliwa
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Permo-Triassic Bowen Basin hosts numerous thick coal seams, and it is a prolific basin for coal mining and gas production. The development of coal seam gas (CSG) reservoirs in different parts of the Bowen Basin emphasizes the potentiality of the ...
How deep does ground EM see?
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Andrew Fitzpatrick, Mike Whitford, Antonio Huizi
- Date Published: September 2021
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Nickel exploration routinely utilises electromagnetic techniques as a direct detection tool. In the Australian context, conductive regolith dominated terrains reduces the depth of penetration of electromagnetic techniques. Modelling is typically perf...
Quantifying Uplift using Decompaction: A case study from the Exmouth Plateau, North West Shelf
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Patrick Makuluni, Laurent Langhi, Juerg Hauser, Stuart Clark
- Date Published: September 2021
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Uplift events have caused the failure of hydrocarbon seals resulting from subsequent deformation and fault development or reactivation. On the other hand, escaping hydrocarbons from the breached seals may accumulate in new traps, and fracturing of br...
AIP EFFECTS IN AIRBORNE EM FIXED WING SYSTEMS: A SPECTREM THEORETICAL STUDY.
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Andrea Viezzoli, Francesco Dauti, Nirocca Devkurran, Brad Pitts
- Date Published: September 2021
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IP effects can distort airborne EM data, usually producing faster decays and, under certain conditions, changes in signal polarity. These effects, if not recognized and treated with a dispersive resistivity model, often lead to artefacts in the resis...
Probabilistic modelling of groundwater salinity using borehole and airborne electromagnetics (AEM) data
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Neil Symington, Anandaroop Ray, Chris Harris-Pascal, Kok Piang Tan, Richard Taylor, Yusen Ley-Cooper, Ross C Brodie
- Date Published: September 2021
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Groundwater is a critical resource for supporting human consumption, stock water, agricultural use, and mineral or energy extraction as well as the environment. However, the quality of groundwater varies enormously from potable to hyper-saline, parti...
Investigation of old pollution site along the Swan River, Perth, Western Australia using Loupe TEM system
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Michael A. Hatch, Greg Street, Gavan McGrath, Aaron Davis, Andrew Duncan
- Date Published: September 2021
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In this study, data were collected using a new transient-electromagnetic system over an area in Perth, Western Australia, along the Swan River. The site was polluted by industry in the 1960’s and 1970’s, and then remediated by agencies working fo...
Closing the gap between ground and airborne IP data modelling
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: A. Viezzoli, G. Fiandaca
- Date Published: September 2021
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Modelling of Induced Polarization in AEM data (AIP) has recently been used more often in exploration. Which demands for more research to address the fundamental question “how does AIP compare to ground IP?”. Beside some of the well-known differen...
New Age Dating of Evaporites in Canning Basin, WA, Australia. A Case Study based on samples from the Frome Rocks Salt Diapir
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: F. McNee, J. Gorter, F. Glass
- Date Published: September 2021
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The age of evaporitic units in the Kidson Sub-basin of the Canning Basin have been assigned to be of Late Ordovician to Early Silurian age through the dating of the sedimentary sequences within the Mallowa Salt.
This paper presents an alternative m...
Expanding the reserve base of operating mines: Insights from an airborne MobileMT survey in the Omsukchan depression, Russian Far East
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Petr Kordi, Alexander Prikhodko, Andrei Bagrianski, Sergei Trushin
- Date Published: September 2021
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In the frame of expanding the reserve base for the Omsukchan mining district, an airborne electromagnetic survey was carried out over and around the Dukat silver giant. The initially developed exploration concept was based on weakly investigated deep...
High density seismic finally accessible to all industries
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Amine Ourabah
- Date Published: September 2021
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High density seismic has been synonym of high-quality subsurface images and attributes for more than 2 decades now, and although firstly made available by innovative source technologies, the receiver side was lagging behind with bulky, heavy cables a...
Nonlinear, 2D uncertainty estimation in Magnetotelluric inversion using trans-dimensional Gaussian processes
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Daniel Blatter, Anandaroop Ray, Kerry Key
- Date Published: September 2021
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Bayesian inversion of Magnetotelluric (MT) data produces crucial uncertainty information on inferred subsurface resistivity. Due to their high computational cost, however, Bayesian inverse methods have largely been restricted to 1D resistivity models...
The resistivity structure of the Gidyea Suture and its relationship to the Carpentaria Conductivity Anomaly
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Janelle Simpson, Dominic Brown, Karen Connors
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Gidyea Suture is a structure that lies on the eastern margin of the Mount Isa Province. It was first recognised in deep crustal seismic, and subsequent authors have used magnetotelluric (MT) data to further support its existence. It is considered...