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Dorado on Cue for midyear FID in the Midst of Crude Chaos and a Cold War
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger
- Date Published: March 2022
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George Orwell might have been labelled over imaginative had he scripted the Carnarvon Energy story that has brought Australia’s biggest oil discovery in 30-years, Dorado-1, to the cusp of FID just as Australia and the world re-enters an east-west c...
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
Abstract:
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....
Carbon Capture and Storage around the world
- Authors: Ishtar Barranco
- Date Published: March 2022
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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...
Multi-purpose utility of constructing 3D static Geomechanical model in the Ichthys field, Browse Basin
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Partha Pratim Mandal, Iman Essa, Sankhajit Saha, Reza Rezaee
- Date Published: September 2021
Abstract:
The petroleum industry progressed significantly to develop 3D/4D geomechanical models (GMs) to make efficient field development planning which reduces the uncertainty of 1D GM in the field scale. In this paper, we demonstrated how to build a high-res...
The role of geophysics in the discovery of the Gonneville PGE-NiCu-Co-Au Deposit, Julimar, Western Australia
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Jacob Paggi, Kevin Frost, Bruce Kendall
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Gonneville deposit is a significant new PGE-nickelcopper-cobalt-gold sulphide deposit discovered by Chalice Mining in 2020. Located only 70 km northeast of Perth, Western Australia, it represents the first major discovery of a PGE-rich orthomagma...
The present-day state of tectonic stress in eastern Australia
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Mojtaba Rajabi
- Date Published: September 2021
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Knowledge of the present-day stress is important to understand the dynamics of earthquakes, and to manage the safe and sustainable usage of the underground during storage and exploitation. Eastern Australia hosts several sedimentary basins with large...
Towards standard technical Deeds for (airborne) geophysical surveys in Australia
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Yvette Poudjom Djomani, James Goodwin
- Date Published: September 2021
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Geoscience Australia (GA) and its predecessors have been conducting geophysical surveys and processing geophysical data since the early 1950’s. Over time, GA’s role has changed from being a pioneer in the acquisition and processing of data to foc...
Integrated modelling of seismic velocities and impact on prospect evaluation
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Jarrod Dunne, James Parsons
- Date Published: September 2021
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It is often assumed that velocities associated with good quality seismic images can be directly used for time-to-depth conversion, pore-pressure prediction or even as a driver for seismic amplitude interpretation. However, such applications require s...
3D Modelling & Synthesis of Geophysical Data in Nash Creek, New Brunswick, Canada
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Alexander Furlan, Hernan Ugalde, Alzbeta Ondercova, Bernd Milkereit
- Date Published: September 2021
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‘Hotspot’ geophysical exploration has passed its zenith. In areas like New Brunswick, where this exploration style has been successful, deposits with a more complex signature have been left behind. Using improved computational power and geophysic...
Using the NCI Gadi Supercomputer to revolutionise processing of MT time series data: results from the GeoDeVL experiment
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Nigel Rees, Sheng Wang, Ben Evans, et al.
- Date Published: September 2021
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MagnetoTelluric (MT) time series datasets are expensive to acquire, can be high volume (100s of terabytes), and the time taken to publish (measured from collection to release) often takes more than two years. Time series datasets have been notoriousl...
AusArray: uncovering major crustal features using passive seismic data
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Alexei Gorbatov, Andrew Medlin, Michael P. Doublier, Karol Czarnota, Tanya Fomin, Paul Henson, Brian L.N. Kennett
- Date Published: September 2021
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It is generally accepted that improvements in mineral exploration are required to meet the rising demand for minerals associated with a transition to lower carbon energy sources. There is growing consensus in mineral exploration that the distribution...
Deciphering the building blocks of the eastern North Australia Craton
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Karen Connors, Janelle Simpson, Dominic Brown
- Date Published: September 2021
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Interpretation of the nature and extent of basement rocks in many regions is hampered by lack of exposure and because potential field data tend to reflect the signatures of overlying upper crustal units, highlighting the need for tools that image dee...
Application of LiDAR for hydrocarbon exploration in logistically and geologically challenging environments: examples from the Papuan Fold and Thrust Belt, Papua New Guinea
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Luke Mahoney, Mitch Furnass, Pedro Restrepo-Pace
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Papuan Fold and Thrust Belt (PFTB) in Papua New Guinea hosts the prolific Papuan Basin petroleum system yet remains underexplored compared with other fold and thrust belts worldwide. The underexplored nature of the PFTB results from its remotenes...
Geophysical proxies for redox gradients in IOCG systems: Cloncurry District, Qld, Australia
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: James Austin, Tobias Schlegel, John Walshe, Andreas Bjork, Clive Foss
- Date Published: September 2021
Abstract:
Iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) systems, in a broad geophysical sense, include a spectrum of mineralisationstyles ranging from reduced, pyrrhotite-dominant examples, sometimes referred to as iron sulphide coppergold (ISCG) systems, to magnetite-pyrite ...
Full waveform refraction imaging of the regolith with the CIG stack
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Derecke Palmer
- Date Published: September 2021
Abstract:
Full waveform refraction imaging with the common intercept gather (CIG) is a simple application of the stacking procedures routinely employed with seismic reflection data processing to the standard intercept time method. Accordingly, the stacked full...
Post-rift magmatism on the continental shelf of the Otway Basin and implications for the igneous plumbing systems in sedimentary basins
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Yakufu Niyazi, Mark Warne, Daniel Ierodiaconou
- Date Published: September 2021
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Various types of igneous rocks have been frequently encountered during hydrocarbon exploration of sedimentary basins along rifted passive margins, and their impacts on hydrocarbon maturation and migration processes are diverse. Buried volcanoes gener...
Subsurface characterisation using full waveform inversion of vertical seismic profile data: Example from the Curtin GeoLab well
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: S. Zulic, A. Bona, K. Tertyshnikov, A. Yurikov, R. Pevzner
- Date Published: September 2021
Abstract:
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) uses the complete seismic wavefield (transmitted, reflected and converted waves) to build the models of subsurface physical properties. We conducted a feasibility study of a 2D elastic FWI applied to the synthetic and fi...
Gravimetric measurements of high pressure and temperature C1, C2 and C3 adsorption isotherms on Beetaloo Sub-basin shales
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Nicholas Lupton, Michael Camilleri, Mohinudeen Faiz
- Date Published: September 2021
Abstract:
Exploration in Australia’s Beetaloo Sub-basin focuses on the liquids, wet-gas, and dry-gas mature shales of the Kyalla and Velkerri formations. Gas storage in these reservoirs occurs as free gas and additionally through adsorption to the internal p...