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Obituary: Earl 0. Abbott (1913-1983)
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
The death occurred on 30 July 1983 in Sun City, Arizona, USA, of Mr Earl 0. Abbott, a Distinguished Member of PESA. Mr Abbott was for 37 years a geologist with Continental Oil Co. (CONOCO), spending 13 of those years, from 1961 to 1974, in Australia....
PESA Membership List
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
This membership list has been compiled directly from computer tapes containing information supplied by Branch Secretaries. ...
Book Review – A Thirst For Burning
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: Rick Wilkinson
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
In 1959 McGraw Hill published a book entitled The Greatest Gamblers by Ruth Sheldon Knowles. This is a history of oil exploration in the USA; it is exciting, and it was an instant success. Now we have just such a work in A Thirst for Burning...
The APEA Column
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: KEITH ORCHISON
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
The Australian Petroleum Exploration Association Limited (APEA) was incorporated in 1959 to 'protect and promote . . . the interests of persons engaged from time to time in the business of prospecting, drilling, refining, exploring and developing pet...
THE OIL AND GAS CORRESPONDENT: GAS AMONG THE ENERGY OPTIONS
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: John Field
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
Within the next 12 months some of Australia's largest oil and gas exploration companies will be headed for protracted arbitration over the prices they want for their gas. The sums they will have to do will need to take into account the normal risk co...
PESA AUSTRALIAN DISTINGUISHED LECTURER: A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
Members of PESA are invited to nominate persons for the appointment of 1985 Australian Distinguished Lecturer. ...
1984 AUSTRALIAN DISTINGUISHED LECTURE APPLYING GEOCHEMICAL CONCEPTS TO PLAY ANALYSIS AND BASIN EVALUATION
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: Trevor Powell
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
If you believe that, provided a certain threshold has been reached in the thermal history of a play, it will be mature for hydrocarbons, Dr. Powell will challenge your thinking on that. Hydrocarbon maturation, as a function of thermal history, depend...
APEA 1984 CONFERENCE: INNOVATION IN EXPLORATION
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
If you are attending the Australian Petroleum Exploration Association's 24th annual conference in Hobart, Tasmania, from 8 to 11 April 1984, don't forget that the PESA Annual General Meeting and the PESA Best Presentation Award will take place during...
DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIA’S NATURAL GAS RESOURCES
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: M.J. Kimber
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
Petroleum exploration proceeded spasmodically in the Surat Basin and other basins in Australia through to the 1950s, but an oil find at Rough Range in the Carnarvon Basin in Western Australia during 1953 sparked new interest in petroleum exploration....
News Of Members And Branches
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1984
Potential for Hydrocarbons In Some Infrabasins of the Murray Basin
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: A.R. Martin, J.D. Saxby
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
The Murray Basin is a shallow Tertiary depression extending over large parts of inland New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. The outline of the basin approximates that of the present Quaternary drainage catchment of the middle and lower Mur...
Canning Basin Symposium
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
Joint Canning Basin Symposium: Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia and the Geological Society of Australia, Western Australia branches, at the Sheraton Hotel, Perth, Western Australia, 27-29 June 1984.
The aim of the Symposium is to deve...
President’s Page
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: I. D. Whiteley
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
1983 proved to be a decisive year, both in terms of industry consolidation and for the developing maturity of our Society. On the one hand, for the first time since the fortescue discovery, exploration discovered recoverable reserves of sufficient vo...
Invitation: Letters to the Editor
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
In order to encourage the wider participation of PESA members in determining the content and style of this journal, and to provide an opportunity for the expression of opinion, it is proposed to start a 'Letters to the Editor' section. This new featu...
Cover Story
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: RICHARD DUMBRELL
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
In a foreword to The ODE Story (October 1981), a chronological history of Oil Drilling & Exploration Ltd, Company Chairman Richard Drumbrell pays tribute to "...the many people (directors, management and field staff) who pulled ODE through into the 1...
1984 PESA OVERSEAS DISTINGUISHED LECTURS: TECTONICS, SEDIMENTATION, AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF BASINS
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: John C. Crowell
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
As an aid to appreciating their histories, and in developing techniques for their analysis, basins are classified according to their plate tectonic position. Each basin type requires different methods for dealing with folding and faulting and with se...
Memorandum of Association of Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Limited
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Date Published: March 1984
Abstract:
As the Society (PESA) has undergone incorporation as a company, and since PESA is now considering its future directions (see President's Page), it is timely for all members to examine the Society's objectives, which are set out in Articles 2 and 3 of...