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View from the Top: Everything Comes Back to Security
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2012
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Preserving the environment around a new uranium mine in the middle of the sacrosanct Kakadu National Park has given DomGas Alliance Chairman Tony Petersen a unique perspective on how many of the major economic forces at play in Australia impact on en...
Seismic Technology: It’s the Fluids that Matter: Solutions To Reservoir Property Prediction
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Andrew Long and Folke Engelmark, PGS
- Date Published: August 2012
Abstract:
Fluids in a rock
Oil or gas in a reservoir rock is not a simple case of a fluid occupying a space such that the fluid can occupy all the pore space (1 00% saturation) and then be completely replaced by water during ...
Recruitment Training and Migration: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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While technology forever changes, the need for old-school charm and social graces remain as essential as ever, according to the head of one of Australia's biggest projects and a leading behavioural consultant....
Unconventional Gas: Skills Shortage Just Tip of Iceberg for Arrow LNG
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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The Arrow LNG project will exacerbate the very problems it most needs to address as it plans for its multi-billion dollar project, one of its Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) has declared....
Industry News: Energy Security: Free Market or Intervention?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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The debate over energy security across Australia is being turned on its head, with Australian and overseas policies and project developments leading both energy producers and users to question long-held views about whether increased capacity will in ...
LNG: Government Unites Industry Titans, Threats Divide Them
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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The Federal Government is piling unwanted pressure on investor uncertainty at a time when Australia's LNG market and its flow-on effects to the national economy are under threat from a number of fronts, industry heads said at the APPEA national confe...
Recruitment Training and Migration: Oil and Gas not Immune to the Organisational Psychopath
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Psychopaths are inside almost every Australian company and are getting promoted, according to Barbara Abbott from consultancy firm Behaviour Matters. ...
Unconventional Gas: Warro Edges Closer
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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The end of a 25-year journey looks to finally be within sight as independent US experts confirm that the troublesome Warro field could flow gas at high rates once the water issue is managed. ...
Industry News: Resist Pressure for Gas Reservation Policy – Macfarlane
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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A perfect storm is brewing that will increase pressure for more states to enforce a gas reservation policy, Shadow Minister for Energy and Resources Ian Macfarlane said. ...
Onlaps: Shelf Sands
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Rob Kirk, Rob Kirk Consulting
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
In this article I would like to discuss shallow marine sands that may be isolated out on the marine shelf away from deltas and fluvial units and often surrounded by marine muds - 'shelf sands'. ...
Recruitment Training and Migration: Fun Never Stops on Gorgon
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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For the men and women constructing the Gorgon project on Barrow Island, when work is over for the day - or the night - there is no shortage of after hours activities....
Unconventional Gas: Early Bird Can Get That Worm
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Western Australia's shale and tight gas industry has a golden opportunity that was not afforded to NSW's struggling CSG industry: to sell its environmental responsibility and gain the social license it needs to realise its game-changing potential....
Industry News: Ferguson Calls Out the Greens
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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The Greens and some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are fundamentally anti-growth and do not focus on balanced solutions and constructive outcomes as they fail to address the realities and complexities of Australia's modern economy, Federal Res...
Company Focus: Aussies Tap into China CBM ‘Goldmine’
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Meeting the energy demands of a Chinese province with nearly twice Australia's population is a challenge transforming ASX-listed Sino Gas & Energy Holdings from a junior explorer into a mid-cap gas developer with a big future. ...
Recruitment Training and Migration: Industry Facing Gaping Hole – IGU
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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An aging oil and gas industry is causing a gaping hole that will require drastic action to source hundreds of thousands of technical professionals, the International Gas Union revealed ahead of its 4- 8 June World Gas Conference (WGC) in Kuala Lumpur...
Environment: Climate Science or Climate Politics?
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Climate Scientist William Kininmonth was head of Australia's National Climate Centre and a consultant to the World Meteorological Organisation and their Commission for Climatology, yet is labelled a 'heretic' in the science community for having views...
Industry News: CCS Well Breaks Record
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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The stratigraphic well GSWA Harvey-1, near the southwest town of Harvey, has set a record as the deepest hole the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) has ever drilled. ...
Aussies Overseas: Geologist Swaps Tools for Camera in Swamps of Nigeria
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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When Brendan Butcher was studying Geology in the leafy, pristine campus of the University of Western Australia, he never dreamed he'd be lurching through the muddy swamps of the Niger Delta, carrying a camera of all things. ...
Canning Basin: Buru Recruit Loving Thrill of Challenge
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Marie Malaxos' arrival at Buru Energy has signalled that the company is now into overdrive: pushing its Canning Basin assets from resources to reserves, and getting them out of the ground to give Western Australia energy security. ...
Environment: Coal Emissions Solution Adaptable to Gas – CSIRO
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Post-combustion carbon dioxide capture (PCC) technology, which has been proven for coal-fired power stations could also be applied to gas-fired power stations, CSIRO researchers said. ...
Industry News: Fugro Multi Client Services Expands Perth Office
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Fugro Multi Client Services (FMCS) recently appointed Dr. Patricio Silva Gonzalez as Chief Geologist and Paul Rheinberg as Business Development Manager. ...
Aussies Overseas: Anthropologist Hunting Dragon Gas
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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You won't catch Chevron career man Gavin Harper pondering what might have been had he gone on with the anthropology career he missed out on, especially given the project he's currently sitting on. ...
Canning Basin: Hess Joins Canning Unconventional Hunt
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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U5 major Hess has joined the Canning Basin hunt for shale gas by buying Queensland mining magnate Clive Palmer's Kingsway Oil as part of its Australian expansion plans. ...
Diary of Events
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
2012-2013 Conferences And Courses ...
Environment: Aeons Away from an Answer
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Did environmentalism all begin with a photograph?
Earthsrise, the popular name given to a picture taken by US astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, is argued to be the picture that altered mankind's p...
Industry News: Chemostrat Australia Opens up in Perth
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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Specialist stratigraphic services company Chemostrat, born from doctoral research, has opened an office in Perth to service the booming oil and gas sector. ...
Words: Sympathetic Magic
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Peter Purcell
- Date Published: June 2012
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Sympathetic magic often swirls around the Words column, I find, as post-publication events align with the column's theme....
Canning Basin: Key Turns in a Big Way
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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From bust to boom, Key Petroleum has been a quintessential reflection of the economic turnaround in WA's mining sector. Only last October it was looking down the barrel of financial disaster and forced to cut staff numbers and its own 1 OOo/o onshore...
Uncle Duster’s Opinion Repository: Duster Pads Up, , Takes Guard, and Plays a Straight Bat on the Skills Crisis
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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As president of the Goosebury Hill and Associated Districts Suburban Turf Cricket Club, one of the more influential community sporting bodies this side of the Darling Scarp, Duster has encountered many challenges both on and off the field over the co...
Environment – Australia a Model for Improving Energy Efficiency – lEA
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
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The International Energy Agency's (lEA) latest report has selected The Australian Government's Energy Efficiency Opportunities (EEO) program as a case study and was presented as a model for improving energy efficiency outcomes and addressing informat...