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Unconventional Gas: Arrow Seeks to Alleviate Fears with Comprehensive Water Strategy, Education
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
Arrow Energy has acknowledged that its LNG project activities have the potential to reduce agricultural productivity and increase costs of farm management, with crop losses or disturbance of stock, disturbance of soil and cause "loss of amenity" (dis...
Industry News: Bourne to Head ARENA
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
Former BP Australasia Regional President and WWF-Australia CEO Greg Bourne has been appointed as acting Chair of the board of Australian Renewable Energy Agency, which starts on 1 July as a key part of the Government's Clean Energy Future package, co...
LNG: Oil Search Gearing Up for Another Papua LNG Project
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
Australian company Oil Search believes it has enough reserves in the gulf of Papua to justify another LNG project in Papua New Guinea (PNG). ...
Recruitment Training and Migration: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: June 2012
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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...
Industry News: Searcher’s New Staff Facilitate Expansion
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
5earcher Seismic has taken on two well-respected industry heads to expand its business in Norway, Southeast Asia and Australia....
Environment: Global Warming Research Funding Urgently Sought
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: John Gorter, ENI.
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
What are these?
Congratulations if you answered trace fossils, bonus if you identified the substrate as snow! Remember, a trace fossil consists of an imprint of or a mark left by an organism, as opposed to physical remains....
Shale Exploration: Unconventional Methods for Unconventional Plays: Using Elemental Data to Understand Shale Resource Plays
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Ken Ratcliffe and Milly Wright, Chemostrat; Dave Spain, BP USA
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
In the last edition of PESA News Resources (No 116), the use of chemostratigraphy to help refine stratigraphic understanding of shale resource plays was discussed. Following on from Part 1, we here look at what additional information can be gathered ...
Branch Activities: Drillsearch PESA NSW Golf Tournament
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Barry Smith, Oilmen of NSW golf committee
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Eighty PESA members and their guests attended the 44th annual Drillsearch-PESA (NSW) golf day and presentation dinner at the Avondale Golf Club on 16 November 2011....
LNG: Vietnam Considering LNG Imports From Australia
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Australia could soon be exporting gas to Vietnam, following government-owned Petro Vietnam Gas' (PV Gas) discussions with Australian companies to meet its gas shortfall....
Industry News: 2012 The Year of Big Spenders
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Oil and gas industry leaders have forecast a regional shift in who has greatest potential, according to a new Economist Intelligence Unit report commissioned by industry technical advisor GL Noble Denton....
Words: The Moment I Sinned
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Peter Purcell
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
No sooner had I signed off on my last column and sat back to listen to the cricket than I heard that Michael Hussey had a nice leave. I assumed this meant he'd enjoyed his holidays as a welcome break from his busy schedule. Not so. The commentator we...
Shale Exploration: Shale Gas In Australia – Drivers And Road Blocks
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Waf Muir, AWT International
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
During the past 20 years or so, the gas industry in the US has been undergoing a slow but dramatic change. The US has been gradually morphing from a voracious user of others' natural gas to drive its industry and commerce to a voracious user of its o...
Branch Activities: WA Farewells Jen
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
In March the WA branch farewelled its hardworking president Jen Wadsworth as she and her husband Tim and boys Stuart and Billy headed off to a new phase of their lives based in
Houston, Texas. Both Jen and Tim have accepted postings with BP. ...
Drilling: Pitless Drilling: a Strategy for Coexistence
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Carey Bradford, Arrow Energy
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Pitless drilling is being trial-led by Arrow Energy to improve coexistence on its tenements with good quality agricultural land.
The trial is also expected to produce cost savings through reducing drilling waste and fluid handling and dispos...
Recruitment Training and Migration: APPEA Steps Outside Comfort Zone for Labour Reform
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
APPEA has gone outside of its comfort zone to call for a reform of the current industrial relations framework, due to the oil and gas industry struggling with the skills crisis....
Seismic Technology: The Ultracube: Revitalising Vintage Surveys
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Mark Ballesteros, Maighread Nf Dheasuna, Paul Tredgett, Searcher Seismic; Jim Dirstein, Alistair Stanley, Total Depth
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Twenty years ago 3D seismic data was widely considered an expensive technology and was generally applied to relatively limited survey areas, most often for field appraisal and development. Times have changed, of course. As a result of improvements in...
Branch Activities: The “Las Vegas” Ball
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
After the success of last year's ball, the WA Branch is pleased to announce that it will again hold a charity ball raising funds for the RFDS. This year's theme is "Las Vegas Cabaret". ...
Tight Gas: Drill Club Out, But Hope Springs Eternal
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
The 'drill club' that Western Australia's Department of Mines and Petroleum has been trying to initiate to facilitate unconventional exploration in the southwest of the State has been plugged and abandoned. ...