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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. ...
Recruitment Training and Migration: Rising FIFO Demand Heats Up Debate
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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The rising demand for fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers in Western Australia is intensifying the debate over its effects on mental and emotional stability and family life. ...
Editor’s Comment: Welcome to the APPEA Edition of PESA News Resources
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Adrian Williams
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
With the eyes of the world once again on the Australian oil and gas industry, what better time to raise its profile with the average man in the street and to reverse some of the "rape and pillage" publicity we receive the other 99% of the year(OK, pe...
Uncle Duster’s Opinion Repository: Uncle Duster’s Allegorical and Enlightening Vacation
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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It's a long-held tradition at Camp Duster to take off in the New Year, getting in some well-deserved leisure time ahead of the year proper kicking into gear - and along with it the inevitable flood of requests, speaking engagements, technical advice ...
View from the Top: Moore Issues Industry Warning As Farm Beckons
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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Retiring West Australian Mines and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore is keen to get stuck into a small farm he bought a while back in Toodyay, playing some golf and travel with his wife Lee, but has a few loose ends to tie up to ensure his successor ha...
Recruitment Training and Migration: Petroleum Sector Call to Arms on Training
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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West Australian Energy Minister Peter Collier has issued a call to arms to the oil and gas industry to stop whining about the Federal Government's handling of skilled migration - which he said was appalling on both sides of politics - and get crackin...
Seismic Technology: Azimuthal Anisotropy – A New Interactive Approach Leads To More Accurate Imaging
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Graeme Eastwood, Fugro Seismic Imaging
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
0ver the last few years, it has become common practice to account for vertical or tilted transverse anisotropy (VTI!TTI) during the migration process. This takes account of the velocity anisotropy caused by seismic waves travelling through layered me...
Industry News: DMP Round 5 Co-Funded Drilling Program Closes
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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Applications for the West Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) funding for round five of the Co-Funded Exploration Drilling Program closed on 30 March. The program promotes exploration in greenfields and under-explored areas of the Stat...
Aussies Overseas: Aussie Explorer Marches into Old Cold War Territory
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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Australian petroleum explorers and investors are moving into old Cold War territory, negotiating a still tangled web of intrigue to unlock the old eastern bloc's considerable gas resources. ...
Recruitment Training and Migration: UK To Help Solve Aussie Skills Shortage
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
A new era of cooperation between the UK and Australian and Territory governments has been ushered in to encourage more companies from the Old Dart to do business in Australia's rapidly expanding LNG industry. ...
Seismic Technology: Noise Attenuation Challenges for Combined OBC, Transition and Land Seismic Survey
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Valarie Hamilton and Merrie-EIIen Gunning, Down Under Geoso/utions
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Sandwiched between two existing 3D seismic surveys, the Antares 30 marine and Heytesbury 30 land, the Speculant 30 survey was acquired by Origin Energy Ltd with a combination of Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC), land geophones, airguns and Vibroseis. This ra...
Industry News: WA CCS Project Reaches Drilling Milestone
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Western Australia's first onshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has started research drilling operations....
Aussies Overseas: UK Research Gives Pura Vida the Nod
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
A leading UK broking and advisory firm has initiated independent research on Perth-based African oil explorer Pura Vida Energy giving it a risked value of $232 MM....
Recruitment Training and Migration: Rapid Asian Growth Places Local Industry At Critical Juncture
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
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The oil and gas industry faces an immediate challenge to ensure the continued flow of adequately skilled professionals to cater for the next 12 months that are expected to be a record-breaker for the Asia Pacific region, with Asian economies likely t...
LNG: Chevron Discoveries to Expand WA LNG
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
5uccessive gas discoveries offshore Western Australia are helping the $29 B Wheat stone project achieve Chevron's single biggest addition to the company's reserves pool, leading to flagged expansion of both Wheatstone and Gorgon projects....
Industry News: Offshore Gas States Oppose Cash Bidding
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
The cash-bidding system that the 2011 d raft Energy White Paper proposed for acreage releases is unlikely to prompt exploration or development as the Commonwealth hopes it will, Australia's offshore gas powerhouses said....
Aussies Overseas: Aussie CBM Specialists Tap into South African Market
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
South Africa is launching into a new era of a transformed energy equation and Perth companies Kinetiko Energy and Sunbird Energy are leading the way to solve the troubled country's energy supply - and even some social - issues. ...
Recruitment Training and Migration: Chevron on Hunt for Hundreds of Facilities Engineers
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2012
Abstract:
Chevron Australia has launched a major recruitment drive Australia-wide for hundreds of engineers required to work on its Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects. ...