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Exploration & Appraisal Year in Review 2021: Exploration Ramped up with Positive Indicators Moving Forwards
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Adam Craig
- Date Published: August 2022
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Petroleum exploration and appraisal activity increased in 2021. Exploration spend increased for the year, continuing a positive trend. Onshore exploration and appraisal activity continues to dominate the petroleum exploration scene in Australia....
A Brighter Future Dependent on Which Path is Navigated: 2021 Development & Production Review
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Martin Wilkes
- Date Published: August 2022
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The Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA) Year in Review Development and Production review looks back at the oil and gas production and development activities in Australia in 2021, with a look at both the historical context of these activ...
PESA Australia Business Environmental Review 2021: Oil & Gas Industry at a Pivotal Point in the Energy Transition
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Candice Bell
- Date Published: August 2022
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With a backdrop of energy transition and an accelerating need to decarbonise, the oil and gas business environment was complex and conflicted through 2021. The complexity of the energy transition was continually highlighted by academia and internatio...
Book Review: The Hydrogen Revolution – A Blueprint for the Future of Clean Energy (by Marco Alvera)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: August 2022
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'The Hydrogen Revolution' is a thought-provoking, often times frightening, eye-opening but essential read for any informed citizen. It is is no longer a question of how much oil we have left, but rather, how much more can we afford to burn? This is m...
Fortune Favours the Bold is our Mantra When it Comes to Fracking
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Alex Underwood - Empire Energy Managing Director/CEO
- Date Published: August 2022
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During my five years at the helm of Empire Energy, I’ve periodically been asked why I left the relative sanctuary of the banking sector to sail into the choppy seas of unconventional drilling in frontier territories of Australia and elsewhere....
Tech Talk: South Australian Petroleum Review (April 2022)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2022
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The Energy Resources Division – South Australian Department for Energy and Mining (DEM) manages the State’s petroleum resources as the lead agency facilitating ecologically sustainable petroleum exploration and production. Its operations cover in...
H2 Highlights
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2022
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Rise of the Velkerri – A Stacked shale play in the Betaloo Basin
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Alex Bruce, Daniela Garrad, Todd Hoffman
- Date Published: April 2022
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Empire Energy Group Limited (Empire) operates unconventional shale gas assets in the Northern Territory as Imperial Oil and Gas. In 2010, Empire successfully secured seven exploration permit applications across the greater McArthur Basin (Close 2014)...
Global Geopolitics
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2022
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CEO Corner: ‘The World Needs Oil & Gas to Power Our Energy Needs’
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2022
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Finder CEO Damon Neaves is unapologetic about seeking new oil reserves. Finder’s recent successful IPO shows equity markets are ‘risk on’ when it comes to oil & gas. The headwinds are gone and energy is once again a global security issue. The i...
Carbon Chronicles
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2022
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Fossil Fuels Swing from Dire Straits to a Brighter Future
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger
- Date Published: April 2022
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In recent years tremors on the oil and gas canvas may have left many professionals still active in the industry wondering whether the beginning of the end was starting to unravel, almost as a prophetic-styled fulfilment of Dire Straits’ 1982 hit so...
Seismic at Sea
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2022
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Rolling Gas Numbers to Keep Sun Rising & Shining in the East
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Jimmy Zheng
- Date Published: April 2022
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What we do know from the numbers is that gas in the ground, particularly from Queensland, is not a major issue. On the flipside, the ongoing decline of conventional gas resources in Victoria is well known. Nonetheless, subject to timely capital inves...
Shell Tops Oil & Gas Brands Pops as COVID, Ukraine & ESG Issues Disrupt Global Perceptions
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2022
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Despite COVID, the conflict in Ukraine, and increased awareness about ESG causing widespread havoc to the oil & gas sector globally, Shell (brand value up 18% to US$49.9 billion) has not only withstood the global disruption, but been able to grow its...
Seismic Snapshot – Second Quarter 2022
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2022
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Branch News: Federal – Testing Times Yes, But We are Heading in the Right Direction
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Bronwyn Camac
- Date Published: April 2022
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PESA have held 53 face-to-face events since May 2021, plus webinars, which is still about half of what we would do in “normal” times. Hopefully, over the next year we will all be back to normal and can meet up with old friends and meet new ones i...
Branch News: NSW – GOLF GODS SHINE ON AS COVID EASES & RAIN CLOUDS PART
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2022
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As if COVID wasn’t bad enough then came the floods. However, the New South Wales branch finally got to tee it all up at the PESA NSW Golf Weekend Away at Cypress Lakes in the beautiful Hunter Vally wine region....
Branch News: WA – CO2 Captures & Captivates a Crowd at the Lunch Munch
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2022
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If the turnout at the April WA lunch was anything to go by, PESA WA Branch should consider making a movie called Capturing Carbon because by all accounts it would be a blockbuster....
Branch News: SA/NT – Update on CABS IV
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: April 2022
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As reported in the last edition of PESA News, the Central Australian Basins Symposium will convene in the Darwin Conference Centre 29th-30th August 2022. ...
Exploring Australia’s Resource Frontier – CABS IV August 29 and 30 this year
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
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After a 10-year hiatus the PESA Central Australian Basin Symposium is back with a rich and diverse program covering the geological evolution and resource potential of central Australian basins. Named “Exploring Australia’s Resource Frontier” CA...
Branch News: WA (PESA News Issue 164)
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
Abstract:
Branch News (WA) Highlights:
- “Ho Ho Hos” were had by all at the Christmas Lunch
- Full Signs went up for Annual SPE-PESA WA Joint Meeting
- Illuminating Dalkeith Foreshore Field Trip Was Thirsty Work
Branch News: Congratulations to Queensland’s branch MSA Awards winners
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
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PESA Queensland would like to congratulate DR. RACHEL KIEFT and DR. TOBY COLSON on their Meritorious Service Awards.
Also featured: FOSSIL FUTURE FOCUS IN A DECARBONIZED MARKET. QUEENSLAND Branch have kicked off their season of events with a tech...
Branch News: SA/NT Branch announces two prestigious awards for 2021
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
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The PESA SA/NT Branch has played a drum roll and announced the winners of the Branch’s two research prizes for 2021. The 2021 NTGS / PESA Student Prize for the best NT-focussed and energyrelated thesis or paper has been awarded to Darwinaji Subarka...
GEO GEMS – Bedout sub-basin: Putting Carnarvon Energy’s geological gem under the microscope
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: March 2022
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EXPLORATION in the Bedout sub-basin over the past decade has netted good results for Carnarvon Energy....
Unravelling the histories of Proterozoic shales through in situ Rb-Sr dating & trace element laser ablation analysis
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Darwinaji Subarkah, Morgan L. Blades, Alan S. Collins, Juraj Farkas, Sarah Gilbert, Stefan C. Löhr, Ahmad Redaa, Eilidh Cassidy & Thomas Zack
- Date Published: March 2022
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Authigenic components in marine sediments are important archives for past environment reconstructions. However, defining reliable age constraints and assessing the effects of post depositional overprints in Precambrian sequences are challenging. We d...
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
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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
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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....