By Sue Slater and Sarah Harris
On the first Friday of December, the Queensland Branch has held its annual Christmas Lunch at Brisbane’s Stamford Plaza, MC’d by Sue. A great day was had by all attendees.
Thanks to all our loyal sponsors, we couldn’t run this event without them. Velseis Seismic, Oceania Geo, Realtime Seismic and Comet Ridge, with lucky door prizes provided by Terrex Seismic. The annual oil price was sponsored by Clean Planet and won by Mike Bucknill and the...
Finder underwent a transformational change from a pure explorer to a developer through the acquisition of discovered oil fields in Timor-Leste. Finder is now moving quickly to progress development activity on the Kuda Tasi and Jahal Oil Fields.
Aaron Bond (Exploration Manager) said: "We are busy working through our commitments and developing our organisation to establish the requirements of an early production opportunity and a full field development. Currently the project is in...
A review and summary by Steve Moss
Geoenergy is a new journal co-owned between the Geological Society and the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) that was established in 2023 (Geoenergy Home). The journal is dedicated to the publication of non-hydrocarbon energy geoscience and engineering research. In a similar fashion to its stable-mate journal, Petroleum Geoscience, Geoenergy focuses on the publication of timely and topical research in subsurface geoscience,...
Despite the heavy rain, October’s joint-industry Student & Early Career Mixer was a huge hit with budding and established geologists alike, who made their way to Milton for industry networking opportunities.
The event attracted almost 100 attendees with a roughly even split between students, early careers geoscientists and established professionals.
The night’s youngest attendee, Ben Walker (who also happens to be the son of PESA Qld’s President), was the lucky recipient of one...
On 19 December 2024, both Woodside and Chevron announced their agreement to an asset swap in which Woodside will acquire Chevron’s 16.67% interest in the North West Shelf Project and the North West Shelf Oil Project and it’s 20% interest in the Angel Carbon Capture and Storage Project. In turn, Chevron will acquire Woodside’s interest in 13% interest in the Wheatstone project and 65% interest in the Julimar-Brunello project.
Both companies have indicated that the transactions...
December 2024 saw the award of two additional Greenhouse Gas Assessment Permits:
These awards take the total number of GHG Assessment Permits within Australia to 17, with all major basins covered.
A GHG assessment permit authorizes the participating companies to...
Authors: Kat Gioseffi, Fernando Valencia Fermin
In early September, several Santos technical staff attended the 2024 PESA QLD Symposium. Ten students submitted posters and over 90 delegates attended the full day event at the Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre. Themed “Energy Unearthed”, speakers and posters covered a diverse array of topics including:
The highly anticipated drilling of the “Beehive” prospect took a step closer on 2 January this year with NOPSEMA accepting the environmental plan for the drilling of up to three exploration and / or appraisal wells on the structure.
Beehive is in Bonaparte Basin WA-488-P and is 100% owned by EOR Resources. The wells are to target a large Carbonate Platform and have a planned total depth of up to 6,000m. Approval is for any time up to 31 December 2029. EOG has stated it intends to...
PESA are proud to be supporting SEAPEX with the upcoming SEC 2025 conference.
Please visit https://www.seapex.org/seapexconf/ for more information.
by Hamid Esfandyari et al
This article was originally published in Renewable Energy 237 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2024.121726
0960-1481/© 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Hydrogen (H2) offers a promising solution for the energy transition but storing it on a large scale at the surface poses significant technical and environmental challenges. Underground...