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2025 SA HICCUP Tournament Summary

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The HICCUP cricket tournament, sponsored by PESA (Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia), has a rich 45-year history as a social tradition in the South Australian Oil & Gas industry, bringing together government, private, and academic personnel.

HICCUP is appealing due to the relaxed environment of playing a social, yet competitive, format of cricket after work in the Adelaide parklands while providing a fantastic avenue for strengthening working relationships between colleagues and peers from opposition teams.

Teams play with 12 players, and everyone gets to…

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South Australia branch Lunch

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On 27Th Feb James Komenza gave a talk to the South Australian Branch titled “Seismic interpretation of the Petrel sub-basin for CO2 storage opportunity (G-11-AP)” The image above shows Dr Paul Strong awarding an appreciation gift to him.

The Branch was also pleased to award Cecilia Vanina Loyola (Uni Adelaide student) with the 2024 SA/NT  Scholarship prize. This image below shows Dr. Mark Bunch (Uni Adelaide and chair of SA/NT Branch Scholarships committee) presenting it to her.

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PESA Members Free Access to Knowledgette and Pete’s Webinar Picks

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by Peter Hoiles – PESA Webinar Coordinator

As reported in the last gazette, the PESA webinar program has re-commenced for 2025.  Recordings of most PESA webinars are available on the PESA website for members to view (more about this in a future gazette notice).  In addition, PESA offers members free access to lecture and webinar recordings through Knowledgette.  Knowledgette is a knowledge sharing platform that offers content from across the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG),…

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Meet the new WA Branch President – Dr Fiona Burns

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Fiona Burns took over the role as PESA President of the WA Branch during December 2024. She is a Sedimentologist/Ichnologist and Borehole Image Specialist, with over 30 years’ experience in the energy sector working on petroleum reservoirs. She works with the team at TaskFronterra in Perth and  has been involved in projects throughout Australia and worldwide including Indonesia, West Africa, offshore China, North Sea and NZ. Prior to her time at TaskFronterra she worked through her company Firmground. Fiona is looking forward to working with the PESA committee in WA to ensure the continuation of high-level monthly…

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US Power Prices ‘Set to Surge’ saysWoodMac

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LOBE NEWSWIRE) -- US power demand has remained essentially flat for the past decade, but this is all about to change as a pending surge in demand growth will be the biggest challenge for utility companies in decades, according to the latest Horizons report from Wood Mackenzie.

According to the report, “Gridlock: the demand dilemma facing the US power industry” US electricity demand growth will be between 4% and 15% through 2029, depending on the region, with burgeoning data-centre development, a resurgence in energy-intensive US manufacturing, and greater…

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Back to Uni mean renewal time for PESA student members

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As a new academic year starts it also means it is renewal time for all of our PESA student members, whose membership will automatically lapse on 31st March unless renewed.

To continue your PESA student membership you will need to provide to PESA membership - membership@pesa.com.au:

  1. Evidence to support your status as a PESA Student Member (select one from the options below or similar)
  2. Student number and/or copy of student…

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Congratulations Andrew

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Congratulations to Andrew Riznyczok who has been awarded a Meritorious Service Award for his work as the Secretary of the ACT-NSW Branch for the last 10 years.

Many thanks Andrew! We look forward to presenting the award to you at the AGM in May.

Andrew Riznyczok graduated with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Geology at the University of NSW in 2015. During Andrew’s university semester break, he began in the petroleum industry working for Bridgeport Energy as…

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Geoscience data management can help reduce subsurface uncertainty

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Author Neil Constantine

When modelling the subsurface as geoscientists and engineers, we work with multiple sources of data to ensure we best understand and mitigate any uncertainty. Raw data such as wells and seismic are key to improving our understanding of the subsurface, but we also rely on previous projects, interpretations and models to help fast track our knowledge. But what if these add to our uncertainty, with projects of unknown provenance requiring time to find, understand and review, and with mis-loaded or otherwise incorrect data negatively influencing our models?

The PESA 2025 Deal Day will bring high quality exploration, appraisal and development
opportunities from Australia and beyond to the attention of the international oil and gas
industry. The Deal Day is to be held in conjunction with the 2025 AEP Conference (formerly
APPEA) thereby ensuring a wide exposure to industry leaders. 


Company representatives will review the technical and commercial aspects of their
opportunities via short presentations, using selected data. There will be time during and
after the seminar to discuss additional details with interested…

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