PESA's 50 years—the rise and rise of technology

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 372
Author(s):  
John Begg
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Not For Profit

This paper presents an overview of the past 50 years of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA). PESA is a not-for-profit professional association for individuals involved in the oil and gas exploration industry.

The Impact of Public Policy on Support Services for Indigenous Families with Children with Special Education Needs

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Trimmer ◽  
Roselyn Dixon
Keyword(s):  
National Policy ◽  
Disability Services ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Special Education Needs ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Education Needs ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
The Impact

In Australia and Europe, government agencies and not-for-profit organisations (NFPOs) have had long involvement in the funding and provision of community disability services. Significant change has occurred in Australia over the past two decades in the way government funds are expended, with marketplace mechanisms increasingly being used. As a consequence of economic and governance imperatives, funding of services via NFPOs has changed significantly with a move away from the provision of grants to the contracting of these organisations for the provision of services. In 2013, a new national policy, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), was introduced that has impacts for the provision of disability services for children and their families. In particular, Indigenous families are likely to experience barriers in accessing services. This paper reviews the impact of international changes in policy and associated funding models and considers the impacts and research implications of Australia's initial experience of implementation of the NDIS.

scholarly journals Reservoir characterization and by-passed pay analysis of philus field in Niger delta, Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunmonu Ayobami ◽  
Adabanija Adedapo ◽  
Adagunodo Aanuoluwa ◽  
Adeniji Ayokunnu
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Reservoir Characterization ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Volumetric Analysis ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Stock Tank ◽  
Original Oil In Place

Hydrocarbon resources have become the most essential commodity contributing to any nation’s growth and development in the recent years. For the past decades now, the quest for hydrocarbon resources has been increasing in an arithmetic rate that its supply can no longer meets the demand for its consumption today. In petroleum industry, seismic and well log analyses play a vital role in oil and gas exploration and formation evaluation. This study is aimed to effectively characterize the reservoirs and analyze the by-passed pay in Philus Field, Niger-Delta, Nigeria in order to look into the economic viability and profitability of the volume of oil in the identified reservoir(s). The faults in the study area trend in NW-SE direction and dip towards the south. Seven reservoirs were mapped on Philus field. A discovery trap and a by-passed (new prospect) trap were mapped out on the field. The petrophysical analysis showed that porosity of Philus field was 0.24. The volumetric analysis showed that the Stock Tank Original Oil in Place of discovery trap (Philus field) ranged from 1.6 to 43.1 Mbbl while that of new prospect trap ranged from 18.1 to 211.3 Mbbl. It is recommended that the oil reserve of Philus field needs to be recalculated.

Rivers as urban landscapes: renaissance of the Waterfront

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 65-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Benson
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Lake Ontario ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Charitable Organization ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Economic Vitality

The Lake Ontario Waterfront Trail, currently stretching 350 kilometres along the shore of Lake Ontario, Canada, links 26 communities, 184 natural areas, 161 parks and promenades, 84 marinas and yacht clubs, hundreds of historic places, fairs, museums, art galleries and festivals. The Waterfront Trail is a catalyst for a new attitude and way of thinking towards the Lake Ontario waterfront and its watersheds - one that integrates ecological health, economic vitality and a sense of community. Since it was launched in 1995, the Trail has accompanied the protection of the most valued elements of the waterfront, and the transformation of under-utilized and environmentally degraded lands to vibrant places with businesses and jobs, parks and recreational facilities, green spaces, natural habitats and cultural venues and attractions. It is through the Trail that people have been mobilized to improve the waterfront as they have rediscovered the shoreline and understood the interconnections, both natural and cultural, that are so vital to its health and vitality. The Waterfront Regeneration Trust is the not-for-profit charitable organization that has been leading this large-scale greenway initiative over the past 10 years. While much has been accomplished, there remains much to do to enhance and expand the greenway. This presentation will focus on the lessons we have learned over the past decade in our involvement with more than 100 projects and what those lessons mean for the next decade of waterfront regeneration.

scholarly journals Quantifying Land Cover Change Due to Petroleum Exploration and Production in the Haynesville Shale Region Using Remote Sensing

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Unger ◽  
I-Kuai Hung ◽  
Kenneth Farrish ◽  
Darinda Dans
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
Landscape Change ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Landscape Fragmentation ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
The Past ◽  
Exploration And Production

The Haynesville Shale lies under areas of Louisiana and Texas and is one of the largest gas plays in the U.S. Encompassing approximately 2.9 million ha, this area has been subject to intensive exploration for oil and gas, while over 90% of it has traditionally been used for forestry and agriculture. In order to detect the landscape change in the past few decades, Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery for six years (1984, 1989, 1994, 2000, 2006, and 2011) was acquired. Unsupervised classifications were performed to classify each image into four cover types: agriculture, forest, well pad, and other. Change detection was then conducted between two classified maps of different years for a time series analysis. Finally, landscape metrics were calculated to assess landscape fragmentation. The overall classification accuracy ranged from 84.7% to 88.3%. The total amount of land cover change from 1984 to 2011 was 24%, with 0.9% of agricultural land and 0.4% of forest land changed to well pads. The results of Patch-Per-Unit area (PPU) index indicated that the well pad class was highly fragmented, while agriculture (4.4-8.6 per sq km) consistently showed a higher magnitude of fragmentation than forest (0.8-1.4 per sq km).

BUSINESS AND TAX ISSUES FOR PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES INVESTING IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1991 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 494
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Hayne
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Corporate Executives ◽  
Exploration And Production

Oil and gas exploration and production opportunities in the United States represent possibilities for investment by Australian petroleum companies in the 1990s. This paper focuses on the unique characteristics of the oil and gas industry, and is intended as an entrepreneurial guide to some of the practical business and tax issues which corporate executives will confront when proposing to do business in the United States. It provides a detailed examination of the key issues, but, due to the complexity of United States and Australian laws, this paper should not be used as a substitute for detailed advice.

MAKING GEOPHYSICS MEANINGFUL TO GEOLOGISTS

Geophysics ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 985-991
Author(s):  
Harrison T. Brundage
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Petroleum Geologist ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth

This has been a problem in the past, just as the converse has also. Communications barriers, however, are fading away, because at each level, educational, corporate divisional, and in operations, geologists are becoming better geophysicists and geophysicists are becoming better geologists. Their formerly discrete endeavors are becoming better coordinated and their work less separate. Geophysicists have been largely concerned with measurements of earth‐crust phenomena. Incorporation of more geology into such measurements has increased the reliability of the conclusions. As knowledge of the earth increases, the application of geology becomes less of an intuitive matter and thus more precise also. In this epoch in which oil and gas exploration proceeds to progressively greater depths, the distinction between a petroleum geologist and a petroleum geophysicist becomes more difficult to define. The time appears to be approaching when universities aiming graduates at the petroleum industry may graduate petroleum earth scientists, not geologists and geophysicists.

Australian exploration review 2016

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 363
Author(s):  
Steve Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Gas Flows ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Leading Industry

In 2016, explorers in Australia were called upon to demonstrate realistic optimism. The year clearly demonstrated that during an industry contraction, such as that seen by the upstream oil and gas industry since the oil price crash of late 2014, near field conventional exploration still produces discoveries. These include Shefu, Muruk, Davis, Outtrim and Spartan. Amungee NW demonstrated unconventional gas flows in the Beetaloo Basin. As usual, new reservoirs were discovered in appraisal programs such as at Roc and Phoenix South. Exploration lows, however, were the general mood with the inevitable unsuccessful wells, decreases in permit awards and associated work programs, the general low level of drilling activity both offshore and onshore, frustrations at approval delays and constraints and the still contracting business environment. This Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia review looks in detail at the trends and highlights for oil and gas exploration both onshore and offshore Australia during 2016; not just outcomes with the drill bit, but also leading industry health indicators such as drilling, seismic data acquisition and permit awards. It also seeks to be insightful and to make conclusions about the condition of oil and gas exploration in Australia, as well as comment on future implications for the industry.

THE ENVIRONMENT FOR RAISING FUNDS FOR PETROLEUM EXPLORATION IN THE 1990s

1991 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 545
Author(s):  
Mark Epper ◽  
John Charters
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Oil Exploration ◽  
Risk Capital ◽  
Investor Confidence ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Government ◽  
Private Investors

Private shareholders' equity has traditionally funded greenfield exploration programs in Australia in the 1980s. In the next decade junior exploration companies will again need to rely on funding from both current and potential shareholders. However, the major difference between the 1980s and the 1990s will be the level of difficulty for companies seeking to raise funds. Recent events have sapped potential investor confidence, particularly private investors, and notably, in oil and gas exploration companies.The recent events in the Middle East and the need for some degree of energy self-sufficiency make investment in oil exploration essential for Australia right now. Exploration requires substantial amounts of risk capital which, at this time, is not flowing from traditional sources. Rather, we are seeing a concentration of ownership in the hands of financial institutions and a handful of producing companies and foreign multinationals. It is essential for the Federal Government to recognise the need to offer further incentives to encourage the private sector to invest in exploration companies. In this paper we suggest that the most effective mechanism for such incentives is through some minor modifications to the Australian taxation system.The oil exploration industry must pursue Government in a co-ordinated manner for assistance in raising funds particularly as the requirement for action is urgent. Industry bodies, such as the Australian Petroleum Exploration Association Ltd (APEA) have recently petitioned the Federal Government with recommendations but the Government has failed to accept these proposals on the grounds that they are inconsistent with present tax policy. If this is the case it is time present policy was changed.Clearly, all exploration companies will take whatever action is possible to raise funds for exploration and not simply look in vain for government salvation by handout. However, in the interests of Australian national security, the government has a responsibility to encourage and foster oil and gas exploration.Since planning for this paper commenced in July 1990, oil prices have leapt from US$18 to approximately US$40 per barrel. Should prices such as these (not experienced since the early 1980s) continue, it will make investment in exploration companies more attractive to all investors while at the same time it will test severely the endurance of the equity market generally.

Settlements and Neighborhood Centers

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Fabricant ◽  
Robert Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Past Century ◽  
Settlement Houses ◽  
Social Settlements ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
Settlement Services ◽  
History Of ◽  
Building Community

Settlement houses are a prism though which the turbulent history of social work can be viewed. This article specifically examines the genesis of social settlements over the past century. It describes the early work of the settlements in spearheading social reform and building community solidarity. It explores the relationship between historic shifts in the political economy and the changed work of settlements, particularly the development of neighborhood houses. Finally, it emphasizes the dynamic interplay in the past twenty years between corporatization of not-for-profit culture, shrinking government funding, and the redefinition of settlement services.

scholarly journals Avoiding pitfalls in shallow seismic reflection surveys

Geophysics ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 1213-1224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don W. Steeples ◽  
Richard D. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Seismic Waves ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Digital Processing ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Surface Reflection ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Reflection Data ◽  
Shallow Seismic

Acquiring shallow reflection data requires the use of high frequencies, preferably accompanied by broad bandwidths. Problems that sometimes arise with this type of seismic information include spatial aliasing of ground roll, erroneous interpretation of processed airwaves and air‐coupled waves as reflected seismic waves, misinterpretation of refractions as reflections on stacked common‐midpoint (CMP) sections, and emergence of processing artifacts. Processing and interpreting near‐surface reflection data correctly often requires more than a simple scaling‐down of the methods used in oil and gas exploration or crustal studies. For example, even under favorable conditions, separating shallow reflections from shallow refractions during processing may prove difficult, if not impossible. Artifacts emanating from inadequate velocity analysis and inaccurate static corrections during processing are at least as troublesome when they emerge on shallow reflection sections as they are on sections typical of petroleum exploration. Consequently, when using shallow seismic reflection, an interpreter must be exceptionally careful not to misinterpret as reflections those many coherent waves that may appear to be reflections but are not. Evaluating the validity of a processed, shallow seismic reflection section therefore requires that the interpreter have access to at least one field record and, ideally, to copies of one or more of the intermediate processing steps to corroborate the interpretation and to monitor for artifacts introduced by digital processing.

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