AUSTRALIAN PETROLEUM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: AN EXAMPLE OF PROBLEM-DRIVEN GEOSCIENCE RESEARCH MANAGEMENT

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 500 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.S. Loutit
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Database Systems ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
The Government

The Australian petroleum exploration research program is customer-driven and reflects the balance between the need for the petroleum industry to reduce exploration risk in the short term and the government need to improve the perception of prospectivity in the longer term. Higher prospectivity will lead to greater exploration investment and competition, whereas risk-reduction will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the exploration industry. Thus the objectives of the primary customers may be significantly different, with government intent on increasing the amount of investment and competition between explorers, whereas industry is intent on keeping expenditure to a minimum and maintaining competitive advantage. Despite the differences, collaboration between all groups involved in exploration and exploration-related research in Australia is essential to solve the range of exploration problems and generate new paradigms. Collaborative research ventures are most successful when new ideas stimulate explorer and researcher alike to focus resources on the key questions despite factors such as competitive advantage. Government geoscience researchers must play a significant role in generating and marketing new concepts to help maintain Australia's supply of domestic petroleum products.The scale of the petroleum research undertaken, and the degree of collaboration between industry and research groups in Australia, is remarkable. There is a productive balance between groups developing and applying new technology and those undertaking regional geological and petroleum systems research. This balance has been reached because of the long-term commitment by the Australian Government, via legislation and funding, to ensure the preservation of exploration data in national geoscience database systems, and that basic and applied research at all scales, from basins to wells, is undertaken in support of petroleum exploration and development.Despite the success of a number of collaborative research projects, research and development resources are still under-utilised by the Australian petroleum industry. Government research agencies must develop a higher marketing profile to ensure that the utilisation of the resources is at a maximum.

scholarly journals Overview of Technological Capacity of Vietnamese Enterprises in the Context of the 4th Industrial Revolution

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Hoang Hai ◽  
Tran Tien Anh
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Technology Research ◽  
Comprehensive View ◽  
Technological Capacity ◽  
The Government

The article provides a comprehensive view of assessing technological capacity of enterprises in the context of the 4th industrial revolution, through evaluating the following criteria: capacity of technology exploitation–use–operation; capacity of technology innovation and upgrade, and capacity of new technology research and development. Limited resources have a direct impact on the capacity of technology exploitation–operation. The enterprises themselves still faces many difficulties, so the technology innovation and upgrade activities are still left open. Besides, the level of capacity of new technology research and development shows that Vietnamese enterprises have not yet achieved many achievements despite the attention, investment and support policies from the Government.

TRENDS AND OUTLOOK FOR EXPLORATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 497
Author(s):  
W.L. Tinapple
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The Government ◽  
Water Gas ◽  
Increased Activity ◽  
Western Australian ◽  
Positive Results

Petroleum exploration activity in Western Australia over the past decade has been on the increase, boosted by the positive results of many new discoveries, mainly on the North West Shelf but also in frontier areas. Significant discoveries in 1999–2000 resulted from new exploration concepts including deep plays in the Barrow/Dampier Sub-basins, heavy oil plays in the Carnarvon Basin, a deep-water gas play west of Gorgon, large gas/condensate plays in the Browse Basin, and a new gas play in the southern Bonaparte Basin. Discovery itself is a great incentive to the industry to further exploration; however, concerns over oil price, the Australian dollar, markets, policies and perceived prospectivity impact on exploration spending. The short-term outlook for WA is good as a result of existing work commitments including an average of 50 exploration wells to be drilled each year for the next three years. Onshore, where exploration has been subdued, there are signs of increased activity. The Western Australian government is playing a key role in promoting the State through gazettals, promotional activities— conferences and publications, acquiring precompetitive data and making petroleum data more accessible. The government funded Petroleum Exploration Initiatives program is continuing and efforts are being made to facilitate exploration. Sustained high oil prices, improvements in technology and efforts to expedite access to land are just some of the factors which will assist companies in their endeavours. In the longer term, continued growth in Western Australia’s petroleum industry is projected.

PRODUCTION SHARING AGREEMENTS VERSUS THE ROYALTY REGIMES: WHERE IS THE BALANCE?

1992 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 481
Author(s):  
Richard Cottee
Keyword(s):  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Veto Power ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Fixed Rate ◽  
Regulatory Scheme ◽  
Production Sharing ◽  
The Government

For many years the mining industry made its investment decisions safe in the knowledge that petroleum or minerals in the ground belonged to the State but upon severance of such petroleum from the ground the oil was vested in the miner. Commensurate with the ownership changing, a royalty was payable to the government at a fixed rate. With the enactment of the Petroleum (Australia-Indonesia Zone of Co-Operation) Act of 1990 (the 'Act'), serious consideration must now be given as to whether in the future this basic scheme may be dramatically and radically changed to a scheme based on a services contract whereby a certain percentage of the oil is paid in consideration of the miner 'managing the discovery and extraction of petroleum'.An increasing number of countries, including those such as Malaysia which have legal systems based on common law, have adopted petroleum sharing agreements as a basic method by which they 'encourage' petroleum exploitation. This paper:explores the major features of petroleum sharing agreements (which are now in use in the Timor Gap, Indonesia and Malaysia), and compares and contrasts those models with a regulatory scheme based on statutory leases with royalty payments (being the regulatory scheme used in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere);reviews both the economic and legal consequences of the two regimes, assuming a constant Income Tax System.It concludes that whilst there are certain merits in both the royalty regulatory type regime and a production sharing regime it appears to the writer that on balance the royalty regulatory regime is much more beneficial to the industry than the alternate. This is particularly true given the fact that Australian governments generally should have sufficient confidence in their regulatory skills and Australian technology that it does not feel it necessary to be given a veto power for each and every decision made in respect of petroleum exploration or production.The major deficiencies of a production sharing arrangement are the fact that the risk taker does not obtain legal tide to the product until after it has either passed the point of tanker loading or been sold to some third party, and the concept of 'cost oil'. If the rates of government 'take' is so high that it is more profitable to obtain 'cost oil' for the company than to receive its 'share' under the production sharing agreement, then the petroleum industry as a whole will suffer gross inefficiency in that area.

Making It Count

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arunabh Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Great Leap Forward ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Statistics ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Great Leap Forward

In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People's Republic of China was how much they did not know. The government of one of the world's largest nations was committed to fundamentally reengineering its society and economy via socialist planning while having almost no reliable statistical data about their own country. This book is the history of efforts to resolve this “crisis in counting.” The book explores the choices made by political leaders, statisticians, academics, statistical workers, and even literary figures in attempts to know the nation through numbers. It shows that early reliance on Soviet-inspired methods of exhaustive enumeration became increasingly untenable in China by the mid-1950s. Unprecedented and unexpected exchanges with Indian statisticians followed, as the Chinese sought to learn about the then-exciting new technology of random sampling. These developments were overtaken by the tumult of the Great Leap Forward (1958–1961), when probabilistic and exhaustive methods were rejected and statistics was refashioned into an ethnographic enterprise. By acknowledging Soviet and Indian influences, the book not only revises existing models of Cold War science but also globalizes wider developments in the history of statistics and data. Anchored in debates about statistics and its relationship to state building, the book offers fresh perspectives on China's transition to socialism.

Data Visualization Indicator Disease (Malaria, Dengue Fever, and Measles) in The Year 2012-2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Immanuel Luigi Da Gusta ◽  
Johan Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Database Systems ◽  
Process Time ◽  
Acceptance Test ◽  
Visual Data Mining ◽  
The Government

The aim of this paper are: to create a data visualization that can assist the Government in evaluating the return on the development of health facilities in the region and province area in term of human resources for medical personnel, to help community knowing the amount of distribution of hospitals with medical personnel in the regional area and to map disease indicator in Indonesia. The issue of tackling health is still a major problem that is not resolved by the Government of Indonesia. There are three big things that become problems in the health sector in Indonesia: infrastructure has not been evenly distributed and less adequate, the lack of human resources professional health workforce, there is still a high number of deaths in the outbreak of infectious diseases. Data for the research are taken from BPS, in total 10,600 records after the Extract, Transform and Loading process. Time needed to convert several publications from PDF, to convert to CSV and then to MS Excel 3 weeks. The method used is Eight-step Data Visualization and Data Mining methodology. Tableau is chosen as a tool to create the data visualization because it can combine each dasboard inside a story interactive, easier for the user to analyze the data. The result is a story with 3 dashboards that can fulfill the requirement from BPS staff and has been tested with a satisfied result in the UAT (User Acceptance Test). Index Terms—Dashboard, data visualization, disease, malaria, Tableau REFERENCES [1] S. Arianto, Understanding of learning and others, 2008. [2] Rainer; Turban, Introduction to Information Systems, Danvers: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2007. [3] V. Friedman, Data Visualization Infographics, Monday Inspirition, 2008. [4] D. A. Keim, "Information Visualization and Visual Data Mining," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 8.1, pp. 1-8, 2002. [5] Connolly and Begg, Database Systems, Boston: Pearson Education, Inc, 2010. [6] E. Hariyanti, "Pengembangan Metodologi Pembangunan Information Dashboard Untuk Monitoring kinerja Organisasi," Konferensi dan Temu Nasional Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi untuk Indonesia, p. 1, 2008. [7] S. Darudiato, "Perancangan Data Warehouse Penjualan Untuk Mendukung Kebutuhan Informasi Eksekutif Cemerlang Skin Care," Seminar Nasional Informatika 2010, pp. E-353, 2010.

Petroleum geological activities in West Greenland in 1998

1999 ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
Flemming G. Christiansen ◽  
Anders Boesen ◽  
Jørgen A. Bojesen-Koefoed ◽  
James A. Chalmers ◽  
Finn Dalhoff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Data ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Original Series ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
Phillips Petroleum ◽  
Petroleum Resources ◽  
The Government ◽  
Year 2000

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Christiansen, F. G., Boesen, A., Bojesen-Koefoed, J. A., Chalmers, J. A., Dalhoff, F., Dam, G., Ferré Hjortkjær, B., Kristensen, L., Melchior Larsen, L., Marcussen, C., Mathiesen, A., Nøhr-Hansen, H., Pedersen, A. K., Pedersen, G. K., Pulvertaft, T. C. R., Skaarup, N., & Sønderholm, M. (1999). Petroleum geological activities in West Greenland in 1998. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 183, 46-56. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v183.5204 _______________ In the last few years there has been renewed interest for petroleum exploration in West Greenland and licences have been granted to two groups of companies: the Fylla licence operated by Statoil was awarded late in 1996; the Sisimiut-West licence operated by Phillips Petroleum was awarded in the summer of 1998 (Fig. 1). The first offshore well for more than 20 years will be drilled in the year 2000 on one of the very spectacular structures within the Fylla area. To stimulate further petroleum exploration around Greenland – and in particular in West Greenland – a new licensing policy has been adopted. In July 1998, the administration of mineral and petroleum resources was transferred from the Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy to the Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum under the Government of Greenland in Nuuk. Shortly after this, the Greenlandic and Danish governments decided to develop a new exploration strategy. A working group consisting of members from the authorities (including the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland – GEUS) made recommendations on the best ways to stimulate exploration in the various regions on- and offshore Greenland. The strategy work included discussions with seismic companies because it was considered important that industry acquires additional seismic data in the seasons 1999 and 2000.

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