WA

Kurt Marfurt's SEG DISC will tour Australia between 11 and 25 July using the schedule

Please check this page for updates on course locations in your city.

The course is aimed at:

• Seismic interpreters who want to extract more information from their data.
• Seismic processors and imagers who want to learn how their efforts impact subtle stratigraphic and fracture plays.
• Sedimentologists, stratigraphers, and structural geologists who use large 3D seismic volumes to interpret their plays within a regional, basin-wide context.
• Reservoir engineers whose work is based on detailed 3D reservoir models and whose data are used to calibrate indirect measures of reservoir permeability.
• Team leaders who wish to identify advances in machine learning technology that promise improved efficiency and accuracy in the integration of large data volumes.

More course details and registration here.

Dense sampling in marine seismic data: Efficiency in acquisition without compromising data quality

WA YP Speakers Night & 2018 Mentoring Program Introduction

PESA WA and ASEG WA are joining together to support the Young Professionals of the petroleum industry by organising two initiatives: Speakers Night and a Mentoring Program.

Speakers Night

A “Speakers Night” will be started where young professionals will have the opportunity to present their work to other young professionals in a safe and welcoming environment. The “Speakers Nights,” will allow young professionals to become more confident making presentations to an audience, a skill that is very valuable for most people in our profession.  

Our first speaker is Amy Millar, whose joint work won the Best Oral Presentation in the Energy Section of the AEGC held in Sydney during February 2018. After Amy has made her presentation, Simon Molyneux, an experienced oil and gas professional will be sharing his career path. There will then be a Q&A session and discussion about presentation experiences from another young professional who presented at the AEGC 2018.

If you are interested in presenting or would like to nominate someone to present please email Jordan McGlew (jordan.mcglew@gmail.com).

Refreshments and finger food will be provided.
Please register for catering purposes prior to close of business Monday 9 April 2018

Joint Mentoring Program

PESA WA and ASEG WA are initiating a "Joint Mentoring Program" to create an opportunity for young and junior professionals to increase their capability using the support and guidance from experienced professionals.  An overview of the mentoring program will be presented at the first ASEG – PESA Young Professionals Speakers Night. The mentoring program is FREE for PESA and ASEG members.

Please register your interest before April 30^th by sending an email to:   wa-mentoring@pesa.com.au (Ishtar Barranco  &  Simon Molyneux) or  wasecretary@aseg.com.au (Carolina Pimentel)

Application of the passive seismic Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR) technique for embankment integrity monitoring (and a bit more)

Embankments are common features in mine sites necessary for tailings storage, surface water management or general infrastructure such as dewatering ponds. Differing construction methodologies, from loosely placed waste material to engineered embankments with individually compacted lifts, will achieve varying density, strength and permeability. Conventional construction quality assurance is however not always possible without causing significant interruptions to the construction program. Estimating levees’ bulk shear wave velocities via passive seismic HVSR surveying as a proxy for stiffness is a practical, continuous and non-invasive method that can be carried out with limited construction interruption. Field data acquired over the length of several embankment types demonstrate the very good correlation between estimated shear wave velocities and the levees’ degree of compaction. As a result, alternative construction methodologies can be quantitatively benchmarked against an apparent shear wave velocity spectrum with fully engineered embankments and loose waste dumps as end-members. Collection of repeated measurements over time also discriminates stable embankments from altering ones, and constitutes a cost-effective way to identify possible zones of weakness before hazardous failure.

Regis Neroni graduated in 2006 with a French Master’s degree in Geosciences, Environment and Risks from Strasbourg University. After spending a few years undertaking ground electrical surveys in outback Australia, he consulted to numerous mineral exploration companies with active projects mainly in Australia, SE Asia and Africa, alongside some of the most talented consulting geophysicists in Australia. He then worked as a company geophysicist for Barrick and Rio Tinto where he took part in multi-commodity exploration programs throughout Australasia. He is currently Fortescue Metals Group’s Lead Geophysicist and steers the company’s geophysical endeavours across their Pilbara-based operations and exploration projects in Australia and South America.

Refreshments and finger food will be provided.
Please register for catering purposes prior to close of business Monday 12 March 2018

ESWA are pleased to be hosting an event to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

Join us for a live stream event on Monday the 12th of February, 2018.

Outstanding women in Science will be presenting, through our YouTube Channel, from 10am to 2pm.

Jump on and off the live feed whenever you like and submit questions straight to our YouTube event.

For more information on how to access the event (very easy) and a schedule of speakers (and their biographies) please visit our event page on the ESWA website.

We hope to engage as many people as possible and encourage you to share this event far and wide. Please consider jumping on with your classes (girls and boys) across the course of the day or even making it available to students during breaks (perhaps in the auditorium or gym?)

The future of Western Australia’s petroleum security will be under the spotlight at this year’s annual Petroleum Open Day, to be held on Friday, 15 September 2017 at the Hyatt Regency, Perth.

In addition to presentations from senior Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) staff,  an extensive poster display and exhibits by Pawsey supercomputing centre, Australian Marine Complex (AMC), Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA), National Energy Resources Australia (NERA), Western Australian Energy Research Alliance (wa:era) and Geoscience Australia, along with IT sessions for the Western Australian Petroleum and Geothermal Information Management System (WAPIMS) and the Petroleum Gateway, will be on show.

Some of the major presentations include:

• Vision for Petroleum 2020, Jeff Haworth, Executive Director Petroleum, DMIRS
• Towards 2020, Simon Ridge, Executive Director Resources Safety, DMIRS
• Waitsia/Senecio Project, Dr Suzanne Hunt, Manager Engineering and Development, AWE
• Tubridgi gas storage, Jon Cleary, General Manager Commercial, Dampier Bunbury Pipeline
• Panel discussion on Energy Security facilitated by Tom Baddeley, Santos.

The full program and bookings can be found at www.dmp.wa.gov.au/pod

This course will inspire geoscientists to explore if EM geophysics can be relevant to their problem, build a foundation for choosing an appropriate survey based upon knowledge of physical principles, and set realistic expectations for what information you might be able to extract from a survey based on physical principles.

The course will be hosted by Doug Oldenburg from the Geophysical Inversion Facility at UBC.

This course is run over two days.

Day 1 is the DISC Course

Day 2 is the DISC Lab which is non-compulsory.

Both days are covered in the price for the DISC Lab, catering is provided both days.

You can also register for the course here.

More details are here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is covered on the second day - DISC Lab?

A. The DISC Lab is designed for a smaller group of geoscientists. We ask participants to provide informal 5 min lightning talks about problems of local interest. We will then work as a group to break down the problems in terms of the 7-Step Framework introduced in the DISC course (Day 1). If participants agree, their talks and results from discussions will be uploaded to the web. By capturing these problems and state-of-progress onto the web, we hope to promote interaction between geoscientists worldwide. Tutorials on simulations and inversions are also available upon request.

Q. Is the second day compulsory, who should attend the DISC Lab?

A. The DISC Lab is non-compulsory, it is available to any persons registered for the DISC course. The LAB is designed for a smaller group of geoscientists, only those interested in working though specific EM/IP problems should attend.

Q. Do I need to be an SEG member to register?

A. No, however you will need to create an SEG profile in order to register. Use the link provided, create a username and password and follow the prompts to pay for the course registration.

Q. Do I get the SEG Member discount as an ASEG Member?

A. No, the discounted rate only applies to SEG Members.

This is a unique opportunity to see one of the world’s most high-tech research vessels first hand, speak to the marine scientists from Germany and Australia on board, check out the ship’s cutting-edge research technology, and learn about current research campaigns in the Australian marine environment, and Australian-German marine research cooperation.

https://www.bmbf.de/pub/Exploring_the_Secrets_of_the_Deep_Sea.pdf
http://www.deutsche-meeresforschung.de/en/sonne

The March for Science is a global event bringing together people from all walks of life who say we need more evidence and reason in our political process. We champion the public discovery, distribution, and understanding of scientific knowledge as crucial to the freedom, success, health, and safety of life on this planet.

We are a nonpartisan group, marching to promote stable public science funding, open communication of science, evidence-based policy, and greater scientific literacy and education in critical thinking.

All people who value the role of science in society are encouraged to take part in the March for Science.

More details, including specifics for your capital city, at the March for Science.

The WA Branch of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the SEG invites you to attend the upcoming ASEG WA Tech Night presented by the 2017 SEG Distinguished Lecturer Paul Hatchell of Shell, Houston, Texas, USA.

Getting more for less: Frequent low-cost seismic monitoring solutions for offshore fields

Time-lapse seismic reservoir surveillance is a proven technology for offshore environments. In the past two decades, we have seen this technology move from novel to necessary and enable us to monitor injection wells, water influx, compaction, undrained fault blocks, and bypassed reserves.  Value is generated by influencing the management of our field operations and optimising wells to reduce cost, accelerate production, and increase ultimate recovery.

Significant advances in technology are improving the quality of our data. Errors in acquisition repeats are nearly eliminated using permanently installed systems or dedicated ocean- bottom nodes. We now routinely obtain surveys with such a high signal-to-noise ratio that we can observe production-induced changes in the reservoir after months instead of years. This creates a demand for frequent seismic monitoring to better understand the dynamic behaviour of our fields. Increasing the frequency of seismic monitoring will have a proportionate cost implication, and a challenge is how to design a monitoring program that maximises the overall benefit to the field.

Reducing individual survey costs is important to enable frequent monitoring.

Paul Hatchell joined Shell in 1989 after receiving his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin. He began his career at Shell’s Technology Center in Houston and worked on a variety of research topics including shear-wave logging, quantitative seismic amplitude analysis, and 3D AVO applications. Following a four-year oil and gas exploration assignment in Shell’s New Orleans office, Paul returned to Shell’s technology centers in Rijswijk and Houston where he is currently a member of the Areal Field Monitoring team and Shell’s principal technical expert for 4D reservoir surveillance. His current activities include developing improved 4D seismic acquisition and interpretation techniques, seafloor deformation monitoring, and training the next generation of geoscientists.
 

Event website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aseg-wa-april-tech-night-seismic-talk-tickets-32998714042

Registration Costs:              Free to members and non members 

Registration closing date:    Thursday 30th March 2017