The Australian Energy Producers Journal has been documenting the pulse of the Australian upstream petroleum industry since its first publication in 1961. It is recognised in the upstream oil and gas industry as Australia’s leading multidisciplinary peer-reviewed publication for information on business management, emissions reduction, engineering, geoscience, HSE, and markets.
Australian Energy Producers Journal
Volume 65 2025
EP24098Moving beyond climate to nature-focused operations
Fairul Izmal Jamal Hisne, Thomas Chandler, Jacklyn Liew Hui Ling and Lucy Grindall
EP24037Reservoir pressure monitoring via surface deformation inversion: integrating numerical modelling with evolutionary optimisation
Reza Abdollahi, Abbas Movassagh, Dane Kasperczyk and Manouchehr Haghighi
EP24111A lifecycle assessment of low-emissions hydrogen production using autothermal reforming and carbon capture and storage
Claudia Buenhombre, Colin Crowley and Jamie Reilly
EP24222Ammonia transport: seaborne tanker loading – technology selection, system design and modelling
Paul Fothergill and David Kitson
EP24177Advancing scientific verification of plug and abandonment activities
Quentin Morgan, Janet Mignano, James Ashton, Andrew Clemence and Robert Layher
EP24203Geomechanical modelling of hydrogen storage at the CO2CRC Otway International Test Centre
R. Puspitasari, H. W. Moh, E. Tenthorey, Z. J. Pallikathekathil, R. Dandekar, M. A. Giddins, O. Suriyanto and A. J. Feitz
EP24203 Abstract | EP24203 Full Text | EP24203PDF (6.3 MB) Open Access Article
EP24210A roadmap for carbon capture and storage deployment in Australia: key constraints and opportunities
Mark Sanders, Geoffrey O’Brien, Simone de Morton and David Byers
EP24096An engineering toolkit to estimate the CO2 storage potential of the western Eromanga Basin, Australia
Tim Stephens, Mavise Beattie, Jeremy Iwanec, Peter Stephenson, Barry Bradshaw and Tom Bernecker
EP24233CarbonNet project: carbon capture and storage case study – subsea system design challenges and opportunities
Bassem Youssef, Peter Brownlie, Nick McCarthy and Scott Bailey
EP24234Innovative design and re-completion strategies for CO2 injection wells: a case study
T. Ahmad, K. Wuttke, M. Allison, D. Bason and P. Barraclough
EP24246Resolving drilling issues in the Beetaloo – drilling longer for lower cost
J. Bunning, K. Wuttke, J. Grehan and A. Bruce
EP24119Subsea well clean-up without drilling rigs: transient analysis methods to support philosophy definition
Paul Fothergill and Sarah Lim-Rajani
EP24190Characterisation of low-permeability coal seam gas reservoir permeability and permeability anisotropy using diagnostic fracture injection testing within a multi-well interference testing programme
Raymond L. Johnson, Daniel Alarcon Vigil and Vahab Honari
EP24236Field trials of bentonite as abandonment material for underground coal gasification wells in Queensland, Australia
A. Shapoval, J. Bunning, S. Hann, C. Johns and A. Sommerfeld
EP24204Improving operational confidence and decision-making in the absence of key reservoir data through utilisation of a machine learning-based coal identification model in coal seam gas wells
Gonzalo Vazquez, Mitch Allder, Joel Zimmermann, Jack Mclean-Hodgson and Kim Owen
EP24186A case study on CO2 production casing operations
Jessica Wrigley, Gaurav Kumar Singh, Simon Hann, Mitch Allison and Paul Boggon
EP24041Applying petrophysics and rock property modelling to enhance play-based assessments of the geological storage potential for carbon dioxide: western Eromanga Basin case study
Barry E. Bradshaw, Tom Bernecker, Mavise Beattie, Jeremy Iwanec, Ray Spicer, David Lund and Ryan Owens
EP24041 Abstract | EP24041 Full Text | EP24041PDF (13.2 MB) Open Access Article
EP24227Evolution of coal strength with dewatering and coal seam gas depletion: an integrated approach
Jimmy Xuekai Li, Thomas Flottmann, Max Millen, Shuai Chen, Yixiao Huang and Zhongwei Chen
EP24047Automatic rock strength prediction in data-limited wells
Max Millen, Scott Mildren and Thomas Flottmann
EP24036Tiltmeter data inversion for reservoir integrity monitoring using numerical modelling and particle swarm optimisation
Reza Abdollahi, Abbas Movassagh, Dane Kasperczyk and Manouchehr Haghighi
EP24063Analysing safety data for an entire industry group – a case study from Queensland coal seam gas
Kevin Geddert
EP24063 Abstract | EP24063 Full Text | EP24063PDF (2.2 MB) Open Access Article
EP24209Insights from meta-analyses of incidents
Maureen Hassall
EP24199East Coast Gas Market, Queensland’s coal seam gas development, and the National Electricity Market – don’t take gas for granted
David Close, Rick Wilkinson and Andrew Garnett
EP24199 Abstract | EP24199 Full Text | EP24199PDF (4.3 MB) Open Access Article
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EP24083Assessing the contribution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of the oil and gas sector to sustainable development in Timor-Leste
Afonso Aleixo, David Close, Katherine Jane Witt and Anthony Paul Heynen
EP24205Exploring effective indicators of modern slavery risk: on-site audit insight
Judy Auld, Sophie Ryan and Qingxia (Jenny) Wang
EP24148Complexities of First Nations impact assessments in offshore environments
Miriam Bell and Tram Vu
EP24142Operating in the context of continuing environmental, social and governance uncertainties
Rodman W. Branson
EP24188Ensuring digital success: an approach to making better digital investments
Peter Carydias and Antoine Darque
EP24268Revolutionising assurance oversight with AI: driving safer, more compliant energy operations at scale
Piyath Dissanayake, Peter Carydias and Kevin Stewart
EP24212Renewable energy taxation in the energy transition: how to replace coal and gas royalties in Australian State Budgets
Jonathan Fulcher and Erin O’Shaughnessy
EP24247Corporate strategies for a new energy transition outlook: advantage Australia?
Andrew Harwood
EP24054Navigating economic headwinds: proven strategies for durable cost reduction in oil and gas
Scott Hastie, Quinton Crew and Tim Wall
EP24136Regulating and keeping the gas flowing in Queensland, Australia
Shaun Hingerty, Evan Hegarty, Ben Wimberley and Justin Hemmings
EP24116Satisfying First Nations stakeholder consultation requirements under Australia’s offshore resources legislation
Julius (Clint) Kernan
EP24151Small steps, big impact: advancing gender diversity in Queensland’s oil and gas industry
Danielle Leray, Joanna Groves and Layna Smith
EP24216Can the Australian oil and gas industry ride the climate litigation tsunami?
James Plumb and Aaron Alcock
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EP24094The landholder journey – coexistence lessons from Queensland’s gas industry
Jon Thomas and Warwick Squire
EP24281Repurposing gas fields for energy storage – a proposal for compressed air energy storage in the depleted Rolleston gas field
Xingjin Wang, Zhujun Wang and Yudong Yuan
EP24281 Abstract | EP24281 Full Text | EP24281PDF (3 MB) Open Access Article (Non peer reviewed)
EP24152Queensland’s coal seam gas (CSG) projects – hard won lessons relevant to regional development
Katherine Witt and David Close
EP24201Internet of Things (IoT) trial in CSG upstream asset: a step towards more efficient operations
Rohan Bolton, Ali Al Jumah, Prashanth Kumar, Dean Heidke, Wesley Richards, Ashish Parikh, Jason Sherwood and Jason Lee
EP24038Methane emissions measurement insights from an Offshore Measurement, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification study
Sandip Deshpande, Elizabeth Collins, Ian Joynes and Rory O’Keeffe
EP24230The business case for abatement: the key levers for improving financial return of marginal abatement projects
Jessica Dwyer and Krista McGowan
EP24244 Abstract | EP24244 Full Text | EP24244PDF (662 KB) Open Access Article (Non peer reviewed)
EP24165Decoding decarbonisation: navigating emerging market dynamics in the Australian gas supply industry
Craig Henderson
EP24067Fugitive methane emissions around onshore gas fields using Quantum Gas Lidar technology: detection, visualisation, and quantification
Sebastian Hoerning and Philip J. Hayes
EP24224Amine based liquid capture technology for direct air capture of CO2 – an overview on technology development
Ali Kiani, Mohamed H. Abdellah, Ali Pourkhesalian and Paul Feron
EP24100Application of data analytics models to support LNG plant energy efficiency improvements
Matthew Ladner, Qi Chu, Ellen Weiss, Matthew Qi Xuan Wong and Seen Yan Lee
EP24245Mapping multi-sectoral methane emissions across Queensland’s gas production areas
Joe Lane, Jamin Wood, Sebastian Hoerning and Philip J. Hayes
EP24189Novel adsorbent for CO2 separation from methane
Saw Hong Lim, Kwong Soon Chan, Jai Kant Pandit, Penny Xiao and Kevin Li
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EP24140Importance of heat integration in post combustion carbon capture
Ashwin Mankodi, Binu Baby, LiXin (Lisa) Zhong and Sreelakshmi Puthoor
EP24139CO2 utilisation pathways to produce synthetic fuels and other value-added liquid products
Ashwin Mankodi, Wessel Nel, Binu Baby, LiXin (Lisa) Zhong and Sreelakshmi Puthoor
EP24122How can Australia compete in the global hydrogen market (before it’s too late)?
Joshua Ngu and Flor De La Cruz
EP24088Optimisation of CCS hub and its business model using novel COSMIC software
Jai Kant Pandit and Kwong Soon Chan
EP24232Hydrogen storage – are pipelines the solution?
Callum Peace, Schree Chandran, Yuri Tkach and Lachlan Strickland
EP24035Methane in Great Artesian Basin aquifers: emission factors for groundwater pumping and coal seam gas produced water
Julie Pearce and Harald Hofmann
EP24196Shaping the future of MMV in CO2 storage: a look at established and emerging technologies
Genna Petho, David Bason, Simone De Morton, Hadi Nourollah and Max Watson
EP24260Towards an improved understanding of fault systems behaviour in a CCS project
Ludovic P. Ricard, Ziqiu Xue, Jeremie Dautriat and Tsutomu Hashimoto
EP24273Clearing the view: navigating the future of LNG carbon intensity
Kane Annesley and Helen Riordan
EP24178Findings from the Northern Territory Low Emissions Hub CCUS business case project
Andrew Ross, Jody Rogers, Bahman Joodi, Mark Tocock, Linda Stalker, Jason Czapla and David Green
EP24195Biofuels in the energy transition: bridging the gap between oil and gas and sustainable energy
Thiago Sinzato, Nikoline Bromander and Perry Wilson
EP24069Causal networks as a tool to assess environmental risk of CO2 leakage
Linda Stalker, Karsten Michael, Charles Jenkins, Kate Holland, Luk Peeters, Matt Myers, Andrew Ross and Nicola Clarke
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EP24202Analysing the carbon intensity of Australian LNG and implications on its role in Asia’s energy transition
Steffi Teo and Varun Narayan
EP24075Assessing greenhouse gas emissions in LNG transport: a Monte Carlo analysis of the Gladstone-to-Himeji route
Fabio Terzini, Justin Stirling and Stuart Brown
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EP24145Energy costs in transition: decarbonising Western Australia’s South West Interconnected System
Aaron Walker, Jasmine Kaur and Rebecca Tomkinson
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EP24060CO2 dispersion benchmarking against natural gas dispersion
Fariba Askari, Derek Cross and Lars Rogstadkjernet
EP24270Tackling the 65% megaproject failure epidemic: six key levers amplified by digital and AI
Peter Carydias and Rob Kennedy
EP24253Security of subsea gas pipelines: technological solutions for safe and rapid response
Francesco Cavallini
EP24182Hydrogen and carbon dioxide pipelines – why a different engineering approach is required
Peter Cox
EP24052A mindset shift in operating safe, reliable and profitable ageing assets
Quinton Crew and Tim Wall
EP24162Minimising green hydrogen capital expenditure: lessons learned from Europe
Paul Anthony Curry
EP24228Repurposing fields for CO2 storage: well integrity risk assessment across the lifecycle
Mark Davis and Hugo Costeno
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EP24239Multi-disciplined/collaborative team approach to deliver Kipper Compression Project
Grant Shaw, Dean Fuller, Renee Terz, Belinda Choon, Dnyandeo Ingale, Mark Poot and Arif Md
EP24071Knowing how to navigate the unknown in oil and gas decommissioning
Alasdair Gray and Chris Wilson
EP24276Remote internal inspection of the crude oil tanks on a floating production, storage and offshore facility to meet classification requirements
Annamaria Greenwood
EP24065Primary cementing practices and compliance in Queensland’s petroleum wells
Ahmed Harfoush and Chris Barrand
EP24065 Abstract | EP24065 Full Text | EP24065PDF (1.5 MB) Open Access Article (Non peer reviewed)
EP24092Improving operational efficiency through condition-based monitoring and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies
Mohamed Ibrahim, Michael Clark and Will Castelnau
EP24092 Abstract | EP24092 Full Text | EP24092PDF (1.1 MB) Open Access Article (Non peer reviewed)
EP24187Required steps to develop an enhanced geothermal system – an Australian Basin example
Raymond Johnson and Heinz-Gerd Holl
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EP24066Risk-based hydrate management: a new path to value creation for gas condensate developments
Stuart Kegg and Conor Sherrard
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EP24114A decade of the Karratha Gas Plant life extension program
Jason Page, Peter Ashton and Creson Moodley
EP24255Separating facts from fiction: can offshore decommissioning become a USD6.3billion industry this decade?
Anish Philips
EP24154Maximising deliverability of the Kipper Field to ensure reliable supply of gas into the east coast Australia market
Steven Spencer, Izaz-ul Haque, Afif Jais, Arvo Nagel, Melanie Ryan, Grant Shaw and Jianlin Wang
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EP24174Saline aquifer CO2 storage modelling – harder than it sounds
Daniel Lorng Yon Wong and Wenbin Nah
EP24132A novel way to achieve early commercialisation of tight-sand and shale gas fields: small-scale modularised liquefied natural gas
Hongfeng Wu, Kevin Gao, Fengxu Jian, Mark Nicholas and William Walton
EP24238Logistical challenges of the largest fracture stimulation in Australian history
Kelvin Wuttke, Toseef Ahmad, Daniel Kalinin and Alex Bruce
EP24081Innovative seismic surveying and imaging in Bonaparte Basin for future energy resources
David Barlass, Shivaji Maitra and Nigel Seymour
EP24123Determining the sparsest acquisition geometry required to meet a known 4D monitoring objective
Mike Branston and David F. Halliday
EP24126Integrated and adaptive monitoring of geological carbon storage operations with surface distributed acoustic sensing
Mike Branston, David F. Halliday, Ran Bachrach, Mathieu Chapelle, Sarah Harrington, Rob Campbell and James Butt
EP24192Establishing an integrated geoscience workflow to optimize well plug and abandonments in the Gippsland Basin
Natalie Debenham, Ngaire Long and Melanie Ryan
EP24235Seismic imaging in shallow water: where are we at and where might we be going?
Henry A. Debens, Robert Eliott-Lockhart and Jennifer Moss
EP24045Application of inversion to support exploration and development growth opportunity maturation across the North West Shelf asset, Australia
Matthew Docherty and John Coffin
EP24223Chemostratigraphic analysis of evaporitic sequences in Australian basins: case studies from the Polda, Officer and Adavale basins
John Fleck, Jordan Kinsley, Stuart Munday, Tim Pearce and David Riley
EP24056Utilising 4D geomechanical modelling to evaluate formation failure and fault reactivation during hydrogen storage and production
Sirous Hosseinzadeh, Manouchehr Haghighi, Alireza Salmachi, Saeed Salimzadeh and Murat Karakus
EP24042Credibility of geomechanical sanding evaluation, examples from gas fields in offshore Otway and onshore North Perth basins
Abbas Khaksar, Ahmadreza Younessi and Sadegh Asadi
EP24163New perspectives on the sequence stratigraphy of the Early-Middle Triassic of the Bedout Sub-basin
Roisin McGee, George Mills and Simon Sturrock
EP24163 Abstract | EP24163 Full Text | EP24163PDF (3.5 MB) Open Access Article (Non peer reviewed)
EP24191Unmasking fault zones in CO2 storage – a true calibration
Genna Petho, Hadi Nourollah and Michael Rieger
EP24214Beneath the surface: 3D geological model of northern Bowen Basin
Mojtaba Rajabi, Renate Sliwa and Joan Esterle
EP24099Pore pressure in the Beetaloo Sub-basin
Rasoul Ranjbarkarami, Mojtaba Rajabi and Parisa Tavoosiiraj
EP24110Development of a 3D continental chronostratigraphic framework for energy, minerals and groundwater integrated assessments
Nadege Rollet, John Vizy, Catherine Norton and Carey Hannaford
EP24110 Abstract | EP24110 Full Text | EP24110PDF (5.8 MB) Open Access Article (Non peer reviewed)
EP24028Reservoir modelling for underground hydrogen storage in the onshore Otway Basin, Victoria
Peter Ryan, Tess Dance, Samuel J. Jackson, Mohammad Sayyafzadeh, Jonathan Ennis-King and Jacqueline Sutton
EP24168Machine learning inversion solution: a tool to identify faults shear slip from sensed ground deformation
Saeed Salimzadeh and Dane Kasperczyk
EP24032Play analysis in the onshore Otway Basin, South Australia
Paul Strong, Chris Cubitt, Tim Rady, Rob Kirk and Sharon Tiainen
EP24032 Abstract | EP24032 Full Text | EP24032PDF (7.1 MB) Open Access Article (Non peer reviewed)
EP24240Reservoir prediction in wave-dominated fluvio-deltaic systems using seismic sequence stratigraphic techniques, an example from the cretaceous Golden Beach Formation, offshore Gippsland Basin
Lindsey Wilkinson, Ciaran Lavin and Clare Davies
EP24144The Walyering discovery and revisiting the Jurassic hydrocarbon potential of the northern Perth Basin
Matthew Wright, Anthony Cortis, Aisling Sloan and Andrew Farley
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EP24051Eliminating contractor incidents and fatalities by embedding safety at each step in the contractor management framework
Quinton Crew and Scott Hastie
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EP24055Management of highly toxic marine pollutant unexpectantly arising from offshore chemical cleaning operations
Daniel Hazell, Marc Lehmann, Joshua Corbett and Ben Davis
EP24219Stand up, speak out: addressing psychosocial hazards through interactive learning
Kristen Lukas
EP24103Decommissioning – comparative environmental impact assessment for the Australian regulatory regime
Carrie McIntosh
EP24225Development of Australia’s National Action List for offshore CCS
David Midgley, Linda Stalker, Andrew Ross, Stephen Sestak, Sharon Hook, Emma Crooke and Charles Jenkins
EP24176The 2024 revision of the Australian Energy Producers Method for estimating the cost of oil spill response
Tom Sullivan, David Horn and Jason Medd
EP24217Navigating urban challenges: groundwater bore assessments in Dalby
Lisa Turner and Ty Felmingham
EP24050Local communities’ responses to CSG salt and brine management options in Queensland’s Surat Basin
Katherine Witt, Debashish Dev and Amrita Kambo
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EP24250Chaos across the Tasman Sea: New Zealand’s energy crisis and its lessons for Australia
Krishan Pal Birda and Siddhant Chadha
EP24248From export giant to import dependent: Australia’s paradoxical gas investment climate
Krishan Pal Birda and Siddhant Chadha
EP24221Coal seam gas to LNG – how has the industry developed and what next?
John Gibb, Anne Forbes and Angus Rodger
EP24237Planning challenges for the changing paradigm of gas-powered generation operations
Joe Lane, Iain Rodger, Andrew Garnett and David Close
EP24237 Abstract | EP24237 Full Text | EP24237PDF (1.4 MB) Open Access Article (Non peer reviewed)
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EP24074Northern Territory gas development – how access to technology is unlocking resources
Simon Molyneux, Alexander Weber and Alex Fuerst
EP24143Beetaloo Sub-basin: one day closer to production – the energy required to open the next great unconventional shale gas basin
Faron Thibodeaux
