Table of Contents

PESA YEAR IN REVIEW

Business year in review 2024. Anne Forbes, Angus Rodger and John Gibb

2024: exploration year in review. Sue Slater

2024 development and production review. Martin Wilkes

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AND GOVERNANCE

Assessing 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

Exploring effective indicators of modern slavery risk: on-site audit insight. Judy Auld, Sophie Ryan and Qingxia (Jenny) Wang

Complexities of First Nations impact assessments in offshore environments. Miriam Bell and Tram Vu

Operating in the context of continuing environmental, social and governance uncertainties. Rodman W. Branson

Ensuring digital success: an approach to making better digital investments. Peter Carydias and Antoine Darque

Driving productivity improvements: 12 months of improvement under GR Production Services’ outsourced operations at Moranbah Gas Project. Marc Chable

Revolutionising assurance oversight with AI: driving safer, more compliant energy operations at scale. Piyath Dissanayake, Peter Carydias and Kevin Stewart

Renewable energy taxation in the energy transition: how to replace coal and gas royalties in Australian State Budgets. Jonathan Fulcher and Erin O’Shaughnessy

Corporate strategies for a new energy transition outlook: advantage Australia? Andrew Harwood

Mergers and acquisitions landscape in the oil and gas sector: challenges and best practices for integrating clean energy assets. Scott Hastie

Navigating economic headwinds: proven strategies for durable cost reduction in oil and gas. Scott Hastie, Quinton Crew and Tim Wall

Regulating and keeping the gas flowing in Queensland, Australia. Shaun Hingerty, Evan Hegarty, Ben Wimberley and Justin Hemmings

Unlocking potential: encouraging women’s participation in technical roles through access to training, skills development and mentorship. Kylie Jones

Satisfying First Nations stakeholder consultation requirements under Australia’s offshore resources legislation. Julius (Clint) Kernan

Small steps, big impact: advancing gender diversity in Queensland’s oil and gas industry. Danielle Leray, Joanna Groves and Layna Smith

Can the Australian oil and gas industry ride the climate litigation tsunami? James Plumb and Aaron Alcock

Navigating and leading corporate strategy amid energy transition uncertainty. Olga Savenkova

Roadmap to a digitally born asset in the New Energy era: gaining operational excellence and sustainable long-term value in asset management decision making. Siddharth Setia

The landholder journey – coexistence lessons from Queensland’s gas industry. Jon Thomas and Warwick Squire

Repurposing 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

Queensland’s coal seam gas (CSG) projects – hard won lessons relevant to regional development. Katherine Witt and David Close

EMISSIONS REDUCTION

Internet 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

Methane emissions measurement insights from an Offshore Measurement, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification study. Sandip Deshpande, Elizabeth Collins, Ian Joynes and Rory O’Keeffe

The business case for abatement: the key levers for improving financial return of marginal abatement projects. Jessica Dwyer and Krista McGowan

From data to action: monetising carbon intensity management in the energy sector. Adam Harris

Decoding decarbonisation: navigating emerging market dynamics in the Australian gas supply industry. Craig Henderson

Fugitive methane emissions around onshore gas fields using Quantum Gas Lidar technology: detection, visualisation, and quantification. Sebastian Hoerning and Philip J. Hayes

Amine 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

Application 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

Mapping multi-sectoral methane emissions across Queensland’s gas production areas. Joe Lane, Jamin Wood, Sebastian Hoerning and Philip J. Hayes

Novel adsorbent for CO₂ separation from methane. Saw Hong Lim, Kwong Soon Chan, Jai Kant Pandit, Penny Xiao and Kevin Li

Solid natural gas technology: natural gas production and storage innovation. Antony Loane

Importance of heat integration in post combustion carbon capture. Ashwin Mankodi, Binu Baby, LiXin (Lisa) Zhong and Sreelakshmi Puthoor

CO₂ utilisation pathways to produce synthetic fuels and other value-added liquid products. Ashwin Mankodi, Wessel Nel, Binu Baby, LiXin (Lisa) Zhong, Sreelakshmi Puthoor

How can Australia compete in the global hydrogen market (before it’s too late)? Joshua Ngu and Flor De La Cruz

Optimisation of CCS hub and its business model using novel COSMIC software. Jai Kant Pandit and Kwong Soon Chan

Hydrogen storage – are pipelines the solution? Callum Peace, Schree Chandran, Yuri Tkach and Lachlan Strickland

Methane in Great Artesian Basin aquifers: emission factors for groundwater pumping and coal seam gas produced water. Julie Pearce and Harald Hofmann

Shaping 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

Towards an improved understanding of fault systems behaviour in a CCS project. Ludovic P. Ricard, Ziqiu Xue, Jeremie Dautriat and Tsutomu Hashimoto

Clearing the view: navigating the future of LNG carbon intensity. Helen Riordan and Kane Annesley

Findings 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

Biofuels in the energy transition: bridging the gap between oil and gas and sustainable energy. Thiago Sinzato, Nikoline Bromander and Perry Wilson

Causal 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

Forecasting the role of CCS in Asia–Pacific to 2050. Andrew Taylor

Analysing the carbon intensity of Australian LNG and implications on its role in Asia’s energy transition. Steffi Teo and Varun Narayan

Assessing greenhouse gas emissions in LNG transport: a Monte Carlo analysis of the Gladstone-to-Himeji route. Fabio Terzini, Justin Stirling and Stuart Brown

Carrot or stick? The key to unlocking LNG decarbonisation. Daniel Toleman

Achieving consistent methane emissions quantification across varied oil and gas assets in the Asia–Pacific region using in situ drone-conveyed sensors. David Turner

Energy costs in transition: decarbonising Western Australia’s South West Interconnected System. Aaron Walker, Jasmine Kaur and Rebecca Tomkinson

Energy transition and emissions reductions – some inconvenient truths. Martin Wilkes

Blue power: a case for more gas, less emissions. Perry Wilson

Determination of maximum allowable water content for CO₂ pipelines. Kenneth Wong

ENGINEERING

CO₂ dispersion benchmarking against natural gas dispersion. Fariba Askari, Derek Cross and Lars Rogstadkjernet

Tackling the 65% megaproject failure epidemic: six key levers amplified by digital and AI. Peter Carydias and Rob Kennedy

Security of subsea gas pipelines: technological solutions for safe and rapid response. Francesco Cavallini

Hydrogen and carbon dioxide pipelines – why a different engineering approach is required. Peter Cox

A mindset shift in operating safe, reliable and profitable ageing assets. Quinton Crew and Tim Wall

Minimising green hydrogen capital expenditure: lessons learned from Europe. Paul Anthony Curry

Repurposing fields for CO₂ storage: well integrity risk assessment across the lifecycle. Mark Davis and Hugo Costeno

Improving operational efficiency through asset performance management. William H. Fry

Multi-disciplined/collaborative team approach to deliver Kipper Compression Project. Dean Fuller, Renee Terz, Belinda Choon, Dnyandeo Ingale, Mark Poot, Arif Md and Grant Shaw

Knowing how to navigate the unknown in oil and gas decommissioning. Alasdair Gray and Chris Wilson

Remote internal inspection of the crude oil tanks on a floating production, storage and offshore facility to meet classification requirements. Annamaria Greenwood

Primary cementing practices and compliance in Queensland’s petroleum wells. Ahmed Harfoush and Chris Barrand

Improving operational efficiency through condition-based monitoring and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Mohamed Ibrahim, Michael Clark and Will Castelnau

Required steps to develop an enhanced geothermal system – an Australian Basin example. Raymond Johnson Jr and Heinz-Gerd Holl

Tight radius drilling in coal, a re-emerging technology. Raymond L. Johnson Jr and Matthew Mason

Risk-based hydrate management: a new path to value creation for gas condensate developments. Stuart Kegg and Conor Sherrard

Shallow water subsea solution to mitigate CAPEX swallow. Bukkie Orugun and Tuan Do

A decade of the Karratha Gas Plant life extension program. Jason Page, Peter Ashton and Creson Moodley

Separating facts from fiction: can offshore decommissioning become a USD6.3 billion industry this decade? Anish Philips

Overcoming complexity in coal seam gas production forecasting: application of integrated production management for optimising gas gathering networks – a pilot study. Curtis Phillips

Maximising 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

Impurities in CO₂ streams for a multi-user CCS hub. Vilaiwan Suvanmani

Saline aquifer CO₂ storage modelling – harder than it sounds. Daniel Lorng Yon Wong and Wenbin Nah

A 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

Logistical challenges of the largest fracture stimulation in Australian history. Kelvin Wuttke, Toseef Ahmad, Daniel Kalinin and Alex Bruce

GEOSCIENCE

Innovative seismic surveying and imaging in Bonaparte Basin for future energy resources. David Barlass, Shivaji Maitra and Nigel Seymour

Determining the sparsest acquisition geometry required to meet a known 4D monitoring objective. Mike Branston and David F. Halliday

Integrated 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

Establishing an integrated geoscience workflow to optimize well plug and abandonments in the Gippsland Basin. Natalie Debenham, Ngaire Long and Melanie Ryan

Seismic imaging in shallow water: where are we at and where might we be going? Henry A. Debens, Robert Eliott-Lockhart and Jennifer Moss

Application of inversion to support exploration and development growth opportunity maturation across the North West Shelf asset, Australia. Matthew Docherty and John Coffin

Chemostratigraphic 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

Utilising 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

Credibility of geomechanical sanding evaluation, examples from gas fields in offshore Otway and onshore North Perth basins. Abbas Khaksar, Ahmadreza Younessi and Sadegh Asadi

A hierarchical application of 20+ years of learnings from North American unconventional exploration and appraisal activities to delineate a 1MM-acre ‘sweet spot’ in the Beetaloo Basin shale gas play, Northern Territory, Australia. Donny Loughry

New perspectives on the sequence stratigraphy of the Early-Middle Triassic of the Bedout Sub-basin. Roisin McGee, George Mills and Simon Sturrock

Unmasking fault zones in CO₂ storage – a true calibration. Genna Petho, Hadi Nourollah and Michael Rieger

Beneath the surface: 3D geological model of northern Bowen Basin. Mojtaba Rajabi, Renate Sliwa and Joan Esterle

Pore pressure in the Beetaloo Sub-basin. Rasoul Ranjbarkarami, Mojtaba Rajabi and Parisa Tavoosiiraj

Development of a 3D continental chronostratigraphic framework for energy, minerals and groundwater integrated assessments. Nadege Rollet, John Vizy, Catherine Norton and Carey Hannaford

Reservoir 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

Machine learning inversion solution: a tool to identify faults shear slip from sensed ground deformation. Saeed Salimzadeh and Dane Kasperczyk

Play analysis in the onshore Otway Basin, South Australia. Paul Strong, Chris Cubitt, Tim Rady, Rob Kirk and Sharon Tiainen

Reservoir 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

The Walyering discovery and revisiting the Jurassic hydrocarbon potential of the northern Perth Basin. Matthew Wright, Anthony Cortis, Aisling Sloan and Andrew Farley

HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT

Medicals ain’t medicals – quality screening to detect silicosis and other occupational lung diseases. Dean Barr

Eliminating contractor incidents and fatalities by embedding safety at each step in the contractor management framework. Quinton Crew and Scott Hastie

Woodside’s process safety management competency program. Michael G. Hamblin

Management of highly toxic marine pollutant unexpectantly arising from offshore chemical cleaning operations. Daniel Hazell, Marc Lehmann, Joshua Corbett and Ben Davis

Stand up, speak out: addressing psychosocial hazards through interactive learning. Kristen Lukas

Decommissioning – comparative environmental impact assessment for the Australian regulatory regime. Carrie McIntosh

Development of Australia’s National Action List for offshore CCS. David Midgley, Linda Stalker, Andrew Ross, Stephen Sestak, Sharon Hook, Emma Crooke and Charles Jenkins

The 2024 revision of the Australian Energy Producers Method for estimating the cost of oil spill response. Tom Sullivan, David Horn and Jason Medd

Navigating urban challenges: groundwater bore assessments in Dalby. Lisa Turner and Ty Felmingham

Local communities’ responses to CSG salt and brine management options in Queensland’s Surat Basin. Katherine Witt, Debashish Dev and Amrita Kambo

Managing cultural values with Traditional Owners. Kasia Wondolowski and Kenneth Ninyette

MARKETS

Chaos across the Tasman Sea: New Zealand’s energy crisis and its lessons for Australia. Siddhant Chadha and Krishan Pal Birda

From export giant to import dependent: Australia’s paradoxical gas investment climate. Siddhant Chadha and Krishan Pal Birda

Coal seam gas to LNG – how has the industry developed and what next? John Gibb, Anne Forbes and Angus Rodger

Planning challenges for the changing paradigm of gas-powered generation operations. Joe Lane, Iain Rodger, Andrew Garnett and David Close

Mixed commercial arts: the future of LNG pricing indexations in Asia. Kaushal Ramesh

SPECIALIST

Northern Territory gas development – how access to technology is unlocking resources. Simon Molyneux, Alexander Weber and Alex Fuerst

Beetaloo Sub-basin: one day closer to production – the energy required to open the next great unconventional shale gas basin. Faron Thibodeaux