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2024: exploration year in review

Sue Slater

2024 development and production review

Martin Wilkes

The 2024 revision of the Australian Energy Producers Method for estimating the cost of oil spill response

Tom Sullivan, David Horn, Jason Medd

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

David Turner

Advancing scientific verification of plug and abandonment activities

Quentin Morgan, Janet Mignano, James Ashton, Andrew Clemence, Robert Layher

Amine based liquid capture technology for direct air capture of CO2 – an overview on technology development

Ali Kiani, Mohamed H. Abdellah, Ali Pourkhesalian, Paul Feron

Ammonia transport: seaborne tanker loading – technology selection, system design and modelling

Paul Fothergill, David Kitson

Analysing safety data for an entire industry group - a case study from Queensland coal seam gas

Kevin Geddert

Analysing the carbon intensity of Australian LNG and implications on its role in Asia’s energy transition

Steffi Teo, Varun Narayan

Application of data analytics models to support LNG plant energy efficiency improvements

Matthew Ladner, Qi Chu, Ellen Weiss, Matthew Qi Xuan Wong, Seen Yan Lee

Application of inversion to support exploration and development growth opportunity maturation across the North West Shelf asset, Australia

Matthew Docherty, John Coffin

Applying 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, Ryan Owens

Assessing greenhouse gas emissions in LNG transport: a Monte Carlo analysis of the Gladstone-to-Himeji route

Fabio Terzini, Justin Stirling, Stuart Brown

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, Anthony Paul Heynen

Augmenting cased hole logging and pressure testing: improving subsurface well barrier risk assessment through machine learning

Tim Thomas, Andrew Thompson

Australia is still an attractive investment destination for exploration and development

Joe Keith

Automatic rock strength prediction in data-limited wells

Max Millen, Scott Mildren, Thomas Flottmann

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

Faron Thibodeaux

Beneath the surface: 3D geological model of northern Bowen Basin

Mojtaba Rajabi, Renate Sliwa, Joan Esterle

Biofuels in the energy transition: bridging the gap between oil and gas and sustainable energy

Thiago Sinzato, Nikoline Bromander, Perry Wilson

Blue power: a case for more gas, less emissions

Perry Wilson

The business case for abatement: the key levers for improving financial return of marginal abatement projects

Jessica Dwyer, Krista McGowan

Business cases – development guidance and comparison mechanism for improved decisions on investments

Mark Williams

Business year in review 2024

Anne Forbes, Angus Rodger, John Gibb

Can the Australian oil and gas industry ride the climate litigation tsunami?

James Plumb, Aaron Alcock

CarbonNet project: carbon capture and storage case study – subsea system design challenges and opportunities

Bassem Youssef, Peter Brownlie, Nick McCarthy, Scott Bailey

Carrot or stick? The key to unlocking LNG decarbonisation

Daniel Toleman

A case study on CO2 production casing operations

Jessica Wrigley, Gaurav Kumar Singh, Simon Hann, Mitch Allison, Paul Boggon

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, Nicola Clarke

Chaos across the Tasman Sea: New Zealand’s energy crisis and its lessons for Australia

Siddhant Chadha, Krishan Pal Birda

Characterisation 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, Vahab Honari

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, David Riley

Clearing the view: navigating the future of LNG carbon intensity

Helen Riordan, Kane Annesley

CO2 dispersion benchmarking against natural gas dispersion

Fariba Askari, Derek Cross, Lars Rogstadkjernet

CO2 utilisation pathways to produce synthetic fuels and other value-added liquid products

Ashwin Mankodi, Wessel Nel, Binu Baby, LiXin (Lisa) Zhong, Sreelakshmi Puthoor

Coal seam gas to LNG – how has the industry developed and what next?

John Gibb, Anne Forbes, Angus Rodger

Complexities of First Nations impact assessments in offshore environments

Miriam Bell, Tram Vu

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

Andrew Harwood

Corrigendum to: Stochastic model for migration and breakage of detrital and authigenic fines

Bryant Dang-Le, Abolfazl Hashemi, Cuong Nguyen, Grace Loi, Nastaran Khazali, Yutong Yang, Alexander Badalyan, Thomas Russell, Pavel Bedrikovetsky

Credibility of geomechanical sanding evaluation, examples from gas fields in offshore Otway and onshore North Perth basins

Abbas Khaksar, Ahmadreza Younessi, Sadegh Asadi

A decade of the Karratha Gas Plant life extension program

Jason Page, Peter Ashton, Creson Moodley

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

Craig Henderson

Decommissioning – comparative environmental impact assessment for the Australian regulatory regime

Carrie McIntosh

Determination of maximum allowable water content for CO2 pipelines

Kenneth Wong

Determining the sparsest acquisition geometry required to meet a known 4D monitoring objective

Mike Branston, David F. Halliday

Development of a 3D continental chronostratigraphic framework for energy, minerals and groundwater integrated assessments

Nadege Rollet, John Vizy, Catherine Norton, Carey Hannaford

Development of Australia’s National Action List for offshore CCS

David Midgley, Linda Stalker, Andrew Ross, Stephen Sestak, Sharon Hook, Emma Crooke, Charles Jenkins

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

Marc Chable

East Coast Gas Market, Queensland’s coal seam gas development, and the National Electricity Market – don’t take gas for granted

David Close, Rick Wilkinson, Andrew Garnett

Eliminating contractor incidents and fatalities by embedding safety at each step in the contractor management framework

Quinton Crew, Scott Hastie

Enabling CO2 transport from local carbon capture sources for permanent storage purposes through the use of trucks as virtual pipelines

Logan McNeil, Alex Lockett

Energy costs in transition: decarbonising Western Australia’s South West Interconnected System

Aaron Walker, Jasmine Kaur, Rebecca Tomkinson

Energy transition and emissions reductions – some inconvenient truths

Martin Wilkes

An engineering toolkit to estimate the CO2 storage potential of the western Eromanga Basin, Australia

Tim Stephens, Mavise Beattie, Jeremy Iwanec, Peter Stephenson, Barry Bradshaw, Tom Bernecker

Ensuring digital success: an approach to making better digital investments

Peter Carydias, Antoine Darque

Establishing an integrated geoscience workflow to optimize well plug and abandonments in the Gippsland Basin

Natalie Debenham, Ngaire Long, Melanie Ryan

Evolution of coal strength with dewatering and coal seam gas depletion: an integrated approach

Jimmy Xuekai Li, Thomas Flottmann, Max Millen, Shuai Chen, Yixiao Huang, Zhongwei Chen

Exploring carbon storage: does Australia have a competitive subsurface advantage in Asia Pacific?

Fauzi Said

Exploring effective indicators of modern slavery risk: on-site audit insight

Judy Auld, Sophie Ryan, Qingxia (Jenny) Wang

Field trials of bentonite as abandonment material for underground coal gasification wells in Queensland, Australia

A. Shapoval, J. Bunning, S. Hann, C. Johns, A. Sommerfeld

Findings from the Northern Territory Low Emissions Hub CCUS business case project

Andrew Ross, Jody Rogers, Bahman Joodi, Mark Tocock, Linda Stalker, Jason Czapla, David Green

Forecasting the role of CCS in Asia–Pacific to 2050

Andrew Taylor

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

Adam Harris

From export giant to import dependent: Australia’s paradoxical gas investment climate

Siddhant Chadha, Krishan Pal Birda

Fugitive methane emissions around onshore gas fields using Quantum Gas Lidar technology: detection, visualisation, and quantification

Sebastian Hoerning, Philip J. Hayes

Geomechanical 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, A. J. Feitz

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

How can Australia compete in the global hydrogen market (before it’s too late)?

Joshua Ngu, Flor De La Cruz

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

Peter Cox

Hydrogen storage – are pipelines the solution?

Callum Peace, Schree Chandran, Yuri Tkach, Lachlan Strickland

Importance of heat integration in post combustion carbon capture

Ashwin Mankodi, Binu Baby, LiXin (Lisa) Zhong, Sreelakshmi Puthoor

Improving 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, Kim Owen

Improving operational efficiency through asset performance management

William H. Fry

Improving operational efficiency through condition-based monitoring and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies

Mohamed Ibrahim, Michael Clark, Will Castelnau

Impurities in CO2 streams for a multi-user CCS hub

Vilaiwan Suvanmani

Innovative design and re-completion strategies for CO2 injection wells: a case study

T. Ahmad, K. Wuttke, M. Allison, D. Bason, P. Barraclough

Innovative seismic surveying and imaging in Bonaparte Basin for future energy resources

David Barlass, Shivaji Maitra, Nigel Seymour

Insights from meta-analyses of incidents

Maureen Hassall

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, James Butt

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, Jason Lee

Knowing how to navigate the unknown in oil and gas decommissioning

Alasdair Gray, Chris Wilson

The landholder journey – coexistence lessons from Queensland’s gas industry

Jon Thomas, Warwick Squire

Life-of-Field monitoring for CO2 storage – an effective solution for validating containment and analysing storage performance

Max Watson, Hadi Nourollah

A lifecycle assessment of low-emissions hydrogen production using autothermal reforming and carbon capture and storage

Claudia Buenhombre, Colin Crowley, Jamie Reilly

Local communities’ responses to CSG salt and brine management options in Queensland’s Surat Basin

Katherine Witt, Debashish Dev, Amrita Kambo

Logistical challenges of the largest fracture stimulation in Australian history

Kelvin Wuttke, Toseef Ahmad, Daniel Kalinin, Alex Bruce

Machine learning inversion solution: a tool to identify faults shear slip from sensed ground deformation

Saeed Salimzadeh, Dane Kasperczyk

Management of highly toxic marine pollutant unexpectantly arising from offshore chemical cleaning operations

Daniel Hazell, Marc Lehmann, Joshua Corbett, Ben Davis

Managing cultural values with Traditional Owners

Kasia Wondolowski, Kenneth Ninyette

Mapping multi-sectoral methane emissions across Queensland’s gas production areas

Joe Lane, Jamin Wood, Sebastian Hoerning, Philip J. Hayes

Mapping of the regulatory requirements for requalification of hydrocarbon production pipeline facilities for CO2 transport and storage

Logan McNeil, Alex Lockett

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, Jianlin Wang

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

Dean Barr

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

Scott Hastie

Methane emissions measurement insights from an Offshore Measurement, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification study

Sandip Deshpande, Elizabeth Collins, Ian Joynes, Rory O’Keeffe

Methane in Great Artesian Basin aquifers: emission factors for groundwater pumping and coal seam gas produced water

Julie Pearce, Harald Hofmann

A mindset shift in operating safe, reliable and profitable ageing assets

Quinton Crew, Tim Wall

Minimising green hydrogen capital expenditure: lessons learned from Europe

Paul Anthony Curry

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

Kaushal Ramesh

Moving beyond climate to nature-focused operations

Fairul Izmal Jamal Hisne, Thomas Chandler, Jacklyn Liew Hui Ling, Lucy Grindall

Multi-disciplined/collaborative team approach to deliver Kipper Compression Project

Dean Fuller, Renee Terz, Belinda Choon, Dnyandeo Ingale, Mark Poot, Arif Md, Grant Shaw

Navigating and leading corporate strategy amid energy transition uncertainty

Olga Savenkova

Navigating economic headwinds: proven strategies for durable cost reduction in oil and gas

Scott Hastie, Quinton Crew, Tim Wall

Navigating urban challenges: groundwater bore assessments in Dalby

Lisa Turner, Ty Felmingham

New perspectives on the sequence stratigraphy of the Early-Middle Triassic of the Bedout Sub-basin

Roisin McGee, George Mills, Simon Sturrock

Northern Territory gas development – how access to technology is unlocking resources

Simon Molyneux, Alexander Weber, Alex Fuerst

Novel adsorbent for CO2 separation from methane

Saw Hong Lim, Kwong Soon Chan, Jai Kant Pandit, Penny Xiao, Kevin Li

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, William Walton

Operating in the context of continuing environmental, social and governance uncertainties

Rodman W. Branson

Optimisation of CCS hub and its business model using novel COSMIC software

Jai Kant Pandit, Kwong Soon Chan

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

Curtis Phillips

People, technology and performance: creating capacity for sustainable performance – a discussion paper

Brett Read, Rod Ritchie

Planning challenges for the changing paradigm of gas-powered generation operations

Joe Lane, Iain Rodger, Andrew Garnett, David Close

Play analysis in the onshore Otway Basin, South Australia

Paul Strong, Chris Cubitt, Tim Rady, Rob Kirk, Sharon Tiainen

Pore pressure in the Beetaloo Sub-basin

Rasoul Ranjbarkarami, Mojtaba Rajabi, Parisa Tavoosiiraj

Primary cementing practices and compliance in Queensland’s petroleum wells

Ahmed Harfoush, Chris Barrand

Queensland’s coal seam gas (CSG) projects – hard won lessons relevant to regional development

Katherine Witt, David Close

Regulating and keeping the gas flowing in Queensland, Australia

Shaun Hingerty, Evan Hegarty, Ben Wimberley, Justin Hemmings

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

Annamaria Greenwood

Renewable energy taxation in the energy transition: how to replace coal and gas royalties in Australian State Budgets

Jonathan Fulcher, Erin O’Shaughnessy

Repurposing fields for CO2 storage: well integrity risk assessment across the lifecycle

Mark Davis, Hugo Costeno

Repurposing gas fields for energy storage – a proposal for compressed air energy storage in the depleted Rolleston gas field

Xingjin Wang, Zhujun Wang, Yudong Yuan

Required steps to develop an enhanced geothermal system – an Australian Basin example

Raymond Johnson, Heinz-Gerd Holl

Reservoir modelling for underground hydrogen storage in the onshore Otway Basin, Victoria

Peter Ryan, Tess Dance, Samuel J. Jackson, Mohammad Sayyafzadeh, Jonathan Ennis-King, Jacqueline Sutton

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, Clare Davies

Reservoir pressure monitoring via surface deformation inversion: integrating numerical modelling with evolutionary optimisation

Reza Abdollahi, Abbas Movassagh, Dane Kasperczyk, Manouchehr Haghighi

Resolving drilling issues in the Beetaloo – drilling longer for lower cost

J. Bunning, K. Wuttke, J. Grehan, A. Bruce

Revolutionising assurance oversight with AI: driving safer, more compliant energy operations at scale

Piyath Dissanayake, Peter Carydias, Kevin Stewart

Risk-based hydrate management: a new path to value creation for gas condensate developments

Stuart Kegg, Conor Sherrard

A roadmap for carbon capture and storage deployment in Australia: key constraints and opportunities

Mark Sanders, Geoffrey O’Brien, Simone de Morton, David Byers

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

Saline aquifer CO2 storage modelling – harder than it sounds

Daniel Lorng Yon Wong, Wenbin Nah

Satisfying First Nations stakeholder consultation requirements under Australia’s offshore resources legislation

Julius (Clint) Kernan

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

Francesco Cavallini

Seismic imaging in shallow water: where are we at and where might we be going?

Henry A. Debens, Robert Eliott-Lockhart, Jennifer Moss

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

Anish Philips

Shallow water subsea solution to mitigate CAPEX swallow

Bukkie Orugun, Tuan Do

Shaping the future of MMV in CO2 storage: a look at established and emerging technologies

Genna Petho, David Bason, Simone De Morton, Hadi Nourollah, Max Watson

Small steps, big impact: advancing gender diversity in Queensland’s oil and gas industry

Danielle Leray, Joanna Groves, Layna Smith

Solid natural gas technology: natural gas production and storage innovation

Antony Loane

The Southern Gas Market supply problem: assessing the case for electrification of gas heating

Joshua Stabler

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

Kristen Lukas

Subsea well clean-up without drilling rigs: transient analysis methods to support philosophy definition

Paul Fothergill, Sarah Lim-Rajani

Tackling the 65% megaproject failure epidemic: six key levers amplified by digital and AI

Peter Carydias, Rob Kennedy

Tight radius drilling in coal, a re-emerging technology

Raymond L. Johnson, Matthew Mason

Tiltmeter data inversion for reservoir integrity monitoring using numerical modelling and particle swarm optimisation

Reza Abdollahi, Abbas Movassagh, Dane Kasperczyk, Manouchehr Haghighi

Towards an improved understanding of fault systems behaviour in a CCS project

Ludovic P. Ricard, Ziqiu Xue, Jeremie Dautriat, Tsutomu Hashimoto

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

Kylie Jones

Unmasking fault zones in CO2 storage – a true calibration

Genna Petho, Hadi Nourollah, Michael Rieger

Utilising 4D geomechanical modelling to evaluate formation failure and fault reactivation during hydrogen storage and production

Sirous Hosseinzadeh, Manouchehr Haghighi, Alireza Salmachi, Saeed Salimzadeh, Murat Karakus

The Walyering discovery and revisiting the Jurassic hydrocarbon potential of the northern Perth Basin

Matthew Wright, Anthony Cortis, Aisling Sloan, Andrew Farley

Woodside’s process safety management competency program

Michael G. Hamblin

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