Organised by: PESA

Not included in conference fee

The Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA) Seminar is the annual showcase for acreage and farmin opportunities in Australia and the neighbouring region in a presented papers format. A comprehensive Farmin Report, which contains all relevant information on each opportunity will be provided to participants along with an excellent lunch and refreshments.

For inquiries about sponsorship, presenting acreage, attending or to receive information please contact: Pam Jokic, 2011 PESA Farmin Seminar Convenor T + 61 7 3367 3822 E This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Sunday 10 April 2011
3.00pm – 5.30pm

Ernst & Young, Level 5, 11 Mounts Bay Road, Perth (20m walk from the convention centre)

Both the regulatory environment and pending skills shortages have provided compelling context for the focus on gender diversity. With Australian resource projects booming, the oil and gas sector is increasingly turning to women as the largest source of untapped talent.

In the recently released World Economic Forum report, Australia is ranked 23 on the Global Gender Gap Index Ranking. However in the last four years Australia has decreased its position from rank 15 to 23. This clearly demonstrates Australia is losing its competitive position through not engaging on the issue of gender diversity as quickly as other nations and in spite of the focus on this issue, there is more work to be done.

This forum will comprise a distinguished panel who will discuss in an open forum the fundamental changes required by businesses to remain competitive in the sector, and what success looks like for commercial diversity strategies.

Panelists:

• Ann Pickard, Country Chair, Shell Australia
• Belinda Robinson, Chief Executive, APPEA
• Catherine Fox, Deputy Editor, AFR Boss/Corporate Woman Columnist
• Don Volete, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Woodside Energy
• Amy Poynton, Partner, Ernst & Young

Thursday 14th and Friday 15th April 2011
Perth Convention Centre

Permeability of rocks and relative permeability values are very important to understand, since their values are used as a measure of the transmission of fluids through the reservoir, and are useful in determining the degree to which different fluid saturations and flow through a reservoir can occur relative to each other. These output values influence how we compute the life of a reservoir, reserve estimates, daily production values and so on. However, there are many methods available which we can use to make an estimation of permeability, and each has its own pitfall/accuracy. Permeability obtained from image analysis methods will be discussed along with mercury injection methods. NMR and artificial neural networks (ANN) will be introduced along with multi-regression analysis to allow the student to apply the learning in practice.

Organised by SPE, this course is useful for geologists and petroleum engineers who use permeability values on a daily basis. It will describe how reasonably accurate permeability values are also obtainable using log data and ANN software in the absence of whole core."

This course was not included in the APPEA registration fees.