Shale gas resource assessment in the Merlinleigh Sub-basin, Carnarvon Basin

Joanna Wong graduated from Curtin University in 2013 with a Bachelor of Petroleum Engineering and completed her internship at Santos Brisbane, where she worked with a multidisciplinary team on improving the production and well integrity of CSG wells. Leading on from her unconventional work experience, Joanna’s thesis focused on the correlation between the severity and extent of skin damage around CSG wellbores. Joanna has been employed by the Department of Mines and Petroleum since January 2014 under the graduate program as a graduate officer of petroleum safety and has undergone rotations in petroleum safety, petroleum division, Apache Energy (external-facilities engineering), environment division and the investigations branch. Member: SPE.

Mohammad Bahar has more than 25 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry and is the author of more than 28 peer-reviewed scientific publications and conference papers. He has a BSc and an MSc in chemical engineering from the Petroleum University of Technology, Iran, and a PhD in petroleum engineering from Curtin University of Technology. He has professional experience with fluid phase behaviour, enhanced oil recovery, reservoir simulation and field development planning. He started his career with National Iranian Oil Company from 1990 to 2003. After completing his PhD, he joined CSIRO as a research scientist in 2006, where he worked on a microbial-enhanced oil recovery project. In 2010, he joined the Department of Mines and Petroleum, where he is a senior reservoir engineer on unconventional resources, CO₂ storage and reservoir management projects.