Awards

Alan Prince Award (best peer-reviewed paper published in the Australian Energy Producers Journal)
Dr Steve Mackie Award (best extended abstract published in the Australian Energy Producers Conference Proceedings (Supplement 1)
Best oral presentation at the Australian Energy Producers Conference
Best poster/visual presentation at the Australian Energy Producers Conference
Safety Excellence Award
Environmental Excellence Award
Other Excellence Awards
Australian Energy Producers Exhibition — Best Shell Scheme
Australian Energy Producers Exhibition — Best Custom Build
Australian Energy Producers Honorary Life Membership Award
KA Richards Scholarship
Reg Sprigg Award/Australian Energy Producers Gold Medal
Lewis G Weeks Gold Medal

Alan Prince Award (best peer-reviewed paper published in Australian Energy Producers Journal)

2024: Securing the Australian CCS project rollout by improving aspects of the GHG storage legislation: a discussion paper
Authors: Geoffrey O’Brien, Simone de Morton and David Bason (CO2CRC)
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Alan Prince Award (best peer-reviewed paper published in The APPEA Journal)

2023: Australian salt basins – options for underground hydrogen storage
Authors: Marita Bradshaw (Geoscience Australia), Stephanie Rees (Geoscience Australia), Liuqi Wang (Geoscience Australia), Mike Szczepaniak (Geoscience Australia), Wayne Cook (Geoscience Australia), Sam Voegeli (RESPEC) , Christopher Boreham (Geoscience Australia), Carmine Wainman (Geoscience Australia), Sebastian Wong (Geoscience Australia), Chris Southby (Geoscience Australia) and Andrew Feitz (Geoscience Australia)
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2022: Gold (hydrogen) rush: risks and uncertainties in exploring for naturally occurring hydrogen
Authors: Linda Stalker, Asrar Talukder, Julian Strand, Matthew Josh and Mohinudeen Faiz (CSIRO)
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2021: Hydrogen in Australian natural gas: occurrences, sources and resources
Authors: Christopher J. Boreham (Geoscience Australia), Dianne S. Edwards (Geoscience Australia), Krystian Czado (Geological Survey of NSW), Nadege Rollet (Geoscience Australia), Liuqi Wang (Geoscience Australia), Simon van der Wielen (Geoscience Australia), David Champion (Geoscience Australia), Richard Blewett (Geoscience Australia), Andrew Feitz (Geoscience Australia) and Paul A. Henson (Geoscience Australia)
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2020: Mercury partitioning in oil and gas production systems – design optimisation and risk mitigation through advanced simulation
Authors: Peter Crafts and Mark Williams (Genesis)
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2019: Demonstrating an acceptable level of impact: an assessment of noise impacts to fishes from a seismic survey in an Australian Marine Park
Authors: Joe Edgell (ERM), Jeremy Colman (ERM), Samantha Jarvis (S2 Services) and Ollie Glade-Wright (Cooper Energy)
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2018: Pluto 4D - Australia's first 4D over a gas field is an outstanding success
Authors: Larry Tilbury and Andre Gerhardt (Woodside Energy)
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2017: Energy security, moratoriums and domestic gas:Australia, LNG and its gas policy catch-22
Authors: Christopher Flynn and Emily Tsokos (Gilbert + Tobin)
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2016 (Jointly awarded): The Waitsia Field, onshore North Perth Basin, Western Australia
Authors: Neil Tupper, Eric Matthews, Gareth Cooper, Andy Furniss, Tim Hicks and Suzanne Hunt (AWE Limited)
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2016 (Jointly awarded): The patchwork approach to the regulation of fraccing and unconventionals in Australia
Author: John Hedge (Allens)
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2015 (Jointly awarded): A systematic approach to unconventional play analysis: the oil and gas potential of the Kockatea Shale and Carynginia Formation, North Perth Basin, Western Australia
Authors: Gareth Cooper, Roger Xiang, Nick Agnew, Phil Ward, Mark Fabian and Neil Tupper (AWE Limited)
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2015 (Jointly awarded): Technologies that have transformed the Exmouth into Australia's premier oil producing basin
Authors: Richard Loro, Robin Hill, Mark Jackson and Tony Slate (BHP Billiton Petroleum)
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2014: Reservoir characterisation of the Patchawarra Formation within a deep, basin- margin gas accumulation
Authors: Tim Stephens, Brenton Richards and Joseph Lim (Senex Energy)
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2013: Emerging unconventional shale plays in Western Australia
Author: K. Ameed R. Ghori (Geological Survey of Western Australia, Department of Mines and Petroleum)
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2012: Seismic analysis of igneous systems in sedimentary basins and their impacts on hydrocarbon prospectivity: examples from the southern Australian margin
Authors: Simon Holford (Australian School of Petroleum, The University of Adelaide), Nick Schofield (The University of Birmingham), Justin MacDonald (Australian School of Petroleum, The University of Adelaide), Ian Duddy and Paul Green (Geotrack International Pty Ltd)
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2011: Energy potential of the Millungera Basin: a newly discovered basin in north Queensland
Authors: Russell Korsch, Heike Struckmeyer, Alison Kirkby (Geoscience Australia), Laurie Hutton (Geological Survey of Queensland), Lidena Carr (Geoscience Australia), Kinta Hoffmann (Geological Survey of Queensland), Richard Chopping, Indrajit Roy (Geoscience Australia), Melanie Fitzell Hoffmann (Geological Survey of Queensland), Jennifer Totterdell, Malcolm Nicoll (Geoscience Australia) and Benham Talebi (Geological Survey of Queensland)
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2010: Unusual reservoir connectivity revealed by data integration at the Sunrise field
Authors: Bruce James, Wayne Bailey, Andrew Murray, Shane Pelechaty, Alex Kaiko and Jinfeng Li (Woodside Energy Ltd)
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Dr Steve Mackie Award (best extended abstract published in the Australian Energy Producers Conference Proceedings (Supplement 1)

2024: Analysis of an Existing Hydrocarbon Gas Pipeline for conversion to dense phase CO2 service
Authors: David Levy (ExxonMobil Australia)
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Best Extended Abstract published in the APPEA Conference Proceedings (Supplement 1)

2023: Carbon capture and storage’s role within Australia’s energy transition: necessary, safe, and reliable
Authors: Matthias Raab A and Geoffrey O’Brien (CO2CRC)
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2022: Extracting events from Daily Drilling Reports using Fuzzy String Matching
Authors: Mariana S. Oliveira, Adriano Mourthe, Maria Clara Duque (Intelie)
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2021: Storing CO₂ in buried volcanoes
Authors: Simon Holford (ASPER), Nick Schofield (University of Aberdeen), Mark Bunch (ASPER), Alan Bischoff (University of Canterbury) and Ernest Swierczek (ASPER)
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2020: Dorado Discovery - unlocking a major new oil and gas play in the Bedout Sub-basin
Author: Melissa Thompson (Santos)
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2019: Gas markets – a bridge too far?
Authors: Graeme Bethune and Rick Wilkinson (EnergyQuest)
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2018: Unravelling the Triassic Mungaroo Formation within North Carnarvon Basin using Regional Stratal Slice Volumes
Authors: Tony Marsh, Bill Kowalik, Rhonda Welch, Anne Powell, Heidi Howe and BillHallager (Chevron)
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2017: Integrated petroleum systems analysis to understand the source of fluids in the Browse Basin, Australia
Authors: Tehani Palu, Lisa Hall, Emmanuelle Grosjean, Dianne Edwards, Nadege Rollet, Karen Higgins, Christopher Boreham, Andrew Murray, Duy Nguyen, Kamal Khider and Tamara Buckler (Geoscience Australia)
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2016: Evaluating potential coal seam gas impacts to the Condamine Alluvium: an example of successful community involvement
Authors: Simon Gossmann, Stephen Denner, St.John Herbert (Arrow Energy Pty Ltd), Sanjeev Pandey (Klohn Crippen Berger), Randall Cox, Mark Gallagher and Josh Moncrieff (Office of Groundwater Impact Assessment, Queensland Government)
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2015: Time-lapse seismic monitoring methodologies applied to the Pyrenees Field, offshore Western Australia
Authors: Ramses Meza, Guy Duncan, Konstantinos Kostas, Stanislav Kuzmin, Mauricio Florez, Tom Perrett and James Stewart (BHP Billiton Petroleum)
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2014: Using palaeogeographic reconstructions to understand lithological variability within the Early Cretaceous Gage Sandstone and South Perth Shale in the Vlaming Sub- Basin, offshore southern Perth Basin
Authors: Megan Lech, Chris Southby, David Lescinsky, Liuqi Wang, Diane Jorgensen, Irina Borissova and Stephen Johnston (Geoscience Australia)
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2013: Discovery to development: a subsurface case history of the Kitan Oil Field, Timor Sea, Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA), Timor-Leste and Australia
Authors: Dave Wheller, Grant Ellis, Yohan Suhardiman, Ryosuke Yokote (Eni Australia), Doani Selvaggi (Eni Indonesia), Joseph Derrij and Giuseppe Maniscalco (Eni Australia)
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2012: The Nappamerri Trough, Cooper Basin unconventional plays: proving a hypothesis
Authors: Carrie Trembath, Lindsay Elliott and Mark Pitkin (Beach Energy)
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Best oral presentation at the Australian Energy Producers Conference

2024: Beetaloo or bust: the route to commercial success for an Australian shale play
Presenter: Anne Forbes, Angus Rodger and John Gibb (Wood Mackenzie)
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Best oral presentation at the APPEA Conference

2023: Carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery in Australia – techno-economic evaluation, carbon dioxide source/sink networks and current policy landscape
Presenter: David Bason (CO2CRC)
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2022: The future energy leader: a millennial dilemma
Presenter: Polly Mahapatra (Chevron Australia)
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2019: Renewed energy in Asia’s upstream sector
Presenter: Gero Farruggio (Rystad Energy)
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2018: Case study: successful disconnection of a traditional floating production storage and off-loading unit (FPSO)
Presenters: Sashi Gajula (Eni Australia) and Bertrand Peuchot (Technip FMC)
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2017: A step change in safety performance through critical control management
Presenter: Roberta Selleck (Clough)
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2016: Could a structurally controlled, hydrothermal dolomite play be operative in Cambro-Ordovician carbonates of the southern Georgina Basin, Queensland?
Presenter: Robbert Willink (Central Petroleum Ltd)
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2015: Attributes and behaviours of crude oils that naturally inhibit hydrate plug formation
Presenter: Eric F. May (The University of Western Australia)
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2014: Low-frequency seismic: the next revolution in resolution
Presenter: Andrew Long (PGS)
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2013: Unconventional hydrocarbons: Australia's old rocks prove their worth
Presenter: Marita Bradshaw (Geoscience Australia)
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2010: The design and application of a polymer EOR trial on Barrow Island
Presenter: John Scott (Chevron)
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2009: Oil and gas—winners and losers of the credit crunch
Presenter: Kevin Smout (KPMG)
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Best poster/visual presentation at the Australian Energy Producers Conference

2024: Exploration Potential of Papua New Guinea – Latest MultiClient 3D provides new insight into the Underexplored Papuan Basin over the Papuan and Eastern Plateaus
Authors: Tad Choi, Jens Beenfeldt and Marcin Przywara (PGS)
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Best poster/visual presentation at the APPEA Conference

2023: Challenges and lessons learnt from Northern Territory (NT) Orphan Well project
Authors: Shaun Hingerty (Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade, NT Government)
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2022: Seismic, petrophysical and petrological constraints on the alteration of igneous rocks in the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: Implications for petroleum exploration and drilling operations
Authors: Michael S. Curtis, Simon P. Holford , Mark A. Bunch (The University of Adelaide) and Nick J. Schofield (University of Aberdeen)
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2019: From initial advice statement to export – a 10 year retrospective of Queensland’s liquefied natural gas industry
Presenter: Peter Downey, Jon Thomas and Mark Stone (Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy)
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2018: Working together to reduce land transport safety risk in the CSG sector - can we ever do enough?
Presenter: Jason King (Arrow Energy)
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2017: Polynomial amplitude versus azimuth inversion in horizontally transverse isotropic media
Presenter: Joseph Kremor (Woodside Energy), Randall Taylor (Origin) and Khalid Amrouch (Adelaide University, Australian School of Petroleum)
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2016: A low-cost deepwater gas development solution using subsea dehydration
Presenter: Richard Moore (SubCool Technologies Pty Ltd)
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2015: Browse Basin petroleum accumulations
Presenter: Tehani Kuske (Geoscience Australia)
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2014: Project integrated LNG offloading availability assessment for FLNG
Presenter: Holger Kelle (INTECSEA Pty Ltd)
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2013: Browse to Bonaparte stratigraphic evaluation
Presenter: Marcus Lemberger (TGS)
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2011: The success story of Windalia waterflood optimisation through integrated asset management in a mature field
Presenter: Lina Hartanto
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2010: Permit to work: the Integrated Safe System of Work
Presenter: Ally Oliver
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2009: Dry dope-free premium connections: a zero discharge technology validated through laboratory and field testing and usage
Presenter: Koji Sakura
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2008: Real-world decision making in the upstream oil and gas industry—prescriptions for improvement
Presenter: Steve Mackie
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Safety Excellence Award

2023 Safety project excellence: The Otway Offshore Project, Beach Energy
2020 Safety project excellence: Chevron
2020 Safety company excellence: Arrow Energy
2019 Safety project excellence: Subsea 7
2019 Safety company excellence: BHP
2018: Woodside Energy
2017: Woodside Energy
2016: Santos
2014-2015: ExxonMobil Australia—award accepted by Richard Owen, Chairman, ExxonMobil Australia
2013: Esso Australia—award accepted by Mr Richard Owens, Chairman, ExxonMobil Affiliates in Australia
2012: ConocoPhillips Australia—award accepted by Steve De Albuqueque
2011 APPEA Safety Performance Award, Category A: ConocoPhillips
2011 APPEA Safety Performance Award, Category B: Vermilion Energy
2010 APPEA Safety Performance Award, Category A: ConocoPhillips
2010 APPEA Safety Performance Award, Category B: Beach Energy Limited

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Environmental Excellence Award

2023 Environment project excellence: The Pygmy Blue Whale Management Project, Woodside Energy
2020 Environment project excellence: Santos
2020 Environment company excellence: Santos
2019 Environment project excellence: Santos
2019 Environment company excellence: Woodside
2018: Buru Energy
2017: Woodside Energy
2016: Woodside
2014-2015: Woodside—award accepted by Mike Utsler, Chief Operating Officer, Woodside
2013: Chevron Australia—award accepted by Mr Roy Krzywosinski, Managing Director, Chevron Australia and Dr Harry Butler
2012 APPEA Environment Award, Category A: Santos GLNG project—award accepted by Antony Volcich of Santos
2012 APPEA Environment Award, Category B: ConocoPhillips Australia—award accepted by Steve De Albuqueque of ConocoPhillips
2011 APPEA Environment Award, Category A: Santos GLNG
2011 APPEA Environment Award, Category B: Woodside Energy
2010 APPEA Environment Award: Chevron Australia

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Other Excellence Awards

2023 Community development award: The Karratha Education Initiative – Enriching Educational Opportunities & Achievement, Woodside Energy
2023 Workforce development award: Esso Australia’s Mentored Apprenticeship Program, ExxonMobil
2023 Workforce development award: Navigator | Woodside’s Leadership Development Program, Woodside Energy
2023 APPEA Chair’s Award: The Karratha Education Initiative – Enriching Educational Opportunities & Achievement, Woodside Energy

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Australian Energy Producers Exhibition — Best Shell Scheme