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Major Industry Awards Announced At APPEA Conference
APPEA has awarded its annual prestigious medals to two of the Australian
petroleum industry's key players, in recognition of their ongoing contributions
to the industry in Australia.
The
Lewis G Weeks Memorial Gold Medal recognises outstanding contribution
to the development of the petroleum exploration and production industry
in Australia. The award commemorates Dr Lewis Weeks whose international
exploration achievements and pioneer work in Bass Strait typifies the
contributions recognised by the award.
In
this, its 19th year, the medal was awarded to Charles Allen.
In
presenting the award, APPEA Chairman Dr Agu Kantsler, commented that Mr
Allen had been a major driver behind the exploration and development of
Australia's oil and gas resources in the north and northwest of the continent.
"Charles
Allen oversaw the growth of a small speculative exploration company (Woodside)
into one of the largest companies working in the Australian oil and gas
sector", Dr Kantsler said.
The
many milestones of Mr Allen's career include the development of the WA
domestic natural gas market, the construction of the largest private enterprise
infrastructure project ever completed in Australia (NW Shelf), and discovery
and development of the Wanaea and Cossack fields.
"While
all this was going on, he gave strong support to APPEA and played a major
role in raising the profile of the industry in organisations such as the
Business Council of Australia", Dr Kantsler said.
The
Reg Sprigg Medal is so-named in recognition of Dr Reginald Sprigg AO,
APPEA's foundation chairman, who made an extraordinary contribution to
the industry including being the driving force behind the establishment
of APPEA conferences.
The
recipient of the Reg Sprigg Medal for 2001 was APPEA's 1996-1997 Chairman,
Nick Heath. Dr Kantsler commented that Mr Heath had contributed to the
growth and change of Australia's oil and gas industry for 26 years.
"The
focus of his involvement with the industry has been in the Gippsland and
Cooper Basins and he has worked on oil and gas production, gas and LPG
marketing and occupational health and safety", Dr Kantsler said. "He has
been strongly committed to the work of APPEA over this period and his
leadership skills and willingness to take an industry perspective on issues
have been outstanding characteristics of his work for the Association."
PESA
ACT Branch Student Award
Natalie Sinclair has been awarded the PESA (ACT) Student Award for 2001.
Ms Sinclair is a student at the Australian National University's Department
of Geology, supervised by Clinton Foster of AGSO and Jonathan Clarke of
ANU. She is undertaking an Honors Degree on 'The Sedimentology, Paynology
and Environment of Deposition of the Mid-Kate Triassic Section of the
Challis Oil Field, North West Shelf, Australia."
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Marks For Trio
At the final event of April’s APPEA conference, PESA announced the winner
and runners-up of the annual ‘PESA Best Presented Paper’ award.
E.
Bekele (CSIRO), M. Johnson and W. Higgs of Chevron were judged winners
of the award, for the presentation of their paper ‘Numerical modeling
of overpressure generation in the Barrow Sub Basin, North West Australia’.
PESA
allocated two runner up awards, one going to M. Norvick of La Trobe University
and petroleum geoscience consultant, M. Smith, for their paper ‘Mapping
the plate tectonic reconstruction of southern and southeastern Australia
and the implications for petroleum systems’.
The
other runner up award went to H. Young and J. Hull of Woodside Energy
and N. Lemon of NCPGG, who presented the paper: ‘The mid-Cretaceous to
recent sequence stratigraphic evolution of the Exmouth-Barrow Margin,
Western Australia’.
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