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NZ Call For Papers

New Zealand's Department of Crown Minerals has issued a call for papers to be presented at the 2004 New Zealand Petroleum Conference, to be held at the Auckland Hyatt Regency Hotel from March 7th - 10th, 2004.

International and local experts will:
• Critically appraise New Zealand as an exploration destination
• Present state of the art papers on exploration and development within New Zealand's basins
• Consider the revision of the Minerals Programme for Petroleum
• Assess investment opportunities presented by New Zealand's fiscal regime
• Look at developments within the New Zealand petroleum industry
• Examine New Zealand gas supply and reticulation opportunities

Abstracts – up to 500 words – are to be emailed to crown.minerals@med.govt.nz by May 16th. For further details about the conference, log on to the www.crownminerals.govt.nz website or contact Melissa Hilton, phone 64-4472-0030 or email as above.

Perth Gas Conference

A two day conference to review new gas project developments in Australia will be held in Perth at the Sheraton Hotel on May 12th and 13th.

Major developments, including the Burrup Peninsula, Timor Sea, Northern Australia and PNG, and the Otway Basin will be discussed at the conference. Speakers will include representatives from Oil Search, Santos, Burrup Fertilisers, the Commonwealth Bank and Australia LNG.

For more details about the conference log on to the www.ibcoz.com.au/upstream website.

Indian O&G Symposiums

The 10th annual Indian Oil and Gas Review Symposium and international exhibition will be held at the Taj Lands End in Mumbai on September 8th and 9th, 2003.

About 80 papers will be presented covering the whole petroleum industry. Papers of a general nature covering semi-technical and economic issues will also be presented. The theme of the conference is 'New technologies and new needs with global overview in the petroleum sector'.

The organisers have called for the submission of papers by May 15th, 2003 by email, along with a brief CV and photograph. For further details contact technical coordinator, Manish Mohan at oilasia@vsnl.com. Topics, sub topics and abstract data forms are available from the website: www.oilasia.com/iors2003/callforpaper.htm

PESA Members Invited to Tasmania in 2004

The 17th Australian Geological Convention will be held in Hobart February 8th -13th , 2004, to coincide with celebrations for the bicentenary of the settlement of Australia's most beautiful city.

The theme, 'Dynamic Earth: Past, Present and Future', was chosen as a tribute to the role in tectonics and global geology of the late Professor S. W. Carey AO, Foundation Professor of Geology at the University of Tasmania, who died in March 2002 aged 90. Although best known for his pioneering work in continental drift, Carey worked for Oil Search in Papua New Guinea before World War II.

Scientific co-hosts are the Geological Society of Australia and the Geological Society of America. Peter Baillie (TGS-NOPEC, Perth) and Pat Quilty (University of Tasmania, Hobart) have agreed to co-chair Technical Session 2.1 on 'Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Exploration' which will held within Conference Theme 2 - Geology and Resources.

PESA members are invited to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentation - further information may be obtained from the 17th AGC website (www.17thagc.gsa.org.au).

Deadline for abstract submission is September 26th 2003.