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21st International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition

Australian conference focuses on how well-applied geophysical techniques help exploration companies make world-class discoveries

August 5, 2010 Future Discoveries are in our hands

The 21st International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition, sponsored by the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG) and the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA), runs August 22-26, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. The 2010 conference theme is ‘Future Discoveries are in our Hands’ with a focus on how well-applied geophysical techniques can help exploration companies make world-class discoveries.

Advanced geophysical methods are being used to characterize deeper prospects and complex fields, providing new insight and reducing risks within petroleum and mineral resource exploration. Conference presentations will include two Geosoft case studies demonstrating how the use of gravity interpretation and modelling is helping to resolve structural ambiguity and generate new opportunities in the Pedirka Basin in central Australia and in Canada’s Sudbury Basin.

The Geosoft case studies are:  A Gravity Case Study of the Podolsky Deposit, Sudbury Basin by Elizabeth Baranyi, Geosoft Geophysical Solutions Specialist on August 22, and Interpretation and Modelling of the Pedirka Basin (Central Australia) using Magnetics and Gravity by Christopher Bishop, Account Executive with Geosoft Australia on August 23.

The collaboration of two of Australia’s premier geoscientific bodies promises to make this conference an excellent forum for the resource exploration geophysics community. The ASEG is a society of 1,200 professional earth scientists specialising in the practical application of the principles of physics and mathematics to solve problems in a broad range of geological situations. The PESA, a non-profit association of oil and gas exploration professionals, promotes technical aspects of, and presents views on, the upstream petroleum industry in Australia.

More information on the 21st International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition is available online at www.aseg-pesa2010.com.au.