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SEAAOC 2008, to be held 16-18 July at the Holiday Inn Esplanade, will review exploration and production
Australia has entered its biggest ever era of petroleum exploration as energy prices and demands for liquid natural gas escalate.
"We are in a unique position to reap enormous rewards from our resources," says APPEA Chief Executive Belinda Robinson, who will chair the first day of SEAAOC, northern Australia's largest and longest established petroleum conference, in Darwin in July.
SEAAOC, to be held 16-18 July at the Holiday Inn Esplanade, will review exploration and production as well as a number of other issues including energy security and environmental sustainability.
"We now have more than $100 billion worth of petroleum projects under development or in planning, and recognising the hurdles to achieving that potential, the new Rudd Government has signaled a strong willingness to partner with industry to get more gas projects off the ground," Ms Robinson said.
"The investment being considered is almost eight times the original investment in Australia's biggest ever resource project, the North West Shelf gas project based at Karratha."
She welcomed the announcement by Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson that the United Nations had agreed to extend Australia's territory by an area five times the size of France.
"Australia's crude oil and condensate production has declined from nearly 100 percent of Australia's needs in 2000 to just over 60 percent today and an anticipated 32 percent by 2017.
"With more area to explore for new oil and gas reserves comes more promise. The challenge will be to increase our knowledge of the petroleum prospectivity of these areas and encourage explorers into them."
SEAAOC will be held at a time of unprecedented interest from domestic and international companies in Australia's prospecting activity, and the announcement by the Federal Government of 35 new offshore petroleum exploration areas in Commonwealth waters.
According to ExxonMobil, demand for liquefied natural gas in the US and Europe will surpass Asian consumption by as early as 2015, while global LNG demand is set to triple between now and 2030.
A key speaker at SEAAOC will be Luluk Sumiarso, Indonesia's Director General of Oil and Gas, who will give an overview of oil and gas developments in Indonesia. Indonesia is a major producer, with state-owned Pertamina aiming to increase its crude oil output 28% to 183,000 barrels a day this year from 143,000 barrels in 2007. It also plans to increase gas output to 1.485 billion cubic feet a day from 1.114 billion cubic feet a day in 2007.
Robin Antrobus, Vice President External Relations, ConocoPhillips Australia will review achievements and future opportunities in northern Australia. Conoco Phillips operates the Bayu-Undan facility in the Timor sea, where a 502km subsea pipeline sends gas to the Darwin Liquefied Natural Gas plant to be converted to LNG for export to Asia.
Another key speaker is Eros Agostinelli, Managing Director of Eni Australia. Eni operates oil fields and is an active explorer, with exploration areas over 12,000 square km between the southern coast of Timor and the northern boundary of the Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA).
Chris Hart, Managing Director of MEO Australia, will review The Tassie Shoal LNG and methanol projects in the Timor Sea, as well as plans for exploration and production in the North West Shelf. MEO is undertaking extensive appraisal drilling to confirm gas reserves to underpin supply to the Tassie Shoal projects.
Other speakers will focus on key regional issues and trends in the petroleum sector, new projects and markets.
Australia's largest resources project is in the North West Shelf in Western Australia, where Woodside produces around 40 per cent of the nation's oil and gas.
In 2010, Woodside will complete construction of its $12 billion Pluto LNG Project near Karratha. In 2013 the proposed Sunrise LNG development in the Timor Sea will be completed and by 2015 the Browse LNG development in northern WA.
In the meantime, Santos, Australia's largest domestic gas producer, is to construct an LNG plant on Queensland's Curtis Island to process and export coal seam gas it will pipe from the state's Bowen and Surat fields, an investment totaling $7.7 billion.
SEAAOC this year is expected to surpass last year's event, which set a record with over 350 leading oil & gas professionals in attendance.
Date 23rd May 2008
The Organizing Committee of the 2008 International Pipeline Conference (IPC) is pleased to announce that Mr. Gerard Protti, Executive Vice-President, Corporate Relations, and President, Offshore & International Division, EnCana Corporation and Ms. Sheila Leggett, Vice-Chair of the National Energy Board (NEB) have agreed to Co-Chair IPC 2008 being held in Calgary from September 29 through October 3, 2008.
Mr. Protti and Ms. Leggett bring years of experience in the pipeline industry to this event which has become world-renowned as “the” pipeline conference to attend.
Ms. Leggett was appointed as a temporary Board Member of the National Energy Board in July 2006 and in September 2006 she was appointed as a Board Member. In January 2008, Ms. Leggett was designated Vice-Chair.
Before joining the National Energy Board, Ms. Leggett was a Board Member with the Natural Resources Conservation Board (NRCB) which conducts hearings into natural resource development projects in Alberta. She also served as Director of Operations for the NRCB. Prior to working with
the NRCB, Ms. Leggett was a vice-president and senior consultant with an environmental consulting firm. She also has experience as a project biologist and advisor focusing on soil remediation and reclamation programs.
Ms. Leggett has a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from McGill University and a Master’s degree in Biology from the University of Calgary. She has regulatory experience as well as a background in environmental issues and has published numerous papers and made presentations at conferences
across Canada.
In his Corporate Relations position, Mr. Protti is accountable for EnCana’s programs regarding corporate responsibility, environment, health and safety, as well as EnCana’s energy efficiency initiative and the Environmental Innovation Fund. In this role, he is also responsible for regulatory services and Aboriginal and government relations.
As President of the Offshore and International Division, Protti is accountable for EnCana’s international exploration and development activities and EnCana’s Atlantic assets including the Deep Panuke Natural Gas Development Project offshore Nova Scotia.
Mr. Protti is Chairman of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) Board of Governors, Co-Chair of the federal government’s Energy Sector Sustainability Table, and a member of the University of Alberta’s Board of Governors. He was the founding President of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), and Executive Director of the Independent Petroleum Association of Canada (IPAC).
Mr. Protti was born in Edmonton and received a Bachelor of Arts, Honours (Economics) from the University of Alberta in 1974, and a Master of Arts (Economics) from the University of Western Ontario in 1975.
The 7th International Pipeline Conference, the largest gathering of pipeline professionals in the world, will be held at the Hyatt Regency and TELUS Convention Centre this September. An anticipated 1300 delegates will have the opportunity to choose from over 300 quality papers in 13 Technical Tracks; listen to international keynote speakers and participate in a variety of panels, tutorials and poster sessions all pertaining to the future of the pipeline industry.
In conjunction with IPC, there will be an International Pipeline Exposition (IPE) with almost 200 exhibiting
companies from around the world showcasing the latest in equipment, technology and services.
For further details: Conference: www.InternationalPipelineConference.com Exposition: www.petroleumshow.com
Date 17th April 2008
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