AAPG Regional Distinguished Lecturer Tour 2008 – Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand
Associate Professor Bruce Ainsworth from the Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide was this year's AAPG Regional Distinguished Lecturer. His talk focussed on the prediction of reservoir compartmentalization in marginal marine deposits. The trip took in nine cities in total starting in Perth in mid August and finishing in his home city of Adelaide in early September. He also visited Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Auckland, New Plymouth and Sydney.
Whilst in Port Moresby, Bruce also had the honour of representing PESA in a handover ceremony for a new field vehicle for the Earth Sciences Division at the University of Papua New Guinea. The vehicle was provided by kind donations from Exxon, Oil Search, PESA and SPE.
Bruce would like to thank the AAPG for sponsoring the tour and also PESA for co-funding the Australian leg of the trip. He is also very grateful to all those AAPG and PESA members who took time out of there busy schedules to host him in their home towns, for the challenging post-lecture questions and the long lasting memories only a tour such as this can generate.
Key handover ceremony for the new field vehicle (in background) for the Earth Sciences Division at the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby (25 August 2008). Left to right: William Kupo (Manager Community Affairs, Oil Search), Patrick Henretty (General Manager, Exxon), Vice Chancellor, Professor Ross Hynes (University of Papua New Guinea), Associate Professor Bruce Ainsworth (PESA Representative), Mick McWalter (SPE WA Section Representative).
AAPG Regional Distinguished Lecturer Tour 2008 – Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand
18 Aug: Perth
20 Aug: Melbourne
21 Aug: Canberra
22 Aug: Brisbane
25 Aug: Port Moresby
27 Aug: Auckland
29 Aug: New Plymouth
1 Sept: Sydney
23 Sept: Adelaide
About the Publication
Ainsworth, R.B. 2008. Compartmentalization Prediction in Marginal Marine Deposits: Sequence Stratigraphic-based Insights from 3D Reservoir Modelling Studies. AAPG Regional Distinguished Lecture, August-September 2008. Perth, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Auckland, New Plymouth, Sydney, Adelaide.