Could be Busier

Well Corvid19, not that I wished for it, but I was thinking a noticeable sea level rise would have been a Better Distraction than Trunpy doing fek all over the pond. As usual, the parasite swamp orange mould growth.

Not good for business
Not so freely available as the commitment is to the first one to call on my services. Please call or comment.

There maybe work down SW Victoria sometime soon, onshore with an ERD well, and maybe offshore as well. Fun times.

AVAILABLE 2018 

An Update on the career

Southwest Queensland

I am available for the rest of the year as a contract wellsite geologist Australia wide.

The last completed contract was with Real Energy Corporation, on a two well campaign program, appraising the Tamarama field, southwest of Eromanga, Queensland, about 4 km west of the Cocos field and north of the Mt Howitt field. I had been on quite a few wells in the district since the eighties and nineties, and welcomed the chance to do some more drilling in the area after many months out of the field and work.

The job started early April, and was completed by the end of May, doing the usual wellsite geologist chores, microscopy/fluoroscopy, reports, predicting formation tops, overseeing the mudloggers and the wireline contractor. 

The rig was a super single, very effecient drilling, but tripping- man oh man- so just as good as a triple anyway. 

According to the exploration geologist, it was a tough but good little job, and the company looks forward to getting the field developed. 

It was a very good work environment, the people all great at the jobs, and besides some little usual hiccups to be expected on any drilling/logging job, I enjoyed the opportunity and experience out there. helped to have the intenet on tap too! 

Seven weeks away- at one stage towards the end I thought I can stay out here for another well- next day- noo, not really, a break would be good.

To start the job, I flew to Charleville via Brisbane from Melbourne, and drove to the wellsite via an overnight at Eromaga pub. It was interesting to see the development of gas extraction fields west of Toowoomba to Eromanga- there is a lot of energy developmet to do yet out there. Pass it on, being a geologist and having a window seat at twenty thousand feet- or any altitude really- is one of the best seats for a geologist- or wanna be geomorphologist too!

As it was mid autumn, the weather was warm to cool day and night, some nights with excellent nightshots.

At Eromanga there is a dinosaur museum, a great place for a hour or two to visit, with some of the largest ones recovered from a paddock at a nearby cattle station. The bones were stumbled over by the owner's son a few years ago, he thought a boulder looked really different from others spread around.

There are some other great places to visit on the time off, including Hells Hole Gorge national Park a real surprise to explore, a few hours drive north.

The highways have plenty of cuttings, a chance to study the outcrops that were soon to be drilled through with the wells further west.

Available at this time 2017 as Wellsite Geologist Again

Available at this time 1st January 2017 as Wellsite Geologist A

Again, I can be contacted right now asap even, for contract work as the oil price appears to be rising against all possible odds.

After Trump gets into the office and local legislation tightens so that exploration efforts are far away places from home, times may become uneven but hope gets stronger, as bills chase the unfortunate and make one probably offer unbearably cheaper rates to would be clients.

Afterall, time and money are all in the imagination, some would say suffering is too? Nearly twelve months without alighting upon a working surface; funds, taxes and progeny are looking for support.

Ready to rock and roll!
heres Cheers for '17!

Clastic Depositional Systems: A Source-to-Sink Perspective. A PESA courses and lunch August 2015

PESA VIC/Tas Branch Short Course - 
Clastic Depositional Systems: A Source-to-Sink Perspective

Tony Ford Geo Con Pty.Ltd.

6 August at 16:00 · 

This week, I managed to get on a nice two day course in Melbourne, VIC:

PESA VIC/Tas Branch Short Course -
Clastic Depositional Systems: A Source-to-Sink Perspective
Tuesday, August 4 & 5
Conducted by Mike Blum, of Kansas Uni. Kansas, USA.

Twelve people attended this very interesting course, lively questions from the more academic side. The food was adequete, the coffee was a little boring.

Mike has had a varied professional life between academia and industry, and presented the course in a interesting manner, the material was good, but a few more attributes to track down material used easily would have been a little more helpful.

The material presented was given out on a little USB card- a great idea. There many pictures of Utah geology examples, and the videos presented were pretty good.

I enjoyed and appreciated the vourse, as did the other attendees. It gave me new insights into seismic interpretations of both fluvial and marine deposits- rivers, fans and deltas will never look the same again from an aeroplane window!. Sedimentology and geography, or GEOMORPHOLGY combined. Highly recommended.

Tony Ford Geo Con Pty.Ltd.

6 August at 16:03 · 

PESA Vic/Tas Branch August Technical Lunch - The Mississippi Delta: Subsidence, Global Sea Level Rise, Sediment Supply and the Future
Wednesday, August 5 @ 12:00

I attended another presentation by Mike Blum, and appreciated this technical talk very much. The wine was g

ood, the lunch not so much- but the format is changing, so we will see how that goes!

7 August 2015

An AAPG course was booked for the melbourne ICE AAPG/PESA conference in September.

And therefor I had to join as well. 

But / And now the field trips are cancelled. Hmm, industry not going that well.

Ready For Offshore Work Now

Ready For Offshore Work Now

This week, completed another medical in order to get a certificate to get offshore work, IE a Huet!

Helicopter Underwater Escape Traing

aka

BOISET which includes

•  Safety Induction 
• Helicopter Safety & Escape (Including EBS)
• Sea Survival
• Firefighting and Self Rescue

yay me, and for small fee, with like, no pain, no gain.

Thanks to support team there and those others out there or back here who look after me like Pete n Loise, Diana, without them, hard to get back into it.

Half way through latest contract in the desert

Half way through latest contract in the desert

Since February this year,  as a Consultant Wellsite Geologist [or even last September?], my latest contracts have been in central Australia, sorta.

Two in north east South Australia, one in central eastern Queensland and the latest desert jobs- three in south east Northern Territory with two wells left. Mostly all for different oil/coal exploration companies too.

The diary has another contract penciled in for August September in WA and offshore too. Which means upgrading or retraining anyway, like a HUET and other necessary paperwork. I would like to have been in on an exploration/development well closer to home, but then I would have to cut the current job by a well- and there is no way I would do that.

More work. Meaning more time from home and family. Life goes on.

I like that I have been able to perform to the job expectations, meaning the feeling I get - "imposter", arises as the work is done. Somehow I feel "yes- but did I do it properly?" And to fly back out to a job- Yes I have.

FUD is seemingly a rational thought too, and recognising it and over whelming that FUD is a victory, as the work completed to date shows. Ten years out of the Oil Patch and plopping back in and working competently is rewarding, and the latest? Well? Half way latest contract in the desert has to speak for itself. I anm expecting to book another flight pretty soon.

Tony Ford Geo Con P.L.

A new consultancy-  Tony Ford Geo Con P.L.

As of February 21, I am the director of Tony Ford Geo Con P.L.

Consultant Wellsite Geologist.

to be continued

because
De daaa....

Northern Territory- here we come!

Wells since 1983

All the wells I have ever been to, date, client, position, location and the rigs types between 83 to 96 with Sclumberger and Halliburton up to 2000
no's 170 something or Latest Wells
TEDDH-1 for GreenPower Energy Australia, East Trafalgar, West Gippsland, Victoria
Yallourn Power-1 for Lakes Oil Pty Ltd, north of Morwell, Gippsland, Victoria
Pirie-01 Cooper Basin for Tellus/PNC, Inamincka area, easterly on the Coopers Creek almost.



Geology Career   Formal CV

Agenda October to November '13

Agenda October  to November 2013

The desert Job

Doug Short has me along as his off-sider for my third job as consultant. No contracts except handshakes so far, lots of travel food and beer along with a Grand Final.

Waiting for spud and beds at the site. Innamincka, Copley, bed stops along the way- Big Stars, big trucks.

WIll have to investigate graphics programs to do composite logsStarted the desert job end of September, looks like will finish end of October.

Job is north of Moomba, and I am consulting wellsite geologist- night shift. An old friend and colleague, Doug Short is the senior man of the desert job- I consider him as The Mentor, his experience is fantastic, and he
keeps you amused as well.

Updated Linked-In profile, and started another web site for self promotion at this site, a Facebook spin off?

There was a message from a group boss about work in Gippsland next year, so not worrying too much about that yet, nice to have a network growing out there. Wondering whether chasing up insurances have been a great idea, joining a group might mean good money not used well next year- will see what the contract is all about.

That's about the Agenda October  to November '13

Agenda October '13

Agenda October '13

Looks like a shared desert job in the old oil and gas hunting fields out of Moomba for October.

A little trip to Adelaide, then a shared drive with an old mate up north for a few weeks consultant wellsite geologist work, probably night shift or shared day work, some reports and inspections, pick a zone, all the usual.

Complete the hole, drive back south , then visit a few old friends if the old phone numbers still work, and a favourite winery visit in the Barossa, maybe a sail down the coast.

Nothing else new on the horizon past December at the moment; one of my first clients is not contactable, and I know there is some work by them coming up... A bit worried.

Ready now to be independent consultant wellsite geologist, with public liability extended, just waiting on the PI.

That's the Agenda October folks, wish me luck!