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.