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Day One: Monday 17th August
| Day One | Day Two |
8.30
Registration & coffee
9.00
Opening remarks
9.10
KEYNOTE ADDRESS | South Australia developing world class energy assets
The Hon. Patrick Conlon, Minister for Energy, South Australia
9.30
South Australia’s portfolio of energy plays – A great state for investment
  • Petroleum explorers in the South Australian Cooper Basin sustained better than 40% commercial success and found their 100th oil field in 2008
  • South Australia's supportive investment frameworks and natural endowment in prospective hot rocks have attracted 97% of Australia's total investment in geothermal exploration and proof-of-concept projects to South Australian licenses
  • The Productivity Commission found PIRSA's onestop- shop is rated top by the upstream industry and is the benchmark for Australian regulators
Mr Barry Goldstein, Director, Department of Primary Industries & Resources SA - Petroleum & Geothermal
10.10
Morning tea

“Unless significant new oil fields are found, Australian domestic oil production could represent as little as 20 per cent of our consumption by 2015....an annual trade deficit of up to $27 billion.”

The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister of Australia, in Securing a sustainable energy supply for Australia's future, 2007 election policy.

DRILLING AND EXPLORATION UPDATES
10.40
Beach Petroluem – Drilling and exploration update
Reg Nelson, Managing Director, Beach Petroleum
11.10
Stuart Petroleum – Advancing development projects from a base in the Cooper Basin
Tino Guglielmo, Managing Director, Stuart Petroleum
11.40
Victoria Petroleum – Developing a growing portfolio of exploration targets and producing oil assets
John Kopcheff, Managing Director, Victoria Petroleum
12.10
PEL218 - Focus on the Cooper Basin
Philip Kelso, Chief Executive Officer, Bounty Oil & Gas
12.40
Lunch
TRANSPORT FUELS
1.40
Transport fuels alternatives
Chris Jenkins, Technical Manager, Uhde Shedden
GAS TO LIQUIDS
2.20
Outlook for Australian gas markets, prices and commercialization of gas assets for local and international sales
Graeme Bethune, Chief Executive Officer, EnergyQuest
3.00
The opportunities and challenges for gas transmission pipelines in South Australia's rapidly developing energy market
  • Serving the minerals boom
  • The domestic market
  • Adequacy of gas supplies
  • Impact of renewables
Ashley Kellett, President, APIA and General Manager SEA Gas
3.30
Afternoon tea
4.00
Central Petroleum Limited - Future Directions in CSG, UCG and GTL

Central Petroleum has the largest prospective acreage position in Australia with a vast range of conventional and unconventional oil and gas prospects, leads and plays with over 100 TCFG UGIIP and billion barrel UOIIP potential. Plans to monetise gas and oil discoveries by value adding processes prior to export from central Australia as well as potential to link with the existing dogmas and/or LNG market on the south eastern seaboard.

John Heugh, Managing Director, Central Petroleum
4.30
Case Study: Linc Energy’s investment in South Australia
  • Assessing Linc Energy’s recent decision to open its first commercial Underground Coal Gasification and Gas-To-Liquids plant in South Australia
  • How does UCG Work? The cost advantage of UCG to GTL
  • Plans for construction and development
Justyn Peters, General Manger - Government and Business Development, Linc Energy
5.10
Networking drinks
 
Day Two: Tuesday 18th August
| Day One | Day Two |
8.30
Morning coffee
9.00
Opening remarks

“CTL..will be very important…in the context of …securing Australia’s energy future.”

Martin Ferguson, Minister for Resources and Energy (2008 APPEA conference)

CTL - COAL TO LIQUIDS
9.05
Accessing development finance in a capital constrained world
  • The state of capital markets
  • Problem areas
  • Options available
Paul Taliangis, Chief Executive, Core Energy
9.40
Strike Oil - Realizing the energy potential within South Australia’s coal seam gas and coal to liquids resources
  • State significant energy projects in Strike Oil’s portfolio
  • Southern Cooper Project- Coal Seam Gas (CSG) and Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) potential
  • FuturGas Project- Coal to Liquids (CTL) and power potential
  • Projects that provide diversity and security of energy supply for SA
Simon Ashton, Managing Director, Strike Oil
10.20
Morning tea
10.50
The Syngas CTL Project in South Australia
Merrill Gray, Executive Director, Syngas Limited
11.30
An update on the Altona Energy Arckaringa coal to liquids and power project in South Australia
Chris Schrape, Managing Director, Altona Resour
WAVE / TIDAL
12.10
CASE STUDY | CETO - The World’s first base load wave energy power station
  • Wave: Australia’s untapped renewable energy resource
  • CETO: Australian invented and developed technology
  • Zero-emission, base-load, renewable energy plus zeroemission desalinated water
  • World first CETO commercial project
Mr Tim Sawyer, Site Development Manager, Carnegie Corporation
12.40
Lunch

“If we get it right South Australia will do very well in the renewables industries”

Prof. Ross Garnaut, author, Garnaut Climate Change Review

SOLAR
1.30
Wizard Power’s new pilot project in Whyalla to service the growing power needs of the region’s mining industry
Artur Zawadski, Manager, Business Development & Project Delivery, Wizard Power Pty Ltd
2.00
Concentrated solar power - The clean, solar solution to Australia's energy and water problems

Acquasol's ambitious solar/water project will represent the largest-scale such project ever built anywhere in a standalone municipal-scale facility

Michael Fielden, Managing Director, Acquasol Infrastructure Ltd
HOT ROCK
2.30
Exploring for and developing a portfolio of commercial geothermal energy projects
  • Petratherm’s unique approach to exploration for geothermal projects
  • Petratherm’s Heat Exchanger within Insulator (HEWI) model for heat exploitation
  • Paralana geothermal energy project
  • Challenges facing enhanced geothermal systems projects
Terry Kallis, Managing Director, Petratherm
3.00
Geodynamics - Progress to date and the road ahead
  • Outline of Geodynamics’ three stage business plan and the importance of geothermal energy for Australia
  • Review of the challenges faced and of significant achievements to date, in the development of energy from Geodynamics’ Cooper Basin HFR geothermal energy project
  • Overview of the road ahead – risks and rewards in the lead up to financial investment decision (FID)
Mr Gerry Grove-White, Managing Director, Geodynamics Limited
3.30
Afternoon tea
4.00
Geothermal energy – Constant base load power
  • Geothermal projects – the range, the issues and the risks
  • Geothermal energy – not just electricity production
  • Green Rock energy – building a diversified portfolio of geothermal projects
  • When will the cash-flow start?
Adrian Larking, Managing Director, Green Rock Energy
4.30
The Penola Project S.A. - Australia’s most advanced conventional geothermal energy development
  • The Penola Project is part of Panax’s Limestone Coast Geothermal project
  • A 4,000m deep production well is scheduled to spud in mid-2009
  • The Penola Project could become the first grid-connected commercial geothermal power plant in Australia
Bertus de Graaf, Managing Director, Panax Geothermal
5.00
Close of conference
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