Bridging the frontier: Transferable Geophysics for Energy and Minerals

Geoscience Australia

Geoscience Australia

BHP

Rock Flow Dynamics (RFD)

Overview
The minerals and oil & gas sectors are among the world’s largest and most technically complex industries, operating globally across challenging geological environments where uncertainty and risk are inherent. Despite differences in commodities and value chains, the two sectors face many shared subsurface problems: structurally and stratigraphically complex geology, limited and uneven data coverage, and the need to integrate multiple geophysical and geological datasets across scales. As traditional provinces mature and exploration shifts toward deeper, more remote, or more subtle targets, both industries increasingly rely on new technologies, innovative workflows and new ideas to unlock frontiers and sustain discovery and value creation.

A common challenge underlying these efforts is the need to move beyond traditional data interpretation methods toward insight driven decision making. Improvements in acquisition, processing, and sensing technologies have dramatically increased the volume and diversity of available data, but value is only realised when this data is translated into sound geological understanding and informed decisions. Successful exploration and resource development depend on integrated workflows that combine physics-based interpretation, uncertainty analysis, and data analytics with business outcomes. Closing the gap between data, insight, and decision is essential for improving efficiency, reducing risk, and accelerating learning in both the hydrocarbon and mineral fields.

This joint ASEG–SEG workshop aims to bring together geoscientists, practitioners and decision-makers across the hydrocarbon and mineral domains to share proven as well as emerging, transferable geophysical methods, technologies and workflows that are often common in principle but applied differently to solve shared problems. Through case studies, technology examples, and open discussion, the workshop aims to highlight opportunities for cross sector learning, inspire innovation through integration of ideas, and demonstrate how shared approaches can be adapted to different resource contexts. Ultimately, this workshop aims to promote geoscience collaboration and knowledge transfer that support more efficient, value driven exploration and development across the broader energy and resources landscape.

What are the learning outcomes?
To have a better appreciation and understanding of transferable workflows and technologies applicable across the mineral, hydrocarbon, exploitation and exploration domain. This workshop aims to promote geoscience collaboration and knowledge transfer that support more efficient, value driven exploration and development across the broader energy and resources landscape.

Who should attend?
Geologists, geoscientists, practitioners and decision-makers.