LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IN 2002

2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
J. Fahey
Keyword(s):  
Energy Markets ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Native Title ◽  
The Past

This paper briefly describes a number of key legal developments in 2002 of significance to the petroleum exploration, development and production industry.There have been a number of varied legal developments in this field during the past year and this paper is not an exhaustive account of all of them. It does, however, provide an overview of selected developments during 2002 which are noteworthy. In particular:developments in relation to the Timor Gap;native title developments (specifically the Ward and Yorta Yorta decisions);implications arising from the COAG Energy Markets Review; andvarious legislative developments.

LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IN 2000

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
J. Fahey ◽  
D. Perks
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Competition Policy ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Work Program ◽  
The Past ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Production Industry

This paper briefly describes a number of legal developments in 2000 which may be of significance to participants in the petroleum exploration and production industry.There has been a number of varied legal developments in this field during the past year, and this paper is not an exhaustive account of all of them. Instead, an attempt has been made to provide an overview of selected developments during 2000 which are noteworthy. With this mind, this paper deals with the following matters:prospective East Timorese independence and the Timor Gap Treaty (focussing on practical arrangements);changes to the work program bidding system;commencement of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Legislation Amendment Act No 1 2000 (Cth);review of federal and state petroleum (submerged lands) legislation against competition policy principles;commencement of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth);reform of petroleum legislation in South Australia and Queensland; andgreenhouse reforms.In respect of the matters noted above, we have attempted to outline the implications for participants in the petroleum exploration and production industry.

Economic Reforms in Jamaica

1996 ◽  
Vol 38 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 97-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Danielson
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Budget Deficit ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
The Political ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Slow Response ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
The Past

AbstractThis paper briefly discusses the economic reforms that have taken place in Jamaica for the past 15 years and argues that the reforms, at least so far, are mixed, particularly with regard to the elimination of poverty. The basic problems are (1) a slow response of exports to large, frequent adjustments in the exchange rate, which prohibits low-wage labor, in the informal sector, from being absorbed into the formal sector; and (2) the large budget deficit, with the associated demands for large cuts in expenditures, which primarily affects the rural poor. It is suggested that the principal reason that reforms have been slow is because of the political price to be paid for unpopular measures in a competitive democracy

Public Safety Implementation of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Photogrammetric Mapping of Crash Scenes

2019 ◽  
Vol 2673 (7) ◽  
pp. 567-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Bullock ◽  
Robert Hainje ◽  
Ayman Habib ◽  
Deborah Horton ◽  
Darcy M. Bullock
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Mass Casualty ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Systems ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
The Past ◽  
Squared Error ◽  
Aerial Systems ◽  
Terrestrial Photogrammetry

Terrestrial photogrammetry using acquired images by a hand-held camera has been used for several years to map crash scene geometry. More recently, photogrammetric reconstruction from acquired images by an unmanned aerial system (UAS) has been proposed for crash scene mapping. Over the past year, the Tippecanoe County Sherriff’s Office has participated in three workshops with Purdue University, applied these skills in two training mass casualty exercises, and independently mapped five crash scenes in June and July 2018. This paper briefly reviews the training sessions, mass casualty exercises, and five crash scenes mapped by Tippecanoe County Sherriff’s deputies. The paper presents a comparison of both traditional ground-based and UAS-based photogrammetric mapping for two crashes in July 2018. The UAS procedures described in this paper are quite similar to current ground-based photogrammetric mapping. The UAS-based photogrammetric mapping derived measurements from eight identified crash scene markers and key features were found to be within 0.29 ft of field tape measurements, or with 0.4% or less relative error and a root mean squared error of 0.12 ft. We believe this paper will become important documentation in the literature that will provide public safety agencies with performance data to support their deliberation in investing in this new technology.

scholarly journals Trends in the development of psychiatric services in India

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohan Isaac
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Quality Of Services ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
The Past ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Primary Health Centres ◽  
Health Centres

Over the past five decades, services for the mentally ill in India have steadily improved. From a predominantly mental hospital based service, provision has now moved to general hospitals and primary health centres. A variety of factors have contributed to changes in the quality of services. This paper briefly reviews the changes and discusses the relevance of some of them.

PESA's 50 years—the rise and rise of technology

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 372
Author(s):  
John Begg
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Not For Profit

This paper presents an overview of the past 50 years of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA). PESA is a not-for-profit professional association for individuals involved in the oil and gas exploration industry.

NATIVE TITLE ISSUES AFFECTING PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION

1999 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
M.W. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Native Title ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Petroleum Companies ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
The Right ◽  
Offshore Oil

This paper focusses on onshore exploration and production because the right to negotiate does not apply offshore. However, the Native Title Act can be relevant to offshore oil and gas explorers and producers. First, where their area of interest includes an island within the jurisdiction of Western Australia. Secondly, in respect of land required for the facilities to treat petroleum piped ashore.Under the original Native Title Act the right to negotiate proved unworkable, the expedited procedure failed to facilitate the grant of exploration titles and titles granted after 1 January 1994 were probably invalid.The paper examines the innovations introduced by the amended Native Title Act to consider whether it will be more 'workable' for petroleum explorers and producers. It examines some of categories of future acts in respect of which the right to negotiate does not apply (specifically indigenous land use agreements, renewals and extensions of titles, procedures for infrastructure titles, reserve land, water resources, low impact future acts, approved exploration etc acts and the expedited procedure).Other innovations include the new registration test for native title claims, the validation of pre-Wik titles, the amended right to negotiate procedure, the State implementation of the right of negotiate procedure and the objection and adjudication procedure for grants on pastoral land.The response of each state and territory parliament to the amended Act is considered, as is the Federal Court decision in the Miriuwung Gajerrong land claim (particularly the finding that native title includes resources, questioning whether these resources extend to petroleum).The paper observes that the full impact of the new Act cannot be determined until the states and territories have passed complementary legislation and it is all in operation. However, the paper's preliminary conclusion is that it does not provide a workable framework for the interaction between petroleum companies and native title claimants.The writer's view is that the right to negotiate procedure is unworkable if relied upon to obtain the grant of a title. If a proponent wishes to develop a project in any commercially acceptable timeframe, it will have to negotiate an agreement with native title claimants. The paper's conclusion is that a negotiated agreement is the only way to cope with native title issues.

1999 EXPLORATION REVIEW

2000 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
W.F. Muir
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Offshore Drilling ◽  
Native Title ◽  
The Past ◽  
Exploration Drilling ◽  
High Level

Over the years, many issues have confronted the industry, and affected its approach to business. A brief analysis of seismic and exploration drilling levels over the past four decades demonstrates how marked these effects have been. During 1999, fewer wells have been drilled onshore in Australia than for any year since 1979. This is due in large part to the refusal of some State Governments to award newly gazetted acreage due to native title concerns. The solution required is a legislative one. Offshore drilling, however, is at a historically high level, and during 1999, had a success rate of one in five. Successes in both the onshore and offshore were restricted to currently producing basins.

A New Approach to Digital Process Control

1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 315-319
Author(s):  
K. R. R. Bowden
Keyword(s):  
Process Control ◽  
Digital Control ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Technical Conference ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Eastern Usa ◽  
Process Plants

In recent years, the application of digital computers to process control has been shown to have real advantages over the traditional analogue (electronic and pneumatic) techniques. However, there have often been severe practical difficulties which prevented the achievement of these advantages, and which have slowed down the acceptance of digital control, particularly for smaller systems. This paper briefly discusses the advantages, then examines the potential problems, of digital control. Then follows a description of a new system which is shown to provide most of the advantages of digital control, whilst avoiding the mysteries and difficulties which have been so common in the past. The author, Dr Romilly Bowden, was the prime operator in the early design, and in the subsequent development both in England and America, of the Diogenes project on which this article is based. The classical name for the process controller was coined, rather whimsically, at an impromptu technical conference somewhere over the eastern USA. The constant reference to diodes (as programming devices, mostly) evoked the response “It's positively diogenous!” (ie, full of diodes). From this it required very little to produce the name of the ancient Greek philosopher. Despite the high-flying etymology, in down-to-earth terms, systems are operating successfully in a variety of American process plants, and work is in hand for further systems in Europe.

scholarly journals The Great Wall: Urca Cooling Layers in the Accreted NS Crust

2018 ◽  
Vol 178 ◽  
pp. 04004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zach Meisel
Keyword(s):  
Neutron Star ◽  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Beta Decay ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Thermal Barrier ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
The Past ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
Urca Process ◽  
Great Wall

Accreting neutron stars host a number of astronomical observables which can be used to infer the properties of the underlying dense matter. These observables are sensitive to the heating and cooling processes taking place in the accreted neutron star (NS) crust. Within the past few years it has become apparent that electron-capture/beta-decay (urca) cycles can operate within the NS crust at high temperatures. Layers of nuclei undergoing urca cycling can create a thermal barrier, or Great Wall, between heating occurring deep in the crust and the regions above the urca layers. This paper briefly reviews the urca process and the implications for observables from accreting neutron stars.

scholarly journals Wik Peoples v State of Queensland: Extinguishment of Native Title

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Ogden
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
High Court ◽  
Native Title ◽  
The Past ◽  
To Come ◽  
High Court Of Australia

The 1996 decision of the High Court of Australia in Wik Peoples v State of Queensland  will be remembered by all as the first fruits of the Mabo  decision.  Wik is the first of many decisions that will challenge Australia as it attempts to come to terms with the past.  The Wik case introduces the possibility that native title may indeed survive 'extinguishment' or at the very least may be subject to mere 'impairment' when conflict arises.  This is a consequence of the re-conceptualisation of property rights that the practical outcome of the case necessitates.  This article explains the move from 'co-existence' of rights to 'impairment' of native title to the possibility of the revival of native title.

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