Congratulations to Dr Stuart Clark (University New South Wales) for receiving funding in resource exploration

Congratulations to Dr Stuart Clark who is the recipient of around Aus$440,000 of funding which will be used to build new software aimed at improving exploration both onshore and offshore Australia. The software will be known as Kinematica, a rapid resource exploration product. The ARC said it hoped the software could become "highly commercialised" and "transfer knowledge from European industry and universities to Australia." Under the industry collaboration, Dr Clark will work with two oil and gas companies, South Australia's Santos and Norway's Lundin, as well as the University of Sydney and LMU Munich to develop and create the software which will then be applied across frontier basins, including the Canning Basin.

May 29, 2020

Dr. Stuart Clark (UNSW) in collaboration with Prof. Hans-Peter Bunge (LMU Munich) 
has been awarded $445,000 from the Australian Research Council to build a new
workflow for improving resource exploration evaluation by Australian and European
companies and applied to three practical industry cases in frontier basins. The
expected outcomes of this proposal are: detailed risk analysis of energy resources
in frontier basins onshore and offshore; a new strategic collaboration between
industry, government and universities; students trained in advanced computational
methods suitable for the evolving energy industry; and a software product that has
a high commericalisation potential. The project will exchange knowledge between
industry, government agencies and universities in Europe and Australia and has
applications for mineral prospectivity in sedimentary basins. https://www.energynewsbulletin.net/exploration/news/1387567/santos-lundin-and-unsw-collaborate-on-frontier-basin-research