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Perth Branch

Professional Series: Managing your drilling campaign (Working with your contractor)

4
PD Hours

Join the Perth Branch for their October Professional Series event: Managing your drilling campaign (Working with your contractor).

About this event

This 4-hour Lecture is designed for those working, or intending to work, in the upstream end of the Resources Industry who are becoming directly or indirectly involved with the planning, costing and supervision of drilling operations.

Drilling is one of the most expensive components of any exploration and mining program, leading to Multi-level Feasibility Studies (Scoping, PFS & DFS). One of the most characteristic features of this course is to educate the resource professional in the intricacies of a drilling program; thus, keeping cost to a minimum and quality to a maximum.

Drilling is a data gathering exercise that needs to be economic and accurate. Reporting standards to investors and competent authorities demand this accuracy.

Focus:

The focus is on the means by which exploration managers, geologists and mining companies can identify, characterize, quantify and mitigate the risks associated with drilling operations.

Who Should be Interested?

National Resource Companies, Resource Managers, Exploration Managers, Investors, Bankers, Geologists, Engineers, Exploration Personnel, and Academics.

Outline

Part One

  • Drilling Fundamentals

Part Two

  • Planning,
  • Contracts,
  • Costing, and
  • Program Management

Part Three

  • Practical exercises

 

Speaker/s

EurIng Professor Colin Roberts

LLM, DJur(JD), PGDipICArb, BEng, PEng, CMinEng, CPetEng, CSci, FCIArb, FAusIMM(CP), FIMMM, FSAIMM, FEI, FAIE, FAIADR, MCIM, MIEAust, SPE
International Natural Resources Geo‐strategist
After military service, Colin started his resources career as a driller and then mining and petroleum engineer. He continued in the drilling industry for 28 years from the most junior to most senior roles.
His resources career spans over 50 years including the 28 years direct involvement in drilling operations for minerals, water and petroleum.
This experience ranges from actual drilling, using all techniques including diamond coring, rotary mud and air-percussion (conventional and reverse circulation) and surface and underground drill and blast, to supervision and management of large domestic and multi-national operations.
Col now practices as an International Natural Resources Geo‐strategist. He is an International Commercial and Investment Arbitrator, Chartered Petroleum Engineer, Chartered Mining Engineer, Chartered Scientist, Resources & Investment Legal Academic, Accredited International Commercial Mediator, Adjudicator, Expert Determiner and Dispute Board Member, with most of his experience in the developing world.

Colin is also a Professor at WASM: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering - Curtin University, a member of Raffles Chambers – London and Director of Natural Resource Geo‐Strategy (NRG), Resource Dispute Resolution (RDR), and the Centre for International Dispute Resolution (CIDR).

He now specializes in dispute resolution, mitigation of sovereign risk, advising governments in resources law and policy and facilitation of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the resources, energy, and infrastructure sectors. Fifty percent (50%) of Colin’s time is donated pro bono publico.

Colin holds, and has held, numerous public and private directorships, and among others was for eight years, the Honorary Investment Consul for Pakistan in Australia, Authorized Emissary for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) ‐ World Bank Group, Australian Consular Warden – Zambia, Past Chairman of the AusIMM‐WA, Past-Chairman of the Mining Institute of Scotland, Past‐Chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers–WA (SPE) and has served or is serving on committees and boards of Energy Resources Law (formerly AMPLA), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), Australian Institute of Energy (AIE), and others.

In his spare time, he serves as Patron of the International Bar Association (IBA), the AusIMM Professional Conduct Committee and the AusIMM Perth Branch Committee.
Location

Holiday Inn
778-788 Hay St
Perth WA 6000

Thursday, 10 October 2024
8.30am – 2.00pm (UTC+08:00)

Date and Time

Thursday, 10 October 2024
8.30am – 2.00pm (UTC+08:00)

Venue

Holiday Inn
778-788 Hay St
Perth WA 6000
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Cost

Member: $250
Non Member: $350
4
PD HOURS
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