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Scaling Companies to Exit or Legacy – What's the Magic?
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Time: 6:00pm-8:30pm
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Companies go through three phases according to Cringely. In the first phase, early employees are like commandos establishing a beachhead – special forces who take on impossible tasks. In the second phase, companies grow rapidly and take on ambitious yet less extreme employees – more akin to infantry than commandos. In the third phase, companies stabilize and take on more peaceful, risk-averse staff who are more like police than infantry.
Few companies make it to the finals, can we define and quantify the steps along the way? How important is leadership? How important is funding? Where does all the discussion of knowing when to pivot come into play? What about advisors and employees? What can companies in different phases learn from each other?
Please join ACG Silicon Valley for an exciting evening as our decorated panel of veterans share their experience.
Our Distinguished Panel
Dr. Charles M. Geschke
Chairman of the Board
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Dr. Charles Geschke co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr. John Warnock, driving technology innovations that forever transformed how people create and consume content across every screen. A respected and inspiring industry leader, Geschke was instrumental in developing some of the software industry's most pioneering technologies.
Through his vision and passion, Geschke helped build Adobe from a start-up into one of the world's largest software companies. He was chief operating officer of Adobe from December 1986 until July 1994 and president from April 1989 until his retirement in April 2000. Geschke served as chairman of the board with Warnock from September 1997 to January 2017. Today, he and Warnock remain members of Adobe's board of directors.
Prior to co-founding Adobe, Geschke formed the Imaging Sciences Laboratory at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and was a principal scientist and researcher at Xerox PARC's Computer Sciences Laboratory.
Among many awards, Geschke, along with Warnock, was the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the nation's highest honors bestowed on scientists, engineers and inventors. Geschke holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University as well as a master's degree in mathematics and an A.B. in classics, both from Xavier University.
Katharine (Coco) Brown
Athena Alliance
With broad experience across F1000 companies, start-ups, and nonprofits in the roles of CEO/President, COO, advisor, and Board member, Coco possesses a unique understanding of the breadth of challenges and opportunities of leadership. She has deep expertise in building the links between a company's strategy and the organizational design and environment required to execute successfully.
In the spring of 2016, Coco founded and became CEO of The Athena Alliance, an organization dedicated to advancing diversity in the boardroom with a robust membership and match delivery model anchored in her deep connection to community building, executive consulting, and professional services. Coco's genuine and strong industry relationships and ability to articulate and drive value have resulted in over $1,000,000 in contributions in just under two years and a network of over 1000 C-Level women, VCs, and CEOs from over 100 companies including Microsoft, Autodesk, Intuit, OpenView Venture Partners, Accenture, Deloitte, and PwC. Athena's model integrates into and guides the intimate networks through which boards seek directors. It also offers high-touch, white glove executive coaching to the top 10% of female leaders nation-wide.
In addition to leading Athena, Coco is an Executive Advisor to c-suite executives and their teams, guiding strategy and execution. She designs and runs the visioning, organizational design, and strategic planning process, with notable clients including FireEye, Honeybook, Jitterbit, GlobeTouch, Riverbed, and SGI.
Prior, Coco served as President, COO and Board Director of Taos, a prominent in IT Services business, serving hundreds of F1000 companies such as Apple, Cisco, eBay, Facebook, and Silicon Valley Bank.
Manuel Terranova
CEO & President
Peaxy, Inc.
Peaxy CEO and President Manuel Terranova is a technology veteran with a long track record of bringing emerging technologies to market. He has a broad range of P&L and technical leadership experience in oil and gas, subsea equipment, software application development, pipeline inspection robotics, telemetry systems and IT infrastructure.
Before co-founding Peaxy, Terranova was a Senior Vice President at General Electric's Drilling and Production business, where he led a $5.2 billion portfolio. In that role he managed the company's commercial and regional resources worldwide, which included the creation of a $200 million subsea equipment joint venture in sub-Saharan Africa. During his 13 years at GE, he led a number of successful software development efforts, including a GIS software business, remote pipeline monitoring and SupportCentral, a knowledge-based portal he co-founded that grew to become the company's second most used application worldwide. Terranova served as CIO of GE's Oil & Gas division from 2002 to 2006. In that role he led efforts to migrate the entire business from legacy applications to ERP and a contemporary application stack.
Jeff Immelt awarded him the Chairman's Award for Technology and Innovation in 2010. That year—as head of GE's subsea portfolio—he led a series of successful product launches, including a remotely enabled subsea control system that set industry records for market-share gains in a single year.
Sanjiv Goyal
Droisys, Inc.
Sanjiv is an active angel investor with a successful high-tech portfolio. Sanjiv has been pivotal in mentoring promising new entrepreneurs and has won awards for several of his innovations; most note-worthy, is the location based contesting platform. Every single bottle of Heinz ketchup served in restaurants is labeled with it. He has architected first automatic vehicle location system of Singapore in 1996, since then he is focused on Innovation.
As Angel Investor, he is looking for startups leveraging mobile in Digital marketing, Retail, Healthcare, Gaming, Hospitality. He has invested in Vriti, Fanminder, Admaxim, Appgravity, Gameloot, Raffity, Ebsavvy, Pregame, Mobifusion, Edseva, Demars Group, Mobiglue, Pyxa, SampleUP, iShopthrifty, Mobiglue, and Direct 401K.
He believes in supporting our youth and focuses his philanthropic duties on children's charities.
Sanjiv holds Master's degree in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India.
Our Distinguished Moderator
Quin Garcia
Managing Director
Auto Tech Ventures
Quin has a passion for forming ground transport startups, assembling teams of complementary people, raising capital, and growing via partnerships with corporations. He was part of the founding team at Better Place, responsible for partnerships with automakers and auto parts suppliers while living in Israel, Japan, and China.
Prior to that, he was a management consultant at Strategic Management Solutions, serving automaker and consumer electronics clients. While earning his MS degree in Management Science and Automotive Engineering from Stanford, he worked at Stanford's Dynamic Design Lab developing autonomous vehicles.
While earning his BS degree in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell, he was a leader of the Cornell Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team.
Quin previously served as board member of Connected Signals and served as board observer of IQTaxi. He also served as board advisor for Peloton Technologies and Lyft.


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Necessity isn't the mother of invention….laziness is! Or at least it seriously has a role to play! Think about it ~ who has the most to "gain" from inventing an easier way to do something? (Deep down inside I am a very laid-back, lazy person. It has only been because I am also a people-pleaser that I have become something different, because it is what is expected of me.)
On the day I set out to make a vegan version of a Mounds Bar, I did my internet recipe research to see what everybody else had done. Oh, my mouth was watering! I wanted one of these. I played with the ingredients list and melted my chocolate chips. I got everything ready and tasted the coconut filling. Yes, it all tasted good, even if it wasn't exactly like the recipes I'd found online.
My cute little mini-muffin liners (purchased on impulse who knows when from who knows where) were all separated and the plan was to make little layers from the chocolate and coconut mixtures. And then I looked at the clock. I looked everything I had laid out. I thought about how long this was going to take and what a mess I was likely to make. (And how long it would take to write about.) There had to be a better way.
On a whim, I stirred half of the lovely coconut mixture into the melted chocolate. Not enough. I dumped in the rest of it and stirred madly. I got a little spoon and tasted. Hmmm. Not bad. I started filling all of the cute little muffin cups that were in an 8″x8″ pan (alas, no mini-muffin pan.) At the end there was extra chocolate-coconut stuff, so I filled the papers to the very top. There was still left-over melted candy. I had a few more tiny muffin papers, but this time I put them on a cookie sheet so that they weren't as squished as the others were. Maybe the end product would look prettier. I didn't fill these to the top, either, to see if that was more aesthetically pleasing. (Actually, buying some nice candy molds is highly recommended for this sort of thing, but I've never been able to justify the space they will take in my cupboards.) When they were complete, there still was extra melted gooey yumminess left.
I cast about in my mind. I could just eat what was left with a spoon….No, probably not a good idea. I mentally peeked into my baking cupboard remembering there were no full-sized muffin papers in there. What to do…what to do. A light bulb went off. I pulled out a piece of waxed paper, scooted the smaller candies over to one end of the cookie sheet, and spread the waxed paper across the other end. I poured the remaining candy out, but it was so thick that it just stayed in a pile. Spreading it out worked very well. I made it pretty thin so that it can be broken once it's chilled.
During a taste-testing session, my teens declared all of them delicious! My favorite was the bark version. R's was the thick fudgy version. J's? You guess it ~ ALL of them. 😀 The next day I served them to the whole family and everybody liked them. We decided the muffin papers were a nuisance to peel, so molds are now on my to-buy list.
Mounds Bars…er…Bark?
- 3 c. vegan semi-sweet chocolate chips (I used Trader Joe's)
- 2 c. unsweetened finely shredded coconut
- 1/3 c. virgin coconut oil (decrease to 1/4 c. or less to make into bark)
- 1/2 c. honey or other liquid sweetener
- dash of salt
- splash or two of vanilla
Melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler (or in a metal bowl set on top of a saucepan ~ this is what I actually use.) Mix the remaining ingredients together*. Decide you are much too lazy to form cute little Mounds bars or any such thing. Once the chocolate chips are melted completely, mix the coconut mixture into the chocolate and stir (*or if you know ahead of time you will skip the fancy stuff, throw all the ingredients into the melted chocolate without pre-mixing it.) Drop into molds, muffin papers, or spread out on waxed paper. Chill. Break into bark, pop out of molds, or peel out of papers. Eat. Smile. 🙂

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As well as being an excellent option for food pairing experimentation, St. Stefanus also makes for a fine ingredient. From stews to pasta dishes, it's able to add a layer of richness and complexity that you just can't find anywhere else. And this delicious risotto is no exception. Try it for yourself and share your creation on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
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- Salt
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Amitabh Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit find a place in Pakistan elections 2018
Lahore, July 25: In an election in Pakistan, the mention of anything Indian generally comes up with a negative tone. The aspiring power-holders find a favourite recipe of success through bashing India and stir up a nationalistic fervour.
But in this year's election, though there were known instances of candidates attacking India, but there were also occasions when India helped the power seekers with its non-political appeal. For example, Bollywood.
Although Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan recently accused India of trying to weaken Pakistan, one of his party candidates contesting this election put up images of Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and popular actress Madhuri Dixit on the poster seeking votes for Wednesday.
The poster featuring the two iconic Indian actors reportedly came out in Multan in Punjab, according to a Twitter user, said Daily Pakistan.
The Twitterati, from across the border, was glad to see the two artistes making a space in the election posters in Pakistan. Bollywood has a huge fan following in Pakistan and it continues to win hearts despite the two countries' political animosities and periodic targeting of the media and its people on both sides of Wagah.
Just another normal election campaign in Pakistan @SrBachchan @MadhuriDixit @juniorbachchan pic.twitter.com/CjUHbEBAxg— Hamza Javaid (@Dudefrom87) July 21, 2018


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No matter if you're shooting landscapes or portraits, it seems that almost all outdoor photographs suffer from the same disease when they come out of the camera.
The most common issues you'll face almost every time you shoot something outdoors are overly bright skies, foregrounds that are too dark and a general lack of contrast and vibrancy.
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In case you like the original colours and you just want to enhance them a little bit, you can simply pull the vibrance slider to the right. This slider is designed to focus on colours that are less saturated and it lets you increase the overall saturation of your colours without overdoing any of them.
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Lack of contrast and too much contrast are common issues in outdoor photography and they occur whenever lighting conditions are less than ideal.
If you want to increase the contrast in your photo, you should simply pull the contrast slider to the right a little bit. You shouldn't go too far, because it will make your image look unnatural or you will lose a lot of detail.
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You have surely noticed that many outdoors photos taken on a bright sunny day have overly bright skies. This issue usually ruins the entire photo, no matter how good it is in terms of composition.
There are two ways to deal with this – you can start using polarizing filters or you can learn some useful tricks in Lightroom. In the best case scenario, you can combine these two strategies for optimal results.
In order to fix bright skies in Lightroom, you should go to the blue slider (under the colour header) and make sure the luminance tab is selected just above the colours. When you decrease the luminance of the blues in your picture, this will make the colour of your sky a deeper, richer blue. Simple as that!
You should see a vast improvement in your outdoors photos after applying these 5 simple tips. In case you'd like to learn more about editing landscapes and outdoor portraits, you can check out the following links!


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The incredible installation piece Walk Among Worlds at Nuit Blanche in Toronto was one of my favourite artistic structures this year. Each of the 7,000 beach-ball-globes, brought to shape by human breath, are meant to represent one million of the Earth's inhabitants. This project appeared as part of the possibility of everything exhibition.
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Potential impacts of poor communication on early diagnosis of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder
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Cummins, D, Waters, D, Aggar, C & O'Connor, CC 2018, 'Potential impacts of poor communication on early diagnosis of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder', Journal of Advanced Nursing, vol. 74, no. 6, pp. 1342-1348.
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Aim: To ascertain whether community-based healthcare providers were collecting appropriate information to identify patients at risk of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder and whether related documentation was complete.
Background: HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder is a treatable neurological condition that can affect more than 20% of those infected with the HIV. Signs and symptoms of cognitive impairment may be subtle; therefore, documentation of medical and social information could be beneficial in identifying those at risk.
Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study.
Methods: An audit of patient records was completed by two community-based interdisciplinary teams with particular attention to the documentation of clinical and social indicators for those at risk of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder. Data were collected over weeks during 2015.
Results: Data were retrieved from both electronic medical record systems and hard copy patient records. Documentation was incomplete in every patient record (N = 262), including the absence of important clinical data relating to nadir CD4 + T-cell count (91%), HIV viral load (36%), current caregiver (19%), and living circumstances (14%). Up to 40% of recorded medications and results were uncon- firmed by the person's medical practitioner.
Conclusion: Poor documentation can lead to incomplete information, which can delay early intervention for those at risk of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder. Collection and recording of patient data needs to be consistent, as complete documentation is essential for integrating care, provision of clinical support and, importantly, for identifying those at risk of developing HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder


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Section 54 The Modern Slavery Act 2015 includes a requirement for businesses with a turnover of more than £36m to publish an annual statement. However, as previously reported by Drapers, compliance has been poor.
The Home Office is now writing to chief executives of 17,000 business warning that failure to comply could risk them being named as being in breach of the law.
Asos, Burberry Group, Stella McCartney and Ted Baker are amongst the estimated 60% of companies to have published a statement.
Minister for crime, safeguarding and vulnerability, Victoria Atkins said: "Some business are leading the way, but too many are still failing to meet their basic legal obligations."
"It is horrible to think some of the goods and services we buy could have been produced by someone forced into modern slavery, and as global leaders in the fight against modern slavery, we will not tolerate it."
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The connections of Heroic Valour (Fastnet Rock-Myrrh, by Nassipour) will make a decision tomorrow morning as to whether or not the boom Kiwi colt will run in the Gr1 Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes on 2 April, reports theinformant.co.nz. The Australian-bred son of Fastnet Rock, who is a half-brother to Gr1 Doncaster Handicap winner Triple Honour, extended his unbeaten record to three when scoring a last stride victory in the Gr1 Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie last start. "We just need to decide whether or not he needs another run this season," co-trainer Stephen Autridge said. "We're 50-50 at the moment." He added: "He's stayed in work, he hasn't missed any training or anything like that and we've been happy with him. We just need to do what's best for the horse."


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To close that post I mentioned that I'd heard of an upcoming movie that will be a parody/tribute to 50s monster flicks, and thought no more about it. El Guapo is much more thorough than I am in these things–the movie trailer he hunted down made him question my implied endorsement. He sent it to me, I started to watch it, and bailed in the first minute. I don't know how bad it gets, but I sure don't want anyone wading into it on my say-so.
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I don't mean for that to happen here. Suffice it to say that neither of the were-films mentioned have been screened, and that your time will be better spent on almost anything else. If you watched the trailer already and you're miffed at me for having caused it to cross your path, my humblest apologies.
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Power has been restored in the village of Andover and crews have now moved over here.
National Grid just updated their restoration time for the Whitesville area to 8pm tonight! Let's hope it happens!
Shout out to line crews, who have worked through the night to restore services! Also, the Whitesville Fire Department and Independence town highway for their diligent efforts to keep the roads clear for safe travel!
The Independence Police department has been out doing welfare checks on our citizens and property checks, as well. We appreciate all of you, and everything you do for our community!
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Most Apple watchers expect the company to unveil a number of new iPhone models and a release date for its next iOS operating system during the event, held at the company's slick Apple Park headquarters. It could expand the iPhone X design and naming across its entire phone lineup, with more sizes, colors and price points, according to Bloomberg. The Apple Watch and Air Pods could also get a refresh.
The company follows a rhythm with its smartphone announcements, unveiling a major upgrade every other year, and minor updates in off years. Last year, though, it skipped the minor update to mark the device's 10-year anniversary. Instead of an iPhone 7s, it jumped straight to an iPhone 8 and an iPhone X (for the number ten, not the letter). It remains unclear how the company will handle device naming going forward.
The invitation doesn't give many hints. Its art, like time, is a flat circle. It says "Gather round" underneath a rose gold colored halo that looks like the rings around Saturn. Or the activity rings on an Apple Watch.
The timing of Apple's fall announcement has become as predictable as the event itself. Apple has in each of the past six years hosted a press conference in early September to announce a new iPhone.
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The Campbell Plateau is a large submerged block of continental crust lying to the east and southeast of the South Island of New Zealand. This block was originally part of Gondwanaland and several tensional basins formed within it during its separation from Antarctica (Davey, this volume). Four of these basins have commercial potential for hydrocarbons. They are the Canterbury, Great South, Pukaki and Campbell Basins (Fig. 6.5)
The Canterbury Basin lies to the east of the alpine area of the South Island and continues up to 150 km offshore to water depths of up to 1,500 m. Overall, the basin covers some 48,000 km2 with a maximum thickness of over 5 km of sediment and average of 3 km. This would suggest that there is a potential for some 3 x 108 m3 oil equivalent to be found in the basin based on world average figures.
Because of the great water depths of the eastern side of the basin, exploration has been limited to the western onshore and the continental shelf sectors. Extensive exploration seismic profiles have been carried out on the continental shelf but the deeper parts of the basin have only had limited reconnaissance seismic work. However, this is sufficient to delimit the extent of the basin. Seven wells have been drilled in the area with three onshore and four offshore. The onshore wells
showed that the potential reservoirs had been flushed with fresh water but two of the offshore wells did have good condensate and gas shows present. Galleon-1 proved sub-commercial reserves of 4 x 108 m3 gas and 0.2 x 106 m3 of condensate.
From geochemical studies of the condensate, the source of the oil appears to be terrestrial organic material suggesting that the coal measure sequence has provided the hydrocarbons. Studies also show that the Palaeocene marine shales are rich enough to be potential source rocks for hydrocarbons in the area.
The potential reservoirs for the area lie in the sandstones of the Late Cretaceous coal measures and the Palaeocene to Eocene marine sandstones.
The marine mudstones and non-marine shales associated with the reservoir sands would provide a good sealing cap rock for the structures. From the studies carried out by the oil industry, maturation levels for the generation of hydrocarbons would be reached at around 2,800-3,600 m.
The stratigraphy includes a broadly transgressive sequence of synrift and early post-rift coal measures and conglomerates followed by marine sandstones, mud-stones and finally limestones. A strong regional unconformity within the Oligocene limestone separates this lower transgressive sequence from an overlying regressive sequence of marine siltstones and sandstones that filled the western part of the basin during the Neogene orogenic uplift of the Southern Alps. Local episodes of volcanism occurred at intervals throughout the basin's history.
As the lower transgressive sequence onlapped to the west, stratigraphic pinch-out structures are present in combination with the extensional faulting. This faulting is not normally observed above the Palaeocene sequence. However, reverse movement occurred on pre-existing fault zones during the beginning of the Miocene giving rise to anticlinal structures. The third kind of structures found in the basin are those associated with volcanic doming.
The Great South Basin lying southeast of the South Island is the largest of New Zealand's sedimentary basins. It covers about 85,000 km2 with all but a few hundred km2 offshore (Fig. 6.5) and extends to water depths of up to 1,500 m. However, two-thirds of the basin lies in the water depths less than 1,000 m. The maximum sediment thickness is 7.5 km with an average of around 4 km. Using world average figures this would suggest that reserves of 6.5 x 108 m3 oil equivalent should be present. Commercial exploration of the basin began in the mid 1960s. The information base for the area now includes more than 50,000 km of seismic profiles and eight offshore wells. These wells have confirmed some potential for the basin, with shows of gas and condensate in two wells together with the sub-commercial test of 1.9 x 10s m3/day gas and minor amounts of condensate at Kawau-1A.
Unfortunately, a large percentage of the basin is in water deeper than 500 m and ranges up to 350 km from land (Fig. 6.5). To be commercial, any field will therefore have to be in at least the giant category of reserves.
The Great South Basin is a fault-controlled basin. The majority of the faulting appears to have been active up to the Palaeocene but not since. The basin floor is block faulted in a series of horst and graben structures, typical of tensional tectonics. The tensional nature of the faulting around the whole basin, the trend of the basin parallel to the eastern margin of the Campbell Plateau and its timing all suggest that the basin had its origin as the response to the crustal thinning under the plateau during the separation of the region from Antarctica.
The sedimentary sequence contains over 5 km of mainly Cretaceous and Early Tertiary rocks. These consist of thick basal coal measures and fluvial deposits overlain by a Late Cretaceous to Eocene marine clastic sequence. By the Oligocene, the source of clastic material was removed from most of the basin and for most of the Late Tertiary the sequence was dominated by fine-grained calcareous deposits. During the Pleistocene, a clastic wedge of sediment was deposited over the western margin of the basin.
In the wells drilled in the Great South Basin, the hydrocarbon indications have been restricted to the Cretaceous section. Geochemical analyses of the only test gas and condensate in the Kawau-1 A well indicates that these hydrocarbons have been derived from terrestrial and coaly organic matter.
The rocks of the basal Cretaceous sequence contain abundant humic kerogen and some thick coals. In addition, the Late Cretaceous and Palaeocene restricted marine mudstones contain organic material which has the potential to generate oil (Anderton et al., 1982). The character of the source rocks indicates that the basin should be considered as a primary gas condensate source with some light waxy oil potential.
The maturation level of the potential source has been measured in all of the wells drilled to date. It has been found that only the Cretaceous sediments have reached maturity with reflectance levels of 0.75% at the 3,600-4,200 m level. Extrapolation of the maturation level into the thickest parts of the basin, however, shows that some of the Lower Palaeocene sediments will have reached maturity.
With the assumption that the basin has had a similar geothermal gradient throughout its geological history (and therefore similar depths of burial have been required to reach maturity in the past), it can be shown that there has been some generation of hydrocarbons since the Palaeocene.
The Late Cretaceous to Early Tertiary marginal marine sandstones are the principal reservoir targets of the Great South Basin, although the fluvial sands associated with the coal measures of the Late Cretaceous have potential. Where these have been encountered in wells, they show good reservoir porosities of 17-20% and permeabilities of between 10 and 100 millidarcies.
With very little tectonic deformation in the Great South Basin, the structures with hydrocarbon potential are derived primarily from sediment drape over basement highs combined with limited faulting. The sizes of these structures are of the order of 200 km2, with up to 300 m of vertical closure. The potential for finding large quantities of reserves in the Great South Basin is still good if any one of these structures is found to produce oil.
The mudstones and siltstones deposited during the marine transgression provide good reservoir seals, especially in the southern and eastern areas. However, these mudstones were only present on the western side of the basin from the Eocene, so the seal potential of this region is not good.
The remoteness of the Campbell Basin from New Zealand together with its location in the circum-polar rough weather belt (Fig. 6.5) has meant that it has not been the focus of much exploration activity to date. However, since 1970, this basin has received good seismic coverage and has been mapped and evaluated
(Anderton et al., 1982). No exploration wells have been drilled within this basin but DSDP hole 277 was drilled on its western margin.
The basin has a total area of about 20,000 km2 and, like the Great South Basin, is a deep, essentially linear, normal fault-controlled depression. It had its origin during the rifting of the Campbell Plateau from Antarctica when the basement crust thinned. The basin lies in water depths of 200 m in the northeast towards Campbell Island to about 850-1,000 m at its southern edge.
Upwards of 5 km of sediment is present in the large graben located on the southern side of the basin. To the north of this deep graben lies a series of subparallel horsts and grabens of lesser relief. The basin may be open to the south (i.e., has been truncated by the Antarctic/Campbell Plateau Rift) but this is unproven.
The fault growth in the basin follows the same pattern as the Great South Basin. Very rapid fault movement occurred during the early stages of development of the basin which was then followed by a general downwarping during the latter part of the basin subsidence with none of the upper beds cut by the initial faulting.
No direct control is available for the stratigraphy of the Campbell Basin but a sequence of Late Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks are present on the adjacent Campbell Island (Beggs, 1978; Cook 1981). Within the basin, seismic mapping has been used to separate three main sedimentary groupings (Anderton et al., 1982).
On Campbell Island, the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) to Palaeocene Garden Cove Formation consists of fluvial channel/point bar deposits at the base grading up through estuarine channel and mud deposits to fully marine mudstones at the top. This transition from non-marine to marine approximates the same transition as in the Great South Basin. Within the Campbell Basin, the seismic response of the Cretaceous sequence has been interpreted as lacustrine shales which have been flanked by fluviatile, lake shore and coal swamp facies where sands and silts predominate (Anderton et al., 1982). Immediately overlying the horizon mapped as the top of the Cretaceous is the marine transgressive sequence; its seismic character indicates good sand horizons. On Campbell Island, the facies equivalent is seen in the middle estuarine channel deposits of the Garden Cove Formation. The slightly later age of the transgression on Campbell Island reflects its marginal location beyond the basin edge. Above the Palaeocene, the sequence within the basin is undoubtedly equivalent to the Tucker Cove Limestone of Campbell Island with fine-grained limestone and chert, as was also seen in cores from DSDP site 277. It is unknown if sedimentation has been continuous in the Campbell Basin throughout the Late Tertiary. There is no immediate evidence of any of the Miocene-Pleistocene volcanics of Auckland and Campbell Islands being present within the basin.
Although no wells have been drilled in the basin, the parameters required for hydrocarbon accumulations can be assessed from the outcrop data on the Campbell Island and by comparison to the Great South Basin.
Samples taken from Campbell Island are consistently less than the 0.5% total organic carbon which is considered the minimum necessary for a source rock (Phillips Petroleum, 1976). This is to be expected in the sedimentary environ ments represented. In the Campbell Basin itself, it is concluded that the total organic carbon content of the lacustrine and any lake-margin coal measures would be much higher than their equivalent fluvial rocks on Campbell Island. As in the Great South Basin, the Cretaceous coals probably contain a similar flora to those of the western side of New Zealand. These coals could therefore be the source of liquid hydrocarbon as well as gas.
Given that the geothermal gradients have been about the same as those in the Great South Basin, we can expect maturation to have started in the Campbell Basin below 3.5 km. In fact, due to the much closer proximity of the Antarctic-Campbell Plateau rift, this assumption of the same geothermal gradient as the Great South Basin is probably on the conservative side. This could mean more of the Campbell Basin sequence would have reached maturity.
Widespread clastic reservoir development probably has not occurred in the Campbell Basin. However, two zones could well act as reservoirs. The marginal beach sands of the lacustrine facies and associated channelling of any coal swamps could be one reservoir sequence while the development of transgressive beach sands overlying the lower sequences may have developed at the time of the Late Cretaceous-Palaeocene transgression. Given the quartz-rich nature of the basement rocks, the presence of well sorted quartzose sands is reasonable in the above environments.
Sediment drape over the irregular basement is the major source of structures in the Campbell Basin. As these decrease rapidly up into the overlying sequence, closure associated with the marginal faults would therefore be more viable for hydrocarbon traps. Sealing for these trap types would come from the shales and chalks which predominate in the upper sequence. Location of reservoir sands would be a greater problem than sealing with fine-grained sediments.
While the Campbell Basin has not yet undergone extensive exploration, it does have a thick sedimentary fill with the potential of some of it being mature for hydrocarbon generation. The similar tectonic setting and seismic reflection character of this basin to the Great South Basin allows consistent geological interpretations to be made incorporating the evidence from both Campbell Island and DSDP site 277. Until it is drilled, the hydrocarbon potential of the basin is speculative. However, the interpretations suggest that it is worth considering on strategic grounds even if it is not viable economically.
On the Campbell Plateau, an elongate basin trends east-west from the continental margin in the east to the southeast corner of the Great South Basin (Fig. 6.5). This relatively small basin (40,000 km2) is not joined to the Great South Basin but has a basement ridge separating the two. Two sedimentary sub-basins, the Pukaki Basin and the Pukaki Embayment, have been recognized. Within this trend, each sub-basin has up to 3.5 km of supposed Cretaceous-Tertiary section.
To date, no drilling has been carried out within the basin but 3,700 km of reconnaissance seismic profiles have been run. While the initial definition of the Pukaki Basin was made at the same time as both the Great South Basin and
Campbell Basin, no seismic mapping or evaluation has been carried out on this basin to date. An overview of the seismic data suggests that, like the Campbell Basin, the Pukaki Basin originated through extensional faulting and is therefore of comparable age. The sedimentary fill is unknown but seismic reflectors similar to those in the Campbell Basin and Great South Basin are present. The same model of sedimentation, source and reservoir are therefore taken for this basin as for the Campbell Basin. The only difference is that the marine transgression may have occurred much earlier as this rifted basin was open to the primary rift zone which eventually separated New Zealand and Antarctica.
Because of the limited thickness of sequence and by comparison with the Great South Basin, any source rock could only just be mature at 3.5 km depth. This, together with its great distance from the South Island, means that it is considered the poorest hydrocarbon prospect of the Campbell Plateau.
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Another VW Dieselghazi update:
From the European front, VW is now shelling out discounts to get people to dump their Dieselghazi cars. Looks like VW is trying to make the problem cars go away short of a US-style mandated recall.
Many, many supplementary links in this article on the original site. A second VW employee has pled guilty to criminal charges arising from Dieselghazi; Oliver Schmidt is likely to be going to jail as his plea bargain drops the potential sentence he faces from 169 years in prison down to 7 years and a maximum fine of $400K.
More from Fortune.
More on his arrest earlier this year:
About the one being extradited to the US:
Edit: Also LOL at the reason for not having a big enough DEF tank.
From the European front, VW is now shelling out discounts to get people to dump their Dieselghazi cars. Looks like VW is trying to make the problem cars go away short of a US-style mandated recall.
Related reading suggested in the article: Related: German automakers confront a diesel rebellion in their own backyardVolkswagen offers Germans mega bucks to scrap their diesel cars
Volkswagen is offering Germans up to ?10,000 ($12,000) off a new car if they scrap their old diesel clunkers.
The cash incentives -- billed by the automaker as an environmental program -- come as pressure mounts on German cities to ban diesel cars because of pollution. Britain and France have already set target dates for phasing out diesel and gasoline vehicles.
German drivers trading any brand of diesel car for a new Volkswagen will receive discounts of ?2,000 ($2,400) on a compact model, ?5,000 ($6,000) on a Golf, and ?10,000 ($12,000) on a Touareg SUV.
On top of that, customers will receive as much as ?2,380 ($2,800) if they buy a replacement car powered by electricity, natural gas or a hybrid system.
Executives representing Germany's car brands -- Volkswagen (VLKAY), Audi, Porsche, BMW (BMWYY), Opel and Daimler (DDAIF) -- met with government officials last week as part of an effort to save diesel vehicles.
The companies agreed at the meeting to retrofit over 5 million vehicles with a software update that reduces nitrogen oxides emissions by as much as 30%.
BMW and Daimler have also announced cash incentives for trading in older diesel cars, but they are not as generous as those offered by Volkswagen in Germany.
Environmental activists have been pressuring authorities to improve air quality by cracking down on diesel cars, which were at the center of a major emissions scandal that has roiled the industry.
A judge ruled last month that Stuttgart may have to ban or severely limit diesel vehicles to bring down pollution and meet air quality standards. It could happen as soon as January 1.
Other German cities also face legal challenges to their clean air plans.
On one side of the issue are the angry voters, who are demanding tougher regulation and cleaner air. They are opposed by a mighty car industry that keeps the German economy humming.
One in every five cars worldwide carries a German brand and the industry employs over 800,000 people.
Still, many Germans think more could be done to reduce pollution.
A study commissioned by the newspaper Die Welt showed that 73% of Germans think government policies toward the auto industry are too soft on the issue of air pollution.
Volkswagen admitted in 2015 that it had been cheating on diesel emissions tests after its vehicles in the U.S. were found to be emitting up to 40 times the legal limit on nitrogen oxide.
Other automakers including Daimler, Fiat Chrysler (FCAU) and Renault (RNLSY) are also facing probes over diesel emissions.
There may be more trouble ahead.
In July, European antitrust confirmed they were looking into claims that Germany's major carmakers may have been operating a cartel since the 1990s, colluding on everything from vehicle development to diesel emissions systems.
More at link, but I'm going to say that I'm suspecting the above bolded line is:German automakers are frantically trying to save diesel.
Executives representing the country's top car brands -- Volkswagen (VLKAF), Audi, Porsche, BMW (BMWYY), Opel and Daimler (DDAIF) -- met with German government officials on Wednesday amid growing calls for cities to ban diesel cars over pollution concerns.
The carmakers agreed at the meeting to retrofit over 5 million vehicles with a software update that reduces nitrogen oxides emissions by as much as 30%, according to a statement issued by the German Association of the Automotive Industry.
The companies said they would cover the cost of the voluntary upgrade. They also said it would not hurt an engine's performance, fuel consumption or service life.
Many, many supplementary links in this article on the original site. A second VW employee has pled guilty to criminal charges arising from Dieselghazi; Oliver Schmidt is likely to be going to jail as his plea bargain drops the potential sentence he faces from 169 years in prison down to 7 years and a maximum fine of $400K.
A second Volkswagen employee has pled guilty in US court over Dieselgate
The second Volkswagen Group employee to be arrested in the US for his involvement in the company?s emissions cheating scandal has pled guilty in US District Court in Detroit this morning, according to Reuters. Oliver Schmidt, who was arrested back in January, faces up to seven years in prison and fines between $40,000 to $400,000 after pleading guilty to two separate charges: conspiracy to defraud the US government, and violating the Clean Air Act.
Schmidt was charged with 11 felony counts earlier this year and faced a maximum of up to 169 years in prison before making a plea deal with prosecutors. He will be sentenced later this year.
Schmidt is one of eight VW executives charged in the US for their roles in the scandal, which has come to be known as Dieselgate. In 2015, an EPA investigation found that Volkswagen had developed a way to make it appear that many of its diesel cars complied with emissions regulations. Volkswagen installed software on these cars that could detect when a US emissions test was being performed. The car would then limit the emissions until the test was done. Back on the road, the EPA says the affected cars were putting up to 40 times as many pollutants into the atmosphere as environmental regulations allow.
Schmidt is only the second VW employee to be prosecuted in the US; the rest are still in Germany, which does not extradite citizens. The first was James Liang, an engineer who ran the company?s Diesel Competence unit in the US. Liang pled guilty last fall.
Volkswagen itself pled guilty to criminal charges earlier this year after reaching a $4.3 billion settlement with US regulators in January, but it?s still expected to pay out around $20 billion more in civil court. It?s not alone, either: a handful of other major car companies are currently suspected of or under investigation for similar behavior, and a recent report from Der Spiegel alleges that German automakers have been colluding to cheat US emissions regulations since the 1990s.
More from Fortune.
So, in case y'all were wondering? The deal VWNA reached with the EPA and CARB does *not* preclude executive prosecution.Volkswagen Executive Pleads Guilty in Diesel Emissions Scandal
Volkswagen AG executive Oliver Schmidt pleaded guilty on Friday in U.S. District Court in Detroit in connection with a massive diesel emissions scandal that has cost the German automaker as much as $25 billion.
Under a plea agreement, Schmidt faces up to seven years in prison and a fine of between $40,000 and $400,000 after admitting to conspiring to mislead U.S regulators and violating clean air laws. He will be sentenced on Dec. 6.
In March, Volkswagen pleaded guilty to three felony counts under a plea agreement to resolve U.S. charges it installed secret software in vehicles to evade emissions tests.
U.S. prosecutors have charged eight current and former Volkswagen executives.
Earlier this year, Schmidt was charged with 11 felony counts and federal prosecutors said he could have faced a maximum of up to 169 years in prison. As part of his guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to drop most of the counts.
Volkswagen said on Friday it "continues to cooperate with investigations by the Department of Justice into the conduct of individuals. It would not be appropriate to comment on any ongoing investigations or to discuss personnel matters."
As part of the agreement, Volkswagen has agreed to spend as much as $25 billion in the United States to resolve claims from owners and regulators over polluting diesel vehicles and offered to buy back about 500,000 vehicles.
More on his arrest earlier this year:
There are currently *eight* VW executives under indictment in the US for their roles in Dieselghazi. Two have been arrested and have thus plead out. One is an Italian citizen who'd been working as a VW exec in Germany who is now facing extradition to the US (more on that in a moment). The remaining five are cowering in Germany with international arrest warrants out for them; Germany apparently refuses to extradite their citizens no matter the evidence against them.Arrest surprised VW manager, who lawyers say cooperated in probe
Oliver Schmidt, who served as Volkswagen general manager for three years in Auburn Hills, thought he could avoid being swept up in one of the largest automotive criminal investigations in U.S. history by cooperating with the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice.
He was wrong.
Schmidt was arrested anyway in Miami on Jan. 7 while on Christmas vacation with his wife in Miami. This was despite what his lawyers say were hours spent cooperating with authorities last year.
The arrest surprised many who wondered why Schmidt, a German national, risked traveling to the U.S. He'd left his U.S. job in 2015.
Court documents filed recently in U.S. District Court in Detroit reveal that Schmidt, 48, thought his extensive cooperation with investigators made him a low priority for arrest.
Schmidt, who worked in the U.S. from 2012 to early 2015, contacted the FBI and willingly participated in an interview in London in November 2015 "without any preparation or legal counsel," his lawyers say in the court documents.
He met again with FBI agents in Detroit the following month and participated in at least six interviews connected to Volkswagen's internal investigations, including one in November that lasted 12 hours.
The government says Schmidt, who pleaded not guilty last month, is a central figure among a group of executives who spent more than a decade developing software that was designed to defeat the government's laboratory testing of diesel emissions and lied on a federal certification process.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency charged Volkswagen in September 2015 with creating software that was designed to defeat those tests for more than a half-million vehicles that actually emit nitrogen oxide at levels far above the legal limit.
Schmidt's role at Volkswagen was to be the automaker's liaison with the EPA and the California Air Resources Board. For several years, Schmidt shepherded Volkswagen's vehicles through a diesel emission certification process and said the company's vehicles met regulatory standards.
Schmidt, who is being detained at the federal correctional institution near Milan, Mich., while he awaits trial, hopes to get out on bond, forfeiting his rights to property, cash and other assets valued at more than $1.34 million for the right to be free until his trial, scheduled for April. His attorneys will get a chance to make that argument March 16 before U.S. Judge Sean Cox in Detroit.
George Donnini of the Butzel Long law firm, who is among Schmidt's local attorneys, declined to comment on the case.
In court records filed by his attorneys, Schmidt is portrayed as someone who is not a flight risk. He owns seven properties in the Miami area, got married in Florida in 2010 in a Volkswagen dealership and has spent the Christmas holidays in the U.S. every year since 2008. He crossed the border four times in 13 months knowing that he was under investigation, records filed by his attorneys say.
"A person who came to this country, knowing he was under investigation, knowing full well that he could be arrested and who has friends and property here should not be detained on the grounds that he is a German national," his attorney, David Massey of Richards Kibbe and Orbe of New York, argued in January during a detention hearing in Miami.
Schmidt's attorneys also paint a picture of a man who didn't develop the software used to defeat the emissions tests, who advocated for transparency with regulators and "relayed information he believed was accurate."
"He had nothing to do with the design of diesel engines or the engine control unit software at issue in this case," his lawyers argue.
The government disputes the characterizations and says Schmidt is a flight risk.
"The very crime that Mr. Schmidt is alleged to have committed, and in particular his role, is lying to the U.S. government," Benjamin Singer, an attorney with the U.S. Justice Department's fraud section, said during the hearing. "When Mr. Schmidt did meet with us, he purported to be cooperative, but what he did is he exculpated himself and attempted to deceive the government."
The investigation, along with its cover-up, has forced Volkswagen to agree to civil settlements worth about $17 billion for U.S. consumers and dealers who own the automaker's diesel vehicles and an additional $4.3 billion to settle criminal charges. Volkswagen, as a corporate entity, is scheduled to appear in court to formally plead guilty, as a company, on Friday.
Volkswagen's U.S. diesel certifications first came into question when researchers from West Virginia University conducted emissions tests unlike the government's tests and discovered that the automaker's diesel engines were actually spewing nitrogen oxide at levels that far exceed U.S. regulations.
While Schmidt, who is still a Volkswagen employee, did not play a role in the creation of the software used to cheat on emissions tests, he did participate in the cover-up, the government says.
In its indictment, the government said Schmidt told officials from the California Air Resources Board in August 2015 in Traverse City that the emissions tests were flawed because of "abnormalities" or "irregularities" without revealing that Volkswagen had intentionally designed software "to detect, evade and defeat U.S. emissions testing."
Schmidt faces a 10-count indictment that includes violations of the Clean Air Act and wire fraud. Collectively, those charges add up to a possible sentence of 149 years in prison, but judges rarely stack charges consecutively.
He is one of six Volkswagen employees indicted in January. An engineer, James Robert Liang, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. last fall.
About the one being extradited to the US:
What with the cartel allegations mentioned above, it is appropriate that US prosecutors are using techniques successfully used to curtail much Mafia influence in this country. This story isn't anywhere near over.Arrest of Former Audi Executive Highlights VW Investigators? Strategy
FRANKFURT ? United States investigators are continuing to pursue wrongdoing in Volkswagen?s emissions deception, charging a former manager at the carmaker?s Audi luxury car division who has been arrested in Germany.
The case against Zaccheo Giovanni Pamio, who was head of thermodynamics in Audi?s engine development department, presents a rare opportunity to bring a suspect to trial in the United States.
Most of the accused former managers are safe in Germany because it does not extradite its citizens. But Germany is not necessarily a refuge for Mr. Pamio because he is Italian.
Mr. Pamio, the eighth former Volkswagen executive to be charged by the United States government, was arrested by Munich authorities this week. His arrest is the first on German soil related to Volkswagen?s emissions fraud.
Mr. Pamio was a relatively small player in what is alleged to be a conspiracy to dupe American regulators and consumers. But his arrest appears to be part of a strategy by federal investigators to pressure lower level employees to testify against their superiors.
?They want names, and they want top managers,? said Annette Voges, a Hamburg lawyer who represents Heinz-Jakob Neusser, a former head of engine development at Volkswagen who is also a suspect in the case.
The case by American authorities, filed in Detroit on Thursday, implies that Mr. Pamio acted under internal pressure and that he informed at least one senior manager about wrongdoing at Audi. The complaint could reinforce the widespread view that Volkswagen?s unforgiving corporate culture caused the scandal.
Beginning in 2006, Mr. Pamio helped find a way to evade clean air standards in the United States after other departments at Audi refused to allocate enough room in the car for the necessary pollution equipment, according to the complaint. The space was needed in part for a high-end sound system, the complaint said.
In 2013, Mr. Pamio prepared a presentation for a member of Audi?s management board, who was not identified. The presentation, according to the complaint, described in detail how the engine software could be programmed to deceive regulators about a car?s emissions.
Terry Brennan, a Cleveland lawyer representing Mr. Pamio, declined to comment.
Andrea Grape, a spokeswoman for Munich prosecutors, confirmed Friday that a suspect was being held in connection with an investigation of Audi?s role in the cheating scandal. She did not identify the suspect in accordance with German privacy laws. A person close to Mr. Pamio confirmed widespread German media reports that he is the person being held.
Unlike the other executives charged in the scandal, Mr. Pamio, 60, worked primarily for Audi, a situation that could focus more attention on the brand.
Audi engineers were the first to figure out how to use software to cloak excess emissions, according to court documents. Volkswagen later adopted the technology to meet American limits on nitrogen oxides, which cause lung ailments and urban smog.
The luxury car division, which accounts for a disproportionately large share of the carmaker?s profits, has not suffered as much damage to its reputation as the Volkswagen brand. Audi said Friday that sales in the United States rose 6.2 percent in the first half of 2017 to 103,000 cars, a record.
Volkswagen pleaded guilty to United States charges in March and agreed to pay penalties and civil settlements of more than $22 billion. Despite the plea, the company has continued to insist that top management was unaware of the wrongdoing.
Rupert Stadler, the chief executive of Audi since 2007, has clung to his job even though his office has been searched by investigators and despite criticism that he should take responsibility for wrongdoing that occurred on his watch. Audi declined to comment Friday.
Mr. Pamio was indicted after a lull in the case, a sign that investigators in the United States are continuing to pursue suspects. Little public activity had occurred in the Volkswagen investigation since the indictments of six other former managers were made public in January.
Until this week, only one other suspect was in custody in Germany or the United States. Oliver Schmidt, a German who previously handled Volkswagen?s relations with American regulators, was arrested in Miami in January and is being held in Michigan. He is accused of feeding false information to officials in an ultimately futile attempt to prevent them from discovering Volkswagen?s fraud.
Another former Volkswagen executive, James Liang, has pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States government and to violate the Clean Air Act. Mr. Liang, who worked at a Volkswagen testing center in Oxnard, Calif., is cooperating with investigators and is awaiting sentencing.
According to the complaint against Mr. Pamio, Audi resorted to cheating after it became clear that cars with 3-liter motors needed a larger tank to hold a chemical solution known as AdBlue that was used to scrub harmful nitrogen oxides from the exhaust.
That presented a quandary. A larger tank would rob space needed for the luxury sound system. But a smaller tank would require more frequent refills, an inconvenience that Audi feared would deter buyers. So the cars were designed to ration AdBlue ? and pollute more than allowed ? unless software in the car detected the telltale signs of an emissions test.
In 2008, Mr. Pamio appeared in a video in which he offered assurances that the AdBlue tank would need to be refilled only when the car was due for an oil change. ?The refilling is planned at a minimum after 10,000 miles, during the oil change interval,? Mr. Pamio told the Driving the Nation website.
He was shown standing next to an Audi sedan with stenciling on the door that read, ?The cleanest diesel in the world.?
Edit: Also LOL at the reason for not having a big enough DEF tank.
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Sean Doherty: Australia Cooks as Bight Oil Field Approved
In a piece of perverse timing, as Australia experienced its hottest day ever on record, a Norwegian fossil fuel company was given formal approval to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight.
As the saying goes in pre-apocalyptic Australia, "Cool and normal."
As temperatures averaged out at 40.9°C across the entire country yesterday and huge national debate rages around climate change and the contribution Australia's fossil fuel industry is making to it, the Australian offshore oil and gas regulator NOPSEMA announced that Equinor has been given approval to drill an exploratory oil well in the Bight.
The Stromlo 1 well site is 372km off the coast of Ceduna in open waters 2239m deep. When drilled it will be the deepest and most remote oil well in Australian waters, and one of the deepest and most remote wells anywhere in the world. The drilling is planned to begin in November 2020. With several other fossil fuel companies holding exploratory leases in the area, the decision paves the way for the Bight to be developed into a frontier oil basin.
The news of the approval was met with a hostile reaction from surfers and conservationists right around the Australian coast. "It's a fucking disgrace," offered surfing activist Heath Joske who lives on the Bight coast and has found himself out front of the campaign against Equinor. "Nobody in Australia wants this to go ahead… apart from the people who stand to make a lot of money from it. They have absolutely no social license to do this. They are turning a thriving marine wilderness into a frontier oil field, risking our whole coastline for the profits of an overseas fossil fuel company. It's madness."
Yesterday's approval was third time lucky for Equinor. Their Environment Plan has been rejected twice this year by industry regulator NOPSEMA, who has come under fire during the process for their close ties to the oil and gas industry and accusations they have coached Equinor to an approval. "You've got the supposedly 'independent' regulator turning up to dinners and functions with the oil and gas lobby," says Joske. "Where was our meeting with NOPSEMA? Where are the Resources Minister and the Environment Minister? We haven't seen anyone." Public anger has simmered since the approvals process was taken behind closed doors in April this year. "We've been completely kept in the dark," says Joske, who like many of the Bight campaigners has become a keen student of offshore drilling and has closely scrutinised Equinor's plan himself.
Joske was one of the leading critics of Equinor's assessment of the sea state they'd be working in out in the Bight. As a surfer and fisherman working in the Bight, Joske was gobsmacked that the initial 1500-page plan included only a handful of pages on the ocean state out in the Bight. Open to the Roaring Forties and Antarctic circumpolar weather, it's one of the wildest stretches of ocean in the world. "They were heavily undercalling the swell and weather out in the Bight," he says. "And not only that, they were almost arrogant about it. Because they've drilled in the North Sea they said they can drill anywhere. I've literally had Equinor guys say that to me."
As part of the final approved plan, Equinor were forced to provide more data around ocean conditions. They were also forced to source a secondary drilling rig from Australian waters in case of a well blowout and a relief well needing to be drilled. Previously they were planning to source this rig from Singapore. "The feeling here is they've done the bare minimum to get this over the line," says Joske. "Nobody here for a second believes they actually give a shit about this coast or anyone on it."
Equinor initially lodged its Environment Plan for their Bight well in February this year. They chose at the time to make the EP public and as a result NOPSEMA received over 31,000 public submissions against it. These submissions were summarily dismissed by Equinor, who claimed only 13 of the 31,000 were relevant to the EP. Equinor then resubmitted their revised EP on April 23, one day before a change in legislation would have forced them to make the whole process public. It's been behind closed doors since then. The plan was rejected for a second time on November 11 before finally being approved yesterday. NOPSEMA, however, only approve on technical, safety and environmental grounds. The real push for the Bight to be developed into an oil field comes from higher up.
The current temperature in Australia is hot in more ways than one. With weather records being broken all across the country and with bushfires leaving Sydney blanketed in smoke for weeks now, climate change dominates the national agenda. Yesterday's decision was made against the backdrop of huge rolling protests over the Federal Government's continued championing of the coal, oil and gas industries. At last week's UN Climate Change conference in Madrid, Australia was one of just three countries to lobby against more ambitious global emissions targets and tighter regulations around emissions targets. The other two countries were the USA and Brazil. In the middle of all this, with a bushfire crisis continuing and with a State of Emergency declared in NSW, the Australian Prime Minister has taken off to Hawaii on holidays where he's apparently been spotted on Oahu's North Shore. While he's in Hawaii a thousand people are presently on the street out the front of his house in Sydney, protesting.
For the people of the Australian coast, the Fight For the Bight has become their way of expressing their concern not only about Equinor's frontier drilling in the Great Australian Bight, but also about maintaining some kind of liveable future for generations ahead.
"Mate, yesterday at home in Streaky Bay it was 48 degrees," says Joske. "It's been over 40 for almost a week and that's not just here. We've known about climate change for decades now, but suddenly it's here. It's arrived on our doorstep. This is what it looks like. And Australia's response is to keep digging and drilling and burning fossil fuels. The guys in charge are simply not interested in lowering emissions or developing renewable energy, because they're in the back pocket of the fossil fuel lobby. It's all profit and politics. It's madness."
While they have approval for an exploratory well, Equinor still have two further approvals before a Bight well can produce oil. And of course, they have to find it first. There are no guarantees it's even there in commercial volumes. For Bight campaigners it still feels like there's hope.
Three weeks ago, 20,000 surfers paddled out around the country in support of the Bight. Meanwhile a parallel protest movement has taken root in Norway. Equinor is two-thirds owned by the Norwegian people and have to ultimately answer to them. Joske travelled to Norway earlier in the year and spoke at Equinor's AGM, delivering a plea to shareholders to leave the Bight alone. "Norway has become incredibly rich from oil, but Norwegians are also a progressive mob who know the world needs to change. They've already made a huge transition to renewable energy and some kind of sustainable society at home, and yet you have Equinor halfway around the world digging a dirty, dangerous oil well hundreds of miles off the Australian coast. We really need the Norwegian people to tell Equinor to back off. Equinor are shaming the Norwegian people and that's not fair."
As for what's next in the Bight campaign, Joske remains upbeat. "It's so hot here today, I'll sit down this afternoon and have a beer and think about it, but this is a long way from being done. A long way. There's way too much at stake here to roll over and let this bullshit just happen."
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Given their cinematic track records, it's hardly shocking that Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd have teamed for another unfunny comedy. This time they've dragged John Candy and Demi Moore down with them in Nothing But Trouble. Though Aykroyd is credited as writer-director, this misadventure plays as if the actors are making it up as they go along.
Chase and Moore play Manhattanites who wander off the New Jersey Turnpike and skid into a Beetlejuice-inspired back-road town. Convicted of running a stop sign, they're sentenced to a fun-house nightmare that all too soon bogs down in gross makeup and special effects. Attempting to enliven things, Aykroyd and Candy appear in cartoonish dual roles and between them generate approximately four laughs. Chase adds maybe two. In movie-ticket terms, that's less than one laugh per dollar; as a video rental, it's a slightly better deal. C-
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