Professor Neil Williams PSM FTSE was awarded the 2014 Haddon Forrester King Medal and Lecture and will be presenting this, one of a series of Haddon Forrester King lectures at the 2015 Resources Investment Symposium.
The Haddon Forrester King Medal and lecture is one of the Australian Academy of Science’s prestigious career awards for life-long achievement and outstanding contribution to science.
The award recognises the contributions of the late Haddon Forrester King whose work applied the geological and related sciences to the search for mineral deposits in Australia and elsewhere. Haddon King joined Zinc Corporation as its Chief Geologist in 1946, became Director of Exploration for the merged Conzinc Rio Tinto of Australia (CRA) in 1962 and continued in this capacity until his retirement in 1970. He was a consultant at CRA until 1986.
The Award is made to a scientist, resident in Australia or overseas, and normally awarded once every two years. It recognises original and sustained contributions to earth and related sciences of particular relevance to the discovery, evaluation and exploitation of mineral deposits, including the hydrocarbons.
The Academy acknowledges the support of family and friends of Haddon King, and CRA Limited (now Rio Tinto).
Professor Williams’ career has spanned academia, the minerals exploration industry and government. When he assumed leadership of the Australian Geological Survey Organisation – now Geoscience Australia – in 1995 he used his inside knowledge of the minerals exploration industry to reshape the way the agency uses geoscience to promote investment in earth resource exploration. A highlight of his time at GA was the work the agency undertook at a cost of less than A$5 million to elucidate the geology and petroleum prospectivity of the Browse Basin on Australia’s Northwest Shelf. The work influenced the Japanese company INPEX to apply for acreage in the Browse Basin where they subsequently discovered the Ichthys condensate field – the largest single discovery of liquid hydrocarbons in Australia outside the Gippsland Basin. In early 2012 INPEX and their partner TOTAL S.A. announced a final investment decision of US$34 billion for the development of the Ichthys field. The Ichthys story illustrates well the huge impact a modest expenditure by a geoscience agency can have on national wealth generation.
For more information or to register for this event, see the Resources Investment Symposium event page.
Event Manager: Lizzy Schenberg
Phone: (03) 9658 6151
Professor Neil Williams PSM FTSE was awarded the 2014 Haddon Forrester King Medal and Lecture and will be presenting this, one of a series of Haddon Forrester King lectures at the 2015 Resources Investment Symposium.
The Haddon Forrester King Medal and lecture is one of the Australian Academy of Science’s prestigious career awards for life-long achievement and outstanding contribution to science.
The award recognises the contributions of the late Haddon Forrester King whose work applied the geological and related sciences to the search for mineral deposits in Australia and elsewhere. Haddon King joined Zinc Corporation as its Chief Geologist in 1946, became Director of Exploration for the merged Conzinc Rio Tinto of Australia (CRA) in 1962 and continued in this capacity until his retirement in 1970. He was a consultant at CRA until 1986.
The Award is made to a scientist, resident in Australia or overseas, and normally awarded once every two years. It recognises original and sustained contributions to earth and related sciences of particular relevance to the discovery, evaluation and exploitation of mineral deposits, including the hydrocarbons.
The Academy acknowledges the support of family and friends of Haddon King, and CRA Limited (now Rio Tinto).
Professor Williams’ career has spanned academia, the minerals exploration industry and government. When he assumed leadership of the Australian Geological Survey Organisation – now Geoscience Australia – in 1995 he used his inside knowledge of the minerals exploration industry to reshape the way the agency uses geoscience to promote investment in earth resource exploration. A highlight of his time at GA was the work the agency undertook at a cost of less than A$5 million to elucidate the geology and petroleum prospectivity of the Browse Basin on Australia’s Northwest Shelf. The work influenced the Japanese company INPEX to apply for acreage in the Browse Basin where they subsequently discovered the Ichthys condensate field – the largest single discovery of liquid hydrocarbons in Australia outside the Gippsland Basin. In early 2012 INPEX and their partner TOTAL S.A. announced a final investment decision of US$34 billion for the development of the Ichthys field. The Ichthys story illustrates well the huge impact a modest expenditure by a geoscience agency can have on national wealth generation.
For more information or to register for this event, see the event page.
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Phone: (03) 9658 6151
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