PESA is asking you to take 10 minutes to complete the following survey to tell us a little bit about what you would like PESA to provide for you, so that we can better tailor our services and events to suit your needs.

Confidentiality: Your answers will be anonymous and individual answers will be treated as strictly confidential. Entered email addresses will not be linked back to individual survey responses. The PESA Membership Committee will redact this information from the survey results for the purpose of maintaining member confidentiality and anonymity
Section 1: Membership Demographics and Career Information

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1. What is your age?

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2. Which gender do you most identify with?

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3. Where do you currently live?

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4. Where did you do your formal education in geoscience? (Mark all relevant)

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5. What is your highest level of tertiary qualification?

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6. Which of the following categories best describes your employment status?

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7. Which of the following best describe your job function? (Mark all relevant)

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8. In what type of organisation do you work?

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9. What is your current level of oil and gas sector experience? Include any time spent working in relevant academic role/s.

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10. Has your employment situation changed in the past 12 months?

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11. Do you feel your employment situation is likely to change in the coming 12 months?

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12. Do you feel the industry sentiment is more or less positive than this time 12 months ago?

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13. Have you been requested to relocate due to changes in the company you work for?

Section 2: Membership Profile

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14. How long have you been a member of PESA?

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15. What is your current membership status with PESA?

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16. Which other societies are you a member of?

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17. Do you feel actively engaged as a PESA member at your specific level of membership?

Section 3: Membership Costs and Benefits

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18. Who pays for your attendance at PESA functions?

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19. If you personally pay for your attendance, how likely are you to attend a luncheon or a conference?

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20. Who pays for your PESA membership fees?

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21. Do the current cost-of-living pressures impact your attendance at PESA events?

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22. Do you consider the current cost of PESA membership to be:

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23. How would you rate the value to you of the following PESA membership benefits:

  Excellent value Good value Adequate value Poor value Not applicable
PESA Gazette
PESA Website
PESA LinkedIn Page
Technical Luncheons
Special Events (Seminars, Christmas Party, Annual Symposium)
Webinars
Networking events
Conferences
Short Courses
Mentoring
Scholarships
Your overall PESA membership

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24. How frequently do you make use of the following PESA benefits / events:

  Always Frequent Occasional Never
PESA Gazette
PESA Website
PESA LinkedIn Page
Technical Luncheons
Special Events (Seminars, Christmas Party, Annual Symposium)
Webinars
Networking events
Conferences
Short Courses
Mentoring
Scholarships
Your overall PESA membership

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25. What do you rate the most important benefit from being a PESA member? Please rank in order of importance (4=Very important / 3=Important / 2 = Somewhat important / 1=Not important)

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26. Have you used the Technical Library?

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27. If yes, were you able to find what you wanted?

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28. If no, why not?

Section 4: Events & Engagement

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29. How frequently do you attend lunch-time and/or evening seminars?

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30. What's stopping you from attending lunch-time seminars? Select all that apply

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31. What's stopping you from attending evening seminars? Select all that apply

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32. What's stopping you from attending special events (Symposiums, Christmas Party)? Select all that apply.

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33. How frequently do you attend PESA field trips?

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34. Would you be interested in attending field trips if PESA were to organise them?

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35. Would you be interested in providing a lunchtime or evening presentation, write an article or regular feature for our publications, a PESA webinar or a course / workshop?

Section 5: Publications & Communications

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36. How often have you used the PESA website in the last 12 months?

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37. Which sections of the website did you visit? Select all that apply

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38. Is there any additional content you would like to see available on the website?

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39. Do you read the Gazette?

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40. If you answered No, why not?

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41. What actions could PESA take to increase the chance of you reading the Gazette? Answer as many as you want.

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42. Have you engaged with PESA through LinkedIn in the last 12 months

Section 6: Training & Education

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43. What is your preference for how PESA delivers training to members?

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44. What is your preference for the format / duration of PESA training provided to members?

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45. What type of technical / Distinguished Lecturer courses/workshops would you be most interested in attending if PESA were to organise them?

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46. What other energy geoscience topics are you interested in having PESA organise for education and training? Select all that apply

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47. What type of technical non-petroleum related courses or workshop would you be most interested in attending if PESA were to organise them?

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48. What other non-technical related skills/courses/workshops would you be interested in developing/attending if PESA were to organise them? Select all that apply.

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49. How can we help you to perform better in your job with respect to Australian Geoscience? Select all that apply.

Section 7: Community, Mentoring & Volunteering

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50. Do you see benefit in PESA creating interest groups to cater for topics like production, hydrogeology, environmental geology, reservoir modelling, geomechanics, unconventionals?

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51. If you are interested in a specific interest group, would you be willing to help coordinate this?

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52. If you are an early career petroleum industry professional and are interested in joining our Young Professionals interest group - with benefits that include mentoring opportunities, career development newsletters, leadership awards and networking opportunities - please enter your email address below.

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53. If you have over 10 years of sector experience, and would enjoy the opportunity to mentor young professionals within your state branch, please enter your email address below.

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54. What can PESA do better to be more relevant to our younger members

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55. Are you interested in joining a State or Federal PESA Committee to assist with the future direction and development of PESA? If yes, please indicate which committees you would most like to get involved with:

Section 8: Feedback & Future Direction

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56. PESA's operating surplus from the AEGC 2025 conference was in excess of $100,000. How would you like to see these funds allocated? Select all that apply.

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57. If you wish to lead or support one of the options above (including 'other' proposals), please provide your contact email address.

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58. What one thing would you most like to see PESA do over the next 12 to 24 months?

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59. Do you have any other comments, questions or concerns?

Thank you for taking the time to answer all our questions. We look forward to sharing the results with you in the future.

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