b'Conferences and eventsNewsHis outstanding contributions to the profession include the recognition of the oil potential of the Queensland Eromanga Basin which led to the discovery of the Jackson Field in SW Queensland, Australias largest onshore oil field at the time. The discovery led to an expansion of successful oil exploration in an area previously regarded as gas-prone.Later in his career he developed ideas on stratigraphic trapping of hydrocarbons in the Exmouth Sub-basin and proposed the location for Ravensworth-1, the discovery well for the Pyrenees trend oilMick Micenko receiving his award from ASEG fields offshore WA. This discovery wasPresident Ted Tyne.awarded the Most Significant Discovery Award by APPEA in 2003. 1998 and the present. He also taught the Mick is acknowledged for introducingSeismic Interpretation course at Curtin the latest in leading-edge geophysics toUniversity for seven years. Several of the places he worked, with some of thethe students from his course are now ground breaking examples being: in senior positions with exploration the use of synthetic seismograms incompanies and service providers.the 1980s to model changes in seismicSince becoming an ASEG Member in 1975, character related to good qualityMick has been an active supporter of the reservoir trends ASEG and has made many outstanding introduction of AVO to discriminatecontributions to the success of the Society between reservoir fluids in the earlyfor over 40 years. His involvement with the 1990s, ASEG has included contributions on three in the 2000s recognising andState Branch committees, Victorian Branch measuring azimuthal anisotropy ofSecretary, Treasurer for ASEG conferences seismic velocity so acquisition footprintin 1981 and 1989, a member of the and borehole stresses could beFederal Executive and Business Manager. reduced But to most Members he is best known for developing the rave plot to highlighthis exceptional contributions as Associate amplitude conformance with structure Editor, Petroleum for Preview since 1998using densely spaced point receiversand still going.in onshore seismic acquisition whichTo acknowledge these outstanding allowed noise to be modelled andcontributions to the profession and removed from seismic data to the ASEG over many years, the Micks expertise as an interpretationASEG is pleased to confer the award geophysicist is evidenced by almost 50of Honorary Membership to Michael articles published in Preview betweenMicenko.33 PREVIEW OCTOBER 2019'