The Formation Evaluation Society of Australia (FESAus)  is a non-profit corporation, staffed and run almost exclusively by volunteers.  However it is also not a for-loss corporation.  The courses and other events that we offer are planned ahead, and the maximum number of participants to any event is frequently limited.  Hence the main consequences of a cancellation are that:

• an opportunity for someone interested to attend the event may be lost, and
• committed expenses must be paid even if the registered person does not attend.

Our cancellation policy aims to be fair to all parties.  Acceptance of the terms listed below is a pre-condition to registration and attendance to any of our events.

Normal registration policy: for any event organized by FESAus, our normal registration policy is to accept only registrations made through our website, with credit-card payment at the time of the registration, by the advertised deadline.  That deadline is not arbitrary: it is usually the last time at which we ourselves have to commit to outside companies for, e.g. catering and printing.

Cancellations should be done by email admin@fesaus.org, which goes to several FESAus administration person in case one is absent.  If you wish to have an acceptable proof that you sent the email on time, please set a “Read receipt” for your message before sending it, and any return message you get showing that your email was read will constitute an acceptable proof.

For cancellations sent 7 calendar days before the start of the event at the latest:

• For events with a base cost (i.e. not the discounted student cost) of A$ 50 or less, FESAus will reimburse the full cost of registration.
• FESAus will reimburse the full cost of registration, minus A$ 50 (fifty) to cover administration overheads associated with the reimbursement, and the risk that FESAus may not identify a replacement candidate in the time remaining.  

For cancellations sent between 7 calendar days before the start of the event and the registration deadline: FESAus will reimburse 75% of the full cost of registration, to cover the same as above, with the risk of not identifying a replacement candidate being much greater.

For cancellations sent after the registration deadline: the full cost of registration will be forfeited, i.e. no reimbursement.

Substitutions: if you cannot attend but you have identified a substitute participant (excluding subsidized participants such as students), you will be reimbursed in full shortly after the normal registration of the new participant.  The new participant will be issued with a normal tax receipt.  You need to document this by timely email to admin@fesaus.org.  Participant substitution without new payment, e.g. by someone from the same company, is normally possible, but it is at the discretion of FESAus.

Partial cancellations: if you can only attend a part of an event, no compensation will be made for the part that you did not attend, whatever the reason.

No-shows: FESAus will consider no-shows as last-minute cancellations, and the full cost of registration will be forteited.

Membership dues: membership dues are non-refundable.

Tax receipts for your payments are issued automatically at the time of registration.  If you subsequently cancel your participation, we will issue you with a new tax receipt for the corrected amount, if applicable, and we ask that you destroy or do not use the original tax receipt.

Method and timing of reimbursements:  it is our policy to make reimbursements to the credit card used for the original payment, and to do so without delay.  We will  process the refund electronically as soon as practically possible. We will then issue a Refund Receipt, which contains a Bank Authorization Code from the issuer of your credit card company confirming the refund is authorized. We cannot make any guarantee regarding the time at which the reimbursement will actually be credited to the credit card. Should you have further questions about the refund, you should contact the issuer of the credit card and quote the Authorization Code provided in the Refund Receipt.

Exceptions: it is our policy not to make exceptions to the above rules.  If, however, exceptions are made, these will always be in the favor of the participants rather than of FESAus, and they are at the discretion of the FESAus administrators.

Comments or complaints: you are welcome to comment on the present Terms and Conditions policy, or if you have any complaint – by email, to admin@fesaus.org, treasurer@fesaus.org.

Become a member (or renew your current membership)

If you have an interest in Formation Evaluation and a link to Australia, we invite you to join the Formation Evaluation Society of Australia. For a very small yearly fee you will:

• be the first to know about the monthly technical meetings, the courses, and other events relating to Formation Evaluation in Australia,
• benefit from preferred rates for most of these events,
• be able to access member-only content such as recent webcasts of technical meetings,
• gain privileged access to a network of professionals and students of Formation Evaluation, from industry and academia.

Signing up and renewal are all done online, by selecting here the option that correspond to your situation:

• Become a FESAus member if you are not presently one (same for all including employed, students, retired, independents, etc)
• Become a FESAus member if you are not presently one but are an Australia-based SPWLA member in good standing
• Renew your current or just-lapsed FESAus membership (requires login)
• Renew your current or just-lapsed FESAus membership if you are an Australia-based SPWLA member in good standing (requires login)

  2016 only:
  Membership to SPWLA for full-time students is fully sponsored by Baker-Hughes – follow instructions here.

Explanatory Notes:

SPWLA members: As the Australian Chapter of the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), FESAus encourages and will support you to become a member of SPWLA also.  If you are already a member of SPWLA in good standing for the membership period (see next point), and you are based in Australia, then your FESAus membership is free; however you must still register with FESAus, which is done online by clicking the 2nd link above. 

Membership period: when you join the Society, your membership is for the current calendar year if you sign up by 30 September, and it is for the remainder of the year and the entire following year if you sign up after 30 September. Subsequent renewals are by calendar years.

Membership lapse: at the end of a calendar year, an email will be sent you to invite you to renew your membership.  If you do not renew it, your membership account will be cancelled after a few months.

Membership renewal: membership renewal process is similar to the signup process, but without the need to create new username and password. Make sure you login first before clicking here to RENEW. 
SPWLA members click here to renew your FESAus membership and follow instructions.

SPWLA membership vs. FESAus membership: to clarify, SPWLA membership entitles Australia-based members to FESAus membership upon request (2nd link above), but FESAus membership does not give you membership in SPWLA and you need to apply to SPWLA separately become an SPWLA member. 

If you are having any problem with the online membership registration, please email webmaster @fesaus.org, with a brief description of the problem.