Short courses

Pre- and post-APPEX one-day courses offer even more opportunities for learning:

Risk Reduction for Plays and Prospects: Seals, Shows and 3D Migration

Date: 5 March 2012
Venue: Business Design Centre, London
Fee: £325 by 13 February or £375 after
Leader: John Dolson, Director, DSP Geosciences and Associates, LLC

Current 2 and 3D petroleum migration software offers significant advancements in ability to interpret seismic facies, paleogeographic maps and faults in the context of seals, thereby predicting locations of new stratigraphic and structural traps. These models, however, must be calibrated to subsurface production and oil and gas shows. This course covers the basics of quantifying seals and classifying oil shows (waste zone, continuous or residual phase) from multiple data sets, including pressures, capillary pressures and pseudo-capillary pressure derived from porosity and permeability data.

Further Information: We cover the basics of quantifying seals and shows in the context of three dimensional analysis of migration and traps using petroleum systems and GIS software. Participants will learn to quantify oil and gas shows and use capillary pressure, pressure plots and other tools to determine hydrocarbon type (continuous phase, residual, source rock or dissolved gasses). The course places an emphasis on new techniques to detect subtle shows through tools like head space gas, iso-tubes and fluid inclusion stratigraphy. We work through the basics of capillary pressure analysis and how to predict column height in a reservoir from pseudo-capillary pressure, rock type and SW. The final part of the courses demonstrates how to covert paleogeographic and fault maps to seal maps, with live 3D models of migration and entrapment, using visualization of a shows database to calibrate the success of the models.

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Petroleum Geology for Financial Professionals

Date: 9 March 2012 
Venue: Business Design Centre, London
Fee:  £325 by 13 February or £375 after 
Leader: Ted Beaumont, Senior Geologist, SM Energy, Tulsa, OK 

This course is designed to help bankers, loan officers, company financial officers, risk assessment managers and other financial professionals more effectively evaluate oil and gas investments, understand the role geology plays in the amount and rate of oil and gas production and better calculate your investment risk.

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