UPCOMING COURSES
This short workshop provides an overview of the tools and techniques for balancing and restoring cross sections using LithoTect Software such as different structural modeling tools and techniques for a variety of tectonic settings from compression to extensional and salt-dominated.
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This short course provides a quick and simplified overview of the practices of cross-section balancing. What are the concepts behind balancing, what are the techniques and mainly what are the benefits for our structural interpretation? Manual balancing methods are applied in real-world scenarios.
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This course introduces sequence stratigraphic concepts by reviewing sedimentologic processes and the resulting facies, depositional systems and cyclicity. For better predictability at the regional and reservoir scale, ground your interpretation in sequence stratigraphy. Exercises reinforce recognition of vertical and lateral stratigraphic signatures in various data sets.
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This course provides an overview of the Structural Geology concepts and methodologies relevant to hydrocarbon E&P workflows. Starting with the basic theories of stress, strain and mechanics, we apply the concepts and learn interpretation techniques for various HC tectonic settings and their structural development and geometric patterns.
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This workshop explores sedimentologic processes and cyclic facies successions in carbonate environments. How best to exploit this cyclicity to achieve our goal of reservoir predictability? Exercises emphasize and reinforce building the stratigraphy from a sedimentologic foundation.
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Top seal is not usually a yes-no question of risk but is much more a question of how much column a seal can retain. Fault seal can occur by a variety of mechanisms each with different controls on column heights. Workshop details quantitative assessment of top and fault seal mechanisms and how to apply them to estimating prospect volumes.
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This workshop combines seismic interpretation and structural validation techniques in order to create a balanced interpretation from the start. Seismic interpretation pitfalls are discussed and the seismic expression of main structural features is studied in different examples. Methods are demonstrated that validate the seismic interpretation of faults and folds by predicting a valid fault trace and hangingwall shape using manual tools.
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This course will cover the considerations needed when calculating in-place hydrocarbons and the chance of finding it. The mechanics of calculating volumes will be covered, however the focus of the course is on understanding how to determine appropriate rock and fluid property input ranges, implications of the different methods of volume calculation and how the output volumes are modified. We will also relate the output range of hydrocarbon volumes with different types of risk involved with the oil and gas industry. We will conclude with a discussion on how the volumes and risk numbers are used in economic analysis.
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This short course introduces the concepts of faulting and fracturing from the mechanics to the development of fault and fracture patterns in a variety of tectonic settings. We will discuss methods to predict fractures and to interpret subseismic resolution subsidiary faults.
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PAST COURSES – available inhouse
How stratigraphic and depositional processes influence regional correlations and facies variations of organic-rich mudrocks with respect to calcareous, siliceous and clay-rich shales. Apply sequence stratigraphic principles to identify best organic-rich and frackable intervals.
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In order to dig into the important topics of today, it is important to understand the basic elements of geomechanics and to examine how the discipline has evolved over time. This workshop teaches the data types and workflows for building a geomechanical model, which can then be applied to exploration, drilling, completions and full field development.
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Borehole images provide detailed information on reservoir fractures, reservoir neostress (present-day stress), reservoir-scale structural geology that can control fracture development, sedimentary facies and structures, and other features. The course will focus on basic and advanced methods to characterize natural and induced fractures, breakouts, and other features required to understand earth stress and fine-scale reservoir structure.
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How to use microseismic data to build a fracture network model, interpret structural features, and generate fracture properties for reservoir simulation. Learn about aspects of structural analysis related to natural fracture development, induced and reactivated fracturing from hydraulic fracture stimulation, and state of stress.
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This short workshop provides an overview of the tools and techniques for balancing and restoring cross sections using LithoTect Software such as setting up the project and data base, basic interpretation tools such as fault prediction and structural modeling tools and various restoration methods.
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The aim of this course is to introduce applications of organic geochemistry data in basin analysis studies and its applications in petroleum exploration; it stresses the importance of basin evolution to petroleum generation, migration and accumulation. You will learn to evaluate petroleum systems and their hydrocarbon potential.
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Inorganic geochemical techniques will teach the instrumentation used to generate inorganic data used to identify favorable frac intervals and compare to petrophysical logs (e.g., XRD, ICP, XRF instruments).
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The concepts to models, related workflows and practices embody technical themes that influence strategies for integrated subsurface teams and their economic decision making. The seminar will provide a discussion of geomodeling processes and topics in their integrated context related to general forecasting workflows and will include a discussion on improving the effectiveness of geomodeling within teams. Geomodeling is advanced platform to integrate and bridge the technical disciplines. There are three core competencies underpinning the geomodeling discipline for proper execution. Developing geomodeling sadvaophistication leads to the ability to reframe subsurface practices, mitigate bottlenecks and improve subsurface cycle time.
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This short course outlines the processes of how an oil/gas prospect is worked on, evaluated for viability and made ready for drilling
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This course provides an overview of the typical thrust-belt architecture and the structural variation and complexity. We take a critical look at the complex deformational history of thrust-belt structures and implications for the validity of cross-section balancing. We also analyze the implications of fold- and thrust belt mechanics and kinematic for HC systems.
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Continental extensional terranes or “rifts” are some of the most hydrocarbon productive provinces in the world. This workshop focusses on the seismic expression of features in continental rifts and the basics of extensional deformation, i.e. normal faulting, and the character of the rift structural style.
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