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 Participate in our Geology for Non-Geologists course and get a practical understanding of the principles used by petroleum
geologists in exploration and development of oil and gas fields.
This course is offered both as an internal course and as a public course. You can register for the
3-day Geology Rocks! Geology for Non-Geologists in Stavanger, Norway, 5-7 June 2012 or you can send us an inquiry or contact us if you have any questions or suggestions Who should participate?Engineers,
geophysicists, and other professionals that need a basic understanding
of geology in order to better communicate with geologists. Please review the testimonials from the participants in the January 2012 public course in Stavanger, Norway. Learning Objectives? On completion of this course, participants are expected to be able to: - Communicate
better with geologists. Explain and identify the difference between
igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, and metamorphic rocks.
- Understand basic concepts of structural geology and tectonics.
- Explain the origins of oil and gas.
- Evaluate the key elements in sedimentary basins.
- Participate actively in a prospecting process.
- Understand how core samples are taken and the significance of porosity and permeability.
- Understand enhanced recovery, injection, hydro-fracturing, and geo-steering
Course contentParticipants
are grouped in teams and each team acts as a virtual petroleum company
in the business simulation OilSim. The participants will study geological surveys and
solve geological challenges in the whole upstream value chain. A
petroleum geologist guides the participants through the whole process.
The course covers the following areas: - Rocks and rock forming minerals
- Rock forming minerals
- Igneous
- Sedimentary
- Metamorphic
- Geological time
- The age of rocks
- The geological time scale
- Time aspects of geolgical processes
- Fundamental processes of the earth
- Plate tectonics - formation and destruction of the earths crust
- Erosion, transport & deposition of sediments
- Sedimentary basins
- Different types of sedimentary basins
- Tectonics and sedimentation
- Sedimentary basins and petroleum formation
- The petroleum system
- Source, maturation & migration
- Reservoir
- Trap
- Seal
- Play and prospect analysis
- Play fairways
- Prospect evaluation
- Volumes
- Geological risk and chance of success
- Data types (2D seismic, basin modelling, pockmark surveys, seaps, offset well data)
- Prospect derisking and making a drill decision
- Data types (3D seismic, EM ++)
- Selecting a well location
- Well planning?
- Discovery, appraisal and development
- Evaluating the new data
- Appraisal program and strategies
- Depletion strategy
- Development
- Enhanced oil recovery
Method
Participants
are grouped in teams and each team acts as a virtual petroleum exploration
company in the business simulation OilSim. The team challenge is to discover
economically viable volumes of oil or gas in a new petroleum area. An
experienced OilSim facilitator guides the participants through the process.
Scenario
You
are an oil and gas company in a new petroleum province, which has just opened
up for exploration. Your overall task is to find commercial quantities of oil
and gas in the subsurface using the least funds possible, whilst acting in a
social and environmentally responsible way.
Facilitators
Prof.
Haakon Fossen is professor at the University of Bergen. He is affiliated
with the Department of Earth Science, Center of Integrated
Petroleum Research (CIPR) and Bergen Museum, all part of the University
of
Bergen. He holds a PhD
in structural geology (1992) from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
USA.
Dr.
Rotevatn holds a cand. scient. degree from the University of Oslo (2004) in
structural geology and tectonics, and a PhD from the University of Bergen
(2007) in structural-/reservoir geology. During and following my PhD he has
worked for a period as an exploration geologist in the oil and gas industry
before returning to become a full time researcher (2010).
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