Basin Analysis and Petroleum Systems Evaluation

Disciplines
Geoscience
Category
Exploration • Foundational • Geoscience • Mapping • Operations • Subsurface
Format
 
Available
Private 

Who Should Attend

E&P professionals involved regional petroleum system analysis or in the generation and evaluation of exploration plays.

Description

Numerous well post-mortem reviews have shown that almost half of the industry’s dry holes are the result of the interpreters not properly assessing the petroleum system.

This exercise-driven course is designed to provide those interpreters with an understanding of all the elements of the petroleum system including how to put those elements together to define plays and to find leads and prospects in those plays. Moreover, the class will teach a number of industry best practices that can be used to ensure that the interpreters have a thorough understanding of the petroleum system elements, and how those elements come together. 

 

Learning Outcomes

·        Understand the various types of data needed to understand the “Earth Model”,

·        Learn how to use the data, as well as geologic models and principals to understand and delineate each element of the petroleum system; source rock, migration pathway, reservoir, trap and seal as well as the linkage between these elements.

·        Understand the kinematic relationship between faults and folds

·        Be able to recognize and map the various structures

·        Understand and delineate the Stratigraphic Framework

·        Define and predict reservoirs

·        Be able to bring the petroleum system elements together to be able to define plays and to find, evaluate, and risk prospects.

·        Define the play fairways

·        Generate Common Risk Segment maps

·        Investigate the factors that impact play commerciality

Course Content

Day 1

·        Earth Model and Logical Thinking

·        Defining the Tectonic Framework

     Extensional Structures

     Compressional Structures

     Strike Slip Structures

 

Day 2

·        Defining the Stratigraphic Framework

     Reservoir Characterization

     Principals of Stratigraphy

     Reservoir Prediction

 

Day 3

·        Evaluating the Petroleum System

     Source rock; presence, maturity, and migration

     Reservoir presence and quality

     Trap and seal

     Common risk segment mapping and play fairway definition

·        Commerciality

In-Person

Length
3 Days

Virtual

Length
Not Available

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Instructor

Robert 'Bob' Shoup headshotRobert 'Bob' Shoup