This course discusses the essentials of all aspects of petroleum exploration. The course is designed around the workflow of any exploration venture: from the collection of regional data and assessment of plate tectonic setting, to prospect and play analysis. At the end of the course the candidates will have a good general understanding of the basics of oil and gas exploration.

By the end of this course delegates will learn about:

• Overview of world-wide oil & gas occurrences
• Formation of sedimentary basins
• Play concepts and petroleum systems
• Fundamentals of seismic acquisition, processing & Interpretation
• Key aspects of reservoirs (clastics & carbonates), seals, and source rocks
• Trap formation and structural style
• Hydrocarbon generation & migration
• Oil and gas prospect mapping
• Basin prospectivity assessment
• Volumes, risk & uncertainty, exploration economics

Geologists, Geophysicists, Petrophysicists, Stratigraphers, Geochemists, Sedimentologists, Reservoir, Petroleum, Wellsite Geologists, Petroleum Engineers, Drilling Engineers, Reservoir Engineers, Production Engineers, Operations Engineers, Technologists, Log Analysts, E&P Personnel, Exploration & Development Personnel, Surveillance Engineers, Geologists, Reservoir Engineers, Seismic Interpreters, E&P Managers, Data Management and Oil & Gas Personnel

Basins & Screening Tools

• • Introduction
  • The exploration work flow & Global distribution of oil & gas
  • Testing the geological knowledge
  • Basin formation & type
  • Basin type and structural style
  • Non seismic methods
  • Using surface geochemistry
  • Interpreting basin stratigraphy
  • Stratigraphy and prospectivity

Seismic, Logs, Source & Clastics

• • The seismic method
  • interpretation of seismic data 1
  • Source rocks
  • Interpreting source rock data
  • Siliciclastic reservoirs
  • Interpretation of seismic data 2
  • Geology from wireline logs
  • Well correlation

Carbonates, Traps & Facies

• • Carbonate reservoirs
  • Trapping geometries
  • interpretation of seismic data
  • Seal
  • Clay smear potential
  • Facies mapping

Kitchen & Prospect

• • Burial history reconstruction
  • Create burial history
  • Generation & migration of hydrocarbons
  • Effective drainage area construction
  • Kitchen mapping
  • Maturity data and kitchen map
  • Prospect mapping
  • Assess prospect risk & uncertainty

Plays, Prospects, & Volumes

• • Plays and petroleum systems
  • Play maps
  • Volumetrics, risk & uncertainties
  • Calculate volumetrics in prospect
  • Exploration economics
  • Data integration

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.