Exploration Geology
- Discipline: Geology
- Level: Intermediate
- Duration: 4 Days
- These courses are designed to give you a broad training in petroleum geology, geophysics and an introduction to reservoir engineering. They will prepare you for employment as geologists, geophysicists, or a more specialist career as a Petrophysicist, basin analyst or operations geologist.
- Introduction to Geology.
- Basic Concepts.
- Petroleum System – Elements & Processes:
- Source rocks & its types.
- Reservoir rocks
- Seal
- Trapping geometries.
- Introduction to Geophysics.
- Geophysical exploration methods.
- Seismic methods.
- Classification of Seismic Waves.
- Seismic data interpretation.
- Depositional systems:
- Basin formation & types.
- Siliciclastic reservoirs.
- Carbonate reservoirs.
- Lithology Interpretation using integrated well logs.
- Geology from wireline logs (Quantitative Interpretation).
- Risking & Ranking in prospect evaluation:
- Basic concepts.
- Evaluation Process.
- Define play concept.
- Assess Risk (Uncertainty).
- Estimate reserve potential.
- Volumetrics, risk & uncertainties.
- Geologists
- Reservoir engineers
- Operation engineers
- Geophysicists
- Petrophysicists
- LWD & MWD engineers
No Prerequisites required for this course