Petroleum Geochemistry in Petroleum Exploration

Description

This 5-day advanced level course focuses on the methods and applications of petroleum geochemistry for source rock, maturity, and fluids (oil and gas) evaluation.

The course will equip the participants with key guidelines on source rock evaluation to determine the type of organofacies and deposition environment, maturity, as well as predict the variety and quality of hydrocarbons that have been generated from each type of source rock. It also provides guidelines on how to characterise subsurface fluids, including oil condensate and gas; refine petroleum systems, and predict fluids quality.

The lectures and exercises are designed to improve the participants’ understanding on how to characterise source rocks and fluids, using bulk, molecular and isotopic tools that facilitate their understanding. Some examples of topics include source rock screening analysis, optical (maturity) analysis, gas chromatography (GC), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), biomarkers, isotopes and chemometrics to identify oil families, perform oil-oil and oil-source rock correlations. The exercises will illustrate how geochemistry can be used to assist explorationists in the de-risking block and basin petroleum evaluation.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course, the participants will be able to:

TARGET AUDIENCE

The course is designed for geochemists, geologists, exploration geologists and petroleum systems analysts but could also benefit engineers, project coordinators and managers who would like to apply this branch of petroleum geology to prospect appraisal, exploration, and field development.

Prerequisites

The participants should have knowledge of basic chemistry and geology. Experience in exploration will also be useful.

COURSE LEVEL

TRAINER

Your Expert Course Instructor is a Petroleum Geochemist with over 32 years of professional experience in the oil and gas industry. He is an expert on petroleum geochemistry for exploration and production development strategies. He is skilled in geochemical interpretation and specializes in the integration of all types of geochemical data from source rocks and fluids (oil and gas), having delivered training courses to many operators and service companies worldwide.

Between 2011 and 2020, he worked for Fugro-Robertson and CGG UK Services (Robertson) as Chief Geochemist and Senior Geochemical Advisor. Prior to that, Your Expert Course Instructorwas Senior Geochemist with Fugro-Robertson for over five years. He worked extensively on a variety of single and multi-disciplinary projects worldwide, including the North Sea UK and Norway, Gulf of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, the North and South Atlantic margins, North and East Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Mongolia, Australia and New Zealand.

He started his career as a Petroleum Geochemist, working for Sonatrach, focusing on the major Paleozoic basins (Berkine, Illizi, Oued Mya, Tindouf, Bechar), across the Saharan platform in Algeria.

He developed and maintained a high quality and competitive geochemistry business during his employment with Fugro-Robertson and CGG UK Services. He oversaw the petroleum geochemistry discipline and was responsible for sustaining business development and project management. He was also involved in the development of workflows, innovation, data quality control (QC), mentoring and training internal and external staff, project supervision, and technical / peer review for all the geochemical projects. Currently, he is a Principal Consultant.

He holds MSc and PhD degrees in Petroleum Geochemistry and was a graduate of the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom. He is the author of several publications and has been invited to present his findings and research at international meetings.

POST TRAINING COACHING SUPPORT (OPTIONAL)

To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized “One to One” coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster.
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