Oil and Gas
Oil and Gas | Basin Analysis
Play Fairway Analysis and Exploration Prospecting
Format and Duration:
5 days
This course provides the opportunity to learn about hydrocarbon exploration via play fairway analysis in a frontier basin. Through a series of map-based exercises, teams of participants acquire a portfolio of leads; develop, evaluate, risk and rank prospects; bid on drilling locations; and calculate in-place and recoverable volumes.
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I found this course to be very effective! Great class.
Schedule
Duration and Training Method
This is a classroom course that consists of lectures and exercises, in which participants are grouped into small teams for integrated activities using a range of exploration data.
Course Overview
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn to:
- Generate risk element maps and understand the processes needed to manage, manipulate, and apply risk element data.
- Employ map-based risk components to evaluate play fairways at the regional and sub-regional level.
- Apply the appropriate critical risk elements of a working petroleum system in the construction of play fairway maps.
- Use individual risk element maps to develop a Final Overall Risk map for any hydrocarbon play.
- Apply the elements of individual prospect construction, evaluation, and risking.
Course Content
- Introduction to Exploration Prospecting
- Case Study in Play Fairway Analysis
- Overview of Exploration Area
- Reservoir Definitions
- Source Rock Evaluations
- Regional Seals
- Introduction of Prospect Evaluation
- Gross Rock Volume: Area/Depth Plots
- So and Sw
- Formation Volume Factor (FVF)
- Recovery Factors
Who Should Attend and Prerequisites
Geoscientists who are fairly new to the petroleum industry and who require a basic understanding of how petroleum systems analysis can be used to construct play fairway maps for development of effective exploration strategies. Geotechnical assistants who are involved in exploration projects.
Petrophysicists, Engineers and Project Managers who would like to learn more about the evaluation of hydrocarbon prospects and working with geoscientists in developing exploration play concepts.
Instructors
Andy Pulham
Background
Dr. Andy Pulham has more than 35 years of industrial and academic experience. Since early 2005 Andy has been constructing his own consulting and training company and alliances. He has consulted in South America, USA, Europe and Africa.
After graduating, Andy spent 12 years with BP Exploration as a Petroleum Sedimentologist and for BP worked in NW Europe, North America and South America. Highlights in Andy’s industrial career have been regional studies in the Jurassic of the North Sea and the Cenozoic of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and the appraisal of the Cusiana Field in Colombia. From 1995-2001 Andy was Principal Investigator for Reservoir Geology at the Energy and Minerals Applied Research Center in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. While in Colorado, Andy conducted research into the production characteristics of marginal marine siliciclastic oil and gas reservoirs and alluvial architecture in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming. Subsurface projects were drawn from the Americas, Europe and Papua New Guinea. In 2001 Andy gained an appointment as the Canada Research Chair in Petroleum Geosciences in the Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland and taught undergraduate and graduate petroleum geology and sedimentology and advised graduate students in subsurface reservoir, seismic stratigraphy and outcrop sedimentology projects. Andy left academia in 2003 and joined Nautilus USA as VP of Geoscience and acted as the senior technical liaison and technical manager for the Geoscience Training Alliance in North America.
Andy’s primary interests are clastic sedimentology and stratigraphy. Andy’s portfolio of geoscience training classes now number eleven schools and include deepwater clastics, marginal marine and deltas, play fairway analysis and exploration prospecting and petroleum systems.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD University College of Wales, Swansea - Geology
BSc University of Liverpool, England - Physical Geography and Geology
AAPG - Member
SEPM - Member
IAS - Member
RMAG - Member
Courses Taught
N087: Play Fairway Analysis & Exploration Prospecting
N009: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy & Reservoir Geology of Deepwater Clastic Systems (County Clare, Ireland)
N011: High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy: Reservoir Applications (Utah, USA)
N042: Reservoir Sedimentology & Stratigraphy of Coastal and Shelfal Successions: Deltas, Shorelines and Origins of Isolated Sandstones (NW Colorado, USA)
N115: High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy: Application to Deltaic Systems and Reservoirs (County Clare Ireland)
N570: Deepwater Clastic Systems - Processes, Products, Architectural Elements and Strategies for E&P
Accreditation and Certification
CEU: 3.5 Continuing Education Units
PDH: 35 Professional Development Hours
Certificate: Certificate Issued Upon Completion
RPS is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. We comply with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognised internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices.
We issue a Certificate of Attendance which verifies the number of training hours attended. Our courses are generally accepted by most professional licensing boards/associations towards continuing education credits. Please check with your licensing board to determine if the courses and certificate of attendance meet their specific criteria.