HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION
The industry standard, fully tested Hydrocarbon Exploration workflow, from early phase to assets’ portfolio creation
- Course Type
Classroom Course - Duration
5 days - Thematic
Fundamentals of E&P - Location
- Country
ANYWHERE -
Satisfaction rate
Why should you attend?
This course will favour the acquisition of an industry standard, fully tested method.
Everyone involved in HC exploration, from young geoscientists up to management, must know and understand the exploration general flow, be conscious of why, when and how each activity integrates this flow and how a discipline links with other domains. Any actor in the complex HC exploration work must know and understand the way each single action matches with others’ contribution.
The course, based on a number of case histories and tricks, will provide clear picture of main exploration techniques, the advantages and pitfalls, the key elements enabling to become proficient on the job and to deliver the respective section objectives.
Senior staff, project and team leaders will find guidelines to improve the interaction among geoscientists and will get familiar with a worldwide consolidated workflow.
Main Objectives:
- To introduce and explain exploration fundamentals
- To develop the understanding of exploration workflow, processes, tools
- To allow any participant to move effectively and independently all along the exploration flow
- To share knowledge and experiences
Learning Approach:
Attendants will learn through live course, with hand-on practical exercises and a booklet.
They will run, on their own or in pairs, seismic interpretation, mapping and other exercices simulating real cases concerning block evaluation for bidding rounds, new venture analysis, low-costs pre-exploration evaluation, with the help and support of the teacher.
Results will be checked at the end of each day and shared among students, to facilitate knowledge sharing.
All documents are provided.
HSE requirements:
No specific requirement for this course that can take place in any meeting room with validated HSE characteristics, in your company premises or elsewhere.
Course Agenda:
Five days (35-40 hours) is the ideal time. The course can be shortened or lengthened according to the request.
Day 1:
- Exploration overview and fundamentals
- Exploration workflow
- Geodynamics and Sedimentary basins
- Regional paleogeography and stratigraphy
Day 2:
- The Petroleum System
- Play concept
- Fairway mapping
- Exercises
Day 3:
- Exploration tools
- Well data
- Seismic data
- 2D-3D seismic-structural interpretation
- Fundamentals of time-to-depth conversion
- Mapping
- Exploration well location
- Exercises
Day 4:
- Prospect generation
- Key elements
- Target identification and ranking
- HC in place volume evaluation
- Risk Analysis (POS or COS)
- Exercises
Day 5:
- Building opportunity portfolio in a given area
- Low-cost pre-exploration investigations
- Exploration maturity vs YTF
- Market effectiveness
- Geographic and political framework
Prerequisites
The course is designed for junior and senior geoscientists, (geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers) that want/need to have a full picture of what is exploration, which are the main drivers and tools, the strong points and limitations, the main workflows for a correct analysis and the geological elements playing a primary role, not only under the technical point of view but in the commercial domain as well.
The class is a perfect opportunity also for team leaders, managers and other discipline leaders who wants to achieve a clear, general picture of this domain, understand how and why different disciplines match together, consolidate the way to run technical and critical supervision, in order to take technical-strategic decisions and be able to provide clear recommendations to senior leadership.
