PROSPECT GENERATION PROCESS
The key phase in hydrocarbon potential assessment
- Course Type
Classroom Course - Duration
5 days - Thematic
Geosciences - Location
- Country
ANYWHERE -
Satisfaction rate
Why should you attend?
Advanced geoscientists, as well as team leaders and managers will have a clear and complete vision of which are the fundamental and most effective actions to identify an effective exploration target in HC exploration context.
Main Objectives:
- To explain how to run a full and effective prospect generation
- To allow any participant to move effectively and independently along the prospect generation flow
- To get familiar with risk analysis and volumetrics calculations
- 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, POS analysis, volumetrics calculation and other exercises concerning the maturation of an exploration target to prospect, 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 - Fundamentals
- Key steps in exploration
- Exploration workflow
- Petroleum System and Play concepts
- Play fairway analysis and fairway mapping
- Exercises
Day 2:
- Fundamentals of well and seismic interpretation
- Well data - collection and analysis
- Seismic data - structural interpretation (2D/3D)
- Mapping (TWT, Depth, Thicknesses etc.)
- Target identification & ranking
- Target, lead and prospect
- Exercises
Day 3:
- Target identification on seismic
- Real case interpretation on seismic data set
- Fundamentals of time-to-depth conversion
- Fundamentals of seismic attributes
- Exercises
Day 4:
- From lead to prospect
- The geologic Risk assessment (POS or COS)
- Special G&G studies for risk reduction
- Uncertainties – meaning and evaluation
- Exercises
Day 5:
- Prospect assessment
- HC volumes evaluation
- Geologic model building
- Geologic and petrographic parameters
- Input parameters
- Probability computation and distributions
Prerequisites
The course is addressed to advanced and senior geoscientists, team/project leaders and line managers involved in exploration and development projects. This class will provide clear and unambiguous guidelines to run effective HC volumes evaluation, moving from full cycle exploration exame, until the identification of a prospect : a ready-to-drill target, with a number of suggestions and solutions based on direct work experience.
