DESIGNED FOR

Development and exploration geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, petroleum engineers, managers, and technical personnel

YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO

• Quantify charge risk during exploration by: identifying petroleum systems, predicting regional variations in organic facies; predicting source maturity, petroleum volumes, gas/oil ratios, and risk of oil degradation

• Model source rock maturity and timing as key factors in the petroleum system

• Integrate geochemical, geological, and engineering data to optimize field development by characterizing reservoir compartments, allocating commingled production, identifying completion problems and monitoring water flood progress

• Recognize pitfalls in geochemical interpretations

ABOUT THE COURSE

Geochemistry can solve a wide range of problems during petroleum exploration, development, field production, and field decommissioning. Participants learn basic concepts of generation, migration, accumulation, petroleum composition, and how to dramatically improve exploration success. Participants will learn to use tools such as geochemical logs, vitrinite reflectance, pyrolysis, organic facies variations, biomarkers, quantities generated and expelled, and distribution of source rock maturities. Quantitative computer modeling techniques provides information about the timing and efficiency of generation and migration. The course stresses the integration of geochemical data with geological and engineering information to identify reservoir compartments, allocate commingled production, and monitor flooding. Geochemical applications are illustrated with numerous worldwide case studies. No previous background in geochemistry is needed.

COURSE CONTENT

• Source rock quality, maturity, and potential

• Migration efficiency and direction

• Maturation and degradation

• Correlation: oil-to-oil, oil-to-source rock, gases

• Temperature, time and quantitative modeling of maturity for systems with unconformities, changing gradients, and faulting

• Reservoir continuity, lateral and vertical changes in gravity and viscosity, contributions from discrete zones

• Worldwide exploration and production case studies

• Project planning using actual problems