Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• An early to mid-career geoscientist
• A reservoir / production engineer transitioning into subsurface roles
• An asset team member or technical manager

How we build your confidence

• Short, focused lectures
• Worked examples of typical data and field analogues
• Integrated subsurface workflows
• Emphasis on uncertainty, risk, and business impact

The benefits from attending

• Explain how petroleum geoscience influences exploration and development decisions
• Understand the assessment of geological risk across charge, reservoir, seal, and trap
• Identify the key geological uncertainty drivers impacting volumes, recovery, and value
• Understand importance of integrating seismic, well, and regional data into defensible subsurface interpretations
• Communicate subsurface risk and uncertainty to non-geoscientists
• Be aware of geoscience input to recommendations at exploration and development stages

• Technical Competencies
  - Petroleum system analysis
  - Basin & charge risk assessment
  - Reservoir characterization
  - Trap & seal evaluation
  - Seismic and well data integration
  - Geological risking & volumetrics
• Decision & Business Competencies
  - Uncertainty management
  - Risk-based decision making
  - Cross-discipline integration
  - Value-focused technical communication
• Key Industry Takeaways
  - How geoscience directly impacts drilling success and reserves
  - Where uncertainty truly matters
  - How to communicate subsurface risk clearly
  - How to avoid common exploration and development failures

Topics

• Be aware of the business of energy – global energy supply and demand context
• Understand how geoscience drives exploration and development decisions
• Align subsurface workflows with commercial outcomes

• The energy business: global energy supply and demand
• Role of geoscience in E&P
  - Exploration, development and production geoscience
  - Value creation and value erosion
  - Interface with drilling, reservoir management, economics and facilities
• Understanding the Petroleum System
  - Practical identification of charge, reservoir, seal, trap
  - Common failure modes in exploration
• Hydrocarbon Fluids & Field Behaviour
  - Fluid types and phase behaviour
  - Implications for recovery and development
• Data types
  - Typical subsurface data
• Case Study
  - Success vs failure: why some prospects work and others don’t

• Data access and value
• Petroleum system screening of multiple prospects

• Understand how basin type and evolution controls petroleum systems
• Assess charge risk using typical exploration datasets
• Identify timing and preservation risks

• Basin Architecture and Evolution
  - Understanding basin types matters for exploration success
  - Basin dynamics and evolution
  - Structural inheritance and heat flow implications
• Source Rock & Charge Evaluation
  - Controls on source rock distribution
  - TOC, Rock-Eval and maturity
  - Basin Modelling
  - Migration pathways and charge access
• Timing & Preservation
  - Trap formation vs hydrocarbon generation
  - Uplift, leakage, and biodegradation
• Data Analysis
  - Quality control
  - Working with incomplete or poor data
  - Using analogues when data are sparse

• Charge risk assessment using geochemical data and maps
• Charge risk ranking using basin summaries and maps

• Evaluate reservoir quality and trap effectiveness
• Recognise uncertainty drivers that impact resource / reserve volumes

• Reservoir Quality in the Subsurface
  - Characterising Porosity and Permeability
  - Depositional control vs diagenesis
  - Net-to-gross and connectivity
  - Reservoir heterogeneity and sweep risk
• Seals & Containment
  - Seal types
  - Top seal vs lateral seal risks
  - Fault seal basics
  - Overpressure and leakage
• Trap Styles
  - Tectonic styles
  - Structural, stratigraphic, combination traps
  - Subtle traps
• Development Implications
  - Well placement risk
  - Compartmentalisation and recovery factor impact

• Fault Trap evaluation
• Reservoir and trap risk ranking using field analogues (Group Exercise with Peer Review)

• Introduction to the interpretation of seismic and well data
• Understand limits of subsurface data and prediction

• Seismic Interpretation for Decision-Makers
  - Fundamentals of seismic acquisition, processing and interpretation
  - What seismic can and cannot resolve
  - Depth uncertainty and structural risk
• Structural Interpretation
  - Structural closures and spill points
  - Fault interpretation pitfalls
• Well Log Integration
  - Key logging tools and interpretation parameters
  - Interpreting lithology, porosity and fluids
  - Log signatures tied to depositional environments
  - Identifying pay vs non-pay
• Uncertainty Management
  - Structural vs stratigraphic uncertainty
  - Communicating uncertainty to non-geoscientists

• Integrated seismic-well interpretation exercises

• Build and communicate a defensible prospect
• Tie geoscience uncertainty to economic outcomes

• Play Fairway & Prospect Definition
  - From plays to leads and identification of drillable prospects
  - When a prospect is “not ready”
• Geological Risking (Pg)
  - Charge, reservoir, seal, trap risking
  - Risking methodology
  - Bias
  - Calibration against historical success rates
• Volumes & Uncertainty
  - STOIIP/GIIP calculation
  - Deterministic and Probabilistic calculation methods
  - Assessing uncertainty

• Team-Based Prospect Review
• Defining the petroleum system
• Trap and reservoir
• Assigning risks and volumes

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