Regional Petroleum System Assessment - From Basin Understanding to Play Fairway Mapping (GEO45)
Description
This introductory course provides a comprehensive understanding of the regional tectonic framework, source rock maturation, migration pathways, and play fairway mapping. During the course, systematic workflows for basin screening, petroleum systems evaluation and exploration opportunity identification are developed.
Particular emphasis is placed on:
The course is intended to strengthen the technical capabilities of geoscientists responsible for petroleum system analysis and play fairway mapping for new ventures and exploration assessment.
Course Level: Skill
Duration: 5 days
Particular emphasis is placed on:
- Basin style and mechanisms
- Regional geological synthesis and play fairway analysis
- Data management and building a regional robust databases
The course is intended to strengthen the technical capabilities of geoscientists responsible for petroleum system analysis and play fairway mapping for new ventures and exploration assessment.
Course Level: Skill
Duration: 5 days
Designed for you, if you are...
- A early-career exploration geologist
- A basin evaluation team member
- A resource assessment specialist
How we build your confidence
The course combines lectures, workshops, regional examples, and practical exercises.The benefits from attending
By the end of the course participants will be able to:- Understand the fundamental elements of petroleum systems and sedimentary basins
- Recognize the controls on basin evolution, fill and hydrocarbon prospectivity
- Assess source rock, reservoir, seal, and trap distribution at basin scale.
- Understand play fairway analysis and regional exploration concepts
- Apply regional basin screening workflows for frontier and mature basins
- Develop exploration project concepts from regional datasets
- Understand the input to evaluate exploration risks and uncertainties
- Recognize the importance to integrate geological and geophysical data
- Present and communicate regional exploration concepts effectively
Topics
Day 1: Sedimentary Basins & Petroleum SystemsWhat are the key controls on petroleum systems at the basin scale
Learning Objectives
Participants will gain an understanding of the geological processes that control hydrocarbon generation, migration, accumulation, and preservation.
Topics
1. Introduction
- Global energy and hydrocarbon distribution vs basin type
- Conventional and unconventional resources
- Importance of regional studies
2. Basin evolution and tectonics
- Plate tectonic controls
- Subsidence mechanisms
- Basin fill architecture
- Structural styles and deformation
- Definition and classification of sedimentary basins
3. Sedimentary basin types and petroleum systems
- Rift basins
- Passive margin basins
- Foreland basins
- Intra-cratonic basins
- Arc, Strike-slip and pull-apart basins
4. Basin scale controls on the Petroleum System
- Source rocks
- Kerogen types and organic facies
- Thermal maturity and hydrocarbon generation - Reservoir rocks and reservoir quality
- Seals and cap rocks
- Traps and trap styles
- Migration pathways and timing
Practical exercises
- Basin classification workshop
- Petroleum system element identification
- Source-to-trap petroleum system mapping
Case studies
- North Sea rift basins
- North African passive margin systems
- Atlantic margin examples
Day 2: Basin Assessment and Petroleum Systems Analysis: Charge and Migration
How do we define and risk petroleum systems at the basin scale
Learning Objectives
Participants will learn workflows to assess charge and migration in hydrocarbon systems at regional scale.
Topics
1. Basin screening workflows
- Building regional geological datasets
- Exploration maturity assessment
- Data integration and uncertainty
2. Source rock evaluation
- Organic richness (TOC)
- Kerogen typing
- Maturity indicators
- Burial and thermal history
- Integrating surface sampling
- Geochemical data interpretation
3. Basin modelling concepts
- Use of burial history modelling
- Importance of understanding heat flow and maturation
- Calculating hydrocarbon generation timing
- Migration modelling
- Charge risk assessment
Practical exercises
- Source rock quality and maturity interpretation
- Charge risk assessment
Case studies
- Sirt Basin
- East African Rift Systems
Day 3: Regional Exploration Concepts and Play Fairway Analysis
How to define leads and plays, developing new concepts and targets
Learning Objectives
Participants will learn workflows for evaluating basin prospectivity and assessing reservoir and trapping at regional scale.
Topics
1. Regional geological synthesis
- Integration of seismic and well data
- Defining the stratigraphy and chronostratigraphic framework
- Regional structural framework
- Stratigraphic and Structural correlations
2. Reservoir and seal assessment
- Depositional systems
- Clastic and carbonate reservoirs
- Depositional system and facies mapping
- Reservoir quality prediction
- Impact of diagenesis
3. Seal assessment
- Controls on seal / seal types
- Assessing regional / local seal effectiveness
4. Structural / stratigraphic / combination traps
- Trapping concepts
- Application of sequence stratigraphy
- Trap timing and preservation
- Regional trap styles
Day 4: Regional Exploration Concepts / Play Fairway and Risk Analysis
How to design and manage regional exploration projects
Learning Objectives
Participants will understand how to integrate data into play fairway maps, producing Depositional Systems (GDE) and Risking (CRS) maps.
Topics
1. Play fairway analysis
- Definition of exploration play fairways
- Common risk segment mapping
- Charge, reservoir, seal, trap risk mapping
- GIS-based regional assessment
2. Frontier basin evaluation
- Analogues and benchmarking
- Limited data exploration workflows
- Regional seismic interpretation
- Satellite and gravity-magnetic and other regional geological datasets
3. Exploration concept development
- Generating exploration ideas
- Identifying sweet spots
- Lead and prospect definition
- Volumetric concepts
4. Risk and uncertainty
- Geological chance of success
- Risk segment analysis
- Volumetric uncertainty
- Decision-tree approaches
Practical exercises
- Play fairway mapping workshop
- Exploration concept brainstorming
- Common risk segment mapping
Group workshop
- Participants work in teams to evaluate a frontier basin and define exploration play concepts
Case studies
- Regional licensing round evaluation
- Frontier offshore basin strategy
Day 5: Integrated Basin Evaluation Project and Presentations
Learning Objectives
Participants integrate the concepts learned during the course into a complete regional basin assessment and exploration proposal.
Morning Session – Team Basin Assessment Project
Participants work in teams using a provided regional dataset to:
- Assess basin tectonic evolution
- Evaluate petroleum systems
- Identify exploration plays
- Identify key risks
- Define exploration concepts
- Recommend exploration strategy
Afternoon Session – Presentations
- Basin overview
- Petroleum systems interpretation
- Exploration play concepts
- Risk assessment
- Recommended exploration programme
- Commercial and strategic considerations
Final Discussion
- Lessons learned
- Best practices in regional exploration
- Future trends in petroleum exploration
- Open discussion and feedback
Customer Feedback
"Course content and delivery, examples and exercises were great." - Geophysicist at DPR Nigeria"Interactive lecture and good discussions, demonstration of a variety of facts / methods to be applied to own work." - Geologist at Wintershall
"Real applications were presented with direct influence on exploration process." - Geologist at NIS Petrol
"The use of examples was excellent, also the trainer had a very visual way of explaining things and putting them into context." - Geoscientist at OMV Petrom
"Excellent course, excellent presentation, excellent teacher." - Inspector at NAMR
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