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Regional Petroleum System Assessment - From Basin Understanding to Play Fairway Mapping (GEO45)

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    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:
    • Basin style and mechanisms
    • Regional geological synthesis and play fairway analysis
    • Data management and building a regional robust database

    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...

    • An 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
    • Recognise 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
    • Recognise the importance to integrate geological and geophysical data
    • Present and communicate regional exploration concepts effectively

    Topics

    Sedimentary Basins & Petroleum Systems
    Learning Objectives
    • Participants will gain an understanding of the geological processes that control hydrocarbon generation, migration, accumulation, and preservation.

    Topics
    • Introduction
    • Basin evolution and tectonics
    • Sedimentary basin types and petroleum systems
    • Basin scale controls on the Petroleum System

    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

    Basin Assessment and Petroleum Systems Analysis: Charge and Migration
    Learning Objectives
    • Participants will learn workflows to assess charge and migration in hydrocarbon systems at regional scale

    Topics
    • Basin screening workflows
    • Source rock evaluation
    • Basin modelling concepts

    Practical Exercises
    • Source rock quality and maturity interpretation
    • Charge risk assessment

    Case studies
    • Sirte Basin
    • East African Rift Systems

    Regional Exploration Concepts and Play Fairway Analysis
    Learning Objectives
    • Participants will learn workflows for evaluating basin prospectivity and assessing reservoir and trapping at regional scale.

    Topics
    • Regional geological synthesis
    • Reservoir and seal assessment
    • Seal assessment
    • Structural / stratigraphic / combination traps

    Regional Exploration Concepts / Play Fairway and Risk Analysis
    Learning Objectives
    • Participants will understand how to integrate data into play fairway maps, producing Depositional Systems (GDE) and Risking (CRS) maps.

    Topics
    • Play fairway analysis
    • Frontier basin evaluation
    • Exploration concept development
    • Risk and uncertainty

    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

    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.

    Team Basin Assessment Project
    • Assess basin tectonic evolution
    • Evaluate petroleum systems
    • Identify exploration plays
    • Identify key risks
    • Define exploration concepts
    • Recommend exploration strategy

    Presentations
    • Basin overview
    • Petroleum systems interpretation
    • Exploration play concepts
    • Risk assessment
    • Recommended exploration programme
    • Commercial and strategic considerations

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    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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