Description

• Basin evaluation for national resource assessment
• Regional geological synthesis and play fairway analysis
• Data management and regional databases
• Licensing round preparation and acreage promotion
• Exploration risk and uncertainty assessment
• Government-industry interaction
• Exploration project management and technical assurance
• Strategic management of frontier and mature basins
• Integration of geological, geophysical, commercial, and policy considerations

Designed for you, if you are...

• A national oil company geoscientist
• Early career government exploration geologist
• Petroleum ministry technical staff
• Geological survey personnel
• Working in a basin evaluation team
• Licensing round coordinator
• Resource assessment specialist
• Early-career petroleum geoscientist in a regulatory agency
• Technical advisor involved in exploration promotion

How we build your confidence

• Lectures and worked examples
• Participants receive:
  - Course lecture notes
  - Basin assessment workflow templates
  - Petroleum systems summary charts

The benefits from attending

• 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
• Be aware of exploration portfolio management and decision-making processes
• Recognise the importance to integrate geological, geophysical, and commercial considerations into exploration strategies
• Present and communicate regional exploration concepts effectively
• Build and manage regional exploration projects

Topics

• Participants will gain an understanding of the geological processes that control hydrocarbon generation, migration, accumulation, and preservation.

• Introduction
• Sedimentary basins
• Basin evolution and tectonicsn
• Basin scale controls on the Petroleum System

• Basin classification workshop
• Petroleum system element identification
• Source-to-trap petroleum system mapping

• North Sea rift basins
• North African passive margin systems
• Atlantic margin examples

• Participants will learn workflows for evaluating basin prospectivity and assessing hydrocarbon systems at regional scale.

• Basin screening workflows
• Source rock evaluation
• Reservoir and seal assessment
• Structural and stratigraphic traps
• Basin modelling concepts

• Source rock maturity interpretation
• Regional play mapping - GDE and CRS Maps
• Basin screening workflow exercise

• Sirte Basin
• East African Rift Systems

• Participants will develop skills in identifying exploration plays and conceptualising regional exploration opportunities.

• Regional geological synthesis
• Play fairway analysis
• Frontier basin evaluation
• Exploration concept development
• Risk and uncertainty

• Play fairway mapping workshop
• Exploration concept brainstorming
• Common risk segment mapping

• Participants work in teams to evaluate a frontier basin and define exploration play concepts.

• Participants will understand how exploration projects are managed from concept generation to drilling decision.

• Government role in the exploration project lifecycle
• Exploration team structure
• Exploration economics and fiscal frameworks
• National data management and regional databases
• Government exploration decision-making
• ESG and energy transition considerations

• Exploration portfolio ranking
• Simple EMV exercise
• Exploration project planning exercise

• Regional licensing round evaluation
• Frontier offshore basin strategy

• Participants integrate the concepts learned during the course into a complete regional basin assessment and exploration proposal.

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

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

• Lessons learned
• Best practices in regional exploration
• Future trends in petroleum exploration
• Open discussion and feedback