COURSE DURATION: 3 days

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LEVEL: Foundation

 

DESIGNED FOR YOU, IF YOU ARE...

• Reservoir engineers,

• Geophysicists without geological training,

• Junior Geologists,

• Managers,

• Petroleum service personnel,

• Business administrators and Executives,

• Human resources personnel,

• Economist

 

HOW WE BUILD YOUR CONFIDENCE

We will use slides presentation, paper exercises and examples from real cases from real productive Eastern Oil field.

 

THE BENEFITS FROM ATTENDING

By the end of the course you will feel confident in your understanding of:

• The basic processes in the formation of rocks, petroleum and environments

• The use of geological and seismic data in petroleum exploration and production

• Understand the importance of Outcrops

• The most common software in the oil industry

• Importance of risks and how to work with them

• STOIIP calculations

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DAILY AGENDA

 

Day 1:

1. The Earth: Its properties, internal structure and age

• Definition and Overview

• Various types of rocks, their origins and examples

• Rocks associated with oil and gas:
  - Sedimentary rocks, examples

-     - Carbonate rocks, examples

• Petroleum Traps: types and examples

• Petroleum Reservoirs Formed by Sandstone, examples in the world

• Petroleum Reservoirs Formed by Limestone, examples in the world

• Different Types of Maps used to find Petroleum

• Depositional environments, processes and the concept of facies

• Classification of sedimentary environments

• Common sedimentary rocks: Their descriptions and origin 

  2. Introduction to Geological time, principles of stratigraphy and stratigraphic relations:

      - The concepts of relative and absolute time
      - Measurement of geological time

 

Day 2:

1. Exploration methods: Seismic techniques and the use of seismic in geological mapping; Exploration Wells

2. Reservoir rocks and their properties (Porosity, Permeability and Water Saturation), source rocks, HC migration, sealing and trapping

3. Structural and stratigraphic traps, examples

4. Outcrop mapping and the beginning of the oil industry

 

Day 3:

1. From the area of interest to the drill-worthy prospect, with a case study application:

• The Use of Analogs in Exploration Geology

• Types of data and software used

• Definition of lead / prospect

• Geological and technological factors of a lead / prospect

• Geological risk and volumetrics

• STOIIP calculation

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NSTRUCTOR

Ana de Sousa, Senior Reservoir Geologist/Modeler. She was responsible for Dunga Field Geology, Kazakhstan, for Development Plans Reports Analysis for the productive reservoirs and for team presentations.

Static Modeler for different reservoir types with the application of different types of software. Rock type and artificial neural networks classification.

Played several technical roles in reservoir characterization, modeling, and seismic interpretation in Kazakhstan, Brazil, and the Middle East. Collaboration in Thermal Assisted - Gas Oil Gravity Drainage on Natural Fractures (TA-GOGD) study for Carbonate Reservoirs.

Strong skills in integrated reservoir characterization and modeling of multicultural and heterogeneous teams, with excellent multidisciplinary knowledge in exploration, appraisal, and development projects.

Responsable for lectures in Portugal - Instituto Superior Técnico and Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, in Middle East - Petroleum Institute Students.

Several publications and presentations in different institutions around the world.