The Petroleum System in Unconventional Exploration & Production: Geology, Geochemistry and Basin Modeling

Date:  17th - 20th Oct 2022
Start Time: 14:00 BST
Location: Virtual
Instructor: Andy Pepper

Summary

Business Impact: This class will arm geologists and engineers with advanced capabilities to: identify, map and evaluate new plays; identify storage and production sweet spots in plays; identify vertical/by-passed storage and production sweet spots to optimize landing zones in new and existing plays.

The course teaches how to use regional geology, geochemistry and petroleum systems modeling in evaluating unconventional/resource play reservoirs. The processes discussed range from deposition of the organic-rich rock; generation, expulsion, migration and accumulation processes leading to saturation of the reservoir; to the prediction of reservoir and produced fluid properties and values.

Participants will learn to:

1. Understand modern approaches to categorizing source rocks: their potential and distribution.
2. Establish the link between organic matter and petroleum: the organofacies scheme and the geochemistry and composition of oil & gas.
3. Identify how the thermics of sedimentary basins and kinetics/organic matter quality control expelled petroleum volumes and compositions.
4. Understand the effects of pressure and capillarity: petroleum migration and accumulation are flipsides of the same process, controlling reservoir saturation patterns.
5. Differentiate between potentially producible fluid vs. immobile sorbed petroleum in organic-rich reservoirs.
6. Employ sweet-spot mapping of well performance from a pressure and fluid perspective, and fluid prediction using advanced pyrolysis methods in well samples.

Training Method

This is a classroom or virtual classroom course comprising a mixture of lectures, discussion, case studies quizzes, and practical exercises.

Who Should Attend

Exploration and development/production geoscientists and reservoir engineers who need to understand the fundamentals of how the petroleum system works to determine fluid saturation and composition in unconventional/resource plays.

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