The Training Partner Programme is the PESGB new educational programme designed for members and non-members to enhance their professional development.

Take part in training courses to boost personal development, refine technical skills or introduce yourself to a completely new topics from home. This branch of our wider Educational Training Programme will provide you with industry-specific training from specialists during the day to reflect a style of classroom – based training courses.

All events are facilitated by industry specialists hand picked carefully to ensure the delivery of high quality technical content. Course themes will vary, to cover subjects from Energy Transition, to Migration Techniques, Reservoir Appraisal and Petroleum Economics to Business Management. All will focus on ‘skills within a work environment’. The classes are designed to help you build your skills and knowledge for a solid future in the energy industry.

QGIS for Geoscience Professionals

Date: 8th Mar 2023 - 29th Mar 2023
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Online
Facilitator: John McLeod, Geologist, USA

If you have used ESRI or other Geographic Information System (GIS) programs, you are already familiar with the utility and capabilities of relational database mapping and analysis. If you have used Petrel, Geographix, Kingdom, Petra, or other commercial petroleum geoscience programs you appreciate how mapping software can be tailored to the demands of a specific industry (oil and gas).

Did you know that open-source (free) mapping software can be adapted to many of the specialized geoscience mapping functions you may have done in commercial software?

QGIS can be challenging to learn but is worth the effort.

In this four-week introductory online course, we will explore some of the most common geoscience uses of Quantum Geographic Information Systems (QGIS) – globally the most popular and advanced open-source GIS program available.

The online course will be conducted in the form of lecture, demonstration, class exercises and interaction on your computer. Each weekly session will be 2 hours in length and will include homework assignments for practice and exploration to reinforce learning for Geoscience Professionals.

Part 1 |  Wednesday 8 March 2023

• Understanding QGIS components and functions
• Understanding and setting coordinate reference systems
• Setting defaults, autosave and saving
• Understanding data types and layers
• Understanding web connectivity and data sources
• Creating projects and loading data
• Styling geoscience data
• Exporting data

Part 2 | Wednesday 15 March 2023

• Working with geoscience data – tables, Raster and Vector
• Querying, filtering and calculating
• Creating and modifying grids
• Creating and modifying contours
• Calculating thickness and volumes
• Refining maps (smoothing, clipping, pre-press)

Part 3 | Wednesday 22 March 2023

• Using other gridding algorithms
• Gridding from contours – TIN
• Using oil and gas well data
• Linking raster logs to wells and making a cross section
• Using elevation data and making 3D models

Part 4 | Wednesday 29 March 2023

• Georeferencing rasters
• Using other plugins
• Analyzing faults and fractures with Rose diagrams
• Loading SGY files and linking to a seismic viewer
• Using QGIS Resources

Who should attend:

Geoscientist, Engineers and any PESGB members and non-members who are interested to learn more about the topic.

Register here.

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