GER training courses are based on a solid foundation of practical experiences which will be transferred to course attendees by delivering a right balance between basic principles and several case studies directly experienced by the course instructors through their several years of international career.

Courses content can be specifically designed to respond to client requirements to ensure a perfect match between course deliverables and customer expectations. Courses can be delivered at client’s office or at the training facilities offered in collaboration with the University of Geneva, Geneva Switzerland.

  • Business case: why  is this relevant?
  • Principles of sequence stratigraphy and reflection seismic
  • Recap on variety of sedimentary basins and tectonic settings
  • Principle of sequence and seismic stratigraphy (+ exercises)
  • Principle of basin analysis and petroleum system)
  • Passive margin basin (examples from the North Sea, NW Atlantic, South America + exercises)
  • Basins in rift setting (examples from East Africa + exercises)
  • Foreland basins (examples from Western US, South America and Middle East + exercises)
  • Wrench faulting basin (examples form Oman and Syria + exercises)
  • Introduction to basin petroleum exploration
  • Seismic expression of trapping mechanisms (+ exercises)
  • Principles of petroleum seismology
  • Structural interpretation in petroleum seismic (+ exercises)
  • Evaluation of hydrocarbon occurrence (DHI) (+ exercises)
  • Seismic workstation technology
  • Production seismic case study (Nigeria)
  • Deep water plays (examples from GOM, West Africa + exercises)
  • Deltaic and fluvial plays (examples form West Africa, Asia + exercises)
  • Carbonates (examples form Asia, Middle East + exercises)
  • Introduction: Why and When Integrated Modelling ? How to get ready to start ?
  • What is a model?
  • The IRM key steps:  1) Regional Geology 2) Reservoir architecture and properties 3) Predicting the fluid flow behaviour
  • Managing uncertainties: when and where to us the probabilistic vs deterministic approach
  • A case study from Western Africa (+ exercises)
  • The customers of IRM
  • Conclusions
  • Introduction to fit-for-purpose 3D geo-cellular modelling.
  • Data driven vs concept driven model.
  • Impact on history match
  • Where and when to use different modelling techniques: the truncated gaussian simulation, discrete body modelling and sequential indicator simulation (+ exercises)
  • Stationary vs non-stationary approach: using the right kriging approach  (+ exercises)
  • Fundamentals of Integrated reservoir characterization approach
  • The exploration and Production mindsets
  • The integration of disciplines: a multi-expertise approach
  • Identification of opportunities and threats: how to go about it?
  • Clastic reservoirs: types, characteristics and challenges (+ exercises)
  • Carbonate reservoir: types, characteristics and challenges (+ exercises)
  • Fractured reservoirs: types, characteristics and challenges (+ exercises)
  • Exercises
  • Introduction: what is important ?
  • The reservoir study approaches: from regional seismic to pore-scale (seismostrat, rock typing etc)
  • Reservoir connectivity and flow units: concepts and practical definition
  • Continental reservoirs: glacial, alluvial fans, fluvial. aeolian and lacustrine  (+ exercises)
  • Marginal marine: deltaic and shoreface  (+ exercises)
  • Deep water: turbidites  (+ exercises)
  • Data integration: inferring reservoir characteristics from static and dynamic data
  • Exploration vs field scale:  what it is important ? where to focus ?
  • 3D geo-celllular modelling: a fit for purpose approach (upscaling & link to dynamic world)
  • Introduction: what is important ?
  • The reservoir study approaches: from regional seismic to pore-scale (seismostrat, rock typing etc)
  • Reservoir connectivity and flow units: concepts and practical definition
  • Continental reservoirs: lacustrine mixed clastic and microbial carbonates –  (+ exercises)
  • Marginal marine: platform, ramp, lagoonal, reef  (+ exercises)
  • Deep water: carbonate deep water turbidites  (+ exercises)
  • Data integration: inferring reservoir characteristics from static and dynamic data
  • Exploration vs field scale:  what it is important ? where to focus ?
  • 3D geo-celllular modelling: a fit for purpose approach (upscaling & link to dynamic world).

*a 5-days course increases course participant’s exposure to exercises and examples on real case studies hence providing a higher value of the course.

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