Geochemical Techniques for Solving Reservoir Management and Field Development Problems - GTS
What are the Goals?
By the end of this training course, participants will learn to:
- Interpret Rock-Evaluation pyrolysis using source rock, and reservoir fluid samples
- Understand the type and maturity of organic matter applying organic petrography, vitrinite reflectance and thermal alteration Index
- Classification of kerogens based on elemental analysis, pyrolysis, and geochemical logs
- Gas chromatography applications, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and source-rock generative kinetics
- Principles of applied geochemistry evaluations fluid inclusions, biomarkers, advanced isotopic and diamonded tools
Who is this Training Course for?
This Global Franchise training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Exploration geologists
- Geochemical coordinators
- Managers and development geologists
- Production engineers and reservoir modellers
Day One: Geochemistry General Overview
- Geochemistry fundamentals and its role in oil industry
- Typical source rock depositional environments and assessment
- Laboratory methods rock – Evaluation pyrolysis, Soxhlet extraction, column chromatography, asphaltene solubility and precipitation, GC, GCMS, head space gas analysis, organic petrography determination applying transmitted, reflected and ultra violet light
Day Two: Source Rock Evaluation
- Thermal maturity evaluation
- Quantitative estimation of generated
- Data interpretation (geochemical logs)
- Hydrocarbon migration and mechanisms
Day Three: Data Interpretation
- Interpretation of Rock – eval pyrolysis data, pitfalls
- Geochemistry and geochemistry sedimentology data interpretations
- Gas chromatography, stable Isotopes
- Interpretive pitfalls
Day Four: Case Studies
- Thermal and quantitative modeling
- Recognition of precursor OM, depositional environment and maturity based on distinctive biomarker analysis
- Source-and age-related parameters
- Oil-oil and oil-source rock correlation
- Interpretive pitfalls
Day Five: Petroleum System Modeling
- Objectives, terms, nomenclature
- Petroleum system elements
- Mapping and cross section techniques applications
- Table of accumulations, event chart
- Burial history reconstruction
- Timing of petroleum system events