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
COURSE OUTLINE:
Day 1: 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 2: Source Rock Evaluation
- Thermal maturity evaluation
- Quantitative estimation of generated
- Data interpretation (geochemical logs)
- Hydrocarbon migration and mechanisms
Day 3: Data Interpretation
- Interpretation of Rock – eval pyrolysis data, pitfalls
- Geochemistry and geochemistry sedimentology data interpretations
- Gas chromatography, stable Isotopes
- Interpretive pitfalls
Day 4: 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 5: 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