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About this Training Course

With an average (global) rate-of-success of about 40%, many exploration wells fail to find producible hydrocarbons. A critical quality of explorers is therefore the ability to recognise the ‘good’ prospects that have a good chance to result in a discovery. As no two prospects are the same, it is not easy to know what to look for, especially when dealing with prospects in frontier basins for which there is little calibration. A significant challenge lays in the fact that explorers are expected to be creative and resourceful in coming up with attractive play concepts and trapping configurations, while they also must be brutally honest and realistic when assessing the risks of their evaluated prospects.

What makes this course different

Many technical courses focus primarily on interpretation techniques, workflows, and skills. In this course it is assumed that the technical skills have been acquired, and focus is on a higher-level assessment that should help explorers to identify prospects that deserve to be tested and prospects with critical flaws that need to be avoided.