Prospect Maturation

This 5 full day course will cover all aspects of the prospect maturation process: play understanding in the context of regional geological understanding, detailed prospect evaluation; realistic risk & volume assessment consistent with the play understanding and prospect details, and an introduction to exploration economics.

Seismic Stratigraphic Interpretation in Different Basin Settings (Passive, Extensional, Convergent & Oblique)

Comprising 5 full-day sessions, this intermediate to advanced level course is specifically designed for senior exploration geoscientists currently active in hydrocarbon play and prospect mapping, to optimise conceptual geological input into their technical evaluation.

CCS Analytics: AI-Based Carbon Capture & Storage

This 3-day training will focus on how to enhance your CCS strategies with the latest innovative technologies.

Upstream Petroleum Economics, Risk and Fiscal Analysis

The 3-day hands-on petroleum economics training course provides a comprehensive overview of the practices of exploration and development petroleum economics and its application in valuing oil and gas assets to aid corporate decisions.

Reservoir Engineering for Geosciences Professionals and Other Disciplines

This 5 full-day course addresses reservoir engineering concepts and methods to enable cross-disciplinary team work and the smooth exchange of ideas and experience.

Applied Sequence Stratigraphy

This course aims to help geologists, geophysicists, stratigraphers and reservoir engineers gain a thorough understanding of the concepts and practical applications of sequence stratigraphy through integration of seismic sequence stratigraphy with well log sequence stratigraphy and the application of biostratigraphy to sequence stratigraphy.

Prospect Maturation

This 5 full day course will cover all aspects of the prospect maturation process: play understanding in the context of regional geological understanding, detailed prospect evaluation; realistic risk & volume assessment consistent with the play understanding and prospect details, and an introduction to exploration economics.

Fundamentals of Seismic for Non-Geophysicists

This 5 full-day blended course will focus specifically on seismic data which is the main method used in the Oil & Gas industry.

Carbonate Reservoir Geology

This 5 full-day course has been designed to develop skills in understanding the geometry and petrophysical characteristics of carbonate reservoirs.

Mature Field Development and Management

This course takes groups through these issues, fills any knowledge gaps in the essential technical fundamentals required for mature field development planning in support of a chosen strategy. Course content designed to give participants an appreciation of the evaluation and planning activities associated mature oil and gas field management.

Petroleum Geology for Non-Geologists

This course has been designed to introduce these terms and provide an insight into how oil and gas are formed, how they are found and how they are extracted. Read More

Basin Analysis and Petroleum Systems

This 5 full-day course will focus on geological fundamentals: how different basin types differ in subsidence mechanisms, basin cycles, heat flow through time, depositional systems, structural styles and their type of petroleum systems.

Introduction to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for Non-Technical Professionals

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is an upcoming new technology that has a vital place within global efforts to decarbonise. It has a unique set of challenges, opportunities and risks to be understood and accommodated within appropriate legal, regulatory, and social and public licence frameworks. The course has a strong international and global south emphasis with case studies on CCS projects and will touch on the role of CCS in developing country energy transition. The course satisfies a part...

Seismic Uncertainty Evaluation

This 5-day course attempts to demystify the black-box approach in velocity analytics, depth conversion, and approaches to uncertainty estimations. Seismic uncertainty is a key parameter affecting the accuracy of the information contained in static and dynamic reservoir models. However, quantifying and qualifying its impact on key reservoir properties, in-place volume reserves and dynamic simulation during drilling remains a challenge. Due to the limitation of the workflows and non-standardize...

Upstream Petroleum Economics, Risk and Fiscal Analysis

The 3-day hands-on petroleum economics training course provides a comprehensive overview of the practices of exploration and development petroleum economics and its application in valuing oil and gas assets to aid corporate decisions.

Seismic Stratigraphic Interpretation in Different Basin Settings (Passive, Extensional, Convergent & Oblique)

Comprising 5 full-day sessions, this intermediate to advanced level course is specifically designed for senior exploration geoscientists currently active in hydrocarbon play and prospect mapping, to optimise conceptual geological input into their technical evaluation.

Navigating Petrophysics: Log Analysis, LWD & Wireline

Targeted at awareness to knowledge level, this course addresses the tenets of petrophysics and formation evaluation, using integrative perspective of multiple datasets, including geological, geophysical, and logging and core data. Significant worldwide case histories are included, as well as several exercises designed to provide hands-on experience.

Upstream Decarbonization: Strategies & Measures towards Lowering Emissions

This 2-day training course will provide participants with an understanding of the strategies and measures for decarbonizing the Upstream Oil and Gas sector within the framework of measures implemented by individual governments through their respective commitments to reduce emissions to achieve their National Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement.

Structural Interpretation of Seismic Data

The 5-day course introduces the nature and evolution of simple and complex structures and how to interpret them. The course also discusses the timing of structures relative to hydrocarbon generation and migration and the consequent risk or COS. The following structures are covered: Introduction, Extension, Inversion, Strike-Slip and Salt. The participants can assess the workflows required for successful structural analysis and apply the necessary after the course. The course uses a mixture of...

Advanced Applied Petroleum Geomechanics

This five-day course provides an intermediate level of understanding of the geomechanical factors that affect wellbore instability, sand production and hydraulic fracture design. The course is structured such that upon completion, participants will have understood the value that geomechanics can bring to drilling, completion and production operations and will be able to leverage this value wherever it applies.

Mature Field Development and Management

This course takes groups through these issues, fills any knowledge gaps in the essential technical fundamentals required for mature field development planning in support of a chosen strategy. Course content designed to give participants an appreciation of the evaluation and planning activities associated mature oil and gas field management.

Seismic Uncertainty Evaluation

This 5-day course attempts to demystify the black-box approach in velocity analytics, depth conversion, and approaches to uncertainty estimations. Seismic uncertainty is a key parameter affecting the accuracy of the information contained in static and dynamic reservoir models. However, quantifying and qualifying its impact on key reservoir properties, in-place volume reserves and dynamic simulation during drilling remains a challenge. Due to the limitation of the workflows and non-standardize...

Introduction to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for Non-Technical Professionals

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is an upcoming new technology that has a vital place within global efforts to decarbonise. It has a unique set of challenges, opportunities and risks to be understood and accommodated within appropriate legal, regulatory, and social and public licence frameworks. The course has a strong international and global south emphasis with case studies on CCS projects and will touch on the role of CCS in developing country energy transition. The course satisfies a part...

Seismic Interpretation in Carbonates

This course introduces to the complexity associated to carbonate sequences and the best way to characterize them using 2D and 3D seismic. Several case studies from around the world will be also shown. In each module various examples from around the world and from different tectonic settings and different carbonate depositional settings will be shown. Most of the modules will have also real case studies with 2D and 3D seismic to better explain and visualize the key concepts.

Petroleum Geochemistry in Petroleum Exploration

This 5-day course focuses on methods and applications of petroleum geochemistry for source rock, maturity, and fluid (oils, oil seeps, oil shows, condensates, and gases) evaluation.

Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) & Related Agreements

This 3 full-day course examines the operational, fiscal and legal aspects of the different types of Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) in use around the world.

Assessment Based Training - Python Programming & Analytics for the Oil & Gas Sector - Maximising Value from Data Assets

In the upcoming digital era, Python stands out as the language of the future for effective AI and data analytics implementation, particularly in the Oil and Gas sector. Its widespread adoption is attributed to extensive libraries, versatility, and a thriving community of developers consistently pushing the boundaries of the field. This training course will tailor a transformative learning experience for professionals in oil and gas.

Decision-based Geothermal Field Development

Introduction to Geothermal Exploration and Development

This introductory course provides a comprehensive overview of geothermal energy fundamentals for those looking to enter or transition into the industry. The course will equip participants across technical with awareness of how geothermal projects progress from initial exploration through early development phases. Participants will exit better prepared to contribute to strategic and economic decisions in their own geothermal organizations and assets.

Trap & Fault-Seal Analysis, Modeling for Oil & Gas and CO2

Trap and seal analyses are discussed in this course from a pragmatic explorer’s point of view, based on the extensive experience of the instructor and on published case histories. Top seal and fault seal will both be addressed. The theoretical aspects of sealing that have been developed over the years will be explained, and case histories from different basin settings will be presented.

Application of Structural Geology in Seismic Interpretation

Seismic interpretation requires understanding of structural development and its interrelation with the stratigraphic system. Bias and misunderstanding have unfortunately resulted in countless dry holes. So go beyond tracing horizons and understand their context within the structural system by extracting key information from seismic surveys and other datasets.

Seismic Interpretation in Fold and Thrust Belts

This course provides an overview on how the use of the concepts of structural geology can be applied to make better structural interpretations. The principles behind the construction of balanced cross-sections are discussed. The participants will learn theoretical and technical approaches to seismic structural interpretation of compressional structures illustrated by numerous examples from around the world and experienced by hands-on exercises.

Fundamentals of Seismic for Non-Geophysicists

This 5 full-day blended course will focus specifically on seismic data which is the main method used in the Oil & Gas industry.

Prospect Maturation

This 5 full day course will cover all aspects of the prospect maturation process: play understanding in the context of regional geological understanding, detailed prospect evaluation; realistic risk & volume assessment consistent with the play understanding and prospect details, and an introduction to exploration economics.

Sedimentology & Depositional Environments of Deepwater Deposits

This 5-day course covers the theory and application of sedimentology and depositional environments of deepwater deposits. The course comprises an extensive series of topic-related modules, with provision to include workshops on the participants’ datasets. The course can be concluded with a multiple-choice test.

Structural Interpretation of Seismic Data

The 5-day course introduces the nature and evolution of simple and complex structures and how to interpret them. The course also discusses the timing of structures relative to hydrocarbon generation and migration and the consequent risk or COS. The following structures are covered: Introduction, Extension, Inversion, Strike-Slip and Salt. The participants can assess the workflows required for successful structural analysis and apply the necessary after the course. The course uses a mixture of...

Project Economics, Risk and Decision Analysis for Oil & Gas

This 5 full-day training course looks at the setup of economic analysis cases, including the estimation of recoverable reserves, production profiles, commodity prices, and project costs – CAPEX, OPEX, taxes, royalties, transportation, depreciation, before-tax (BTAX) cash-flow, after-tax (ATAX) cash-flow and international fiscal regimes (production sharing agreement and concessionary system).

Petroleum Geology for Non-Geologists

This course has been designed to introduce these terms and provide an insight into how oil and gas are formed, how they are found and how they are extracted. Read More

Geomechanics at Well and Field Scale

This 5 full-day course starts with the determination of the stresses in the earth, the impact of different structural styles, salt bodies, faulting and folding on the orientation of the three main principal stress components.

Integrated Field Development Planning

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the technical and commercial aspects of field development planning in the oil and gas industry. This course considers the technical and commercial influences on Field Development Planning within the global oil and gas industry. It also considers the need for understanding field development choice, resource size, facility choice and cost. The course covers the full field development workflow from exploration and appraisal through concept sel...

Prospect Risks & Volumes Assessment

This 3 full-day course explains how risks and volumes can be assessed in a realistic manner based on a sound understanding of the geological details of the prospect and its regional geological setting and our play understanding.

AVO, Attributes and Inversion: Principles and Applications

This 5 full-day training course provides an understanding of the evolving role of seismic petrophysics through the use of amplitude variations with offset or angle (AVO/AVA), attributes, and inversion techniques. Understanding rock physics and the behaviour of the propagating seismic waves represents an integral part of the course, especially in the context of specific applications including enhanced seismic interpretation, rock and fluid characterization, including hydrocarbon identification...

Exploration Concepts for Tight Sand Plays

This 2-day intermediate-advanced level course provides a comprehensive understanding of tight oil and gas plays, which have gained significant importance in recent years due to technological advancements. Participants will gain in-depth exposure to the critical working elements and success factors of these unconventional reservoirs through an integrated approach.

Seismic Stratigraphic Interpretation in Different Basin Settings (Passive, Extensional, Convergent & Oblique)

Comprising 5 full-day sessions, this intermediate to advanced level course is specifically designed for senior exploration geoscientists currently active in hydrocarbon play and prospect mapping, to optimise conceptual geological input into their technical evaluation.

Operations Geology

This 4-day course aims to provide the participants with the foundational knowledge to be effective as an operations geologist. The course will comprise lectures interspersed with practical and interactive exercises as well as quizzes to promote better understanding for the participants.

Navigating Petrophysics: Log Analysis, LWD & Wireline

Targeted at awareness to knowledge level, this course addresses the tenets of petrophysics and formation evaluation, using integrative perspective of multiple datasets, including geological, geophysical, and logging and core data. Significant worldwide case histories are included, as well as several exercises designed to provide hands-on experience.