Petroleum Geochemistry and Basin EvaluationThis three-day course is an introduction to petroleum geochemistry concepts and applications for basin-scale evaluations. The course is designed for petroleum geologists with little exposure to geochemistry, geochemists with experience in conventional, but not unconventional, petroleum systems, and geochemists and geologists new to basin modeling and regional exploration. The course begins with a review of source rock description using qualitative and quantitative methods. The main focus is basin-scale evaluation and students will learn to calibrate basin models, increase model precision, and integrate oil and gas data (i.e., biomarkers, isotopes). The class will conclude with an interactive working session to evaluate host company data collaboratively.

Instructor: David Thul, M.Sc.

Introduction to Petroleum Exploration & ProductionThis full-day course with an optional half-day workshop or evening activity is an introduction to key phases of the Oilfield Life Cycle, suitable for newly hired scientists and engineers, finance professionals, managers with backgrounds outside the petroleum industry, and support staff including geo-techs, engineering techs, data managers, and administrative support. Based on the model for the Oilfield Life Cycle, the course covers reconnaissance, prospect generation, discovery, reservoir delineation, facilities, primary production, enhanced recovery, and the acquire/divest phases. The optional half-day session includes hands-on simulation.

Techniques in Play Fairway AnalysisThis three-day course, suitable for geologists, exploration managers, and others involved in the exploration process, will review key tools and techniques used at each stage of the exploration process from Gross Depositional Environment (GDE) mapping, to building play cartoons and tectonographic diagrams, through constructing a fully integrated play fairway analysis applying the industry standard approach. The course includes two days exploration of the practical application of techniques and tools, through a 2D seismic and well-based exploration exercise to work through a real-world example of regional basin evaluation leading to acreage and a subsequent drilling campaign.

Instructor: Alastair Fraser, Ph.D.

Effective Use of Seismic Attributes for the InterpreterThis course is an overview of the wide variety of seismic attributes available to the interpreter. Designed for geologists, geophysicists, or others who deal with 3D seismic data and is interested in extracting more geologic understanding from the data. The focus is on post-stack/migration 3D seismic volumes. It is designed to help the interpreter in understanding how to use, select, and analyze attributes that are relevant to their needs, and presents a strong emphasis on understanding principles and workflows. The course may be presented as either a half-day lecture-based program or a 1 ½-day workshop combining the half-day lecture with a full-day, hands-on experience in which attendees apply the information learned in the half-day program.

The half-day lecture may be presented at the CA member’s location or at EGI, while the 1 ½ -day workshop is normally taught at EGI, using workstations running the Landmark software suite.

Instructor: William Keach, M.Sc.

The global experience, expertise and industry-relevant science research conducted by EGI researchers and engineers are the fundamental building blocks for the knowledge, design, and delivery of Field and Short Courses offered to CA members. Course participants are taught by thought-leaders in the energy sector who bring an independent perspective to the major challenges facing the industry today.

Introduction to Geomechanics in Low Mobility PlaysThis four-day course covers historical background and impact of stimulation decisions, along with Key Formation Properties of Low Mobility Plays, including storage, permeability, and stimulation requirements; Geomechanical Properties including stress, strain, strength, deformation properties, laboratory measurements, logging analyses, and field interpretation; and an Introduction to Hydraulic Fracturing & Implications for Low Mobility Situations with attention to principles for single, planar fractures, multiple interacting fractures, fluid requirements (volumes, sensitivity, etc.), geologic considerations, natural fractures, stress contrast, post-peak behavior, and lithologic considerations. The course also examines near-wellbore considerations for completing these types of wells. Additional issues to be addressed include wellbore integrity, reduced volumes, nonaqueous fluids, and air quality.

Instructor: John McLennan, Ph.D.

Play Fairway Analysis for Unconventional Petroleum SystemsThis three-day course focuses on exploration, delineation, and risk assessment of the unconventional systems commonly termed “shale plays”— often a misnomer used to describe petroleum systems characterized by short distance migration and tight reservoirs that require advanced drilling and completion techniques to produce economic volumes of petroleum. The course will cover regional and basin-scale evaluation of source, seal, trap, and reservoir quality in these plays, using industry standard techniques modified for the unique characteristics of the unconventional petroleum system.

Instructor: David Thul, M.Sc.

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Shale Gas Resource DevelopmentThis two-day course provides a concise summary of the varying facets of shale gas development from resource identification and assessment, through production analysis, completion, stimulation technology, and environmental concerns. This course will emphasize describing and understanding the features of shale gas reservoirs that distinguish them from conventional gas reservoirs. This multi-disciplinary approach requires participants to think beyond their own specialties and apply lessons learned from conventional resource development while recognizing the need to develop new paradigms where needed. The course is presented as 1 ½-day theory with a half-day of discussion and further development.

Instructor: Ian Walton, Ph.D.

Volume Interpretation | Using it all!Suitable for geologists, geophysicists, and those who deals with 3D seismic data and is interested in extracting more geologic understanding from that data, this course is an introduction to volume interpretation technology and methods. There is a strong emphasis on integrating geologic principles and workflows. The course is highly interactive, with attendees completing many interpretation exercises using the GeoProbe software on interactive workstations. We recommend participants have an understanding of seismic interpretation software and methods.

Instructor: William Keach, M.Sc.

Carbonate Sedimentology & Sequence Stratigraphy Field Course | Petroleum Systems of the Paradox BasinThis four-day Short Course is designed for geologists, engineers, and others who desire an on-the-ground examination of carbonate sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy. The program will begin at the Utah Geological Survey in Salt Lake City with a morning refresher course on sequence stratigraphy and carbonate depositional systems, followed by description and interpretation of core samples from the Middle Paradox Pennsylvanian Formation, Paradox Basin, UT. The field portion of the course will begin in Green River, UT and proceed through Paradox Basin with site discussions at Sinbad Limestone, San Rafael Swell; Upper Hermosa Outcrops, Potash, UT; Hermosa Group at Honaker Trail; production history at Aneth Field; and a float trip through Raplee Anticline including Desert Creek facies and cyclicity and Akah evaporates. The course will conclude with a summation of Paradox Basin stratigraphy and petroleum systems before participants return to airports for departure. *

Instructor: William Keach, M.Sc.

*This course will conclude in Bluff, UT. Participants may return to Salt Lake City for outbound flights, or proceed on to Farmington, NM.

Utah Field Course This five-day geological excursion through central and southern Utah offers an in-depth, on the ground look at the complex geological history of Utah and the Colorado Plateau from an energy and petroleum perspective. The course progresses from Provo, on Utah’s Wasatch Front, through Moab, Dalton Wells Dinosaur Quarry, Arches National Park, the Paradox Basin, Capital Reef National Park, Bryce National Park, and Covenant Oil Field, and includes a one-day raft trip on the San Juan River. Participants may be exposed to varied geological concepts such as reservoir characterization research, landscape evolution, Utah’s oil-producing basins, stratigraphic succession of the Grand Staircase, and geologic history of an oil filed.

Instructor: William Keach, M.Sc.

Exploration for Unconventional Oil & GasThis three-to-five day short course is intended for geologists, geophysicists, and engineers who desire a basic but comprehensive overview of current and emerging concepts, technologies, and processes related to shale gas and shale oil resource development. Examples are primarily taken from North American shale development, from the Barnett shale gas play to the Eagle Ford, Niobrara, and other liquids-rich shale plays. General learning and concepts are applicable worldwide.

Colorado Plateau, Utah Sequence Stratigraphy Field CourseThis four-day Field Course with half-day Core Workshop offers an in-depth examination of stratigraphic core & outcrops in central & southern Utah. The Field Course begins with an overview of the principles of sequence stratigraphy, examining models of both siliciclastic and carbonate systems followed by a core workshop at the Utah Geological Survey Core Lab where participants will have the opportunity to study and recognize significant surfaces and parasequence-scale facies changes in cores of two significant formations.

Instructor: William Keach, M.Sc.

Rocky Mountain Depositional Systems Field CourseInstructor: William Keach, M.Sc.

This five-day Field Course offers an opportunity to observe and understand the sedimentology and tectonic evolution of several depositional environments in the middle Rocky Mountains of the western United States. It consists of a three-day field course from Denver to Salt Lake City with an additional one-day core workshop at EGI’s Core Repository and half-day lecture at EGI offices in Salt Lake City.

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Masters of Science in Petroleum EngineeringEGI, in collaboration with the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah, launched a Masters of Science degree program in Petroleum Engineering in the 2013 fall semester. Understanding that one of the most significant challenges facing humanity is the depletion of natural resources we recognize the valuable contributions to be made by Petroleum Engineers to meet mankind’s energy needs while safeguarding the environment. Equally satisfying, petroleum engineers also gain responsibility faster and supervise important projects sooner than those in other engineering fields.

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