• To provide students with a global scenario of the exploration project and the exploration workflow concerning the petroleum system identification, the prospect evaluation, the play mapping and the calculation of volumetric and finally the risk/uncertainty analysis for the economics project.

• Professionals (engineers, economists, lawyers) of oil companies, institutions, public offices or banks asked to efficiently interact with, support or simply understand geologists involved in oil and gas exploration projects
• Geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers who want to learn the methodology for applying sequence stratigraphy to correlation, facies analysis and delineation of stratigraphic traps

Petroleum Exploration

• • Objectives and working environment
  • Exploration licenses and licensing
  • Subsurface mapping
  • Play generation
  • Prospect generation
  • Pre-drill resource quantification (volumetrics)
  • Resources vs reserves
  • Prospect evaluation
  • Exploration workflow 

Risking

• • Risk and uncertainty
  • Play risk
  • Prospect risk

Project Economics

• • Goals
  • Factors and variables
  • Methods
  • Evaluation teams and team coordination
  • Decision tools

Petroleum Geology

• • Rocks of petroleum relevance
  • Sedimentary basins
  • Rock deformation
  • Hydrocarbons origin and generation
  • Source rocks and petroleum provinces
  • Reservoirs
  • Seals
  • Subsurface fluids and hydrocarbon mobility
  • Traps, trapping mechanisms and trap effectiveness
  • The “Petroleum System” concept
  • The “Play” concept 

Investigation tools

• • Land surveys
  • Drilling
    
  • Electric logs
  • Seismic
  • Gravity and magnetics
    
  • Sampling
    
  • Data and data acquisition and management

RECTUS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration