• Drilling engineers
• Geologists
• Geophysicists
• Reservoir engineers

• The appraisal programme: appraisal well locations and analytical programmes; 3-D seismic
• The static model: lithofacies, macroforms, log correlation, object modelling, reservoir architecture, layering
• The dynamic model: geocellular modelling, test results, production profiles, simulation, history matching
• Assessing uncertainty of resource and reserves
• Declaration of commerciality
• The FDP (field development plan): well locations, treatment facilities, oil andgas transportation, EIA
• Case studies and examples of appraisal programmes
• Updating the static and dynamic models based on production results
• Reserve calculations from volumetrics, decline curve analysis and material balance
• Locating unproduced HC within a field
• Additional development plans: infill drilling, secondary and tertiary recovery
• Abandonment
• The value chain: exploration, appraisal, development, production, abandonment
• Components of a petroleum accumulation: source rock, reservoir, seal, trap, maturation, migration pathway and timing
• Exploration methods: gravimetry and FTG; magnetometric surveying; seismic surveying; drilling wells
• The petroleum system: the source kitchen; migration pathways; reservoirs
• The petroleum play: source, reservoir and seal.  Common segment risk mapping
• Leads and prospects
• Volumetrics: in-place and recoverable
• Risk, uncertainty and probability.  Monte Carlo analysis
• Economic indicators: NPV, ROR, EMV
• Selecting the best wildcat well location
• Designing the wildcat well analytical programme: wellsite geology, mud logging, biostratigraphy, geochemistry, petrophysical logging, coring, testing
• Analysing and integrating data provided by the wildcat well analytical programme
• Declaration of a discovery

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