WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Petroleum and drilling engineers, beginning geologists and geophysicists, and technical support staff.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This introductory course covers tasks performed by the petroleum geologist, including what maps are constructed and how the necessary data is gathered and used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Basic map making skills, utilizing well logs and seismic data
• Structural geology (with emphasis on structural trapping of hydrocarbons)
• Sedimentary petrology (particularly as applied to porosity and permeability and in predicting and preventing formation damage)
• Sedimentology (emphasizing reservoir geometries and heterogeneity in sandstones formed in specific environments)
• Paleontology (as applied in the oil field for determining the age and depositional environment of sediments)
• Geochemical exploration
• Introduction to seismic geophysics (including 3-D seismic) as an exploration and reservoir management tool