AAPG SITE SEARCH | Home > Education > Strategic Training Partnership > Curriculum

Curriculum

Will you choose custom training or a standard package?
Benefits
Special Opportunities

Build Your
Curriculum

What are Training
Activities?
Compare and Contrast
Invitation
How do I become a
Strategic
Training Partner?

Build your curriculum from these subject areas. These are not specific courses; rather all courses are built from these basic themes.

The Asset Team (Exploration/Development):

  1. Asset Management

  2. Risk Management

  3. Geostatistics and Data Analysis

  4. Exploration Technology: A Management Overview

  5. Creativity in the Exploration Process

  6. Integrating Technologies to Maximize Asset Management

  7. Case Studies (evolution of an actual asset)

Reservoir Approaches:

  1. Reservoir Characterization

  2. Reservoir Types (sandstone, carbonate, coal, seals)

  3. Reservoir Development

  4. Reservoir Facies, Deposition through Time

  5. Petrophysics

Geophysical Interpretation:

  1. Sequence Stratigraphic Studies

  2. Seismic Attributes in Exploration

  3. Integration of Seismic

  4. Seismic Acquisition and Processing

Geology in Exploration:

  1. Generation, Expulsion, and Migration

  2. Geology of Reservoir Rocks (lithology, pore geometry, etc.)

  3. The Hydrocarbon Trap: Structural, Stratigraphic, or Special

  4. Special Discussion: Deepwater Clastics

  5. Structural Studies in Exploration

  6. Basin Analysis: The Petroleum System

Contact:

James Blankenship, AAPG Geoscience Director,

Ron Hart, AAPG Geoscience Marketing Manager,

AAPG Headquarters:

P.O. Box 979, Tulsa, OK 74101 • 1444 S. Boulder Ave., Tulsa, OK 74119

Phone: (918) 584-2555• Fax: (918) 560-9418