The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) welcome you to the inaugural Africa Energy and Technology Conference (ATCE) to be held in Nairobi, Kenya on 5-7 December. This event is envisioned as a truly continent-scale African conference and exhibition held by two professional societies, with over 140,000 global members.

Two pre-conference training courses will be taking place on the 4th December at the conference venue which conference attendees are encouraged to register for.

Improving Success in Drilling

Instructor: Samuel Abraham

The first half of the course will cover the development of the drilling plan and budget, including preparing a drilling program, selection of the appropriate drilling equipment and personnel for the project. The preparation of an AFE plan for the drilling budget will also be discussed, in order to plan for normal and unforeseen operations, and cost savings through improving project efficiency. The second half of the course will cover the management of day to day operational problems that the instructor has encountered in the African region, including loss circulation, stuck pipe, fishing, equipment problems, drilling monitoring and gathering of data, storage and sharing of information amongst various teams involved in a project. To learn more …

Petroleum Geology Fundamentals

Instructor: Terry Engelder

The purpose of this short course is to introduce the laymen to the basics of petroleum geology. The short course will be an abbreviated version of the course that is taught to undergraduate petroleum engineers at the Pennsylvania State University when introducing engineers to petroleum geology. The focus will be on an analysis of the elements that are necessary for a successful petroleum geosystem based on the play concept. "A play is a model in the mind of the geologist of how selected geological factors might combine to produce petroleum accumulations at a specific stratigraphic level in a basin." (Allen and Allen, 2005). The petroleum geosystem is a series of geological events including source rock deposition, the accumulation of a reservoir rock, the evolution of a seal rock, the addition of overburden which created the temperature and pressure for maturation, the formation of traps, the migration of petroleum and natural gas, and the preservation of petroleum and gas over time. As a background for developing an understanding of a petroleum geosystem subjects such as basin evolution, sequence stratigraphy, and petrophysics will be introduced. To learn more …

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