Geology and Geophysics Applied to Industry:
An Introduction to the Hunt For Oil for Geoscientists not within Industry
Sample Agendas
- Basic - 6 hours
- Basic - 4 hours
- Intermediate - 5 hours
- Seismic Data - 5 hours
- Prospecting - 4 hours
- Structure - 5 hours
- Stratigraphy - 5 hours
- Plays, Wells, Prospects - 5 hours
- 1 Day
- 2 Day
Supplies needed for most exercises:
- Pen or pencil (for taking notes)
- Colored pencils: red, yellow, blue, green and #2 (graphite)
- Eraser
Most of the material in this short course is courtesy of ExxonMobil and the original material was compiled by Fred W. Schroeder.
- Lecture Exercise Unit 0: Introduction
- Lecture Exercise Unit 1: The Focus of Industry
- Lecture Exercise Unit 2: Basics of Prospecting
- Lecture Exercise Unit 3: Types of Data
- Lecture Exercise Unit 4: Well Log Data
- Lecture Exercise Unit 5: The Seismic Method
- Lecture Exercise Unit 6: Seismic Reflections
- Lecture Exercise Unit 7: Well-Seismic Ties
- Lecture Exercise Unit 8: Seismic Resolution
- Lecture Exercise Unit 9: Overview of Seismic Interpretation
- Lecture Exercise Unit 10: Structural Analysis
- Lecture Exercise Unit 11: Stratigraphic Analysis
- Lecture Exercise Unit 11b: Seismic Facies Analysis
- Lecture Exercise Unit 12: Data Analysis
- Lecture Exercise Unit 13: Seismic Attributes
- Lecture Exercise Unit 14: Prospect Analysis
- Lecture Exercise Unit 15: Next Steps-Going Beyond Exploration
- Lecture Exercise Unit 16: The Prospect Game-Which Prospects to Drill?
- Lecture Exercise Unit 17: Carbonate Lease Sale
Materials provide herein was designed for an AAPG-VGP short course. The intended audience is upper class undergraduate students, Masters candidates and PhD candidates in any branch of geoscience. Much of the material is basic and is intended for students who do not have much prior knowledge of Petroleum Geology and/or Exploration Seismology.
Portions of this short course have been presented on 35+ U.S. campuses with a wide spectrum of students (Freshman to Post Docs). Feedback from students and faculty has been very positive.
There are 17 units that can be used to build an agenda "cafeteria-style" based on the needs of the department and the instructor's experience. Most units consist of a lecture (20 to 40 minutes) and one or more hands-on, paper-based exercises. Lectures have "notes" pages with speaking points and exercises have a "READ ME" file with recommendations on running each exercise. Several agendas are provided to the right.
Short courses to date have varied between 4 hours and 16 hours (over 2 days). The most common agendas have been (a) 5 to 6 hours on weekdays starting between 3:00 and 5:00 PM, and (b) 5 to 8 hours on Saturdays starting between 8:00 AM and noon.
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