Introduction to Petroleum Systems
December 8, 2014 - London UKFinding Petroleum
Natalie@findingpetroleum.com
Phone:0208 432 3313
This course is aimed primarily at young geoscientists in their early career, though is also a useful refresher for more experienced staff. The course is pitched at a level suitable for geoscientists involved in the acreage promotion and product marketing, geophysicists and engineers. It is not a geochemistry course but focuses instead on the settings in which source rocks develop, how they are matured, the physical processes controlling migration and entrapment, and the critical issue of preservation over geological time. The reservoir element of a petroleum system is given less emphasis, though the integrated issues of seal and traps are discussed in detail. A secondary element of the course is the teaching of a number of techniques to rapidly screen frontier exploration opportunities. Such techniques and products form the basis of the course exercises. Your Trainer Dr Duncan Macgregor is a well know author and presenter on regional African petroleum geology. He has worked in numerous consultancy and employment roles on African exploration for over 20 years for a number of major and independent companies, building up a unrivalled knowledge on basins across the continent. He has published over 20 papers and has been the Technical Director of the PESGB Africa Conference for the last 10 years. He currently runs his own consultancy specialising in African advice and training in addition to advisory roles in Surestream Petroleum and Neftex Petroleum Consultants.