3516 2017 GeoTraining Catalog

GeoTraining
The CGG Integrated Training Offer
May 2017
GeoTraining The CGG Integrated
Training Offer
An Introduction to CGG GeoTraining

GeoTraining brings together the full breadth of CGG’s skill development programs to provide the E&P industry
with comprehensive geoscience workforce learning path programs.
GeoTraining combines over 85 years of practical expertise training our own employees with the excellence of
training provided by our Robertson, Jason, HampsonRussell and CGG University brands. The unique breadth
and depth of our capability enables GeoTraining to design and deliver integrated learning path programs
covering the disciplines of the global E&P geoscience community.
The GeoTraining offer covers many themes including:

• HSE • Geophysical Interpretation • Data Management
• Equipment • Petroleum Geology & • Business skills
Reservoir Engineering
• Seismic Acquisition • Software
• Reservoir Characterization
& Potential Methods & Modeling • Field Courses
• Subsurface Imaging • Petroleum Management
& Economics
CGG GeoTraining leverages the internationally recognized geoscience training and

business skill development programs of CGG to deliver customized solutions that best
meet the career goals of trainees and the development needs of our global clients.
Jean-Georges Malcor
Chief Executive, CGG
Training Offer
“Clear information delivered by a highly
experienced teacher”
Training Offer 5
Introduction 2
Table of Contents
List of Courses
Health, Safety & Environment ....................................... 6
5
Equipment ................................................................. 12
Seismic Acquisition & Potential Methods......................... 14
Subsurface Imaging ..................................................... 28
Geophysical Interpretation ........................................... 40
Petroleum Geology & Reservoir Engineering..................... 50
Reservoir Characterization & Modeling ............................ 86
Petroleum Management & Economics .............................. 100
Data Management ....................................................... 108
Business Skills ............................................................ 116
Software .................................................................... 124
Field Courses .............................................................. 148

6 GeoTraining The CGG Integrated
Training Offer
“I now have a clear picture of HSE

Health, Safety &
policies and objectives, how they

originated and their intended purpose.
I know what is expected of offshore
crews in terms of HSE and, most
importantly, why it is expected.”
Environment
CGG is committed to helping our clients achieve excellence and continuously improve
all aspects of their activities, including demonstrating leadership and compliance in Health,
Safety, Security and Environment (HSE).
HSE training courses are an essential component of workplace HSE. Our HSE courses
are aligned with a Management System based on IOGP* recommended practice.
HSE curriculum offerings include:
• HSE-OMS(Operating Management System) for onshore or offshore crews to develop
and enhance key operational HSE management skills and HSE leadership capabilities
• HSE for office managers to embrace all HSE workplace situations
CGG recognizes that HSE performance ultimately lies with each employee, contractor
and client, their ability to work together as a team and their commitment to take
responsibility for themselves and for the team.
* International Association of Oil & Gas Producers

Health, Safety & Environment
• HSE-OMS for Land Senior Staff 8
• HSE-OMS for Land Managers 8
• HSE-OMS for Marine Senior Staff 9
• HSE-OMS for Marine Managers 9
• HSE for Office Managers 10
• HSE-Incident/Accident Investigation 10
Training Offer
HSE-OMS for Land Audience

Senior Staff Land Senior Staff and Department Heads.
Content
Duration (days)
3-day Understand the benefits of the HSE Operating Management System (HSE OMS) and what it
delivers in practice. Learn how it helps you in your day-to-day management of your activities.
Max Number of Participants This course teaches HSE responsibilities for each crew position. The 10 elements of the
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HSE-OMS course are: Commitment and Accountability; Policies, Standards and Objectives;
Prerequisites Organization, Resources and Capability; Stakeholders, Clients and Customers; HSE Risk
None Assessment and Control, Asset Design and Integrity; Plan and Procedures, Execution of
Course Type Activities; Reporting, Monitoring and Learning; Assurance, Review and Improvement. For each
Attendance-based element the training will review in detail the tools that are available to manage HSE in the
field: job safety risk analysis, permit to work, safety awareness, communication tools, MOPO
Learning Objectives
• Have greater awareness of the company’s HSE Operating Management System
• Understand your role, obligations and responsibilities in the HSE-OMS processes
• Apply the HSE-OMS principals to your team
• Identify hazards, assess risks and learn about the controls you can put in place
*This course requires field experience.
HSE-OMS for Land Audience

Managers Land Managers, Party Managers, Deputy Party Managers, and Office Operation Managers
Content
Duration (days)
4-day Understand the benefits of the HSE Operating Management System (HSE OMS) and what it
delivers in practice. Learn how it helps you in your day-to-day management of your activities.
Max Number of Participants This course teaches HSE responsibilities for Land Managers. HSE-OMS 10 elements include;
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Commitment and Accountability; Policies, Standards and Objectives; Organization, Resources
Prerequisites and Capability; Stakeholders, Clients and Customers; HSE Risk Assessment and Control, Asset
None Design and Integrity; Plan and Procedures, Execution of Activities; Reporting, Monitoring and
Course Type Learning; Assurance, Review and Improvement. For each element the training will review in
Attendance-based detail the tools that are available to manage HSE in the field: job safety risk analysis, permit to
work, safety awareness, communication tools, MOPO
Learning Objectives
• Understand the importance of planning for and assessing a risk
• Control the administrative process and standards associated with the industry in each
country of activity
• Recognize the HSE responsibilities within all areas within all areas of each product or
business line
• Identify the HSE priorities, to work on the control measure of the major risks identified
Health, Safety & Environment 9
HSE-OMS for Marine Audience

Senior Staff Marine Senior Staff: Seismic Department heads, Maritime Chief Engineer, Maritime Chief
Officer and Equivalent.
Duration (days) Content
3-day
Understand the benefits of the HSE-OMS and what it delivers in practice. Learn how it helps
Max Number of Participants senior staff in the day-to-day management of their department. It includes Corporate HSE-
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OMS and the 10 elements of the HSE-OMS course are: Commitment and Accountability;
Prerequisites Policies, Standards and Objectives; Organization, Resources and Capability; Stakeholders,
None Clients and Customers; HSE Risk Assessment and Control, Asset Design and Integrity; Plan
Course Type and Procedures, Execution of Activities; Reporting, Monitoring and Learning; Assurance,
Attendance-based Review and Improvement. For each element the training will review in detail the tools that
are available to manage HSE in the field: job safety risk analysis, permit to work, safety
awareness, communication tools, MOPO
Learning Objectives
• Understand the structure and purpose of the HSE-OMS and your role in its application
and promotion
• Apply HSE-OMS consistently across the Organization
• Manage Risk effectively
• Understand the purpose of Audits and Investigation
HSE-OMS for Marine Audience

Managers Marine managers: Party Managers, Masters, and QHSE advisors.
Content
Duration (days)
4-day Understand the benefits of HSE-OMS and what it delivers in practice. Learn how it helps in the
day-to-day management of your Crew, Vessel and Project. Corporate HSE-OMS and the overview
Max Number of Participants of HSE-OMS 10 elements including; Commitment and Accountability; Policies, Standards and
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Objectives; Organization, Resources and Capability; Stakeholders, Clients and Customers; HSE
Prerequisites Risk Assessment and Control, Asset Design and Integrity; Plan and Procedures, Execution of
None Activities; Reporting, Monitoring and Learning; Assurance, Review and Improvement. For each
Course Type element the training will review in detail the tools that are available to manage HSE in the field:
Attendance-based job safety risk analysis, permit to work, safety awareness, communication tools, MOPO
Learning Objectives
• Understand the structure and purpose of HSE-OMS and your role in its application and
promotion
• Apply HSE-OMS consistently across the Organization
• Manage Risk effectively
• Understand the purpose of Audits and Investigation
Training Offer Health, Safety & Environment
HSE for Office Audience

Managers Office Managers
Content
Duration (days)
1/2-day Understand the HSE role of and responsibilities for office managers and how HSE helps them
in their day-to-day management of their activities.
Max Number of Participants
12 This course includes: An overview of HSE and its management through the corporate HSE
Prerequisites
Operating Management System. Multiple topics familiarize participants further:
None -O ffice Risks and Controls: Facility and workshop Safety, Occupational Health Risks,
Course Type
Security, Travel Safety, General Transport Management, Environment.
Attendance-based - Emergency Plans: Fire safety and Emergency Response Plans.
Learning Objectives
• Recognize the office manager’s HSE responsibilities
• Understand the importance of assessing risk
• Identify the HSE priorities to work on work on how to measure and control the
major risks identified
HSE-Incident/ Audience
Accident Training is suitable for line managers, supervisors, safety representatives – and anyone with
the responsibility for investigating incidents.
Investigation
Content
Duration (days) This two-day course will provide delegates with a broad understanding of the principles and
2-day
practice of incident investigation. It will focus on techniques for gathering, accurate and
Max Number of Participants objective accident data used to determine true root causes and examine and analyze data as a
12 means of preventing injuries, property damage and financial losses.
Prerequisites It is estimated that for every serious accident, hundreds of incidents (near misses) will occur.
None
Investigating all accidents/incidents, regardless of severity, contributes to the identification
Course Type of the basic causes, corrective actions and preventive controls, which reduces future
Attendance-based accidents.
Learning Objectives
• Be prepared with a scope, team and investigation kit
• Conduct a complete investigation, including how to assess the accident scene, collect
evidence and interview witnesses
• Conduct an analysis and find the root causes using the 5 whys technique
• Develop and categorize specific remedial actions
• Report and follow up
“Having one on one access to
Training Offer
experts makes the difference”
Equipment
Sercel offers training courses for all levels of technicians, from the basic operator to the
experienced field engineer.
Dedicated training facilities are available in our Nantes, Houston, Saint-Gaudens, Surgut,
Dehradun and Beijing locations. The latest training aids are on hand in a user-friendly
environment with guidance from fully operational field engineers. Complete seismic
source and acquisition systems are available on site to simulate field production.
Sercel Marine Training 13
Sercel Marine training courses provide observers, electronics engineers and navigators with
all the information they need to successfully conduct acquisition of seismic data using the
latest generation of Sercel Marine equipment.
Trainees will also learn to operate and maintain the Sercel Nautilus® system. Part of the
course is dedicated to the use of the Sercel marine system.
Sercel Land Training

Sercel Land training courses provide users of Sercel’s land equipment with complete
knowledge of how to set up, troubleshoot and correctly operate our systems. Our dedicated
training centers provide the complete range of Sercel products in order to offer a training
experience that is as close as possible to field conditions.
Sercel Repair Training

Sercel Repair training courses provide technicians with the information they need to repair
and assure the maintenance of Sercel equipment. Our dedicated repair training centers in
Nantes, Houston and Saint-Gaudens and our experienced repair technicians will ensure you
have all the information required to repair and maintain your Sercel equipment.
Sercel Navigation Training

Sercel Navigation training courses aim to give operators, chief navigators and support
engineers in-depth knowledge and an advanced understanding of the Sercel navigation
system. This includes administration and troubleshooting. Navigation skills are a prerequisite.
Sercel Downhole Training

Sercel Downhole Training course provide technicians, maintenance engineers and observers all
the key knowledge to properly maintain, set up and operate Sercel Downhole tools. Training is
split between theory and practice on real system, including running a job in our test well with
G Gun source, use of anchoring press and WTB.
“Not only was the training
GeoTraining The CGG Integrated course an exciting process,

14 Training Offer the expertise of your trainers
made it an unforgettable
experience that I’d
happily repeat.”
& Potential Methods

Seismic Acquisition
As a pioneer in the advancement of geoscience education, CGG University offers the

most comprehensive industry training based on years of practical experience gained
by our own personnel. With proven expertise in any environment, onshore or offshore,
our extensive offer ranges from programs covering the basics to the most advanced
techniques in the industry today.
Our training solutions cover various programs from specific short courses such as
Seismic Survey Design to long-term induction, custom-designed (with client data) and
on-the-job training. Our programs are tailored to fit client specifications and match the
geophysical experience of participants.
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Geoscience Fundamentals
• Geophysical Acquisition Overview 16
• Non Seismic Methods 16
Induction Programs
• Field Geophysicist Induction 17
• Land Seismic Surveyor Induction 17
• Field and Marine Manager Induction 18
Land and Marine Positioning

• Geodesy Overview 19
• Overview of Global Navigation Satellite Positioning Systems (GNSS) 19
• Introduction to Surveying Methods 20
• Land Seismic Positioning Overview 20
Land and Marine Acquisition

• Basic Survey Planning 21
• Advanced Survey Planning 21
• Basic Field Processing 22
• Advanced Field Processing 22
• IT/Network for Field Geophysicists 23
• Production Tools and Methods for Field Geophysicists 23
• Impact of Equipment on Seismic Performance 24
• Seismic Survey Design 24
• UltraSeis 25
• VibroTech 25
Shallow Water Operations

• Ocean Bottom Seismic 26
Onboard Processing
• Basic Onboard Processing 27
• Advanced Onboard Processing 27
Training Offer
Seismic Acquisition & Potential Methods:
Geophysical Audience
Acquisition Overview Anyone who wants to have a better understanding of the geophysical chain of activities.
Content
Duration (days) This course introduces the geophysical methods used to explore the subsurface, and focuses
1-day
on the most common method: seismic.
Max Number of Participants We review the different typical geographical environments (desert, swamp, marine) and
6 - 12
the different types of equipment used and describe how operations are usually planned
Prerequisites and conducted.
None
Key concepts are introduced through examples to understand how acquisition methods
Software Used (broadband, wide-azimuth surveys, etc.) contribute to the enhanced resolution of seismic
None images, while maintaining high productivity standards.
Course Format Learning Objectives
Presentations, videos
• Describe the principles of geophysical acquisition
• Understand the need for equipment
• Living conditions in the field
• List the key criteria which determine the choice of acquisition parameters
Non Seismic Methods Audience

Geologists, geophysicists and engineers who want to understand and use gravity
This comprehensive course is for and magnetic data.
geologists and geophysicists with
an interest in gravity and magnetic
Content
methods. This comprehensive course covers many different aspects of practicing gravity and magnetic
Duration (days)
exploration methods. It starts with fundamentals of the gravity and magnetic fields and ends
5-day with several modern technologies and applications. The course includes formal lectures, a
great amount of graphics, a rich collection of case histories, and live demonstrations of the
Max Number of Participants concepts and techniques by the industry-standard gravity and magnetic data processing and
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interpretation software.
Prerequisites Learning Objectives
None
Software Used
• Review the fundamental theory of gravity and magnetic potential, field and gradient
None • Explain the instrumentation and field acquisitions in land, marine and airborne magnetic,
Course Format
gravity and gravity gradient surveys
Classroom exercises and presentations • Understand gravity and magnetic data processing workflow
• Describe gravity and magnetic interpretation techniques
• Show case histories for solving different geological problems
Seismic Acquisition & Potential Methods: 17
Induction Programs
Field Geophysicist Audience
Induction New employees assigned to a quality control department on land crews.
Content
Duration (days)
65-day This course begins with an introduction to UNIX. Participants become familiar with hardware
and software through presentations given throughout the course. Additionally a short field
Number of Participants assignment is organized (3 weeks).
6 - 12
Prerequisites
Study of seismic principles, field tape processing, instrument tests, pre-processing,
University degree in mathematics or positioning QC, seismic processing and parameter analysis occur in a classroom environment
physics (6 weeks), where trainers are available at all times to support the participants’ learning
experience. Survey planning (2 weeks), mapping (1 week), as well as HSE are also explored
Software Used
Geoland, Geovation
within this program.
Classroom, site visit, on-the-job, • Understand the challenges of a Quality Control Department
exercises, presentations, group work
• Gain the technical knowledge required for the position of Field Geophysicist
• Use the methods and software used in a Quality Control Department
Land Seismic Audience

Surveyor Induction Surveying technicians and new hires assigned to field land surveying.
Content
Duration (days)
50-day This course starts with a HSE induction, and an introduction to the principles of seismic
acquisition.
Number of Participants
6 - 12 A field assignment of 3 weeks is then undertaken by the participants. The role and duties of the
Prerequisites
surveyor on a seismic crew are investigated.
None This is followed by a theoretical introduction to the theory of Geodesy and Satellite positioning
Software Used (GNSS) principles. The surveying equipment is presented and practical training is undertaken for
Arcgis, GPSeismic seismic lines stake out. Survey data processing including Quality controls with the appropriate
Course Format
software is explored.
Presentations, demo, exercises, site This course finishes with data management, and an introduction to mapping and geoprocessing.
visit, case study, classroom study
Learning Objectives
• Understand the seismic operations and the role of the surveyor
• Gain the technical background in seismic acquisition, geodesy and GNSS positioning
• Competently perform the conventional method of processing and QC
Training Offer Seismic Acquisition & Potential Methods:
Induction Programs
Field and Marine Audience
Manager Induction New employees assigned to a party manager or deputy vessel manager position.
Content
Duration (days) Trainees spend one week studying the petroleum industry, basic geological principles,
65-day
HSE issues and basic acquisition principles and operations. They are then assigned to an
Max Number of Participants acquisition crew for three weeks to gain practical experience and knowledge pertaining
5 - 12 to acquisition operations and challenges.
Prerequisites The basic data processing concepts and sequence applied to seismic data are covered in
University degree in mathematics or the following five weeks.
physics
The remainder of the course focuses on preparing the participants for their first
Software Used assignment in the Quality Control department.
Geovation
Learning Objectives
Course Format
Workshop, classroom, e- learning, site
• Describe Seismic acquisition principles and operation techniques
visit, case studies, exercises • Use the processing software to process as well as analyze the results
• Describe the results of different processing sequences
• Demonstrate initiative, presentation skills and understanding of basic processing techniques
Geodesy Overview Audience
Anyone who wants a better understanding of geodetic parameters.
Duration (days)
1/2-day Content
To begin this course, the ellipsoid shape of the earth is examined. Explanations of datum,
20 international reference system and datum shifts are covered next. Participants then study
projection and plane coordinates. A review of ellipsoid height, mean sea level (MSL) and
Prerequisites geoid completes this course.
None
Software Used
Learning Objectives
None • Understand and use geodetic information
Course Format • Know about the different types of projections
Classroom and presentations • Know the impact of geodesy on a project as a whole
Overview of Global Audience

Navigation Satellite Anyone interested in knowing more about the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).
Positioning Systems Content
(GNSS) This course begins with a short description of the Satellite Positioning Systems and their
evolution.
Duration (days)
1/2-day Further topics are presented including GNSS signals and measurements, errors related to the
GNSS and how to mitigate them through differential GNSS, the relationship between GNSS and
6 - 12 geodesy, surveying methods with GNSS and the different GNSS systems.
None • Understand the satellite positioning principles
Software Used • Description of the different GNSS systems
None
• Identify errors in the GNSS system and Implement improvements
Course Format • Surveying Methods with GNSS
Classroom and presentations
• Relationship between GNSS and geodesy
Introduction to Audience
Surveying Methods Anyone wants to have an overview of land positioning methods.
Content
This course introduces the surveying
methods and work carried out on a This interactive course is divided into workshops:
seismic crew. • The RTK workshop begins with an overview of Global Navigation satellite Systems (GNSS) and
Duration (days) Rea Time Kinematics (RTK) method, followed by practical applications including:
1 1/2-days - Setting up an RTK base stations,
Number of Participants - Reviewing layout and survey seismic points
4 - 20 - Relevant QC steps
Prerequisites • The next module explores GNSS static surveys, looking at how to set up the receiver, record
Have an idea of the components data and calculate the new point position
of a seismic crew, and preliminary
experience in the seismic industry • Lastly, we review the so-called “conventional surveying” method with respect to surveying in
a seismic line using an electronic theodolite, and calculating the points positions
Software Used
GPSeismic, GrafNet Learning Objectives
Course Format • Understand and practice different land positioning methods
Demo, exercises, presentations, on-the-
job, workshop, groupwork, site visit, • Describe the conventional surveying method
field practice. • Understand the principles of data quality controls
Land Seismic Audience

Positioning Overview Anyone who wants learn more about the land seismic positioning process and organization.
Content
Duration (days)
1/2-day This course begins with a look at the importance of geodetic parameters in the execution of
a project, together with a focus on the terrain conditions and HSE rules to apply throughout
Number of Participants operations.
4 - 20
Prerequisites
Scouting, control network and seismic point lay out are all reviewed. This is followed be a
None presentation of the various surveying methods with consideration of the terrain - satellite
positioning (GNSS), conventional surveying (Total station)
Software Used
None The course concludes with a review of the software for processing and QC and for mapping
Course Format
operations.
Classroom and presentations Learning Objectives
• Understand the importance of geodetic and seismic parameters and their impacts on a land
seismic survey
• Understand the importance of the terrain on surveying operations
• Name the chronology of the positioning process
• Describe the positioning methods and tools used for specific seismic survey projects
Land and Marine Acquisition
Land Operations and Field Quality Control
Basic Survey Audience
Planning Any new hire QC field processor.
Content
Duration (days)
10-day The course starts with a seismic survey introduction and presentation of the software.
Number of Participants Using 2D and 3D case studies the participants will explore all facilities offered by the
4 - 12 software.
Prerequisites Participants will become familiar with the creation and management of an acquisition survey,
None handling and manipulating SPS data, mapping, fold count and output of SPS data.
Software Used Using basic sequence, participants will understand and generate an acquisition imprint based
Geoland
on the full fold area.
Course Format
Presentation, classroom exercise Learning Objectives
• Understand an acquisition survey design
• Be familiar with the SPS format
• Know how to manipulate SPS using the software in standard and more complex cases
Advanced Survey Audience

Planning Field geophysicists with at least 1 year familiarity with survey planning and mapping tools.
Content
Duration (days)
10-day The course starts with an open discussion with a survey planning tool expert.
Number of Participants The participants then undertake exercises paying specific attention to zippers, 3D parameters,
4 - 12 shooting strategy, QC methods, and utilities for linking survey planning and mapping.
Prerequisites Comprehensive lessons on mapping and geoprocessing tools follow. The final day of the
Field Processing and QC or Survey course is spent sharing the experiences of the participants.
Planning, and at least 1 year’s field
practice. Learning Objectives
Software Used • Use software tools in a variety of scenarios
Geoland, ArcGis • Be operational with survey planning tools for crew start up and operations
Course Format
Software practice, classroom
Training Offer
Basic Field Audience

Processing New hire Field processing geophysicists.
Content
Duration (days)
20-day The course begins with the basics of signal processing followed by an overview of the
software used.
4 - 12 The participants create a project and process a simple sequence using 2D and 3D data.
Prerequisites The participants become familiar with geometry, QC of SPS data using the interactive tools,
None trace header update using the geometry information from the SPS data. Noise attenuation,
Software Used refraction static computation, velocity analysis and generation of a stack are covered.
Geovation
At each step of the processing the relevant Quality controls using interactive applications are
Course Format explained.
Classroom, exercises
Learning Objectives
• Perform conventional processing and QC on a seismic crew
Advanced Field Audience

Processing Field processing geophysicists with at least 1 year’s experience.
Content
Duration (days)
10-day The course consists firstly of an introduction to the processing tools.
The class then reviews processing theory, before focusing on static corrections. Lessons on
4 - 12 velocities, post-Stack processing and practical exercises are followed by an introduction of
multi-component processing by senior geophysicists.
Prerequisites
It is recommended that the applicants The participants are finally taught to identify QC attributes, and then learn programming
have already taken - Field Geophysicist via free coding.
Induction
Learning Objectives
Software Used
Geocluster, Geovation • Perform conventional surveying on a seismic crew
Course Format
• Use a Total station and associated software for surveying
Classroom, exercises, demo, • Process data
presentations, workshop
IT/Network for Field Audience
Geophysicists This course is for all field geophysicists who want to improve their technical skills.
Content
Duration (days)
5-day This course begins with learning the basics and advanced functions of Linux and Windows.
Hardware description, maintenance and troubleshooting and working with a desktop are
6 - 12 presented. The basics of the software and troubleshooting tips are the next modules.
Prerequisites
Network basics are covered, followed by how to understand setup, manage and monitor a
None QC chain. Likewise how to understand, setup, manage and monitor a field network system
is studied.
Software Used
Linux, PERL, Windows This course ends with field-oriented programming including the handling of text files and scripting.
Presentations, exercises, group, • Solve common IT issues, understand, classify and locate the issue, and initiate recovery
projects, demo
• Describe IT terms and concepts in systems, network, hardware, and software used by the IT
• Land team and on crew programs with common tasks on text files
• Face troubleshooting with a positive attitude
Production Tools and Audience

Methods for Field Field geophysicists.
Geophysicists Content
In this course, we introduce the processing software, including a complete sequence. It
Duration (days) is a gateway to the latest software used on land crews.
5-day
After introducing processing modules and data management tools, production QC tools are
Number of Participants investigated. Data handling procedures are explained.
5 - 12
A debrief concludes the course. Please note that this course is modular, following updates of
Prerequisites the technologies used within.
At least 1 year of experience in survey
planning or seismic data QC. Learning Objectives
Software Used • Manage QC tools effectively
Geovation, TeraQC
• Understand how to create a complete project
Course Format
Exercises, presentations, classroom • Can confidently handle the data and monitor quality
Training Offer
Impact of Equipment Audience

on Seismic Non-geophysicists working for companies related to the seismic industry.
Performance Content
This course begins with a review of the basics of survey geometry and seismic operations.
Duration (days)
2-day This is followed by a discussion of the challenges faced to deliver a better seismic image.
Equipment versus recording needs is covered in detail.
6 - 12 This course also includes a review of positioning in seismic operations, the impact on
Prerequisites data quality, productivity, and 4D seismic. The course concludes by examining high-
Basic knowledge of seismic principles density acquisition, broadband solutions and their principles, field implementation,
Software Used
and quality control.
None Learning Objectives
Course Format • Understand the impact on data quality of seismic operations, field constraints, recording,
Presentations, classroom, exercises positioning, and processing
• Understand current trends in the seismic industry; high-productivity acquisition techniques,
wide-azimuth / dense acquisition, broadband solutions
• Understand their impact on quality control
Seismic Survey Audience

Design Geophysicists or non-geophysicists involved in survey design.
Content
Duration (days)
5-day This course first provides a land and marine geometry overview, from surface positioning to
subsurface coverage.
6 - 12 This is followed by a discussion of land and marine survey design parameters and field
Prerequisites
constraints, and survey design optimization through wavefield modeling, giving participants an
Basic knowledge of seismic data excellent overview of seismic survey design.
acquisition and processing Learning Objectives
Software Used
None
• List the basics of spatial sampling during operations
Course Format • Understand the relationship between spatial sampling and geophysical objectives
Presentations, exercises, classroom, (target depth, resolution)
case studies
• Understand the impact of field constraints on acquisition parameters
• Be aware of other important aspects such as illumination and amplitude at target depth
UltraSeis Audience
Field Processing Geophysicists
Duration (days)
5-day Content
This course outlines UltraSeis, the fully-integrated, comprehensive package that
4 - 12 includes acquisition services, in-field processing, advanced processing and imaging and
reservoir characterization.
Prerequisites
Preliminary fundamental courses The emphasis is placed on acquisition and real time QC of the Big data and the gains
“Field Processing and QC” or “Survey achieved with the new method. You will become familiar with the hardware and
Planning” software architecture. At the end of the course you will be confident in evaluating the
Software Used data quality and avoiding errors.
SynApps, Geoland
The course concludes with a debriefing.
Course Format
Presentations, classroom, exercises Learning Objectives
• Understand the Ultraseis concept
• Understand the acquisition and QC process
• Be aware of the software configuration and how to set it up
• Know how to evaluate the data and avoid errors
VibroTech Audience
Field Processing Geophysicists
Duration (days)
5-day Content
This course begins with the presentation of the new vibroseis source and how it addresses
4 - 12 broadband.
Prerequisites A review of geometry definitions, acquisition, sweep definition, survey design, guidance and the
Preliminary fundamental courses stackless method follow.
“Field Processing and QC” or “Survey
Planning” The various acquisition shooting methods are discussed enabling an understanding of the latest
trends and developments. The impact of simultaneous shooting on the workflow is highlighted.
Software Used
MatCalc, Target, ArcGis, Vibro QC tools You will explore how to jointly QC data from vibroseis and dynamite acquisition and attenuate
Course Format
source generated noise.
Workshop, exercises, presentations Learning Objectives
• Understand the vibroseis source as a broadband solution
• Know the complex geometry definitions and acquisition methods
• Become familiar with the sweep description
• Be aware of new technology and latest developments
Shallow Water Operations
Ocean Bottom Audience
Seismic Anyone interested in learning more about seismic acquisition in shallow water or the use of
ocean bottom cable or node acquisition surveys.
A course that delves deeper into the Content
specific equipment, techniques and
technology applications currently This course first provides a basic overview of seismic acquisition before going into
used in vibroseis acquisition, and how more depth with Ocean Bottom Cable and Ocean Bottom Nodal systems. This includes
to best utilize these advances while the different equipment used for these types of operation and the methods involved in
maintaining better control the data their use.
quality and outputs during a land
seismic project. The course also covers the following topics in detail:
Duration (days) • Survey design and equipment
3 days • Processing overview from and OBS point of view
Number of Participants • Data digitization, sampling and wave propagation
8 - 10 • Receiver and source arrays, ghosts and the bubble effect
Prerequisites
• 4 component data
Basic knowledge of seismic data • Positioning and QC of equipment
acquisition and processing can be • Sensors and sources
useful, but not necessary.”
The course provides a number of practical exercises that provide an excellent
Software Used understanding of the theory for every step in the processing workflow. This allows
Excel examples students who may not be familiar with data processing to understand the concepts of
Course Format the seismic workflow.
Workshop, exercises, presentations
Learning Objectives:
• Understand the equipment requirements for OBS acquisition
• Know the relationship between spatial sampling and geophysical objectives (target depth,
resolution)
• Understand the impact of field constraints on acquisition parameters and the effect on
processing
• Be aware of other important aspects including illumination and amplitude at target depth
• Understand the new technology and latest developments
Onboard Processing
Basic Onboard Audience
Processing Anyone joining onboard seismic processing teams.
Content
Duration (days)
20-day This course begins with a module on seismic processing fundamentals.
It continues with an overview of the different applications making up the infrastructure
6 - 12 of the processing software, which include project, production and data management
applications, job deck building applications and other interactive applications.
Prerequisites
A background of geophysics, physics, This course concludes with an overview of batch processes, job monitoring and quality
mathematics. control steps, and efficient management of datasets.
Software Used Learning Objectives
Geovation • Knowledge of the processing fundamentals (concepts and applications)
Course Format
Presentations, workshops, group work,
• Understand the structure of the processing package and efficiently use the tools required
exercises for onboard processing
• Develop a working knowledge of how to processing data i.e. build and run job decks and
monitor a processing sequence
• Analyze the quality control outputs of the various steps of a processing sequence
Advanced Onboard Audience

Processing Processing geophysicists having a basic knowledge and experience of onboard processing who
wish to delve deeper and improve practice and awareness.
5-day
The course covers varies aspects of seismic processing including SEG-D, and SEG-Y formats,
Number of Participants and their generation, reformatting, quality controls for archive material,.
6 - 12
Prerequisites
Interactive tools are explored. Practice is gained with an Interpretation Workstation to QC
Previous experience with seismic data data, horizon picking and generation of horizon maps, plus velocity picking.
processing The theory and practice of 3D SRME by conventional modelling methodology is covered. Bin
Software Used centering and regularization are presented together with the workflows.
Geovation
Learning Objectives
Course Format
Classroom, exercises, presentations
• Understand SEG-D and SEG-Y formats and the importance of Quality Control
• Ability to QC data, pick horizons and velocities using an Interpretation Workstation
• Be familiar with the methods used to regularize the trace distribution
• Understand 3D SRME principles and methodology of convolutional modeling
“I’m seeing a lot of
Training Offer
benefits, having grown
my understanding of the
seismic processing world
and consolidated all that
knowledge acquired from
university, making me
eager to introduce this
newly enhanced skill into
my daily job activities.”
Subsurface Imaging
As the recognized leader in subsurface imaging, our training programs cover the
complete range of time processing and depth imaging expertise, including imaging
concepts, technologies, workflows and our own state-of-the-art subsurface imaging
software, Geovation.
Our training solutions cover various programs, from specific short courses such as 4D or
wide-azimuth processing to long-term induction, custom-designed (with client data) and
on-the-job training. Our programs are tailored to fit client specifications and match the
geophysical experience of participants.
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• Geophysics for Non-Geophysicists 30
Induction Programs
• Geophysicist Subsurface Imaging Induction 31
Processing Workflows
• 3D Marine Processing 32
• 3D Land Processing 32
• 5D Regularization Workflow 33
• Pre-Stack Time Migration Workflow 33
• Modeling and Computation of Static Solutions 34
• Land Wide Azimuth Processing Workflow 34
• 4D Processing Workflow 35
• Multicomponent Processing 35
Depth Imaging
• Basic Depth Imaging Workflow 36
• Advanced Depth Migration Techniques 36
Special Topics
• 3D Surface Related Multiple Elimination 37
• Common Offset Cubes Applied to Velocity Analysis 37
• Horizon Picking using an Interpretation Workstation 38
• Refraction Statics using Tomography 38
• 3D Land Processing in the Foothills 39
Training Offer Subsurface Imaging:
Geophysics for Non- Audience
Geophysicists Anyone who wants to have a better understanding of the Oil & Gas Industry.
Content
Duration (days) In this course, you are introduced to the oil exploration cycle, the formation of oil and gas,
2-day
and the basic principles of geophysics.
Number of Participants Both land and marine acquisition are explained, and concepts of fold and geometry are
4 - 12
explored. The main steps of basic data processing sequence and reservoir information
Prerequisites are detailed.
None
To end the course, there are introductions and explanations of latest technologies including
Software Used but not limited to depth imaging, Broadband technologies and 4D.
None
Learning Objectives
Course Format • Understand the concept of using seismic equipment, acquisition, geology, geophysics
Presentations, videos, exercises,
classroom
and reservoir modeling
• Know the basic steps of the seismic processing sequence
• Have a better understanding of the core work of an integrated geoscience company
Subsurface Imaging: 31
Induction Programs
Geophysicist Audience
Subsurface Imaging Anyone newly hired for a processing geophysicist or research position.
Induction Content
The program includes a concentrated curriculum of geophysics fundamentals and a solid
Duration (days) introduction to working with the processing software tools.
25-day
Trainees are introduced to the company, its vision and values, its divisions and its position in the
Number of Participants marketplace. Additionally, they are exposed to a variety of interpersonal communication training.
4 - 12
A general list of modules includes; introduction to seismic exploration, productivity tools,
Prerequisites project management fundamentals and quality awareness, professional skills, using a
A scientific background
processing package, and a detailed look into a real processing workflow
Geovation
• Understand products & services, organization and vision & values of a fully Integrated
Course Format Geoscience contractor
Classroom, exercises, e- learning,
presentations • Obtain an overall background knowledge of geophysics
• Understand types of data used in data processing
• Understand ways of viewing/sorting/manipulating seismic data
• Understand concepts of testing processing parameters and controlling outputs
• Become familiar with project management fundamentals
• Increase self-awareness and communication skills
Training Offer
3D Marine Processing Audience

New hires with little previous experience in seismic data processing, or experienced land
Duration (days) processing geophysicists who are moving to marine processing.
10-day
Content
6 - 12 This course begins with the processing of the navigation data, its format, and input into the
processing package. QC of coverage is also detailed.
Prerequisites
Understanding seismic processing The second part covers: Sail-line processing, reformatting SEG D, QC of shooting and
fundamentals and elementary application of 2D geometry. Amplitude recovery noise attenuation, gain computation and
experience with the processing package application, and 3D velocity analysis complete this module.
Software Used The third part of this course teaches participants about offset domain processing; bin
Geovation centering and regularization, pre-stack time migration and final stack.
Course Format The course concludes with the study of post stack processing; noise attenuation, filtering and
Workshops, classroom, on-the-job, SEG-Y archiving.
examples
Learning Objectives
• Complete a full 3D sequence to get acquainted with the 3D marine processing modules
• Utilize the processing software confidently
• Understand the steps of managing a processing workflow: job building and running;
quality control, production management
3D Land Processing Audience

New hires with no experience in seismic data processing, experienced geophysicists with little
Duration (days) or no 3D land data processing.
15-day
Content
4 - 12 A wide range of subjects spanning a land processing sequence are covered. These include;
reformatting of the SEG-D field data, QC of SPS field data using the interactive application
Prerequisites Onset, trace header update with the geometry information from the SPS and both 3D Linear and
Basic knowledge of seismic processing
principles, and elementary experience
random noise attenuation.
with the seismic processing package Refraction static corrections and repositioning with the interactive refraction analysis tool are
Software Used investigated. Data sorting, stacking and velocity analysis are probed. 3D surface consistency is
Geovation explored for deconvolution computation and application of 3D amplitude correction scalars and
Course Format
residual statics. This is followed by data regularization are finally in a Kirchoff pre-stack time
Classroom, exercise, presentations migration, stacking and post processing.
Learning Objectives
• Acquire the ability to work on 3D land processing project
• QC 3D data confidently and effectively
5D Regularization Audience
Workflow Geophysicists that will use 5D regularization.
Content
Duration (days)
1-day Extension of the regularization to the 5th dimension is explained. Anti Leakage, the Fourier
transform, principles of data regularization, the interpolation concept, and extension of the
Number of Participants regularization to the 5th dimension are investigated in conjunction with anti-leakage and the
6 - 12
Fourier transform in 5D regularization.
Prerequisites
Geophysicists with at least 1 year Learning Objectives
processing experience • Understand the need for data regularization
Software Used • Set a workflow to perform 5D regularization
Geovation
• Understand the difference between mapping and full 5D regularization
Course Format
Presentations, on-the-job, exercises • Understand the limitation of this method
Pre-Stack Time Audience

Migration Workflow Junior processing geophysicists who are about to start running PSTM sequence.
Content
Duration (days)
2-day This course teaches several modules, such as; the effect of dip on velocities, anisotropy,
3D Kirchhoff Pre-Stack time migration (PSTM) module description, workflow and key
Number of Participants parameterization, velocity field modeling using non-linear slope tomography and lastly
4-8
practical exercises on 3D marine data.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the migration Learning Objectives
workflow. Use of an interpretation • Run simple processing sequences with Pre-Stack time migration
Workstation and 3D QC
• List and explain key parameters
Software Used
Tornado (Geovation) • Build a velocity model using tomography and interpretive velocity model building
Course Format
Presentations, exercise, classroom
Training Offer
Modeling and Audience

Computation of Any processing geophysicist involved in the static computation phase of a land seismic
processing project.
Static Solutions
Content
Duration (days) This course begins with an overview of statics.
3-day
This is followed by trainees actively picking the first breaks which are used to model the
4 - 12 weathering layer by multilayer or tomographic inversion and subsequently to derive statics.
Prerequisites The tomographic inversion is explored through the Geovation interactive application plus
Participants should have a basic through a batch job. In addition using source/receiver delay analysis source/receiver
knowledge of static correction repositioning and statics are derived.
fundamentals
Learning Objectives
Software Used
Fbpick, GeOlympus (Geovation) • Define statics and the various types
Course Format
• Derive first breaks
Classroom, presentations, exercises • Create a near surface model using first break picks and derive statics
• Load and interpret all auxiliary weathering data to construct a layered near- surface model
• Determine source/receiver repositioning and calculate statics from first break stack
inversion
Land Wide Azimuth Audience

Processing Workflow Moderately experienced processing geophysicists.
Content
Duration (days)
3-day Firstly, the basics of Land Wide Azimuth (WAZ) acquisition are explored.
A comparison between Narrow Azimuth (NAZ) and WAZ surveys takes place next, followed by
6 - 10 several other topics; noise attenuation on cross-spreads and common receivers, azimuthal
primary velocities, multiple attenuation,
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of processing Land Common Offset Vectors (COV) geometry, regularization and binning, reciprocity, and velocity
seismic data model building.
Software Used An overview of a typical WAZ production flow chart concludes the course.
Geovation Learning Objectives
Course Format • Understand Land WAZ acquisition method
Presentations, exercises, classroom
• Understand NAZ vs. WAZ
• Define the main processing steps of Land WAZ processing
4D Processing Audience
Workflow Anyone who will process 4D data.
Content
Duration (days)
2-day The course begins with a general introduction on what 4D is, its value and the concept
repeatability. 4D acquisition, QC, and processing philosophy are explained in detail. This
Number of Participants training course covers the case of datasets with 2 vintages and towed streamer acquisitions.
6 - 12
Multi-vintages, OBC and LoFS are not covered here.
Prerequisites Processing a 4D dataset is explored; what needs to be known to start a 4D, sail- line processing,
A fair knowledge of 3D processing is
required
global matching, binning and regularization, de striping and differential statistics.
Then, QC and repeatability improvement of 4D are investigated, regarding QC of 4D data, QC of
Software Used
Geovation
navigation, and finally repeatability improvement on a dataset.
Presentations, exercises, classroom • Understand the concepts, value and specific vocabulary of 4D
• Understand the concept of repeatability and know how to measure it using
the processing tools
• Understand the main 4D processing steps, list the associated modules and understand
algorithms and module parameters
• QC data efficiently
Multicomponent Audience
Processing Geophysicists with experience in time processing with little or no multi-component
knowledge.
4-day
The course begins with an introduction to Ocean Bottom Survey (OBS) acquisition, OBS data
Number of Participants and preprocessing prior to separation to the varied components.
6 - 12
Prerequisites
This is followed by further converted wave processing using the X and Y components only.
Dedicated to geophysicists working on The course gives an overview of converted waves, what they are and why they are used.
multicomponent projects.
Converted waves processing workflow is the next natural teaching point. The software
Software Used
Geovation - VectorVista
application is introduced at this point, with reference to reorientation and rotation. Shear
wave statics computation and shear wave splitting analysis – derivation of anisotropy
Course Format parameter are studied.
Presentations, exercise, demo, on-the-
job, classroom, webinar Learning Objectives
• To know the specificities of OBS acquisition
• To understand Yº, Ynmo, Yº vertical and Yº effectif, their usage and derivation
Training Offer Subsurface Imaging:
Depth Imaging
Basic Depth Imaging Audience
Workflow Any geophysicist who needs to work with depth imaging using Geovation.
Content
Duration (days)
5-day This course begins with an introduction to depth migration. This is followed by an
introduction to the workflow, and includes topics such as geometry definition, setting up the
Number of Participants velocity zone, data loading to the interpretation toolbox and depth migration run for water
4 - 10
bottom picking.
Prerequisites Other steps include; initial vertical velocity model building, anisotropic velocity model
Trainees should have background in
time processing, and be familiar with
building, and sediment velocity update. Each model is validated by a Kirchhoff or a Beam
the software used migration run.
Learning Path
Two days are dedicated to building and updating the velocity model. A debriefing session at
Module 2 of Onboard Processing the end of the course summarizes the studies, and consolidates the learning. This course is
proposed using either a marine or a land dataset.
Software Used
Tornado (Geovation) Learning Objectives
Course Format
• Understand the different steps of the workflow
Classroom, on-the-job, presentations, • Build several models using the interpretation toolbox
demo • Set processing jobs, test parameters and run depth migration
• Competently use several options
Advanced Depth Audience

Migration Techniques Any depth processing geophysicists.
Content
Duration (days)
1-5-day (one per algorithm) This course begins with a review of the basic principles of depth migration techniques, how to
move from an isotropic to anisotropic model using well data; picking delta and epsilon, well
Number of Participants calibration, dip determination and investigation.
4-8
Prerequisites
Following this the basic principles of depth migration ray tracing techniques is looked at. Firstly
“Basic Depth Imaging Workflow” course Kirchhoff and traveltime map computation: high frequency asymptotic approximation, green
and background in depth processing function and the difference between different arrival times are investigated. This is followed by
Gaussian Beam Migration and the motivation for it, the basic principles and workflow.
Software Used
Tornado (Geovation) Next is Reverse Time Migration, a technique based on wave equation. Discussed are the Wave
Course Format Equation description, input domains, noise removal and more practical work.
Classroom, presentations, demo, Finally the basic principles of tomography inversion are finally investigated.
exercises
Learning Objectives
• Understand the different steps of each Depth Imaging algorithm and their parameters
• Understand the difference between algorithms and their position in the workflow
• Practice test jobs for better understanding
Special Topics
3D Surface Related Audience
Multiple Elimination Geophysicists with 2-3 years marine processing experience already familiar with multiple
attenuation basics and binning/regularization processing.
1-day
This course is composed of one of the main methodologies used in 3D Surface Related
Number of Participants Multiple Elimination (SRME): Convolutional modeling.
6-8
This course discusses principles and fundamentals of the convolutional modeling module. It
Prerequisites also addresses generalities, multiple attenuation toolbox, and understanding multiples.
Previous lectures about this topic
are recommended. Please consult Some overviews of 3D SRME techniques, an overview of Delft SRME principle are examined.
SEG Technical Journals on the CGG Theory and principles of the 3D SRME is the core module, supported by the 3D SRME by
University web-page (e-Geophysical convolutional modeling user guide.
library)
Further study into; pre-processing of input data, binning and mapping files, 3D regularization,
Software Used convolutional modeling and model subtraction concludes the course.
Geovation
Course Format
Learning Objectives
Classroom, presentations, exercise, • Understand 3D SRME principles methodology of convolutional modeling
demo
• Confidently replicate the practical exercises from the course
• Comprehend the theoretical aspects of 3D SRME
Common Offset Audience

Cubes Applied to Geophysicists who need to pick velocities and mutes from gathers.
Velocity Analysis Content
Firstly, participants learn to prepare Common Offset Cubes (COFF) cubes, and then load
Duration (days) COFF cubes and geometry.
1/2-day
Pick velocity and mutes with the COFF cubes, using maps to select location and QC results,
Number of Participants QC stacked data on the fly, smooth velocity in the interpretation toolbox, save velocity and
6 - 10
mutes in XPS or ASCII files, and lastly testing and creating COFF cubes on-the-fly are all
Prerequisites topics that are covered in this course.
Participants should have attended: “Use
of an Interpretative Workstation and Learning Objectives
3D QC” • Understand COFF (Common Offset) cube and generate
Software Used • Load COFF cubes and set up geometry
Tornado (Geovation)
Course Format
• Perform COFF-based velocity analysis using Double Square Root
Presentations, classroom, exercises • Pick mutes on the gathers
• QC and save the results using an interpretation toolbox
Training Offer
Horizon Picking Audience

using an Geophysicists who need to pick and work on horizons in building depth models, calculating
TOMO statics, applying trim statics, etc.
Interpretation
Workstation Content
Horizon picking is one of the most used features on an interpretation workstation.
Duration (days) Through various practical exercises you become familiar with these different topics; Loading
1 1/2-day
data and display setup, create horizons and horizon groups, pick horizons using waveform
Number of Participants tracking or ISO value tracking, picking horizons using freehand mode or control profile, pick
6-8 horizons on seismic data, pick horizons on attribute FDM, QC and save horizons, import
Prerequisites horizons in external format, interpolate and smooth horizons, merge, split, shift, separate
Participants should have attended: Use horizons, trim and close horizons, load horizons from seismic data trace header, working on
of an Interpretation Workstation and horizons with regions and finally extract attributes from horizons.
3D QC
Learning Objectives
Software Used
Tornado (Geovation) • Describe the procedures of horizon picking
Course Format • Pick horizons proficiently using automatic or manual methods
Demo, exercises, classroom,
presentations
• Know how to QC horizons and work on horizons with various functions
• Choose the best strategy for horizon picking
Refraction Statics Audience

using Tomography Geophysicists in land processing (time and depth).
Content
Duration (days)
1/2-day 2D and 3D refraction tomography are widely used in land processing.
Number of Participants The principles and fundamentals of tomography and how to build a near surface velocity
6 - 10 model from first breaks using tomography is covered. Through hands-on exercises trainees
Prerequisites
learn the practical techniques to create a more reliable refraction models in challenging
Trainees should have a basic situations by optimizing the key processing parameters. QC is carried out using an
understanding of the processing interpretive workstation.
sequence
Learning Objectives
Software Used • Describe how to build a near surface model using tomography
Geovation, Tornado, TOM2D/TOM3D
• Know how to QC the tomographic refraction model using an interpretive workstation
Course Format
Presentations, exercises, classroom, • Understand how to improve the refraction model by optimizing the key module parameters
case studies • Create a reliable refraction model in challenging situations (noisy data, permafrost, gaps in
offsets, strong lateral velocity changes, etc.)
• Improve refraction models using offset iterations
Special Topics
3D Land Processing Audience
in the Foothills Land processing geophysicists (time and depth).
Content
Duration (days)
5-day This course teaches the land processing workflow from a floating datum (a smoothed
version of the topographical surface) using the double square root equation for NMO and
Number of Participants velocity analysis.
6-8
This method is best used in areas of large elevation changes (more than a few hundred
Prerequisites meters), as it minimizes errors introduced by non-surface consistent static corrections and
Familiarity with the Geovation system;
basic processing experience
conventional NMO.
It may yield more robust velocities and better continuity of events on stack sections, and
Software Used
Geovation
it uses surface consistent statics which are required for data input to pre-stack migration.
Furthermore, the DSR NMO equation is the same as the one used in pre-stack time migration,
Course Format so should we want to apply such migration, we will be maintaining consistency throughout.
Presentations, exercise
Learning Objectives
• Describe how this technique works
• Know all Geovation modules and interactive applications used in the workflow
• Process a real 3D land dataset in Geovation using this workflow
• Know the advantages and limitations of the method
“This has been my
Training Offer
first introduction to
electrical image logs
and has provided me
with a general view
of what can be done
with them.“
Interpretation
Geophysical
CGG’s geophysical interpretation training programs focus on integration of geophysical

concepts with geology to ensure industry relevance and emphasize practical applications.
The courses cover the processes and methodologies of the complete range of geophysical
surveys including 2D/3D/4D seismic, potential fields and remotely sensed imagery.
The courses are authored and delivered by trainers with considerable experience working
in the geophysical industry. The courses employ extensive use of real examples, and focus
on techniques and technology at the forefront of the geophysical industry.
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Geophysical Interpretation
• Advanced Seismic Interpretation 42
• Advanced Seismic Stratigraphy 42
• Basic Seismic Interpretation 43
• Geoexperts: Advanced Training in Geophysics 44
• Introduction to Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy 46
• Mapping Subsurface Structures 46
• Non-Seismic Geophysical Interpretation 47
• Overview of Reservoir Activities 47
• Quantitative Seismic Interpretation 48
Training Offer
Advanced Seismic Audience

Geologists and geophysicists who are familiar with seismic interpretation.
Interpretation Content
• Multicomponent seismic interpretation. • Attribute modeling, including: AVO, Post-
The workshop emphasizes how seismic • Fundamentals of what can be gained from stack seismic attributes (PSTM & PSDM),
data sets can be interpreted beyond basic advanced interpretation process reflective attributes and transmissive
horizon and structure, using combinations • Seismic sequence stratigraphy attributes, trace similarity and stratigraphic
of concepts from seismic processing and • Seismic geomorphology and palaeogeography volume attributes, texture and curvature
traditional sequences and facies analysis. • Classifications and neural network inversion modeling etc
• Uses, including fluid analysis, microstructures, • Pitfalls and limitations of attribute and
Duration (days) enhanced petroleum recovery geology and inversion modeling
5-day reservoir characterization • Depth conversion and uncertainties
Max Number of Participants • Rock physics, geomechanics and seismic • Troubleshooting for seismic interpretation
20 attributes and inversion
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites • Fundamental concepts of seismic data, and attribute volumes
None the extensions to traditional petroleum • Seismic sequence stratigraphy
Course Format
geology • Compiling palaeogeographical
Classroom exercises and presentations
• Application and advantages of advanced interpretations from seismic data
seismic interpretation • Enhanced structural modelling and volume
• Techniques for processing seismic data sets reconstructions
to enhance geological features • Critical analysis skills for review of
• Assessing the suitability of seismic data to advanced seismic interpretations
be used for attribute modelling • Reservoir optimization geology
• Methodology for interpreting various
Advanced Seismic Audience

Exploration geoscientists who have a working knowledge of basic seismic stratigraphy and want
Stratigraphy to improve their exploration and development skills.
5-day • Review of seismic stratigraphy objectives. • Fault modeling – creating robust fault
• Comparison of “Vail” and “Galloway” geometries
20 approaches to sequence stratigraphy • Application of Waveform Analysis (amplitude,
• Shallow water siliciclastic sequences phase and frequency, velocity)
Prerequisites • Deep water siliciclastic sequences • Amplitude Variation with Offset (AVO;
None
• Carbonate sequences indication of lithologies, fluids, porosities
Software Used • Integrating high resolution and pressures)
None micropaleontology and seismic • Geovalidation, Synthetics, Seismic Inversion
Course Format • Time-depth relationships and VSP
Practical Exercises:
• Determine rock-fluid from waveform analysis
• Geovalidate selected intervals using synthetic seismograms, seismic inversion and VSP
• Create sea-level curves from micropalaeontology
• Integrate micro-palaeontological data and seismic
• Generate seismic facies maps within a sequence stratigraphic framework
• Constrain reservoir architecture from seismic: robust fault geometries and representative
stratigraphic layering
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Basic Seismic Audience

Interpretation This course provides the fundamentals of seismic interpretation and concentrates on the role
of the seismic interpreter in the search for oil and gas. The course covers the geophysics of
This course provides the fundamentals of seismic data, interpretation methods and representations of structure and stratigraphy on
seismic interpretation and concentrates seismic data sets.
on the role of the seismic interpreter in Content
the search for oil and gas.
S eismic Geophysics: Seismic waves; Normal Reflection; Acoustic Impedance, Reflection
Duration (days) Coefficients; Wavelets; Vertical / Horizontal Resolution; Thinnest beds to be resolved
5-day
S eismic data: Seismic; Well data; Non-seismic geophysical data
Max Number of Participants Acquisition & Processing: Land and marine Seismic Acquisition and Processing
20
Incorporating Geological information: Surface geology and other geophysical methods
Prerequisites Picking and mapping horizons: Reflection; Interpretation pitfalls; Migration effects; Mapping
None
S tructural interpretation: Structural geology terminology; Classification of structures
Software Used S equence Stratigraphy: Controls and basic concepts; Parasequence sets and flooding
None
surfaces; Sequences and systems tracts
Course Format Seismic stratigraphic analysis: Recognition of Sequences in Seismic
Advanced seismic interpretation techniques: Post-stack amplitude analysis; Seismic
attributes; Surface attributes; Other techniques; AVO; Impedance inversion
D epth conversion: Estimates of depth on seismic data; time / depth data from wells and
stacking velocities
Training Offer
Geoexperts: Audience
Advanced Training in Aimed at geophysicists who have a basic understanding of principles and practices in geophysics.
Geophysics Content
Module 1: Seismic Acquisition and Processing
The GeoExperts Workshop combines
practical exercises with software The first week comprises a mixture of Powerpoint lectures and practical paper exercises. The
interpretation. It goes through the emphasis is on marine seismic acquisition and processing with land data being only briefly covered.
process of how seismic data are acquired,
processed, interpreted and used in As well as the Powerpoint slides in paper form and on CD the participants are given a copy of
structural interpretation, sequence Robertson’s Interactive Seismic Processing CD as part of the course. A binder containing copies of
stratigraphy and prospect evaluation. the processed marine seismic line from shot records through to final display is also provided.
Duration (days) • Basic Reflection Theory
25-day
• Acquisition methods
Max Number of Participants • Processing fundamentals and QC – 3 1/2 days
20
Prerequisites Module 2: Introduction to Seismic Interpretation and Workstation Interpretation
None
Before starting to interpret
Software Used
This training can take place using a • Data inspection and evaluation
variety of geophysics software packages. • Data display
The programme can be based around • Seismic versus log resolution
non-exclusive Robertson datasets or on
relevant datasets provided by the client. • Well tops and check shot surveys
Course Format • Synthetic seismograms
Workshop and presentations • Choice of reflections
• Horizon selection
Pitfalls in interpretation
• Acquisition footprints
• Sideswipe and migration problems
• Multiples
• Tuning effects
• Velocity effects
• Diagenetic surfaces and gas hydrates
• Limits of interpretation packages
First stages of interpretation
• Creating horizons
• 2D autotracking
• Character correlation
• Flattening
• Tying loops
• Gridding and extrapolating
Geophysical Interpretation 45
Further interpretation techniques

• Basic 3D methodology
• 3D autotracking (ASAP) – including paintbrushing
• Grid libraries
• Atributes
• Variance cubes and multiversions
Fault interpretation and visualistion
• Fault cuts, contacts and boundaries
• Gridding faults
• Interpretation from attributes and other grid manipulations
• Visualisation packages
Module 3: Structural Interpretation and Tectonics
• Introduction to interpreting structural features on seismic
• Extensional/compressional/strike-slip tectonics
• Structural inversion
• Basement reactivation
• Structural traps
• Fault sealing and reservoir compartmentalisation
• Fracture modelling
• Salt tectonics
Module 4: Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy
• Introduction and Methodology, Seismic Facies mapping
• Sequence Stratigraphy - Principles and Concepts
• How to identify sequences on seismic data
• Systems Tract identification
• Sequence development in various depositional settings: Paralic, Deep Marine, Carbonate, Fluvial
Module 5: Prospect Evaluation and AVO/Inversion Analysis
• Introduction to prospect analysis
• Introduction to the key components of the petroleum system - source, reservoir, seal, trap formation and timing
• Trap identification on seismic data – structural, stratigraphic and combination traps
• Identification of potential source, reservoir and seal on seismic data
• Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators
• Calculating volumes in place and recoverable reserves
• Risking and Ranking
• Prospect Evaluation Exercise
• AVO and inversion analysis
Learning Objectives
This program aims to increase and consolidate the geophysics knowledge of the participants through a mixture of theoretical
lectures and practical hands-on sessions.
Training Offer
Seismic Sequence Geophysicists, geologists, explorationists, and managers who are interested in
an introduction or review of the theory and application of contemporary seismic
Stratigraphy stratigraphic techniques to exploration.
This course is designed to introduce Content
participants to seismic sequence
stratigraphy. It begins with a basic
The course covers the following topics:
introduction to the main concepts and • Introduction: Philosophy and History
covers the theoretical application of the • Geophysical Fundamentals
technique through working examples. • Breaking Out Operational Sequences
Duration (days) • Introduction to Fault Interpretation
5-day • Chronostratigraphy Construction and Interpretation
Max Number of Participants • Sea Level Curves, Accommodation Space, and Cycle Orders
20 • Vail Sequence Theory and Sequence Hierarchy
Prerequisites • Carbonate Sequences
None • Siliciclastic Sequences
Software Used • Seismic Facies
None • Paleo-Environmental Analysis
Course Format • Geohistory Reconstruction
Classroom exercises and presentations • Optimizing Exploration
Mapping Subsurface Audience

Development geologists and those exploring mature areas; early-career geologists and
Structures technologists who make structure maps; those who need to judge the validity of maps
A subsurface structure map is a map
and cross sections.
whose contours represent the elevation of Content
a particular formation, reservoir or marker. • Contouring techniques • Constructing fault-plane maps
This program will teach the attendees • Triangulation • Faults on isopach maps
how to map subsurface structures in • Using dip in mapping • Combining fault and horizon maps
relation to the petroleum system.
• Different measures of thickness • Contouring across faults
Duration (days) • Thickness in deviated wells • Structural quality-control techniques
5-day • Isopach and isocore maps • Multiple-surface map compatibility
Max Number of Participants • Dip-domain cross sections • Map validation using implied fault contours
20 • Data projection • Finding faults and fault orientations with
• Trend and plunge of folds on tangent SCAT analysis of dipmeters
Prerequisites
None diagrams • Juxtaposition diagrams for trap and seal
• Composite-surface maps analysis
Software Used • Fault shapes and displacement distributions • Fault-cutoff lines in computer mapping
None
• Heave and throw from stratigraphic • Soft linked and hard linked faults
Course Format separation • Relay and branching fault patterns
Classroom exercises and presentations • Stratigraphic seperation from structure • Mapping sequential cross-cutting faults
contour map
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Non-Seismic Audience
Petroleum geologists, geophysicists and engineers involved in oil and gas exploration and
Geophysical development.
Interpretation Content
Non-Seismic Geophysics: An Introduction Preparation of Survey Specifications:
The course is designed to familiarize
those using non-seismic geophysical Fundamentals: • Objectives; physical properties; test
techniques and data with different • Rock physical properties modelling; land gravity
methods and to optimise this blended • Gravity vs magnetic studies • Accuracy: instrumental effects, tidal
approach to geophysical interpretation. correction, latitude, Free-Air and Bouguer
The course will integrate practical paper- Gravity and Magnetic Fields:
based exercises to reinforce the theory • Physical principles Correction, terrain effects, specifications for
taught. • Gravity field of the earth accuracy
Duration (days)
• Geomagnetic field • Marine surveys: survey and processing
5-day • Basic processing and survey techniques • Aeromagnetic surveys: accuracy, data
• Topography and isostasy distribution, processing and interpretation
Max Number of Participants • Manual interpretation methods
20 • Quality control
• Summary of advanced and interpretive
Prerequisites gravity and magnetic processing Introduction to Advanced Non-Seismic
None • Summary of recent developments Interpretation Techniques:
Course Format • Electrical; Induced; Magnetotellurics;
Classroom exercises and presentations Remote sensing methods
• Integration: Workflow and integration
Overview of Audience
Reservoir Activities Anyone who wants to have a better understanding of the Geophysical chain of activities.
Content
Duration (days)
1-day Proper development of recovery strategies from oil & gas reservoirs requires a good understanding
of the rock and fluid properties of which the reservoirs are made. This course introduces the
Number of Participants reservoir activities that follow the processing of seismic data, introducing basic reservoir
6 - 12
engineering concepts and methods to enable cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas and experience.
Prerequisites It starts with an overview of reservoir characterization, from basic petrophysics concepts
None
through the importance of geostatistics in data integration. The course touches on the workflow
Software Used used in data preparation and analysis to build a coherent 3D static model of the reservoir. The
None course also helps understanding questions crucial to the reservoir : How much oil & gas is there
Learning Path (accumulation)? How much can be recovered (reserves)? How fast can it be recovered (rate)?
Module 3 of Learning Objectives
“Overview Oil & Gas Activities”
• Understand how geological, petrophysical, seismic, rock properties and reservoir data are
Course Format integrated in a consistent manner, using judicious techniques, to construct a reservoir model
Presentation and videos • Provide participants with a basic understanding of porous media fundamentals: how oil or gas
are trapped or mobilized in porous media
• Introduce reservoir engineering concepts and terminology
• Create awareness of how recovery factors and reserves are being estimated and predicted
• Understand typical assumptions and simplifications required to predict reservoir performance
Training Offer Geophysical Interpretation
Quantitative Seismic Audience

This course is for personnel who are familiar with seismic interpretation and who wish to extend their
Interpretation knowledge on how they can further utilize seismic data sets to constrain and characterise reservoir
This course emphasizes the underlying
units, fluid properties and refine structural interpretation for development phase evaluations. This
geological and geophysical principles course is suitable for geologists, geophysicists, explorationists and petroleum engineers.
of seismic reservoir characterization, Content
continuity and integrity, distribution
and mapping, micro-scale structural
Seismic Potential Advanced Volumetrics
interpretation and quantitative • Understanding seismic sections and volumes • Defining column height
iterations of seismic data. This course • Understanding the limitations and balances • Porosity and flow realization
is specifically for high resolution of seismic sections and volumes • Reservoir potential gross rock volume
definitions, using information contained • Impact of seismic quality and geological calculations and interpretations
within seismic volumes and sections
specific for development geology.
constraints on prospect attribute modeling • Reduction in volumetric uncertainty
Concepts and applications of attribute • Reprocessing applications
modelling and inversion modelling that
Applications for engineering portfolios
define features such as lithological Petroleum systems Analysis • Well optimization, steering and dilations
variations, micro-structure, fluid, • Introduction to seismic reservoir • Locational risk assessments and mitigation
secondary porosity and permeability characterization techniques calculations and interpretations
and distribution will be presented.
• Introduction to seismic seal characterization • Reduction in volumetric uncertainty
Duration (days) • Dynamic properties and modeling potential
5-day • Identifying fluid on seismic Applications for engineering portfolios
Max Number of Participants • Well optimization, steering and dilations
20 Quantitative Analysis • Locational risk assessments and mitigation
• Statistical rock physics, attributes for techniques
Prerequisites
None prospect analysis, multi-attribute analysis
• Fracture modeling and conduit analysis
Course Format • Fluid modeling and conduit analysis
• Lithological mapping and lithological
variations
• Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators and advanced
hydrocarbon modeling
• Play-fairway mapping and reservoir
distribution, geostatistics, fluid modeling
• The effect of temperature on velocity
Learning Objectives
• Use seismic data, and seismic attributes to enhance reservoir features such as subtle and
small faults, lithological variations and lithological signatures, define zones of known
reservoir quality and potential fluid pathways
• Continuity and impermeable sedimentological review using seismic data
• Evaluate and assign attribute volumes that best define specific sequences and facies models
• Multi-attribute analysis for specific and confined prospect characterisation
• Geostatistics and Interpolation methods and techniques
• Refined play-fairway mapping techniques using seismic attributes
“The course helped me
Training Offer
to bridge the geology gap
in my knowledge as a
petrophysicist, and also
understand where to drill
and know what to expect
in reservoir exploration.”
& Reservoir Engineering

Petroleum Geology
Petroleum geology and reservoir engineering courses incorporate industry-specific

theory with practical applications for comprehensive petroleum geology and
engineering solutions.
The courses include broad technical concepts such as petroleum geology and
reservoir engineering and specific subject matter in a variety of geological and
engineering disciplines, such as biostratigraphy and facilities engineering.
Our programs are taught by geoscientists and engineers who specialize in these
fields and have extensive industry experience. Courses are offered as theory-based
classes or practical workshops, or as a combination that best suits client needs.
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Petroleum Geology & Reservoir Engineering
• Advanced Basin Analysis and Earth Modeling 53
• Advanced Structural Geology 54
• Application of Uncertainty in Prospect Analysis 54
• Applied Petroleum Geology 55
• Applied Rock Mechanics 55
• Reservoir Engineering 56
• Basin Analysis 56
• Biomarkers and Carbon Isotopes in Hydrocarbon Exploration 57
• Biostratigraphy: Application in Exploration, Development and Production 57
• Carbonate Reservoir Geology 58
• Clastic Exploration and Reservoir Sedimentology 58
• Core Logging and Description Workshop (Carbonates or Clastics) 59
• Deepwater Turbidites 59
• Development Geology 60
• Facilities Engineering 60
• Exploration Workshop 61
• Field Development and Planning Workshop 64
• Fluvial-Deltaic Depositional Systems 66
• Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs 66
• Generation, Entrapment and Seepage: Dynamics of Petroleum Systems 67
• Integrated Sequence Stratigraphy for Carbonates 67
• Integrated Sequence Stratigraphy Workshop 68
• Introduction to Clastic or Carbonate Petrography 68
• Introduction to Natural Gas and Energy 69
• Introduction to the E&P Business 69
• Introduction to the Petroleum Geology and
Stratigraphy of the Arabian Gulf Basins 70
• Introduction to the Reservoir Geology of Kurdistan 70
• Introduction to the Petroleum Geology of Sub-Saharan West Africa 71
• Introduction to the Petroleum Geology of the East African Margin 71
• New Venture Team Training 72
• Oil and Gas Recovery Factors in Clastics and Carbonates 72
• Operations Geology 73
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Training Offer
• Palaeozoic Reservoirs – Key Factors in Distribution,

Characterization and Controls on Reservoir Quality 73
• Petroleum Exploration for Non-Geoscientists 74
• Petroleum Geochemistry for Explorationists 74
• Petroleum Geology for Engineers 75
• Oil and Gas Reserves Evaluation 75
• Petroleum Systems Modeling 76
• Play Fairways Analysis & Prospect Evaluation Workshop 77
• Well Test Analysis 78
• Petroleum Engineering 78
• Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Petroleum Geoscience 79
• PVT Analysis 80
• Rift Basins – Key Factors in Exploration, Development and Production 80
• Sandstone Reservoirs 81
• Shale Gas and Shale Oil Exploration (also available: Shale Gas Exploration) 81
• Structural Geology Workshop 82
• Thermal Modeling 84
• UK Shale Gas Exploration 84
• Unconventional Gas Exploration 85
• Reservoir Engineering for Non-Engineers 85
Petroleum Geology & Reservoir Engineering 53
Advanced Basin Audience

Exploration geoscientists who require in-depth understanding to integrated basin analysis in exploration.
Analysis and Earth
Content
Modeling The Context
The aim is to follow an integrated
• Petroleum systems analysis, fundamentals of basin formation and basin classification
basin analysis workflow in theory • Play fairway analysis: sources, reservoirs, traps and seal distribution
and in practice, which provides • Paleoclimatic modeling to predict source and reservoir rock distribution, analogues, plate
the opportunity to understand the tectonic reconstruction as a means to constrain basin configurations
principals of integrated basin analysis
and put them in to practice. The Components and Mechanisms
• Source Rock Presence and Potential - classification (organofacies), distribution, analysis,
Duration (days) organic richness and potential, organic quality, kinetics, estimating UEP
5-day
• Access to charge / source effectiveness, basin geometry, generation and expulsion history,
Max Number of Participants migration styles, timing, fluid flow concepts
20 • Overpressure and effective stress, compaction, effect of pressure on migration, faults, fetch
Prerequisites and focus, lag time, structural restoration, fetch area and volume, fill and spill vs leak
None • Seal effectiveness / column capacity – presence, distribution, trap style, types of seals,
effect on migration style
Course Format
Classroom exercises and presentations • Reservoir deliverability / effectiveness - porosity and permeability, thickness, fluid
viscosity, effect of burial history, development and production
• Basin Modeling – Concepts, 1-D modeling, map-based modeling, geological input. Maturity,
thermal stress and UEP maps. Migration, fetch and focus, sensitivity analysis, 2D modeling
workflow
Learning Objectives
• Define the petroleum systems
• Deconstruct the basin history and create representative models (structural,
sedimentological, paleogeographical, geochemical) for key stages of the basin evolution
• Establish geohistories for selected example basins (including thermal histories)
• Evaluate hydrocarbon generation potential and migration models
• Construct and evaluate petroleum systems events charts for selected basins
• Characterise the potential reservoirs, sources and seals
• Quantify petroleum system risk (deterministically and stochastically)
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Advanced Structural Audience

Geology Geologists and structural geologists with a good basic understanding of structural geology
who wish to further develop their skills in this area.
The course involves an in-depth study Content
of Structural Geology theories and
applications. With a considerable
• Geological analysis of field data: stereographic analysis, cross section construction,
practical element, this course enables restoration and balancing, 4D cross section evolution
the trainee to analyze and assess faults • Geodynamics: lithospheric extension models, development of rift basins and passive margins
and fractures and their role in Petroleum and stretching factors, lithospheric compression models and development of foreland fold and
Geology. thrust belts
Duration (days) • Rock mechanics: force, strain and stress (including Mohr diagram and strain analysis methods)
5-day • Reservoir geomechanics: wellbore breakouts, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir depletion
• Experimental rock deformation tests and failure criteria: uniaxial, triaxial, hydrostatic and
20
shear rock deformation, role of temperature, water, strain rate
• Deformation dynamics, kinematics and structures: simple shear and pure shear
Prerequisites • Deformation modes and mechanisms: cataclasis, diffusive mass transfer, crystalline plasticity,
None brittle-ductile transition
Course Format • Role of fluids, fluid pressure and fluid flow in hydrocarbon exploration
Classroom exercises and presentations • Brittle rock deformation: faulting (including fault rock development, fault seal analysis and
palaeostress analysis from fault slip data) and fracturing (including joint development) in the
upper crust
• Ductile rock deformation: folding and shear zone development
Application of Audience
Uncertainty in Geologists, explorationists and reservoir engineers involved in prospect analysis.
Prospect Analysis Content
This course covers the following topics:
The course demonstrates techniques for
analysis of uncertainty in the volumes
Prospect definition – leads and prospects Timing
of hydrocarbons present, the probability Prospect volumetric calculation Systematic application of probabilities and
of hydrocarbon occurrence and the Bulk Rock Volume benchmarking
adequacy of hydrocarbon charge. Rock parameters – Reservoir cut-off, net Quantification of volumetric uncertainty
Duration (days)
reservoir and porosity Monte Carlo Analysis technique
3-day Fluid parameters – Hydrocarbon saturation Inputs and probability distribution
and formation volume factor Outputs and application of results
Software Used Recovery factor Uncertainty in hydrocarbon charge
Crystal Ball™
Assessment of uncertainty in volumetric Quick-look methods of volume estimation
Max Number of Participants input definition Application of results in Monte Carlo
20 Prospect risking analysis of prospects
Prerequisites Basic probability Development of structured work-flows
None Risk factors
Source
Course Format
Classroom exercises and presentations Reservoir
Trap/seal
Applied Petroleum Audience

Geology Entry level E&P professional staff and technical support staff who do not have formal training
in geology, geophysics or engineering.
A combination of lectures, practical Content
exercises and a case study are used
to ensure that participants gain a full
This course covers the following: exploration, including drilling, geological
understanding of the all aspects of • History of the oil industry, current issues. mapping; satellite imagery and remote
hydrocarbon exploration, discovery and • Geological concepts, global distribution sensing; gravity-magnetic surveys; seismic
extraction. of hydrocarbons, nature and geometry reflection geophysics acquisition, processing
Duration (days)
of hydrocarbon reservoirs, geological and interpretation; seismic mapping; play
5-day requirements for hydrocarbon accumulation, fairway mapping; prospect evaluation and
origin of hydrocarbons, rock types and origins risking• Dynamic models and subsurface
Max Number of Participants • Field appraisal and static models of reservoirs development options, surface engineering
20
• Assessing amounts of hydrocarbons-in-place and field operations
Prerequisites and uncertainties • Project economics
None • Methods and tools used for hydrocarbon • Environmental issues
Course Format Participants will develop a good understanding of the upstream oil and gas industry: how
hydrocarbons are found, developed, produced and treated prior to sales. Participants work in
teams on an actual field case, and go through all steps that lead to a field development plan,
including an economic assessment.
Applied Rock Audience

Mechanics The course is aimed at all geologists, explorationists and reservoir engineers involved
in exploration, appraisal and development.
The course is designed to provide Content
participants with a working
knowledge of rock mechanics and how
The aim of the course is to give the participant the necessary skills to undertake a detailed
understanding rock mechanics can evaluation of stress and strain data to improve well planning, aid understanding and prevention
aid reservoir development, improve of borehole instability, and enhance recovery by hydraulic fracturing.
hydrocarbon production and lower risk. • Introduction to rock mechanics: definitions
Duration (days) • Stress and strain: tectonic stress field, normal and shear stress, effective stress
5-day • Pore pressure: pore pressure at depth, overpressure, effect on rock strength
• Elasticity: elastic strains, seismic wave velocities, Poisson’s ratio, elastic moduli, poroelasticity
20 • Brittle failure criteria: uniaxial, triaxial, direct /indirect tensile strength rock deformation testing
• Fracturing: fracture initiation, propagation and development, controls on fracturing
Prerequisites • Ductile rock deformation: deformation mechanisms, creep tests
None
• Strain analysis: determining plane and non-plane strain, volume changes, Fry method
Course Format • Structural Geology: plate tectonic environments, regional and local stress fields
Classroom exercises and presentations • Reservoir planning: determining well trajectories, reservoir performance, reservoir pressure
• Reservoir deformation: role of temperature, pore fluid pressure prediction and monitoring
• Borehole stability: effects of principal stress directions, mud weight, borehole breakouts
• Fault seal: Allan diagrams, shale:gouge ratio, pressure gradients
Training Offer
Reservoir Audience
Petroleum engineering team leaders, production and reservoir engineers, petrophysicists
Engineering and geologists involved with exploration and development of oil and gas reservoirs.
In the E&P business, integrated Content
petroleum engineering studies and field • Geometry of oil & gas accumulations uncertainties, probabilistic methods
development plans are management • Reservoir rock properties • Relative permeability, movable oil,
tools which are used to maximize • Distribution of hydrocarbon fluids mobility, drainage and imbibition
economic production of hydrocarbons. • Hydrocarbon composition, properties and • Viscous flow, flow conditions
In this course fundamental concepts
and a broad spectrum of modern
phase behaviour, gas reservoir engineering • Reservoir heterogeneity and sweep
practical reservoir engineering methods concepts • Recovery drive-energy, general material
are addressed. • PVT parameters, basic laboratory balance equation, recovery factors and
experiments, reservoir fluid sampling, production forecasts
Duration (days)
5-day
formation water properties • Radial differential fluid flow equation
• Pressure regimes, fluid gradients and • Introduction to analysis and interpretation
Max Number of Participants contacts, capillary pressures, surface of pressure tests: drawdown and build-up
20 tension, wettability • Skin: source and how to minimize it
Prerequisites • Hydrocarbons in-place estimation,
None
At the end of the course, participants will have an understanding of the physics of oil and
Course Format gas in reservoirs, and will be able to apply reservoir engineering methods and appreciate
Classroom exercises and presentations the construction and use of reservoir models. They will have acquired the skills necessary
for estimation of petroleum reserves, development planning and to assess uncertainties.
Basin Analysis Audience

Geologists and geophysicists involved in new ventures or exploration who require the skills
The workshop emphasizes the to evaluate petroleum systems and their hydrocarbon potential.
practical geological applications of
basin analysis studies to petroleum
Content
exploration. It stresses the • Plate tectonics - lithosphere, asthenosphere, • C lassification of basins - classification
importance of basin evolution to and crust/mantle schemes and classification associated with
petroleum generation, migration and •B asin formation - rift, passive margins, sag evolutionary style
accumulation. It includes examples in
basins, foreland flexure, piggy-back basins, • Datasets
rift basins, foreland basins and wrench
basins and emphasises the combined
wrench basins and thermal evolution • The concept of megasequences
roles of tectonics and eustasy. • C ontrols on basin stratigraphy - role of • Introduction to play fairway analysis -
tectonics, role of sea level, eustasy versus techniques, burial history, petroleum systems
Duration (days) isostasy, palaeoclimatic influences, global and play fairway analysis
5-day
tectonic influences and an introduction • Analogue basin identification
Max Number of Participants to sequence stratigraphy. Depositional
20 environments
None
• Understand basin-forming processes and • Review key analytical techniques with a
Course Format basin architecture focus on burial history analysis
Classroom exercises and presentations • Evaluate controls on sediment generation, • Apply and integrate datasets to model basin
transport and deposition evolution
Biomarkers and Audience

The course is primarily aimed at geologists and geophysicists with little previous knowledge
Carbon Isotopes in of petroleum geochemistry, biomarkers and carbon isotopes.
Hydrocarbon Content
Exploration • General principles of Oil-Source Correlation • Evaluation of GC-MS fragmentograms
The course is intended to provide • Environmental controls on source rock • Application of biomarkers to maturity
an understanding of key petroleum deposition studies, oil-source correlation and Principal
geochemistry concepts, source rock, oil • Basic oil and source rock chemistry, fluid Component Analysis
and gas analysis and the principles of
key geochemical techniques.The aim of analysis, extraction, fractionation • Carbon isotopes, principles and methods
the course is to enable the participant • Gas chromatography, simple biomarkers • Carbon isotopes of petroleum fluids (source
to undertake a detailed geochemical
evaluation of potential source rocks and • Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC- rocks and oils) in correlation studies Carbon
hydrocarbon fluids. MS), geochemical fossils, complex biomarkers isotopes of petroleum gases
Duration (days) Learning Objectives
5-day • Gain an understanding of key petroleum • Learn about stable carbon isotope (CIR)
Max Number of Participants geochemistry concepts, source rocks and analysis
20 their depositional environments • Correlate petroleum-source rocks using
Prerequisites
• Understand the principles of gas biomarkers and CIR
None chromatography-mass spectrometry, it
interpretation and application to petroleum
Course Format
exploration
Biostratigraphy: Audience
Application in Explorationists involved in the assimilation and use of biostratigraphic data during sequence
stratigraphic studies, basin analysis and drilling, and development geologists investigating
Exploration, correlation of reservoir units.
Development and Content
Production • Introduction: Sampling techniques/programs; types of microfossils to use; analytical
techniques; integration with other disciplines
The course enables the explorationist\
development and production geologist • High-resolution biostratigraphy: What it is; areas of application; identification of
to evaluate and integrate biostratigraphic chronostratigraphic events; environmental reconstruction; problems and data presentation
data. This course emphasises how • Horizontal wells: Biosteering Theory; development of method; creation of high resolution
to apply biostratigraphic data to
enhance well/field correlations, seismic zonation schemes; wellsite operations, problems and case histories
interpretation and environmental control • Correlation, depositional sequences and sequence stratigraphy: Correlation and interpretation
within sequences and biosteering. problems; precision and flexibility; grouping rocks with depositional sequences; identification
Duration (days) of sequence boundaries and integration with chronostratigraphic control; integration of
5-day environmental data and interpretation of depositional patterns of sequences and systems
Max Number of Participants tracts; integration with wireline log data
20 Learning Objectives
Prerequisites • Become familiar with the range of biostratigraphic analyses available
None • Understand the application of high resolution biostratigraphic data and techniques
Course Format • Apply techniques to determine age of lithostratigraphic, log and seismic units
Classroom exercises and presentations • Interpret palaeoenvironments and recognize post-depositional alteration
Training Offer
Carbonate Reservoir Audience

Petroleum geologists, explorationists, petrophysicists, geophysicists and engineers involved
Geology with exploration of carbonate plays and development of carbonate reservoirs. Previous
This course is designed to develop skills
knowledge of carbonate sedimentology is not required.
in understanding the geometry and Content
petrophysical characteristics of carbonate • Carbonate reservoirs: Basic principles; • Carbonate and evaporite sequence
reservoirs. The course demonstrates the depositional concepts; grain types; textures stratigraphy: Systems tracts; key surfaces;
value of the reservoir model in volumetric and fabrics; environmental reconstruction contrasting windward and leeward stacking
assessment and development of carbonate • The reservoir model—depositional and patterns; carbonate—evaporite cycles;
reservoirs. diagenetic characteristics: Sabkha/tidal flat; seismic stratigraphy
Duration (days) lagoon; shelf; reef (rudist and coral/algal); • Log response in carbonate rocks: Gamma;
5-day barrier/shoal; slope and redeposited; aeolian sonic; neutron; density; FMS
and lacustrine; karst plays • Reservoir assessment: Fracture reservoirs;
• Carbonate diagenesis: Primary and secondary reservoir modeling; volumetric assessment in
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porosity; compaction; pressure solution; correlation and mapping; effects of capillary
Prerequisites cementation; dolomitisation; porosity pressure; interface with engineering
None generation and destruction; fractures
Classroom exercises and presentations • Understand carbonate depositional systems and controls
• Recognise and model controls on reservoir quality and pore systems including diagenesis and
fracturing
• Understand and apply carbonate and evaporate seismic stratigraphy
Clastic Exploration Audience

The course is aimed at exploration geologists and geophysicists involved in clastic
and Reservoir exploration studies.
Sedimentology Content
• Clastic facies analysis and depositional environments: ancient and modern - desert, fluvial,
This course has been developed to provide
deltaic, estuarine, marine shoreline, shallow marine shelf and deep marine environments;
an understanding of the geometry and
hydrocarbon potential of clastic depositional
geometry of clastic reservoirs; depositional modeling and mapping. Integration of the models
systems and facies, and how they are with tectonics and seismic sequence stratigraphy
affected by such important features as basin • Log response in clastic sequences: Core logging; lithology determination from wireline logs; core
configuration, tectonics and eustasy. to wireline log correlation; palaeoenvironmental mapping
• Clastic petrography and diagenesis: Detrital mineralogy and texture; diagenetic petrography
Duration (days) - recognition and quantification, cement types, porosity destruction and enhancement;
5-day
diagenetic/porosity modeling and mapping
Max Number of Participants • Exploration sedimentology in play fairway mapping and basin analysis: Methods of basin-wide
20 correlation and layering and the production of isochore, N:G, porosity and permeability maps
Prerequisites • Volumetric assessment in clastic reservoirs
Course Format
• Interpret clastic depositional environments using data from core images, cutting images and
Classroom exercises and presentations wireline logs
• Apply new sequence stratigraphic concepts to clastic reservoirs
• Correlate wells using knowledge of depositional environment
• Predict reservoir size, shape, trend and quality
Core Logging and Audience

Geologists wishing to acquire the skills necessary to effectively describe and log cores and
Description enable their logs to be applied in the future development stages of a field or discovery well.
Workshop Content
(Carbonates or • Introduction to the principles of core logging (theory): Extraction and reasons for coring
Clastics) • Review of physical and biogenic sedimentary structures (theory)
• Introduction to core descriptions including a review of different types of core description
This course teaches attendees to log and sampling procedures
core in a geologically realistic manner,
• Core logging workshop at 1:50 scale with examples from different depositional
at different scales (1:50 & 1:200) from
a variety of depositional environments/ environments (approximately 20-30m of core for each attendee)
geological settings. • Core logging workshop at 1:200 scale with examples from different depositional
environments (approximately 50m of core for each attendee)
Duration (days)
• Identify facies and facies associations from core
5-day
• Implement sampling schemes based on the core intervals
• Understand the principles of core logging, sampling and analysis, and review sedimentary
Prerequisites
structures
None
• Learn to describe core from different depositional environments and identify facies
Course Format • Apply sampling schemes
Deepwater Turbidites Audience

Exploration and production geologists and geophysicists, stratigraphers, reservoir engineers
The course provides an opportunity to and petrophysicists.
examine analogue data from turbidite
reservoirs. The course reviews depositional
Content
settings and sequences associated with • Review of Deepwater Depositional Systems: • Implications for production from deepwater
clastic deepwater systems, geological Controls on deepwater sedimentation, reservoirs
controls on reservoir quality and deepwater locations, depositional • Geological controls on reservoir quality and
architecture.
characteristics, classification of processes, architecture: Textural controls on reservoir
Duration (days) bouma sequences, diapirism and tsunamis, quality, diagenetic modification of pore,
5-day key depositional settings and models; depositional controls on reservoir architecture;
Max Number of Participants Problems associated with modeling deep water Injectites - implications for reservoir
20 systems,subsurface recognition. geometries; correlation
• Extrabasinal controls: Tectonic regimes, • Modern Deepwater Systems: A review of
Prerequisites
None
eustacy, circulation and currents, climate, modern deepwater depositional environments
hinterland topography • Subsurface and Outcrop Analogues and
Course Format • Sequence Stratigraphy: Seismic character, Recognition: A review of selected subsurface
Classroom exercises and presentations models, analysis workflow, facies mapping examples from around the world. Data sources
• Petroleum System: Hydrocarbon charge and type
potential: models of source rock development; • Uncertainties and Exploration Risk: key
maturation and migration; trapping uncertainties and risks in deepwater
mechanisms exploration; problems with modeling
Training Offer
Development Audience
Petroleum engineers and geologists involved with exploration and development of oil and gas
Geology reservoirs.
The “development life cycle” of an oil or Content
gas field starts with an understanding of • Planning, gathering and management of • Reservoir fluids, initial conditions
the subsurface; from the gathering and
geological data • Reservoir architecture, geological modeling
interpretation of geological data, the
preparation of geological models and the • Geological concepts, global tectonics • Oil and gas volumetric calculations
quantification of subsurface uncertainty. • Geophysical methods, production seismic • Subsurface uncertainty and risk analysis
Attention is given to impact on field • Sequence stratigraphy, log correlation • Case histories
operations and on field management during
its entire cycle. • Environments of deposition (clastic, • Vertical and horizontal well applications,
carbonates) operational geology
Duration (days)
• Mapping of reservoir parameters and structure • Field excursion (optional): illustration
5-day
• Structural styles, trapping conditions of clastic and carbonate sedimentary
Max Number of Participants environments and structural geology in 3-D
20
Prerequisites At the end of the course participants will be able to apply geological concepts, construct maps and
None sections and validate computer-generated interpretations. They will be able to calculate subsurface
volumes and assess their uncertainties, and review their impact on project economics. They will
Course Format
Classroom exercises and presentations acquire practical experience by working on an actual field study in teams.
Facilities Audience
Graduate engineers and (sub-surface) team members of prospects/FDP’s.
Engineering
Content
Smooth operations require an • Setting the scene (interface definition, on • Contracts (strategies, tendering, change
understanding of all technical and offshore, oil and gas, sweet and sour) control, regulations)
disciplines in facility design and their • Field development contributions (facilities • New technologies in facilities design
deliverables as well as of specific new definition, cost database, timing, level of • (De-)manning study approach
technologies. Participants will gain accuracy, etc.) • Safety, HSE management (overview,
understanding about common practices
and new technology developments in
• Project management overview risk management, QC, permit systems,
facilities engineering. They will acquire • Feasibility/conceptual engineering organization, etc.)
practical experience on some of the • Detailed design • Safety engineering (F & G detection,
management tools. • Fabrication and construction platform escape, fire protection, etc.)
Duration (days)
• Commissioning • Quality management
5-day • Project organization and technical support • Certification, certifying authorities
(examples) (inspection, design codes, etc.)
Max Number of Participants • Project execution plans (areas to be covered) • Interface with operations and maintenance
20
• Financial planning and cost control
Prerequisites • Planning, scheduling (MS-project, critical
None path, resourcing, etc.)
Course Format
Exploration Audience
Workshop Multidisciplinary teams (4-5 persons with a maximum of 20 per workshop) of petroleum
geologists, geophysicists and engineers (from 0-10 years’ experience) who are involved in
This workshop is designed to provide integrated regional projects, basin evaluations and prospect identification.
a thorough understanding of modern
concepts of assessment of a basin for
Content
hydrocarbon potential, from initial data Week 1: Regional investigation
gathering, to integration of all data • Introduction to the workshop
sources to define play types, identify • Data gathering and organisation phase
prospects and assess risk. • Introduction and tectonic/stratigraphic development
Duration (days) • Biostratigraphic framework:
20 - 60 day Objectives:
Max Number of Participants - To generate a stratigraphic framework for your field
20 - To identify all potential reservoir, source rock and seal developments
Prerequisites - To identify and quantify all potential hiatuses
None Itinerary:
Course Format Taught component:
Workshop and presentations - Introduction to (bio)stratigraphy as the vital, initial step in basin studies
- Outline of what to look for in the stratigraphic contribution
- How to generate a general stratigraphic framework for the study
- The gross stratigraphy of the study area
- Structural geology and seismic interpretation
Attendee’s component:
- Generate stratigraphic columns for outcrop and subsurface
- Identify all levels of potential reservoir and seal development
- Identify all levels of potential source rock development
- Individual group presentations on the stratigraphy of the study area
- Begin seismic interpretation
Deliverables:
- Understanding of the stratigraphy of the study area, with regards timing, duration and
depositional setting of each stratigraphic unit
- Stratigraphic relationship between each depositional/stratigraphic package
- Regional stratigraphy
- Tectonic-stratigraphic evolution and basin outline
- Major structural elements of the study area
Course continued on next page

Training Offer
Exploration Week 2: Sedimentology, structural geology and seismic interpretation

Workshop • Structural geology
• Reservoir / seal facies identification and mapping
This workshop is designed to provide • Reservoir distribution
a thorough understanding of modern • Continue geophysical assessment (seismic and non-seismic)
concepts of assessment of a basin for - Define prospects using seismic data, identify main horizons, tying well data to seismic
hydrocarbon potential, from initial data - Picking seismic horizons
gathering, to integration of all data - Loop tying
sources to define play types, identify
prospects and assess risk.
- Identifying DHIs
- Complete picking horizons
Duration (days) • Seismic Evaluation
20 - 60 day - Identify and correlate faults
Max Number of Participants - Identify leads
20 - Time contour mapping
Prerequisites - Time/depth conversion and contouring
None - Identify spill points
- Volumetric calculation
Course Format
• Team Presentations
Workshop and presentations
- Reservoir correlation
- Reservoir description and properties
- Static reservoir model
- Seismic interpretation
- Identification of leads
Week 3: Continue sedimentological investigation and Geochemistry
• Stratigraphy and basin profile continuation of week 1, day 5 tasks.
• Reservoir/Seal facies identification and mapping and Reservoir distribution and properties.
The sedimentological component will build upon the basin knowledge gained from the data
organisation, structural, geophysical and stratigraphy components. This aims to achieve an
understanding of the potential reservoir and seal distribution and characteristics within the
study area, over a two-day period. The following aspects will be covered through a mixture of
taught and practical sessions:
- Introduction to sedimentology and its role in basin studies
- Types of sedimentological data, their uses and integration
- Depositional and diagenetic models (clastic and carbonate)
- Identifying, predicting and mapping reservoir and seal distribution
- Reservoir properties
Week 3: Continue sedimentological investigation and Geochemistry (part 2)

During this phase the following will be identified/generated:
- Depositional and diagenetic models
- Main reservoir and seal facies from those identified in depositional and diagenetic models
- Likely distribution and geometry of main reservoir and seal facies
- Calculate and map (contours) thicknesses for each reservoir or seal facies
- Integrate structural data for relevant time slices
- Combined reservoir-seal couplet maps
- Mapping of net pay from composite logs
- Overlying of net pay for each reservoir or seal facies identified
- Integration of diagenetic model data onto maps
- Final product: maps for each identified reservoir and seal showing facies thickness, net pay distribution and seal
distribution to predict where effective reservoir-seal couplets exist.
Week 4: Play Fairway Mapping, Risking and Ranking
• Play fairway mapping
• Prospect identification
• Risking
• Ranking
• Preparation and delivery of prospect memorandum, final presentations and results. During this final week all
pertinent interpretations generated during the previous weeks will be integrated into a series of key play fairway
maps. Petroleum system events charts will also be created. Resultant maps will be used to evaluate, risk and rank
prospects within the study area.
• Volumetric calculations
• Final team presentations
The trainees will be put into teams and given a dataset comprising 2D seismic lines, composite logs, geochemical
data, core analysis data, research papers, reports and various maps. They will work up the data under the guidance
of the instructors. Teaching will comprise short taught lectures and guidance and discussion regarding the data.
Understanding and knowledge gained will be tested during preparation of the end of week presentations and
during the workshop through discussions and questions.

Training Offer
Field Development Audience

and Planning Multidisciplinary teams (4-5 persons with a maximum of 20 per workshop) of petroleum
geologists, geophysicists and engineers (from 0-10 years’ experience) who are involved in
Workshop integrated regional projects, basin evaluations and prospect identification.
The Field Development and Planning Content
Workshop takes the teams through the work
process and assists them in understanding
Groups will conduct the project work themselves under the supervision and guidance of
the building blocks in Field Development Robertson staff:
and Planning. The workshop will allow the Module 1 – Project Management and Field Review
attendees to consider the wide range of
relevant issues and their implications.
• Identification of project objectives.
• Formation of a work programme plan.
Duration (days) • Budget/time considerations.
4 – 6 Weeks (20 – 30 days) • Critical Path Analysis
Max Number of Participants • Identification of individual responsibilities and formulation of deadline dates.
20 • Assessment of the database.
Prerequisites • Data collection and assimilation.
None Participants will learn how to:
Course Format - Review Field by analysing static model from Exploration course.
Classroom exercises and presentations - Interpret data, material balance, estimate recovery factor.
- Interpret cased hole logs, interpret decline curves
- Establish measure of compartmentalisation, drainage radius
- Estimate recoverable reserves.
Module 2 – Reservoir Modelling, dynamic model
Understand the distribution of fluids (oil, water gas) and fluid movement within the reservoir:
- Refresher on well test analysis, interpretation of open and cased hole logs.
- Introduce the concepts of reservoir description and the building of dynamic models.
- Review and update structural interpretation and depth conversion based on results of all
available wells and any new seismic.
- Analyse log and core data to categorise the reservoir into different flow units and develop
preliminary view of connectivity.
- Based on inflow performance set up completion design
- Set up facilities design.
- Build a dynamic reservoir model.
Module 3 – Economic analysis and scenario design
This module introduces the concept of uncertainty and how many factors have impact on the
productivity and profitability of the Field. This will probably include:
- Refresher on oil in place and recoverable reserves calculations.
- Introduction to the concept of uncertainty and how it could impact the size of the reserves
and the future development plan.
- Integration of Modules 1 and 2 to calculate remaining recoverable reserves.
- Identify key sources of uncertainty and options for addressing them.
- Built economic scenarios
Module 4 – Development drilling

At this stage participants integrate all previous data in order to formulate a development plan for drilling production wells. This
includes:
- Assessment of all results from Modules 2, 3 and 4.
- Refresher on material balance techniques and interpretation of OH logging.
- Setting casing, cement bond logs, repair jobs
- Design and interpretation of well tests.
- Perforations strategy, formation damage control
- Stimulation of reservoir.
Module 5 – Production Operations

Participants investigate different techniques to improve production.
This incorporates:
Assess field and well performance to predict future performance.
• Estimate production forecasts for oil, water and gas.
• Review production logging tools and well test procedures.
• Assess rate, pressures, GOR and interpret production logs, tests and pressure data.
• Diagnose common production problems and design work-over strategy.
• Review the techniques to estimate HC in place, recoverable reserves and remaining recoverable reserves, based on first series
of production wells.
Module 6 - Final Presentation

At the end of the programme, team members are expected to make a detailed presentation of their results and present their
recommendations to management.
- Assess reservoir productivity and ultimate oil recovery based on reservoir geological model, rock and fluid properties and
stipulated drive mechanism
- Identify and manage uncertainties in terms of hydrocarbon volumes, reservoir variability, productivity, and drive mechanism
- Calculate well inflow performance, design completion in accordance to well deliverability, consider environmental and facilities
issues, and assess economic benefits
- Come up with field development and further appraisal/data gathering strategy to develop a robust plan that minimises
exposure, and maintains flexibility
Training Offer
Fluvial-Deltaic Audience
Exploration geologists and geophysicists involved in clastic exploration in fluvio-deltaic systems.
Depositional
Content
Systems
Fluvial Depositional Systems Deltaic Depositional Systems
This course aims to review the fundamentals • Depositional Processes • Depositional Processes
of fluvial and deltaic depositional systems,
as a basis for their sequence stratigraphic
• Classification of Fluvial Depositional Systems • Classification of Deltaic Systems
evaluation. Once the fundamentals of the • Modern and Ancient Analogues • Modern and Ancient Analogues
sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy
• Recognition in the Subsurface • Recognition in the Subsurface
are established the implications for play
fairway analysis, prospect evaluation and • Key Petrophysical Characteristics • Key petrophysical characteristics
reservoir modelling are considered. Fluvio-Deltaic Sequence Stratigraphy
Duration (days) Implications for Play Fairway Analysis, Prospect
5-day Analysis and Reservoir Modelling
Max Number of Participants Learning Objectives
20
• Understand fluvio-deltaic systems and their depositional controls
Prerequisites
None
• E valuate the sequence architecture of fluvio-deltaic systems using sequence stratigraphic
principles.
Course Format
• Apply key paper and digital exploration analysis and modelling techniques
Fractured Carbonate Audience

Reservoirs Petroleum geologists, explorationists, petrophysicists, geophysicists and engineers involved
with exploration of carbonate plays and development of carbonate reservoirs.
This course is designed to develop Content
skills in understanding the geometry
and petrophysical characteristics of
• Carbonate Reservoirs. Basic principles; depositional concepts; grain types; textures and
fractured carbonate reservoirs. It fabrics; environmental reconstruction
is shown how the complex inter- • The reservoir model - depositional and diagenetic characteristics. Sabkha/tidal flat; lagoon;
relationship of the depositional and shelf; reef; barrier/shoal; slope and redeposited; aeolian and lacustrine; karst plays
burial history can be unravelled to • Carbonate diagenesis. Primary and secondary porosity; compaction; pressure solution;
allow prediction of reservoir facies and cementation; dolomitisation; porosity generation and destruction; fractures
reconstruction of three-dimensional • Carbonate sequence stratigraphy. Log response in carbonate rocks
reservoir models.
• Fracture analysis. Fracture mechanics; data collection; analysis of fracture orientations; scaling
Duration (days) relationships; fracture spacing; temporal relationships; controls on fracturing (including
5-day stratigraphy, faults and folds); complex fracture networks; brecciated carbonate rocks
Max Number of Participants • Faults in carbonate rocks. Damage zones; styles of fault propagation; interaction and linkage
16 in fault zones; fault reactivation; fault sealing and fluid flow
Prerequisites
• Stylolites in carbonate rocks. Mechanics of stylolites; controls on stylolites (lithological,
None tectonic, hydrocarbons); relationships between stylolites and fractures
• Field analogues. Comparison between oil fields and exposed analogues
Course Format • Reservoir assessment. Reservoir modeling; volumetric assessment in orrelation and mapping;
effects of capillary pressure; interface with engineering
Generation, Audience
Entrapment and Geophysicists, geochemists, geologists and petroleum engineers involved in integrated
exploration projects.
Seepage: Dynamics
of Petroleum Content
Systems Understanding of petroleum system dynamics is a key part of play and prospect risk
management and involves an understanding of the processes of hydrocarbon generation,
This course is designed to provide an migration, entrapment, leakage and seepage. A multi-disciplinary workflow is emphasised,
overview of the dynamic processes drawing on direct and indirect observation of hydrocarbon occurrence, both surface and
involved in the generation, migration subsurface. Use of the results of modelling of subsurface hydrocarbon generation and
and entrapment of hydrocarbons. movement is incorporated.
Duration (days) The Petroleum System • Remote sensing detection
5-day • Generation: Biogenic and Thermogenic • Surface geochemistry
Max Number of Participants • Migration: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Subsurface detection
20 • Creation of seals: Fracturing and leaky • Seismic character of DHIs
Prerequisites systems. • Modeling
None • Evolving hydrocarbon fluids: Geochemical modeling of petroleum systems
Course Format
compositional/physical changes Integrated exploration workflows
Classroom exercises and presentations Surface hydrocarbons
• Physical and biological manifestation of
seepage
Integrated Sequence Audience

Stratigraphy for The course is aimed at petroleum geologists, explorationists, petrophysicists, geophysicists
and engineers who are involved with exploration in carbonate provinces or the development of
Carbonates carbonate reservoirs. Attendees should have previous knowledge of carbonate sedimentology.
This course will examine the importance Content
of sequence stratigraphy in helping us • Basic concepts of carbonate deposition
understand the sedimentary record and • Chronostratigraphy, seismic stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, controls on sequence
reconstruct past depositional history. development, accommodation space, parasequences and carbonate cycles, identification of
It will focus on the different approach surfaces, types of bounding discontinuities
required when studying carbonate (as
opposed to clastic) systems.
• Sequences and systems tracts: sequence boundaries and their significance, sequences in time
and space, orders of cyclicity
Duration (days) • Integrating well data: Key data types for sequence identification, typical work flow
5-day • Seismic Stratigraphy: Identification of boundaries and stacking patterns in carbonate
Max Number of Participants sequences, attribute analysis and ‘Stratal slices’
20 • Mixed carbonate siliciclastic sequences, mixed carbonate evaporate sequences
Prerequisites • Systems tracts and petroleum exploration
Course Format • Understand the concepts of carbonate sequence stratigraphy at different scales
Classroom exercises and presentations •B e able to apply sequence stratigraphic interpretation for well and seismic data in
carbonate environments
• Be able to use a sequence stratigraphic approach to predict seal and reservoir quality
Training Offer
Integrated Sequence Audience

Explorationists, geologists, stratigraphers and geophysicists who wish to extend their knowledge
Stratigraphy through integration of seismic sequence stratigraphy with well log sequence stratigraphy and
Workshop the application of biostratigraphy to sequence stratigraphy.
The workshop emphasizes the underlying
Content
geological principles, processes and • Introduction - Concepts; eustatic controls; assumptions; definition of key terms.
terminology related to the interpretation • Eustatic controls on depositional stratal patterns – accommodation and equilibrium types;
and use of seismic sequence stratigraphy systems tract boundaries
and its integration with well log sequence
• Seismic expression of sequence – criteria and approach for picking sequence boundaries
stratigraphy and biostratigraphy.
• Interpretation of seismic reflections in depositional sequences – definition of seismic sequence, seismic facies
Duration (days) • Sequence and systems tracts – highstand, falling stage, lowstand, transgressive, shelf margin
5-day • Sequence expression in well logs - Log characters of parasequences, maximum flooding surfaces
Max Number of Participants and criteria for picking sequence boundaries
20 • Clastic and carbonate depositional environments - Depositional responses to changes in relative sea level
Prerequisites
• Variation on the model: Application and exploration significance
• Understand sequence stratigraphic concepts and controls
Course Format • Identify systems tracts and stratigraphic sequences from depositional facies, well logs and
seismic facies.
• Construct a sequence stratigraphic model by integrating lithological, biostratigraphical, seismic
and well data.
Clastic or Carbonate Geologists with a good basic understanding of geology who wish to further develop their
skills in this area.
Petrography Content
This course covers the theory and The course covers the following aspects: • Factors controlling diagenesis
application of the latest petrographic • An introduction to clastic / carbonate petrography • Diagenetic processes in relation to sandstone
techniques with reference to clastic or • Grain textures porosity
carbonate rocks. • Clastic / carbonate grain types (detrital • Porosity enhancement
Duration (days) mineralogy) • Environmental indicators and provenance
5-day • Classification Carbonate Petrography covers
Max Number of Participants • Diagenetic mineralogy • Lithology
20 • Porosity • Depositional texture (Dunham classification)
Prerequisites Clastic Petrography covers • Grain size and texture (sorting, roundness,
None • Thin section preparation grain contacts)
• Staining techniques • Present versus original rock components (e.g.
Course Format
• Thin section petrography basics grain types, mud, fossils, cements, pores,
• Identification of grains diagenetic minerals)
• Texture (grain size, sorting, shape and fabric) • Pore types and cements (identification,
• Point counting (modal) analysis distribution and relationships)
• Classification of sandstones • Diagenesis and advanced petrographic
• Packing, porosity and permeability techniques
Natural Gas and Staff who need a better understanding of the gas business, to enhance the effectiveness
of their own organization.
Energy
Content
This course provides a full overview of • History of the oil and gas industry, current • Field appraisal and development, gas
the project life cycle: exploration for gas, issues composition, technical specifications.
gas field development and operations, • Geological concepts, global distribution of • Gas treatment and processing
treatment and processing and
transportation of gas. Sales, production
hydrocarbons, nature and geometry of gas • Production performance and production
contracts and project economics are reservoirs forecasts
explained. The history, present global • Methods and tools used for hydrocarbon • Surface engineering and field operations -
issues, markets, future trends and exploration, including drilling markets, commercial issues
emerging markets are also discussed. • Static and dynamic models of reservoirs, • Project - life cycle - economics
Duration (days) how to assess amounts of hydrocarbons-in- • Shale gas development
3-day place, and uncertainties of these • Environmental impact of gas projects
Max Number of Participants Learning, methods and tools:
20 At the end of the course participants will have a good but general understanding of all
Prerequisites issues involving the gas business: how hydrocarbons are found, developed, produced and
None treated prior to sales. Participants will work in teams on an actual field case, and will
go through all steps that lead to a field development plan, including an economic and
Course Format
commercial evaluation.
Introduction to the Audience

E&P Business New technical staff and administrative staff in the oil & gas business. Staff in organizations
working with the oil industry (investment banks, service industry).
This course provides a full overview Content
of the exploration for hydrocarbons,
field development and operations,
• History of the oil industry, current issues
processing and transportation of oil • Geological concepts, global distribution of hydrocarbons, nature and geometry of hydrocarbon
and gas. The history of the business, reservoirs
project economics and global and • Methods and tools used for hydrocarbon exploration, including drilling
political issues are also discussed. • Field appraisal and static models of reservoirs
Duration (days) • Assessing amounts of hydrocarbons-in-place and its uncertainties
5-day • Dynamic models and subsurface development options, surface engineering and field operations
• Project economics
20
• Environmental issues
Course design options: Depending on the participants and learning objectives, the course may
Prerequisites
None
be run as a three day short event. Alternatively, for new technical staff, the course can be
extended to a basic technical E&P introduction module of two to three weeks duration.
Course Format
At the end of the course participants have a good but general understanding of the ‘upstream’
oil and gas business: how hydrocarbons are found, developed, produced and treated prior to
sales.
Training Offer

This course is designed for petroleum professionals who wish to become more informed about the
Petroleum Geology petroleum geology of the oil and gas-bearing basins of the Arabian Gulf.
and Content
Stratigraphy of the • The Tethyan petroleum realm, the Arabian - Mega-sequence Four, the Jurassic to Mid
Arabian Gulf Basins Plate and its major tectonic elements, their Cretaceous
geologic history and development - Mega-sequence Five, Mid Cretaceous to the
This one-week course covers the structural
evolution of the Arabian Gulf basins in a • The Arabian-Iranian mega-basin and the Present Day
dynamic sense as well as integrating the tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the • The Habitat of Oil and Gas: This section of the
major structural elements into the tectono- Arabian Gulf petroleum systems (source rocks, course describes key oilfields which hold the
stratigraphy of the region. A review of the reservoirs, cap-rocks and traps) key to the petroleum systems of these Mega-
region’s key oil and gas fields is included.
• The tectono-stratigraphic evolution sequences
Duration (days) and petroleum system of the following
5-day megasequences will be examined:
Max Number of Participants - Mega-sequence One, Proterozoic, Eo-
20 Cambrian (Vendian) to Cambrian
Prerequisites - Mega-sequence Two, Cambrian to
None Carboniferous
Course Format - Mega-sequence Three, the Permo-Triassic
Classroom exercises and presentations (Khuff)

Reservoir Geology of Petroleum geologists, explorationists, petrophysicists, geophysicists and engineers involved
in the exploration of carbonate plays and development of carbonate reservoirs. Previous
Kurdistan knowledge of carbonate sedimentology is not required.
This course is designed to give a Content
regional overview of the petroleum
systems in the Kurdistan region
• Carbonate reservoirs: Basic principles; depositional concepts; grain types; textures and fabrics;
of northern Iraq. This region is a environmental reconstruction
carbonate dominated area, and so • The reservoir model - depositional and diagenetic characteristics
the focus is on the properties of
carbonate reservoirs, how fracturing
• Carbonate diagenesis
affects reservoir quality, and diagenetic • Carbonate sequence stratigraphy
processes.
• Log response in carbonate rocks
Duration (days) • Reservoir assessment: Fracture reservoirs; reservoir modeling; volumetric assessment in
3-day
correlation and mapping; effects of capillary pressure; interface with engineering
Max Number of Participants • Characteristics of key reservoirs such as the Qamchuqa Formation, Aqra-Bekhme Formation
20 and Shiranish Formation
Prerequisites • Characteristics of key sealing units, e.g. Lower Fars, Aaliji and Shiranish Formations
None
• Characteristics and maturity of key source horizons, e.g. Sargelu and Chia Gara
Course Format

This course is designed for petroleum professionals who wish to become more informed
Petroleum Geology about the petroleum geology of the oil and gas-bearing basins in Sub-Saharan Africa, from
of Sub-Saharan West Senegal to South Africa.
Africa Content
This course covers the dynamic • P re-rift source rocks and reservoirs: Top-class pre-Jurassic source rocks are known along
structural evolution of the southern parts of the African margin and on its conjugate South American margin. Locally, oil and
Atlantic basins and the petroleum gas production comes from pre-rift sediments and basement rocks.
geological implications of this • S yn-rift petroleum systems: Syn-rift source rocks, reservoirs, traps and seals provide closely
evolution. This course includes areas of coupled petroleum systems. The lacustrine to marginal marine syn-rift facies also provide
world-class production such as Nigeria
and parts of Angola.
world-class source kitchens that have charged the post-rift plays.
• E arly drift petroleum systems: Early drift source rocks, reservoirs, traps and seals provide
Duration (days) tightly linked petroleum systems
5-day • C enozoic plays: Away from the mega-deltas, success depends upon marrying prediction
Max Number of Participants of sand distribution from sedimentological modeling and seismic interpretation, with
20 prediction of migration paths from Mesozoic kitchens
Prerequisites • C ompare and contrast exercises:
None Strike-slip margins: Benin to Liberia versus the South African Agulhas Basin
Extensional margins 1: Senegal to Liberia versus Cameroon to Congo
Course Format
Extensional margins 2: Angola verus Namibia to western South Africa
Mega-deltas: the Niger versus the Congo

Petroleum Geology This course is an introduction to the East African margin and its petroleum systems. Previous
knowledge of the area or petroleum geology is not required.
of the East African
Content
Margin
This course aids attendees in recognising potential source rock systems and ascertaining
This course provides an overview of the controls on their maturity, and helps them to understand the petroleum systems and their
regional geology of the East African controls, using play fairway and prospectivity mapping.
coastal basins of Kenya, Tanzania and • Regional geology: tectonostratigraphic and palaeogeographic evolution of the area, illustrated
Mozambique, and the sedimentary
basins developed along the western
with seismic, isopach mapping, and gravity and magnetics data
margin of Madagascar. • Overview of the stratigraphy of the area and how knowledge of this can reduce exploration risk
Duration (days) • Identification and explanation of the components of the petroleum systems tract: reservoir,
3-day source, seal, trap, migration and charge
Max Number of Participants • Insight into charge and migration, quality and maturity illustrated by selected key intervals
20 • Outlining of the distribution of play fairways in the area, highlighting known fields,
Prerequisites discoveries and hydrocarbon shows
None • Prospectivity mapping
Course Format
Training Offer
New Venture Team Audience

Training This course is designed for subsurface G&G staff and reservoir development & engineering staff.
Content
The workshop is designed to increase the Dataset 1 exercise: The teams will work through dataset 1
attendees knowledge of new ventures
strategy. The program will simulate a data
• Data characteristics: this dataset is messy and light on data but makes the participants focus
room and aims to show participants what quickly on the key issues
to do and what to look for in this scenario. • Tasks: assess what is there and make a judgement based on the data provided; participants
The course will be largely hands on practical will need to be creative
work with minimal formal lectures. • The focus will be kept on the following limited principles:
Duration (days) - You haven’t got much data so what are you going to do?
3 - 5-day - What assessment do you make?
- What risks are associated with your judgement?
20
- What recommendations will you make… reject, shoot more seismic or drill a well and why
have you decided this?
Prerequisites
None Dataset 2 exercise: provide the teams with a more complex dataset (more data, but not all of it
positive), each team is provided with the same dataset to evaluate.
Course Format
Workshop and presentations
• Key questions are similar to Dataset 1
• Present a final overview to management to consolidate knowledge gained and demonstrate
learning outcomes
Oil and Gas Recovery Audience

Reservoir engineers with a few years practical experience.
Factors in Clastics
Content
and Carbonates
The primary focus of the course is to explain the underlying problems in dealing with clastics and
About 60% of the oil and gas reserves in carbonates and highlight the fundamental differences between them in terms of their reservoir
the world’s giant fields occur in the clastics architecture, permeability distribution, and overall reservoir production performance.
(sandstone) reservoirs and about 33% occur • The role and influence of geological • Estimation of oil and gas recovery factors
in the carbonate. Hydrocarbon recovery from
these two fundamentally different formation
environments on oil and gas reservoirs with respect to formation type and recovery
types needs a good understanding in terms • Basic understanding of clastics and mechanism
of their geological architecture and the carbonates and reservoir characterization • Reserves estimations from historical
associated displacement processes. production performance
• Porosity and permeability distribution and
Duration (days) associated displacement processes • Field subsurface development including well
5-day spacing, secondary recovery methods, and
• Understanding of relevant reservoir
Max Number of Participants parameters and fluid properties horizontal vs. vertical well development
20 • Identification and acquisition of critical data
• Volumetric hydrocarbon initially-in-place
Prerequisites estimation techniques • Identification and management of subsurface
None uncertainties
• Concepts of drive mechanisms, hydrocarbon
Course Format recovery processes and recovery factors • Field case studies and worldwide analogue
Operations Geology Audience

Explorationists, geologists, stratigraphers, rig operators, engineers, geophysicists and
The course emphasizes the underlying financers who wish to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of operations geology
geological principles, processes and and wellsite geology are all suited to this course.
terminology related to operations
geology. Geological concepts, paired Content
with reporting criteria and stakeholder • First principals and fundamental concepts of • Contractor management and quality assurance
engagements will all be discussed, operations geology • Extended Reach Drilling (ERD) and
as will troubleshooting concepts and • Health, safety and environment GeoSteering
hazard mitigation.
• Roles and responsibilities at a wellsite • Closure requirements and rehabilitation
Duration (days) • Data management and the distribution of data processes
5-day • Well planning: methodologies and Learning Objectives
considerations for exploration, development • Fundamental concepts of operations geology
and production focusing on well planning, drilling and
20
• Subsurface Hazard identification, mitigation completion
Prerequisites and trouble shooting • Basic concepts in occupational Health,
None • Petrophysical data acquisition and wellsite
processing and logging Safety and Environment for operational
Course Format
• The fundamentals of formation pressure geology
Classroom exercises and presentations • Well planning and required geological
evaluation at the wellsite including pore,
fracture and overburden pressures support services
• Geological sampling: coring, sampling and • Petrophysical logging:acquisition, processing
sidewall analysis and interpretations
Palaeozoic Reservoirs Audience

– Key Factors in Petroleum and reservoir geologists, stratigraphers, and explorationists involved with exploration
and production in Palaeozoic reservoirs of the world.
Distribution, Content
Characterization and
This course determines how Palaeozoic reservoirs are identified through age dating and
Controls on Reservoir correlation, wireline log interpretation and sedimentological recognition from core.
Quality • General introduction on the distribution conventional core analysis data
Hydrocarbons from Palaeozoic reservoirs of Palaeozoic reservoirs and the relevance
• Exploration: a review of specific issues
constitute a significant proportion of of Palaeozoic plate configurations and
known reserves in the world and this encountered in Palaeozoic reservoirs, the
palaeogeographies
course provides further understanding difference between Palaeozoic reservoirs and
of the geological controls on their • Classification and recognition: extensive other younger plays and implications for
distribution, sedimentological character
and the controls on reservoir quality. investigation of core, FMI and wireline logs in future exploration
order to identify environmental and structural
Duration (days) • Case studies: all aspects of this course utilize
5-day aspects of various Palaeozoic reservoirs
various case studies from across the world
Max Number of Participants • Reservoir quality: with recognition of that illustrate the variation in geological
20 key sedimentological factors, the course controls and implications for exploration.
Prerequisites examines how these influence reservoir Examples range from the Ordovician
None quality, with demonstrative examples taken glaciomarine sediments of North Africa to the
from petrographic thin sections, scanning Permian aeolian sediments of the North Sea
Course Format
electron microscopy, all related to available
Training Offer
Petroleum Audience
Exploration for Non- This course is designed for petroleum support staff who do not have formal training
in geology, geophysics or engineering.
Geoscientists
Content
This course is designed to provide an Petroleum Geology Rock Types and Origins
insight into how oil and gas are formed, • Geological requirements for hydrocarbon • The rock cycle and classification of rocks
how they are found and how they are accumulation Seals, Shales and evaporites, Plate Tectonics,
extracted. It provides an introduction Origin of Hydrocarbons Crustal processes and sedimentary basins
to fundamental geological concepts, to • Source rocks, Kerogen types, Thermal Exploration
exploration techniques, prospecting,
drilling, well logs and recovery methods.
maturation and hydrocarbon generation, Oil • Geological mapping, Satellite imagery and
and gas types remote sensing, Gravity-magnetic surveys,
Duration (days) Reservoir Rocks Seismic reflection geophysics acquisition
3-day • Sandstones and limestones, Depositional Drilling
Max Number of Participants environment, Porosity and permeability, • Rotary drilling, Cuttings, Cores, Sidewall
20 Cementation, Stratigraphy, Stratigraphic cores, Wireline logs, Log interpretation, The
Prerequisites column, Biostratigraphy, Correlation Traps, discovery, Appraisal drilling, Volumetrics,
None Structural, Stratigraphic, Combination, Faults, Reserves calculations, Recovery- primary,
Folds, Unconformities, Salt domes, Pinch-outs secondary, EOR, Production, Development
Course Format
Processing and Interpretation drilling
• Seismic mapping, Play fairway mapping,
Prospect evaluation and risking
Petroleum Audience
The course is primarily aimed at geologists and geophysicists with little previous knowledge
Geochemistry for of geochemistry, although it also includes advanced concepts of geochemistry including
Explorationists biomarker analysis.
Content
The explorationist may be required to
estimate the amount and timing of oil • Fundamental concepts and basic applications • Control of hydrocarbons on physical properties
and gas generation, evaluate migration • Thermal/maturation modeling of petroleum; source type, maturity,
paths, and explain hydrocarbon • Relationship of geothermal gradients, mixing and alteration processes reservoir
occurrences. The course is intended thermal conductivities and heat flux; geochemistry
to provide an understanding of
geochemistry that can be applied by
measured and calculated thermal maturity • Source rock/basin modeling
explorationists in prospect appraisal and values; interpretation of thermal history; • Source rock facies, palaeoenvironments and
exploration decision making. misapplications geochemical signatures; the geochemical
• Interpretation of pyrolysis data/source rock approach to basin modeling; case histories.
Duration (days)
5-day
productivity • Geochemical evaluation
• Effects of kerogen type, maturity kerogen • Range of geochemical analyzes; organization
Max Number of Participants composition; potential and hydrocarbon of analytical programs; combinations of
20 productivity analyzes to solve specific problems; case
Prerequisites • Hydrocarbon composition/oils/biomarkers histories
None
Course Format
Petroleum Geology Audience

for Engineers Petroleum engineers and reservoir engineers with no formal geological training.
Content
This course is designed to provide It covers problems of predicting reservoir geometry and connectivity in three dimensions
petroleum and reservoir engineers, who
are unfamiliar with geological concepts
in heterogeneous rocks penetrated by a limited number of widely spaced wells, problems
and work practices, with a background associated with mineral composition on the pore scale, and the contribution that geology
in structural development and the can make to volumetric assessment of reserves.
characteristics of source rocks, reservoirs • Source Rocks and the origin of oil and gas: • Structural geology: Basin types and
and seals. Depositional environment; kerogen; thermal plate tectonics; Trap types: structural;
Duration (days) maturation; migration of hydrocarbons; stratigraphic; combination; Geological maps;
3-day classification of natural gases and crude oil Reservoir, structure and isopach maps;
Max Number of Participants • Reservoir and seals: Clastic and carbonate Seismic mapping; Generating cross-sections
20 reservoir sedimentology; Depositional • Exploration geology: Wireline logs; Play
environments; Sandbody geometry and fairways and prospects
Prerequisites
None
connectivity; Permeability profiles; Porosity • Seismic stratigraphy
and the effects of diagenesis; Formation • Volumetrics: Geological input to reserves
Course Format damage and clays; 3-D modeling; estimates
Oil and Gas Reserves Audience

Evaluation Geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers and managers involved in reserve reporting.
Content
The key objective of oil and gas reserve • Purpose of reserves • Supplemental techniques
evaluation is to learn the various
methods of preparing reserve estimates, • Reserve studies • Economics and reserves
determine the impact of economics on • Reserve reports • Special topics – reserves management,
those estimates and properly classify software, regional uniqueness, FMV, risk,
those reserves using the various reserve • Reserve definitions – history, SEC, SPE/WPC
yardsticks, financing
definitions. • Reserve estimation methods – analogies,
Duration (days) volumetrics and performance analysis
5-day
Learning Objectives
20
• Understand the differences in the various published reserve definitions
• Apply the reserve definitions as well as published guidelines to correctly classify reserves
Prerequisites
None • Use traditional methods and supplemental techniques to estimate reserves and determine
the impact of economics on those estimates
Course Format
Classroom exercises and presentations • Understand the various uses of reserves
Training Offer
Petroleum Systems Audience

Petroleum geologists, geochemists and exploration geologists involved in the petroleum systems
Modeling evaluation of frontier basins, play-fairway analysis and prospect risks.
This course provides you with expert skills Content
on the principles of basin and petroleum Introduction: Key aspects of petroleum systems modeling and sedimentary basin analysis,
system analysis and applied modeling petroleum system elements evaluation, benefits of 1D vs. 2D vs. 3D modeling
techniques in 1D, 2D and 3D to support
exploration in present and future frontiers Source Rocks: Depositional environments, kerogen types; geochemical parameters - TOC, Rock Eval,
and to reduce uncertainties in evaluating Pyrolysis GC; kinetic models, timing of hydrocarbon generation; petroleum properties
frontier basins, play-fairway analysis and Heat Sources & Heat Flow: Crustal heat flow and temperature-time histories, radiogenic heat
prospect risks.
production, heat transfer, effect of different heat flows on maturity evolution
Duration (days) Calibration Parameter: Temperature data, paleo temperature data, maturity data and other
5-day
calibration data
20 Fluid Flow: Petroleum generation and expulsion; primary, secondary and tertiary migration;
Prerequisites
migration methods in basin modeling; migration losses; material parameters and pressure
None prediction
Course Format
Overview on the Workflow in 1D Modeling*: Input data and boundary conditions, burial history,
Classroom exercises and presentations temperature and maturity modeling
2D & 3D Migration Modeling: Case studies on real petroleum system models: facies
distribution,source rock and seal distribution; hydrocarbon generation, migration, accumulation
and preservation; simulation and sensitivity analysis
*Participants will learn how to build and calibrate 1D models
Learning Objectives
This course provides you with expert skills on the principles of basin and petroleum system
analysis and applied modelling techniques in 1D, 2D and 3D to support exploration in present and
future frontiers and to reduce uncertainties in evaluating frontier basins, play-fairway analysis and
prospect risks.
The course covers the fundamentals of source rock geochemistry, heat sources, input parameters
and calibration data used for thermal modeling, as well as the most important principles of
petroleum migration modelling.

Play Fairways Audience

Analysis & Prospect Geologists and geophysicists with a background in exploration and field appraisal who wish
to extend their knowledge by undertaking a fully integrated, multi-disciplinary analysis of a
Evaluation Workshop hydrocarbon-bearing basin.
The aim of the course is to provide the Content
exploration geology and play fairway • E xploration Geology: Sedimentology and structural geology of source rocks, reservoirs, seals
context for prospect evaluation, and and traps
then concentrate on the geological
understanding of the specific risks • Play Fairway Analysis: Overview of the petroleum systems and play fairways analysis method
associated with hydrocarbon charge,
seals, traps, reservoirs and timing, •H
ydrocarbon Charge: Source-rock evaluation methods, the hydrocarbon generation process
with special attention paid to the risks and expulsion and migration mechanisms.
associated with geophysical evaluation.
• S eals & Fault Seals: Fundamentals of seals, including an assessment of waste zones vs
Duration (days) caprocks and methods for evaluating the integrity of fault seals
5-day
• Traps and Reservoirs: Classification of structural and stratigraphic trapping styles
20 • T iming: Consideration of petroleum systems event timing and the importance of
Prerequisites decompaction and structural restoration with respect to hydrocarbon generation.
None
•G
eophysical Risks: Evaluation of geophysical risks covering potential errors relating to
Course Format closure relief, seismic data density, time-depth conversions, misties and faults
• P rospect Generation and Evaluation: Method of prospect appraisal with detailed treatment
of volumetrics and risking, including a detailed demonstration of the Monte Carlo method
for reserves estimation
• E conomics: Review of economic approaches in the context of prospect risk, outline of the
economic planning process
Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is to provide the exploration geology and play fairway context for prospect
evaluation, and then concentrate on the geological understanding of the specific risks associated
with hydrocarbon charge, seals, traps, reservoirs and timing, with special attention paid to the
risks associated with geophysical evaluation.
Training Offer
Well Test Analysis Audience

Reservoir or Petroleum engineers with a few years practical experience.
Reservoir engineering course is designed Content
to help the participants develop
understanding of fundamental principles • Reservoir fluid properties • Horner’s plot
of well test analysis and design. The • Reservoir rock properties • Type curve method
course covers the governing flow
• Fundamentals of fluid flow • Bourdet derivative
equations and principles behind well
test analysis. It gives a brief over view • Well bore storage • Gas well testing
of evaluation of well test data over time • Skin factor • Modern well test analysis
to latest numerical methods. Practical • Radius of investigation in well test design • Production data analysis
examples are given of challenges in real
world scenarios. • MDH plot
Duration (days)
11/2 - day Learning Objectives
• Understand principles behind well test interpretation
20 • Understand different pressure build up and fall-off analysis techniques the differences in
the various published reserve definitions
Prerequisites
None • Apply these techniques for well test interpretation of oil and gas wells
Review of modern well test methods
Course Format
Petroleum Audience
Engineering Reservoir or petroleum engineers with a few years practical experience.
Content
The five days course is introduction • Reservoir drive mechanisms • Completion design
to the practical aspects of Petroleum
Engineering. The course focuses on the • Reservoir fluid distribution • Artificial lift selection and design
practical approach and covers reservoir, • Reservoir decline characteristics • Gas well deliquification
production, and completion engineering • Fundamentals of fluid flow in porous media • Perforating practices
as well as related topics. The course
provides the necessary skills needed to • Vertical lift performance • Hydraulic fracturing
optimize the well productivity as well as • Nodal analysis
reservoir-wellbore interface.
Learning Objectives
Duration (days) • Understand basic principles including nodal analysis, vertical lift performance and flow
5-day through porous media
Max Number of Participants • Understand basic reservoir engineering concept that can effect well performance
20 • Different types of well architecture and design
Prerequisites • Basic understanding of stress analysis and its application for casing design
None • Study production enhancement techniques including artificial lift, stimulation including
Course Format acidizing and hydraulic fracture
Classroom exercises and presentations • Develop concepts of perforations
• Review of different artificial lift mechanisms including ESP, gas lift and jet pump
Postgraduate Audience
E&P professional staff who wish to gain more comprehensive knowledge of petroleum exploration
Diploma in Applied
Content
Petroleum
• The award of a PG Diploma will be achieved The qualification is a Postgraduate Diploma in
Geoscience when the participant has attended and Applied Petroleum Geoscience awarded by the
successfully completed all assessments for university. It can be upgraded to a masters
Our Robertson training center has
formed an exciting alliance with Royal six short taught programs over a period of 6 degree upon completion of a thesis/dissertation
Holloway University of London to offer months to 3 years (subject to university approval).
this Postgraduate course to provide • The candidate can choose what topics will
Benefits to the candidates:
industry focused, university validated be covered from the following list (note:
• Provides participants with the opportunity to
training to the oil and gas sector. they can be taken in any order). These are
obtain a higher degree whilst continuing to
Duration (days) each delivered as 5-10 day programs
work full-time
5-day
Candidates must complete 6 courses from the • The candidate decides which modules they
Max Number of Participants following list: want to take and in what order.
20 • Seismic Interpretation • The candidate can study at their own pace:
Prerequisites • Structural Geology up to 3 years to complete this course
Participants will have undertaken some • Geophysical Reservoir Characterization • This qualification could make a significant
prior training at undergraduate level in the • Log Interpretation difference to the candidate’s career pathway
subject area, either through courses or work • Petroleum Geochemistry for Explorationists • Offers the candidate a chance to improve
experience. • Basin Modeling their employment prospects
Course Format • Carbonate Reservoir Geology • Provides industry recognition of a range
Classroom exercises and presentations • Clastic Reservoir Geology of competencies in Petroleum
• Play and Prospect Workshop • Geoscience
• Integrated Sequence • Delivery mechanism: programs are delivered
• Stratigraphy Workshop on a public basis or a proprietary
• Basin Analysis
Benefits to employers:
• Formation Evaluation
• Achieve a body of highly motivated and
Teaching, learning activities and assessment: trained staff with the minimum of operation
• Each course program follows a similar format downtime
of lectures, classroom practical activities, • Confidence in the quality of training
discussion and feedback sessions carried out undertaken
as a full-time intensive activity over 5-10 • Attract potential employees with the prospect
consecutive days of certified training
• Each course will have 3 elements of • Put a large number of candidates through the
assessment program at a reduced cost
- Completion of practical exercises during the
intensive teaching period (30%)
- Completion of an online assessment (30%)-
A theory examination taken at a regional
examination centre (40%)
- Overall pass mark of 50%
Training Offer
PVT Analysis Audience

The target audiences for this field of training are petroleum and reservoir engineers.
Duration (days)
5-day Content
The following topics are covered:
20 • Importance of PVT and who needs PVT • Detailed analysis - black oils
Prerequisites • Hydrocarbon chemistry • Detailed analysis - volatile oils
None • Types of reservoir fluids and their phase • Detailed analysis – gas condensate
Course Format behaviour • Introduction to enhanced oil recovery (EOR/
Classroom exercises and presentations • Sampling of reservoir fluids IOR)
• Reservoir fluid characterization • Available equations of state (EOS)
• Wellsite testing • PVT report consistency check
• PVT analysis – wet and dry gases • Equilibrium ratios
• Detailed analysis on any one fluid: black oils • Solid deposition studies (asphaltene, wax,
or volatile oils, or gas condensates hydrates)
• Detailed analysis on two fluids: black oils or • Recovery calculations
volatile oils, or gas condensates
Rift Basins – Key Audience

Factors in Geophysicists, geologists and petroleum engineers involved with exploration and
development in rift basins.
Exploration,
Development and Content
Production Rift petroleum systems are particularly complex. This course aims to identify the
uncertainties surrounding deposition of reservoir, seal and source facies, in relation to rift
This course is designed to provide structures, formation of traps, and hydrocarbon migration paths. The objective is to provide
an understanding of the importance a geologic basis for improved strategies for rift exploration and development.
of rift systems, and the potential
issues surrounding exploration and • Rift basins: this is an extensive investigation of sedimentation in relation to structure
development in these settings. in continental and marine depositional setting – across a range of climatic zones, mostly
illustrated by modern systems
Duration (days)
5-day • Exploration: in the light of our understanding of rift basins, we examine case histories of
Max Number of Participants exploration in rift basins. This includes both under-explored and developed rift settings
20 • Development: we follow a series of real world case studies examining development of rift
Prerequisites system reservoirs
None
• Production: a review of particular production issues encountered in selected rift settings
Course Format
Sandstone Reservoirs Audience

Geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, reservoir and production engineers, exploration &
This course has been developed to provide production managers, all team members involved in reservoir characterization, technicians
an understanding of the geometry and working with clastic reservoirs.
hydrocarbon potential of clastic depositional Content
systems and facies. Each of the major
clastic environments is covered in terms of
• Genetic stratigraphic analysis • Incised sequences
lithology, facies, log response and reservoir
• Depositional architecture • Shelf margins and linked downslope systems
quality and the depositional models related • Basins and units • Characteristic log patterns
to seismic sequences. • Quantitative facies mapping • Flow units
• Wireline logs and conventional cores • Prediction of reservoir size, shape, trend,
Duration (days) • Seismic and sequence stratigraphy quality
5-day • Recognition of depositional systems • How to select optimum well locations
Max Number of Participants • Process-response facies models • Lateral continuity and quality of seals
20 • Integrated genetic stratigraphy • Diagenesis
• Analysis of clastic depositional systems: • Sedimentary controls on porosity,
Prerequisites Alluvial fan; Fluvial; Aeolian; Lacustrine; permeability, saturation
None Deltaic; Shoreline; Shelf; Slope and basin • Reservoir exploration and production case
Course Format histories
Classroom exercises and presentations Learning Objectives
• Interpret clastic depositional environments using data from cores, cuttings and wireline logs
• Prepare quantitative facies maps
• Apply sequence stratigraphic concepts to clastic reservoirs
Shale Gas and Shale Audience

Oil Exploration (also Geologists, explorationists and reservoir engineers who want to improve their knowledge
of shale gas and shale oil exploration.
available: Shale Gas
Content
Exploration) • What is shale gas and shale oil?
• Shale gas generation process and environment, Shale gas and oil systems and classifications,
Natural gas reservoired in situ in
petroleum source rocks have become an Source rock characterization, application of geochemistry in shale gas assessment
increasingly important source of natural • Evaluation of reservoir potential
gas over the past decade. This course • How to classify evaluation of shale oil and shale gas resources and reserves based
reviews the fundamental principles of on the SPE-PRM
shale gas and oil formation, reserves • Classification of how to determine petrophysical parameters including: porosity, water saturation,
estimations and exploration. FVF, brittleness, kerogen volume fraction, bulk volume hydrocarbon and sweet spot.
Duration (days) • Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR)
5-day • Reserves, Contingent Resources and Prospective Resources evaluation:
Max Number of Participants • Classification based on SPE- PRMS, P/C/U, Categorization based on SPE-PRMS
20 • Global scenario of shale gas and oil exploration and real case studies
Prerequisites SHALE GAS EXPLORATION: 3 DAYS What is Shale Gas? Shale Gas generation process and
None environment. Shale Gas systems and classifications. Source rock characterization. Application
Course Format of geochemistry in Shale Gas assessment. Evaluation of reservoir potential. Gas in Place (GIP)
Classroom exercises and presentations estimation. Global scenario of Shale Gas exploration.
Training Offer
Structural Geology Audience

Workshop The course is aimed at all geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, explorationists and
seismic interpreters involved in exploration, appraisal and development.
The course is designed to provide Content
participants with a working knowledge of
structural geology, the geometry of the • Introduction to structural geology
major structures and the techniques used An overview of what structural geology is and the application of structural geology to
to evaluate them within the petroleum
hydrocarbon exploration, production and development.
industry. The aim of the course is to give
the participant the necessary skills to
undertake a detailed structural evaluation • Introduction to geomechanics
of a geological dataset and to understand Stress and strain. Regional and local stress fields. Stress measurements. Borehole breakout
its relevance to each part of the exploration and hydraulic fracturing. Lithospheric and hydrostatic states of stress. Role of pore fluid
and production life cycle. The format is one
of short lectures and extensive practical
pressure. Changes in rock properties with depth. Brittle and ductile deformation in low and
workshop sessions using geological maps, high porosity rocks. Homogeneous grained rock deformation.
cross sections, seismic time and depth
images, satellite Landsat imagery, outcrop • Plate tectonics
photographs, analysis of orientation Plate tectonic theory and the evidence for plate tectonics. The composition and
data and geometrical reconstructions.
Wherever possible the course includes field
rheological properties of the Earth’s plates. The different types of plate boundaries. Plate
visits to demonstrate relevant structural reconstructions throughout the Earth’s history. The driving forces for plate tectonics.
concepts. The course covers plate tectonics, Tectonic settings for sediment accumulation and petroleum provinces.
folding, faulting, extensional tectonics,
compressional tectonics, inversion, wrench • Faulting
(strike-slip) tectonics and salt tectonics.
Datasets are focused on those tectonic Fault terminology and definition. The effects of principal stresses on faulting. Fault seal
regimes in which the world’s oil reserves are analysis and the implications for hydrocarbon migration.
concentrated..
Duration (days)
• Folding
5-day Fold terminology, classification and definition. The formation of folds. Describing folds and
faults. Map interpretation and cross section construction. Gravitational tectonics. The effect
20 of pore fluid pressures on faulting and folding.
Prerequisites • Introduction to interpreting geological structures on seismic
None
Recognising and picking faults, unconformities, flower structures (positive and negative).
Course Format Velocity distortions.
• Extensional tectonics
The development and geometry of normal faults. Geometry of extensional faults in 2 and
3 dimensions. Rift systems. Effects of deposition and subsidence for basin modelling.
Recognition of normal faults on seismic cross sections and maps. Analogue modelling of
extensional faults. Lithospheric stretching models.
• Compressional tectonics
The development and geometry of thrust faults and their control on fold type. The development of crustal duplexes and
imbricate fans. Cross section validation using balancing and restoration techniques. Recognition of folds and reverse
faults on seismic cross sections and maps. Cross section construction techniques to interpret sub-surface structure using
incomplete data. Mountain belt and foreland basin formation.
• Wrench (strike-slip) tectonics

Tectonic settings of strike-slip faults. Strike-slip fault geometries: flower structures, pop-up structures, pull-apart basins,
releasing and restraining bends. Recognition of strike-slip faults on seismic cross sections and maps. Analogue modelling of
strike-slip faults. Fault damage zones. Potential hydrocarbon trapping geometries in strike-slip regions.
• Salt tectonics
Physical properties of salt and shale. The development and geometries of salt structures. Recognition of salt structures on
seismic cross sections and maps. Effect of salt structure development on sedimentary deposition. Models for salt sheet
growth. Salt control of extensional and compressional structures during gravity spreading within passive margins. Shale
tectonics: mud diapirs and mud volcanoes.
• Inversion tectonics
Positive and negative inversion. Recognition of inversion structures on seismic cross sections and maps. Geometry of
inversion structures in 2 and 3 dimensions. Interpretation of structural data to determine the tectonic history of an area.
Analogue modelling of inversion. Potential hydrocarbon trapping geometries caused by inversion structures.
Learning Objectives
• Provide participants with a working knowledge of structural geology, the geometry of major structures and the techniques
used to evaluate them within the petroleum industry.
• Provide participants with the necessary skills to undertake a detailed structural evaluation of a geological dataset and to
understand its relevance to each part of the exploration and production life cycle.
• Interpret maps, create geologic cross sections and assess their feasibility by section restoration and balancing.
• Understand the use of detailed structural analysis techniques such as stereographic analysis to assist in visualising geological
structures.
• Understand the use of fault seal analysis to assess potential for fluid flow across faults.
• Integrate geological and geophysical datasets to understand the structural development of a region.
• Understand how rock mechanic principles influence the formation of various types of geological structures.
Training Offer
Thermal Modeling Audience

The course is primarily aimed at geologists and geophysicists.
The course is intended to provide Content
an understanding of petroleum
geochemistry and petroleum systems
Basic Overview of Geochemistry
analysis that can be applied by • F undamental concepts and basic applications, Interpretation of total organic carbon/Rock-Eval
explorationists in regional evaluations, pyrolysis data; source rock potential and productivity; kerogen type
prospect appraisal and exploration •G eochemical evaluation; range of geochemical analyzes; organization of analytical programs;
decision making. combinations of analyzes to solve specific problems
Duration (days) Thermal Modeling in Hydrocarbon Exploration
5-day • General principles of thermal modeling and applications to hydrocarbon exploration
•B urial history; porosity and decompaction methods for back-stripping; forward porosity modeling
20
• Porosity-permeability relationships and pore pressure modeling
•H eat transfer and thermal modeling, BHT data correction methods
Prerequisites • Temperatures and burial history, surface temperatures, heat flux and palaeo-heat flux
None • Chemical reaction kinetics; single and multiple parallel first-order reactions
Course Format • TTI-based vitrinite reflectance calculation and calibration
Classroom exercises and presentations • Kinetic-based vitrinite reflectance calculation and calibration; EasyRo
• Overview of PetroMod software environment
• Application to petroleum systems analysis, timing of hydrocarbon generation etc
• Overview of 2D and 3D modeling
• Overview of apatite fission track analysis and apatite helium dating
UK Shale Gas Audience

Geologists, explorationists and reservoir engineers who want to improve their knowledge of shale
Exploration gas exploration in the UK.
Shale gas is natural gas reservoired in Content
situ in petroleum source rocks. Shale
gas exploration in the UK is increasing,
The 2 day course covers the following topics: • Application of geochemistry in Shale
and this course examines the relevant • What is Shale Gas? Gas assessment
source rocks and reviews the fundamental • Shale Gas generation process and environment • Gas in Place (GIP) estimation
principles of shale gas formation, reserves • Shale Gas systems and classifications • Source rocks of the UK: Carboniferous
estimations and exploration. The course • Source rock characterization and Jurassic
is combined with a field trip to examine • Evaluation of reservoir potential
Carboniferous shales of the north of
England. 2 Day Field Trip: Derbyshire - Bowland Shales
Duration (days) Overview: A field trip to Derbyshire (UK) to examine the Edale and Bowland Shales, the focus of
4-day shale gas exploration in the North of England. The objectives of this part of the programme are to
view outcrops of the Dinantian/Namurian Bowland Shales, a prolific shale gas source rock, and to
20 understand the stratigraphic and depositional context of these units.
Prerequisites
None
Course Format
Classroom presentations and field
excursion
Unconventional Gas Audience

Exploration Geologists, explorationists and reservoir engineers who want to improve their knowledge
of Unconventional Gas exploration.
The course reviews the fundamental Content
principles of unconventional gas formation, Introduction • Overview of petrophysical techniques
development of exploration models and • Fundamentals of fluid behaviour in low • Evaluation of reservoir potential
approaches to quantitative assessment Integration
permeability rocks
using geochemical and geological data.
• What are Shale Gas, CBM, tight gas? • Petroleum system analysis as applied to
Duration (days) Petroleum system fundamentals unconventional gas
5-day • Hydrocarbon source rock characterization • Regional assessment of unconventional gas
Max Number of Participants • Source richness, quality and maturity potential
20 • Shale Gas generation: process and habitat Operational issues
• Shale Gas systems and classifications • Overview of drilling and completion practice
Prerequisites • CBM generation process and habitat • Production characteristics of unconventional
None gas reservoirs
• CBM systems and classifications
Course Format • Tight gas generation process and habitat • Commercial considerations
Classroom exercises and presentations • Tight gas systems and classifications Exercises: Unconventional gas assessment
Assessment techniques in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin,
• Definition of workflows examining regional models, definition of
• Application of geochemistry in unconventional play fairways and assessment
unconventional gas assessment
of prospectivity
• Sample analytical techniques
Reservoir Audience
Engineering for Petroleum engineering team leaders, production and reservoir engineers, petrophysicists
and geologists involved with exploration and development of oil and gas reservoirs.
Non-Engineers
Content
In the E&P business, integrated
petroleum engineering studies and field • Reservoir drive mechanisms
development plans are management tools • Reservoir fluid distribution
which are used to maximize economic • Reservoir classification
production of hydrocarbons. In this
course fundamental concepts and a broad • Well performance and decline characteristics, pressure behavior an significance
spectrum of modern practical reservoir • Reservoir fluid and rock properties
engineering methods are addressed.
This five days course is designed to • Fundamentals of fluid flow
provide non-engineering petroleum • Well testing and PBUs; execution, results and usage / significance
industry professionals with a thorough • Oil displacement concepts
overview of most key aspects of reservoir
engineering. This course gives the non- • Decline curve analysis
reservoir engineer a better understanding • Material balance and evolution of HIIP over time
of the current state-of-the-art practice of • Enhanced Recovery Mechanisms
reservoir engineering.
Learning Objectives
Duration (days)
3-5 days At the end of the course, participants will have an understanding of the physics of oil and
gas in reservoirs, and will be able to apply reservoir engineering methods and appreciate
Max Number of Participants the construction and use of reservoir models. They will have acquired the skills necessary
20
for estimation of petroleum reserves, development planning and to assess uncertainties.
“I truly feel lucky to be
Training Offer
part of the team that
participated in the training,
I know I will use my newly
acquired skills to enact
positive changes in my
Reservoir Characterization company.”
& Modeling
CGG’s reservoir teams offer courses that range from basic reservoir concepts to
mapping and modeling for reservoir geology. The concepts explored in these programs
focus on the integration of geophysical, petrophysical and geological data to develop
detailed models of reservoirs.
87
Reservoir Characterization & Modeling
• Geological Principles of Integrated Static Reservoir Modeling 88
• Practical Reservoir Data Integration in Reservoir Characterization 89
• Geophysical Reservoir Characterization 90
• Seismic Reservoir Characterization 90
• Applied Petrophysics (Basic & Advanced Courses) 91
• Wireline Log Interpretation 91
• Formation Evaluation & Petrophysics 92
• Formation Microscanner (FMS) Log Interpretation Workshop 92
• Geological Characterization of Reservoirs 93
• Fundamentals of Quick-Look Log Analysis 93
• Reservoir Geochemistry 94
• Carbonate Petrophysics 94
• Subsurface Facies Analysis 95
• Shaly Sand Petrophysics 96
• Understanding Fractured Reservoirs 97
Training Offer
Geological Principles Audience

of Integrated Static Reservoir modellers who need to understand the diverse range and geological significance
of data provided to them for the model build.
Reservoir Modeling
Technical specialists who supply data to modellers and want to provide the best possible
This course is designed to identify and input data (e.g. geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, stratigraphers, engineers).
understand the geological interpretation
and integration processes linking in to Content
the structural, stratigraphic, lithofacies Following the introduction of the static modeling process, each of the data input streams is
and object model components of a reviewed in terms of the following: the available analytical methods; quality control issues;
typical static reservoir model. This
evaluation leads to recommended
the integration of the analytical methods; key uncertainties with the combined methods,
approaches for incorporating greater including strategies for dealing with those uncertainties. The following sessions take place
geological understanding into static over the 5 days of the course:
reservoir models. The course aims to
establish a common language that better
• Static Reservoir Modeling Overview: • Reservoir Body Characterization:
enables specialists and modellers to Explanation and discussion of the Depositional models; sandbody
collaborate effectively. modeling process architectures; geological analysis of
seismic sandbody analogues (ancient
Duration (days) • Fault and Fault Seal Analysis: Recognition
and modern) with examples from the FRL
5-day of faults in seismic and core, fault
analogue database (ERGOTM)
Max Number of Participants displacement models, fault seal analysis
20 • Petrophysical Characterization: Review of
• Stratigraphic Analysis: core- and
petrophysical logging tools (conventional
Prerequisites log-based sequence stratigraphy;
and advanced); Archie and non-Archie
None seismic stratigraphy; biostratigraphy,
formation evaluation; conventional and
Software Used chemostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy,
special core analysis; seismic attributes
None pressure data, residual salt analysis
and seismic inversion
Course Format • Facies Analysis: Facies analysis using
Classroom exercises and presentations cores and logs; constructing depositional
models; constraining models with biofacies
and ichnofacies; use of analogues in facies
analysis; defining the most appropriate
scale for facies; geological analysis of
seismic
Learning Objectives
• Understand the modeling process
• Identify faults and understand displacement and sealed faults
• Use a variety of disciplines to conduct stratigraphic and facies analysis
• Model depositional environments and sandbody architectures
• Integrate petrophysical data from logs, formation evaluation, core analysis and seismic data
Reservoir Characterization & Modeling 89
Practical Reservoir Audience

Data Integration Reservoir modellers who need to understand the diverse range and geological significance
of data provided to them for the model build.
in Reservoir
Characterization Technical specialists who are in the business of supplying data to modellers and want
to provide the best possible input data (e.g. geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists,
This course aims to provide practical stratigraphers, engineers).
experience of common data integration
issues encountered in the business of The course aims to establish a common language that better enables specialists and
reservoir description. The course focusses modellers to collaborate effectively.
on the process of building a static
reservoir model and look at the key data Content
preparation and interpretation processes
that need to be undertaken as part of the The mechanics of building a static reservoir model are relatively straightforward with the
model building process. sophisticated modeling software now available. However, in the headlong rush to gain
software-based modeling skills, basic geological concepts are being overlooked. Reservoir
Duration (days)
5-day
modeling software provides any number of sophisticated ways of correlating wells,
interpolating rock properties, creating reservoir bodies, generating maps and so on, but are
Max Number of Participants they based on sound geological reasoning? After all, the reservoir modeling software is there
20
to help us represent the geology.
Prerequisites
None
The course begins by describing and discussing the static reservoir modeling process which
provides the basis for the subsequent sessions.
Software Used
None The remaining sessions in the course describe the key methods and recommended approaches
for each of the main data input streams to the model building process and cover the
Course Format
following:
• Fault Analysis
• Depositional Modeling
• Determination of Geological Controls on Rock Properties
• Stratigraphic Correlation
• Mapping
Training Offer
Geophysical Audience
Reservoir Exploration geologists, structural geologists and geophysicists wishing to expand their
knowledge of geophysics at the reservoir scale. Any geologist or reservoir engineer who is
Characterization trying to build a better picture of their reservoir for production purposes would also find this
course beneficial.
This course deals with the various aspects
of the traditional approach of exploration Content
geophysics before moving on to some of
the more advanced aspects of reservoir The concept of reservoir geophysics is relatively new. In the past, the role of geophysics
geophysics. was largely confined to exploration and, to a lesser degree, the appraisal of discoveries.
In recent years, however, geophysics has been increasingly used as a tool for refining
Duration (days)
5-day
development strategies and improving production efficiency. Fundamental to this approach
are the availability of good quality seismic data and well control, and the integration of
Max Number of Participants rock physics data from petrophysics and engineering studies.
20
Traditional geophysics • Seismic attributes
Prerequisites
None
• Well to seismic ties • Seismic inversion
• Seismic interpretation • AVO analysis
Course Format • Mapping • 4D seismic
Classroom exercises and presentations • Depth conversion • Reservoir geostatistics geology
• Reserves estimates
• Fault interpretation
Reservoir geophysics
Seismic Reservoir Audience

Characterization Geologists, geophysicists, stratigraphers and sedimentologists who are looking to develop
skills in petroleum systems interpretation and distribution mapping and who are familiar
This course emphasizes the underlying with seismic interpretation.
geological and geophysical principles Content
of seismic reservoir characterization, This course is specifically for high resolution definitions using information contained within
continuity and integrity, distribution and
mapping.
seismic volumes. Concepts and applications of attribute modelling and inversion modelling that
define features such as lithological variations, micro-structure, fluid, secondary porosity and
Duration (days) permeability and distribution will be presented.
5-day
• Introduction to seismic reservoir • Lithological mapping and lithological
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characterization variations
• Introduction to seismic seal characterization • Fluid modeling and conduit analysis
Prerequisites • Impact of seismic quality and geological • Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators and advanced
None constraints on prospect attribute modeling hydrocarbon modeling
Course Format • Dynamic properties and modeling potential • Play-fairway mapping and reservoir
Classroom exercises and presentations • Statistical rock physics distribution
• Attributes for prospect analysis • Geostatistics
• Multi-attribute analysis • Quality control and limitations of the
• Volumetrics petroleum characterization using seismic data
• Fracture modeling and conduit analysis • Other applications
Applied Petrophysics Audience

Petroleum engineers, seismologists, petrophysical engineers, reservoir engineers, drilling
(Basic & Advanced engineers and geologists.
Courses) Content
In the E&P business, integrated petroleum
This course covers fundamental petrophysical Core analysis program for exploration and
engineering studies and field development relations, tool principles, modern interpretation development wells
plans are used to maximise economic methods and core measurements. Depending on Cutoff criteria to arrive at average reservoir
recovery of hydrocarbons. Understanding the the petrophysical know-how of the participants properties
methods used in petrophysical analysis, the more emphasis can be given to particular Uncertainty analysis
related uncertainty of the results and hence
the derived models is essential knowledge subjects. Crossplots for lithology, porosity and oil/water/
for all E&P technical staff Principles, quality, editing and responses of the gas saturations
major open hole logging devices
Duration (days) Additionally the advanced course will cover:
Lithology including shale volume, porosity,
5-day Comparison of shale volume, porosity, saturation
permeability and hydrocarbon content using
Max Number of Participants and permeability methods
Archie, Simandoux, Indonesia, Waxman-Smits,
20 Capillary pressure curves
Dual-Water and capillary pressure curves;
Rock property derivation for seismic applications
Prerequisites wireline formation testing
None
Sessions will emphasize the importance of interaction between seismology, geology, well log
Course Format
analysis, reservoir engineering and other disciplines. By the end of the course a quick-look
petrophysical evaluation of a typical well will have been performed.
Wireline Log Audience

Interpretation The course has been designed to enable the explorationist, development and production
geologist to evaluate and integrate wireline log data.
The course program includes exercises Content
to provide participants with hands-on • The logging environment, introduction to • Quick look interpretation of porosity and
experience and confidence in handling the borehole. hydrocarbons
log and petrophysical data and
interpretation. The extensive practical
• Conventional wireline logs: Caliper, • Some sedimentological indications from
element emphasises how to apply Tension, Gamma ray, Spectral Gamma ray, wireline log patterns
wireline log data in order to enhance Spontaneous potential, Resistivity, Density, • Zoning a section for reservoir engineering
well, field correlations, sequence Neutron porosity, PEF, Sonic purposes
recognition, lithology and reservoir • Data QA and depth matching • Interwell correlation using logs and other
characteristics. • Interpretation of lithologies from data, including advanced techniques
Duration (days) conventional logs • Borehole imaging logs (FMI, ATS) etc.
5-day • The dipmeter log
Max Number of Participants Learning Objectives
20 • Understand tool theory, uses and limitations
Prerequisites • Interpret lithologies and reservoir characteristics
None • Identify depositional sequences and correlate wells
Course Format • Determine porosity, saturation and reservoir fluid type
Classroom exercises and presentations • Employ quicklook methods of formation evaluation
Training Offer
Formation Evaluation Audience

& Petrophysics This course is designed for staff in the exploration and production department with no
or limited petrophysical background: petroleum engineers, seismologists, petrophysical
Duration (days) engineers, reservoir engineers, drilling engineers and geologists.
5-day
Content
Max Number of Participants Part 1: Background. This section reviews the geological controls on reservoir properties and the
20
basic functions of the wireline logging tools.
Prerequisites
None Part 2: Petrophysical Methods. This section comprises a detailed description of the full formation
evaluation method workflow. The full method covers the general characteristics of clastics and
Course Format carbonates. Consideration is also given to special methods required for fractured reservoirs, thin-
beds and shaly sands.
Part 3: Further Analysis. This section introduces the integration of conventional petrophysics with
more advanced petrophysical logging methods, seismic interpretation and engineering techniques.
Formation Audience
The course is intended for sedimentologists, structural geologists, petrophysicists,
Microscanner (FMS) engineers and geophysicists who are concerned with the downhole recognition of
Log Interpretation lithological sequences, structures and reservoir characteristics.
Workshop Content
Theoretical considerations of FMS and other micrologs are presented followed by
If correctly calibrated, good quality interpretive aspects including the recognition of and methods of determining rock
borehole image logs can provide a
lithologies, lithological sequences, sedimentary structures and palaeocurrent measurement,
wealth of information on reservoir
quality. The course aims to demonstrate tectonic structures, borehole damage and artefacts.
to geoscientists and engineers how • FMS and other borehole micrologs e.g. CYBL, Televiewer, DUALDIP, MSD, principles,
to extract information from manual operating conditions, output, resolution
interpretation of borehole image logs. • FMS interpretation including recognition of structures
Duration (days) • Methods of determining orientation of dipping features, correction for borehole drift,
5-day reorientation of cores
• Recognition of structures in cores - slab/outside surface
• Understand tool form and function and learn about the principles of FMS image
Prerequisites
processing
None
• Interpret sedimentary and tectonic structures and lithology
Course Format • Recognise and assess borehole damage and other operational/processing artefacts
Classroom exercises and presentations • Use FMS to constrain and correct data from other logs and core
Geological Audience
Geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers responsible for evaluating reservoir
Characterization of quality and performance.
Reservoirs Content
This course has been developed to • Reservoir properties of sandstones and carbonates at microscale
demonstrate to petroleum engineers • Reservoir properties of sandstones and carbonates at lamina/bed and formation scale
and geoscientists the procedures • Petrophysical aspects
employed by geologists in assessing
the quality of a reservoir. As such it • 3-D reservoir geological modeling workshop
integrates geological, petrophysical • Volumetrics
and engineering data and relates these • Modeling techniques and upscaling for simulation
to primary and enhanced recovery
methods.
• Secondary recovery and stimulation
Duration (days) Learning Objectives
5-day • Understand the depositional and diagenetic controls on reservoir properties
Max Number of Participants • Apply geophysical and geological evaluations of integrated data from a variety of
20 disciplines.
Prerequisites • Understand and quantify the uncertainties in reservoir evaluation and volumetric
None calculations.
Course Format
• Apply facies modelling and simulation techniques
Classroom exercises and presentations • Understand the principles of recovery and stimulation techniques
Fundamentals of Audience
Anyone who needs to grasp the essential features of petrophysical data and how to use it quickly
Quick-Look Log and effectively, qualitatively and quantitatively, to reveal the commercial significance of a well.
Analysis Content
This course will begin by establishing • Rocks: Sedimentological controls on grain size, sorting, clay content, mineralogy and the trends
a fundamental understanding of the that can be observed in sedimentary sequences
geological and petrophysical properties of • Rock and Fluid Properties and Interactions: Fundamentals of petrophysical rock properties
rocks, followed by familiarisation with the including: porosity, permeability, relative permeability, wettability, capillary pressure, cation
borehole environment, logging process
and the fundamentals of the logging
exchange capacity, fluid saturations.
tools. • Drilling and Logging Process: Understanding the nature of the borehole and how the logging
tools are run in order to understand the limitations and uncertainties in the log data.
Duration (days)
5-day • Review of Conventional Logging Tool Theory: Each tool is measuring a different rock property
(e.g. neutron density, electron density, gamma-ray abundance), which in turn is transformed to
Max Number of Participants another property (e.g. porosity, bulk density, lithology).
20
• Quick-Look Log Analysis Workflow: All of the above will be used to undertake quick-look analysis
Prerequisites of several log suites. The methods will include: data quality control, lithology assessment
None (including Vshale), porosity estimation, fluid saturation estimation (hydrocarbon indicators),
Course Format permeability indicators, and reservoir summation and integration with mud logging data
Training Offer
Reservoir Audience
Geochemistry Petroleum geologists, reservoir geologists and engineers involved in the assessment of
reservoir heterogeneity and connectivity; petroleum exploration geochemists who wish to
The application of reservoir fluid expand their knowledge into reservoir geochemistry.
geochemistry to the understanding of Content
discovered fields, reservoir continuity,
compartmentalisation and connectivity • Introduction to general concepts
is an evolving technique of great value. - Reservoir fluid properties and characteristics
This course is intended to promote - Rate and mechanism of reservoir filling and mixing
confidence in the application of - Engineering versus geochemical nomenclature
petroleum geochemistry techniques to - Hydrocarbons and non-hydrocarbons
reservoir scale problems. - Relationship of hydrocarbon composition to petroleum properties
Duration (days) - Analytical methods
5-day • Applications of petroleum geochemistry to the understanding of reservoir fluids
Max Number of Participants - Tested oil: Interpreting gas chromatograms and GC-MS; non-hydrocarbons/ interpretation;
20 application to reservoir continuity/connectivity
- Gas: Non-hydrocarbon gases (compositions/sources); hydrocarbon compositions/
Prerequisites
None
interpretations; isotope studies
- Water: API analysis; Stiff diagrams; action on reservoir matrix; effect on hydrocarbon
Course Format composition/petroleum properties; water in sub-surface (variations/perturbations)
Classroom exercises and presentations - Residual oil: Extraction data/interpretations (relationship of poroperm and logs; interpreting
fractionation, GC-MS; oil-saturated non-flowing reservoirs; tarmats and reservoired oils)
Carbonate Audience
Engineers in exploration and production departments. geologists, seismologists, and
Petrophysics petroleum, petrophysical, reservoir and drilling engineers.
Petrophysics and well log analysis help Content
geologists to quantify and understand • Overview of Carbonates: depositional • Conventional Logging Tool Theory
the distribution of reservoir properties processes; controls on primary and • Data Preparation and Quality Control: issues
in the subsurface. This course deals secondary pore systems relating to borehole quality; log quality
with fundamental petrophysical • Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy: controls issues; missing data; depth matching
relations, principles, modern on the distribution of facies and geological • Log Interpretation Process : Review theory
interpretation methods and core controls on reservoir quality and application of conventional openhole
measurements in relation to carbonates. • Rock Properties and Fluid-Rock-Interactions: logs
Duration (days) porosity, permeability, saturation, • Carbonate Log Exercise
5-day wettability, capillary pressure • Advanced Logging Tools: Theory of
• Conventional and Special Core Analysis: advanced downhole tools e.g. NMR log,
Max Number of Participants laboratory measurement techniques; Borehole Images and DSI
20 limitations and uncertainites in each • Fractures and Vugs: Identifying and
Prerequisites analytical technique describing these features in the subsurface
None • Borehole Environment: drilling and logging • Integration and Flow Unit Integration: Flow
process unit model
Course Format
Classroom exercises and presentations Learning Objectives
• This course deals with fundamental petrophysical relations, principles, modern
interpretation methods and core measurements in relation to carbonates.
Subsurface Facies Audience

Analysis Geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers who want to analyze and interpret
subsurface data to understand exploration plays.
This course has been developed to Content
demonstrate to geoscientists and
petroleum engineers the procedures • I ntroduction: Surface and subsurface facies analysis, depositional architecture, basins
employed by geologists in defining • C lastic depositional facies: Clastic sediments and structures, depositional environments
depositional facies and developing
geological models through the • C arbonate depositional facies: Carbonate sedimentology, depositional environments
interpretation of sedimentology and • S equence stratigraphy: Sequence development, sequences and systems tracts
sequence stratigraphy and integration
with log, core and seismic data.
•U ses of well logs in lithological and lithofacies analysis: Typical log curve shapes,
identifying marker beds and bounding discontinuities from logs; correlating logs for
Duration (days) facies analyses
5-day
• C ore data: Identifying facies in core, key surfaces and marker beds, correlating with log
Max Number of Participants data
20
• S eismic reflection data: Seismic sequence stratigraphy, identification of reflector
Prerequisites terminations, seismic facies analysis and mapping
None
• C alibration and integration of seismic, core and log data
Course Format
•M apping and refining stratigraphic and structural cross sections
Learning Objectives
• Understand clastic and carbonate depositional systems and controls
• Interpret clastic and carbonate depositional environments using data from core images,
cuttings images and wireline logs
• Apply sequence stratigraphic concepts
• Interpret log responses
• Correlate wells using knowledge of depositional environments
• Understand and interpret seismic reflections
• Generate stratigraphic and structural cross sections and facies maps from subsurface data
Training Offer
Shaly Sand Audience

Engineers in exploration and production departments. Geologists, seismologists and
Petrophysics petroleum, petrophysical, reservoir and drilling engineers.
Petrophysics and well log analysis help Content
geologists to quantify and understand
the distribution of reservoir properties • Rock Properties: overview of depositional systems
in the subsurface. This course deals with • Fluid -Rock-Interactions: porosity, permeability, saturation, wettability, capillary pressure
fundamental petrophysical relations,
principles, modern interpretation • Conventional and Special Core Analysis: laboratory techniques to measure physical
methods and core measurements in properties in core
relation to Shaly Sands.
• Drilling and Logging Process: review drilling and logging process
Duration (days)
5-day • Conventional Logging Tools: logging tools theory
Max Number of Participants • Advanced Logging Tools: advanced downhole tools e.g. NMR log and Borehole Images
20
The second part of the programme will focus on an Excel-based practical exercise, which
Prerequisites
None
will enable attendees to work through a full petrophysical evaluation of a shaly sand
sequence, and in doing so, compare and contrast a variety of methods for Vsh, porosity and
Course Format saturations in shaly sands.
• Full Interpretation Workflow
• Data Preparation and Quality Control
• Shale Volume Analysis
• Porosity Analysis
• Water Saturation Analysis
• Saturation Height
• Permeability
• Recovery Factors
• Reservoir Summation
This course deals with fundamental petrophysical relations, principles, modern
interpretation methods and core measurements in relation to Shaly Sands.

Understanding Audience
Petroleum geologists, explorationists, petrophysicists, geophysicists and engineers
Fractured Reservoirs involved with exploration, appraisal and development of fractured reservoirs.
This course is designed to provide Content
participants with a working knowledge of
what fractures are, how they form and the
• Introduction to fracturing: Basic principles, fracturing in tight reservoirs
techniques used to evaluate them within • Fracture terminology
the petroleum industry.
• Fracture mechanics: Stress and strain, deformation mechanisms, brittle deformation,
Duration (days)
5-day
propagation and arrest of fractures
Max Number of Participants • Fracture classification: Joints, shear fractures, compression fractures, stylolites
20
• Controls on fracture formation: Lithology, sedimentary structures, bed thickness,
Prerequisites mechanical stratigraphy, bedding planes, tectonic setting, palaeostress, subsidence
None and uplift history, proximity to faults, position in a fold, timing of structural events,
Course Format mineralisation, fracture evolution, orientations of in situ stresses, fluid pressure, depth
• Fracturing in different lithologies
• Fracture identification: Seismic, wireline logs, core, outcrop, satellite imagery
• Data collection and analysis: Fracture orientations, scaling relationships, fracture
spacing, temporal relationships, frequency and density calculation
• Fracture analogues: Kurdistan, Bristol Channel
• Fracture modeling: Modelling approaches, modelling platforms, discrete fracture network
modelling and modelling considerations
• Basic fractured reservoir engineering: Basic principles, well testing and productivity,
fluid flow, reservoir stimulation, recovery mechanisms
The course will cover fracture terminology, fracture mechanics, fracture classification,
controls on fracture formation, fracturing in different lithologies, fracture identification,
data collection and analysis, fracture analogues, fracture modelling and a basic
introduction to fractured reservoir engineering. Datasets will be focused on those
tectonic regimes in which the world’s oil reserves are concentrated.
“Good fundamental
Training Offer
course, very clear
objectives and good
instructor knowledge
on the topics.”
Petroleum Management
& Economics
CGG GeoTraining’s multidisciplinary approach to petroleum exploration and development

includes economic assessment, contracting and project management. The combination
of our technical engineering and science disciplines with finance options provides our clients
with a thorough understanding of the full economic lifecycle of the field. Knowledge of this
aspect of the project lifecycle allows for collaborative and well-informed fiscal decisions.
Courses combine theoretical aspects of petroleum economics and management with
practical applications, using examples and exercises based on real projects worldwide.
Courses can be tailored to use client data if required. Location and geopolitical specifics
can be incorporated into training courses on request.
All CGG trainers delivering petroleum management and economics courses are
experienced economists who have careers within the petroleum industry.
101
Petroleum Management & Economics
• Introduction to Upstream Petroleum Economics 102
• The Fundamentals of Upstream Petroleum Economics and Risk Analysis 103
• Advanced Petroleum Economics and Risk Analysis 104
• Economic Aspects of Production Sharing Contracts 104
• Economic Aspects of Taxation & Royalty Systems 105
• International Petroleum Fiscal Systems 105
• Petroleum Economics Integrated with Decision and Uncertainty Analysis 106
• The Economics of Unconventional Resources & LNG Projects 106
• Introduction to Strategic Management in Exploration and Production 107
• Petroleum Contracts and Practice in Negotiations 107
Training Offer
Upstream Petroleum The course is designed to be at an introductory level for those new to the subject
of upstream petroleum economics. It is suitable for personnel from all technical and
Economics commercial disciplines.
This two-day course provides an Content
introduction to upstream petroleum
economics through a mixture of theory
The primary aim of this course is to equip delegates with the necessary skills to:
and question and answer exercises. • Understand the theory of petroleum economics based on discounted cashflow
Duration (days) • Calculate with confidence the key economic metrics used in investment decision making
2-day • Appreciate the geological and engineering inputs to the cashflow model
Max Number of Participants • Understand oil and gas pricing
20 • Understand the principles and appreciate the diversity of worldwide fiscal systems
Prerequisites • Interpret the economic results and quantify the risks so as to put values to prospects,
None fields and companies
Course Format
Petroleum Management & Economics 103
The Fundamentals of Audience

Upstream Petroleum The course is suitable for delegates of all technical and commercial disciplines from oil and
gas companies, governments, banks, legal and accounting organizations.
Economics and Risk
Analysis Content
The primary aim of this course is to equip delegates with the necessary skills to:
Our flagship economics course is unique • Understand the theory of petroleum economics based on discounted cashflow
in its field; delegates gain a tangible
skill, that of economic model building.
• Calculate with confidence the key economic metrics used in investment decision making
This is achieved over the five days • Appreciate the geological and engineering inputs to the cashflow model
with a mixture of theory, question • Understand oil and gas pricing
and answer, and practical workshop
sessions. • Understand the principles and appreciate the diversity of worldwide fiscal systems
Duration (days) • Build Excel-based economic models in both a Tax/Royalty and Production Sharing
5-day Contract fiscal system
Max Number of Participants • Interpret the economic results and quantify the risks so as to put values to prospects,
20
fields and companies
Prerequisites
Excel™ : working knowledge • The fundamentals of discounted cashflow including real vs nominal economics and the
derivation of a company’s hurdle discount rate
Course Format
Classroom delivery with presentations, • The calculation and application of economic metrics NPV, EMV, IRR, Payback and DPIR for
practical exercises and modelling investment decision making
workshop
• The components of an oil or gas cash flow; revenue, tariffs, costs and pricing
• Global international fiscal systems: structure, comparisons, fiscal take
• Government and oil company perspectives and the role of the National Oil Company
• The financial structure and mechanisms of production sharing contracts including the
calculation of cost recovery and profit oil splits
• Production Sharing Contract and Tax/Royalty model building workshop sessions.
• Incremental, project consolidation and ringfencing analysis
• Quantification of risk; both deterministic and probabilistic techniques including decision
trees and Monte Carlo analysis
• Workshop session applying risk and a decision tree to make a drill or drop decision on an
exploration prospect
• Delegates are provided with electronic copies of all model solutions and exercises at the
end of the course
Training Offer
Advanced Petroleum Audience

The course is suitable for delegates of all technical and commercial disciplines from oil and
Economics and Risk gas companies, governments, banks, legal and accounting organizations.
Analysis Content
The primary aim of this course is to equip delegates with an understanding, both theoretical
Strategic management requires us to and practical, of advanced economic techniques around valuation metrics, M&A, fiscal design
make sense of complex and dynamic and risk quantification. It covers three main areas:
situations in the Upstream part of the Oil • Cashflow and corporate valuation
and Gas business where the emphasis lies After a refresher of cashflow fundamentals the topic is expanded to cover the importance
in getting access to increasing volumes of both cashflow and accounting- based metrics in order to value assets for acquisitions/
of HC’s on a regional or global scale. divestments. To this end the accounting fundamentals around P&L account, balance sheets
Duration (days) and earnings are discussed , particularly where they interact with economics
4-day • Fiscal Design
After a refresher of the fundamentals of tax/Royalty, Production sharing contracts and risk
Max Number of Participants service contracts, we aim to provide the delegate with an in-depth understanding of the
20 fiscal levers particularly those that are biddable or negotiated. The last day workshop is a
Prerequisites team based exercise: A “negotiation scenario” is played out where the team has to select a
Economic fundamental, Intermediate Excel suitable set of fiscal terms for the production sharing contract and argue its case
• Risking Techniques
Course Format The more advanced risking topics are discussed around sensitivity analysis, decision trees,
Classroom delivery with presentations, Value of Information (VOI) and Monte Carlo simulation
practical exercises and modelling
workshop Delegates will be provided with electronic copies of workshop solutions and examples. They
will all have a comprehensive hard copy course manual.
Economic Aspects of Audience

The course is designed for those working in the upstream industry who are not familiar with
Production Sharing PSCs and who require either a working or practical knowledge of the financial mechanics and
Contracts economic aspects of the contracts.
Content
This three day course reviews the •U nderstand the principles of economic analysis (cashflow, cost of capital, NPV, rate of
upstream economic aspects of Production return etc)
Sharing Contracts (PSCs). It describes • Application of sensitivity analysis to incorporate risk
in detail the financial structure and •U nderstand the structure of the PSC contract and comparison with the tax/Royalty fiscal
mechanisms of PSCs across the world and system
the economic and value implications of • Calculations of cost recovery and specific issues to consider
the various terms. • Learn about bonuses and bonus calculations
Duration (days) • Examine sliding scale fiscal mechanisms including R Factor and rates of return methods
3-day • Calculation of taxation including allowances, depreciation and tax losses
• Understand profit sharing
Max Number of Participants • Taking advantage of tax and PSC ring fencing terms to add value to the asset
20 • Booking of reserves in a PSC (including tax barrels)
Prerequisites • Contractor/Government/National Oil Companies relationship: cost carries, fiscal take
Excel™ : working knowledge • How to optimise fiscal terms from both contractor and government perspective
• C onstruction of a production sharing contract spreadsheet model, the derivation of relevant
Course Format economic metrics, application of sensitivities and the drawing of conclusions to aid
Classroom delivery with presentations, decision-making
workshop
Economic Aspects of Audience

Taxation & Royalty This course is designed for those working in the upstream industry who are not familiar with
taxation and royalty systems and require a working knowledge and practical application of the
Systems structure, fiscal calculations and economic outputs. The course has a global outlook where
numerous worldwide examples are drawn on and fiscal take comparisons made. It is suitable
The mission of this three day course is to
provide an understanding of: for delegates from all technical and commercial disciplines.
• The structure of tax and royalty systems Content
• The range and diversity of fiscal terms
• How to analyze and apply the economic • Understanding of the evolution of global fiscal systems
model outputs • The fundamentals of economic analysis (cashflow, cost of capital, NPV, rate of return etc)
Duration (days) • Different methods of applying government royalty
3-day • Field based taxes
Max Number of Participants • Calculation of taxation including allowances, depreciation and tax losses
20 • Taking advantage of tax ring fencing terms to add value to the asset
Prerequisites • Examine sliding scale fiscal mechanisms including R Factor and rates of return methods
Excel™ : working knowledge • How to optimise fiscal terms from both investor and government perspective
Course Format • Construction of a tax/royalty spreadsheet model, the derivation of relevant economic
Classroom delivery with presentations, metrics, application of sensitivities and the drawing of conclusions to aid decision-making
workshop
International Audience
Petroleum Fiscal gas companies, governments, banks, legal and accounting organizations.
Systems Content
The aim is provide delegates with a thorough understanding of petroleum fiscal systems to
This course describes the different types enable them to interpret contracts, negotiate terms and build economic models. Delegates will:
of structures/contracts that are applied
to the Upstream Oil and Gas industry • Understand the evolution of, and differences between, petroleum fiscal systems globally:
globally. The course will enable delegates production sharing contract (PSC), tax & royalty systems, risk service contracts and pure
to apply the theory learnt during the service contracts
course through excel-based economic • Understand the structure of the PSC
model building and the designing of fiscal • Calculate with confidence cost recovery, profit sharing and bonuses
systems.
• Examine sliding scale fiscal mechanisms including R-factor and rates of return methods
Duration (days) • Carry out taxation and royalty calculations applying capital allowances and depreciation
5-day • Understand the key differences in reserve bookings under the different systems
• Look at examples across the globe illustrating the different concepts drawing on CGG’s
Max Number of Participants extensive fiscal database
20 • Construct a PSC model, derive relevant economic metrics, apply sensitivities and draw
Prerequisites valuation conclusions to aid decision-making
Excel™ : working knowledge
• Understand government take and the different methods of calculation
• Design their own fiscal system to assess contractor/government take in a ‘classroom
Course Format competitive bid’
Classroom delivery with presentations, • Understand how PSC and tax ring-fencing can add value to the asset
practical exercises and modelling Delegates will be provided with electronic copies of workshop solutions and examples. They
workshop will all have a comprehensive hard copy course manual.
Training Offer
Petroleum Economics Audience

The course is suitable for delegates of all technical and commercial disciplines from oil
Integrated with and gas companies, governments, banks, legal and accounting organizations.
Decision and Content
Uncertainty Analysis The course is unique in its field; delegates gain tangible skills to take back to their
workplaces: economic model building integrated with practical decision and uncertainty
The course combines the fundamentals analysis. This is achieved over the five days through a mix of theory, question and
of petroleum economics and fiscal
answer, case studies and hands on practical workshop sessions.
modeling with deterministic and
probabilistic risk techniques. • Understand the theory of petroleum economics based on discounted cashflow
• Calculate with confidence the key economic metrics used in investment decision
Duration (days)
5-day making (NPV, rates of return, PIR, payback etc)
• Appreciate the geological, engineering and pricing inputs to the cashflow model
Max Number of Participants • Understand the principles and appreciate the diversity of worldwide fiscal systems
20
• Build Excel-based economic models, in both a Tax/Royalty and Production Sharing
Prerequisites Contract fiscal system
Excel™ : working knowledge • Learn about the power of practical decision and uncertainty analysis
Course Format • Discover the benefits of tornados, decision trees and cumulative probabilities plots
Classroom delivery with presentations, • Gain new insights and confidence from your use of uncertainty data
practical exercises and modelling • Identify key risks and uncertainties for your projects
workshops • Develop an appreciation for the value of information
• Make better recommendations and improve the quality of your decision making
The Economics of Audience

Unconventional gas companies, governments, banks, legal and accounting organizations.
Resources & LNG Content
Projects The course focuses on three main areas:
• The Fundamentals of petroleum project economics, fiscal systems and valuation
This three day practical course • The economics of unconventional projects
introduces delegates to petroleum • The economics of LNG projects
economics and its application in both The first part of the course provides delegates with a thorough understanding of petroleum
an unconventionals and LNG project economics, fiscal systems and valuation techniques. We draw on CGG’s extensive global database of
setting. fiscal systems in order to provide delegates with case studies. Techniques learnt are then applied
Duration (days) over the next two days when the specifics of unconventional and LNG projects are discussed.
3-day The unconventionals part of the course discusses all the types of unconventional projects that are
currently in operation around the world before moving on to the specifics of Shale Gas/ Oil and
20
Coalbed Methane (CBM). We consider the characteristics of the reservoirs which in turn determine
the development plan, facilities requirements and project economics.
Prerequisites LNG is a method of developing large gas structures providing flexibility of supply. It comes with its
Excel™ : working knowledge own unique characteristics around contracts, pricing and fiscal terms. Overall project economics
Course Format can only be determined by considering project returns across the whole value chain. Delegates will
Classroom delivery with presentations, partake in a modelling workshop to consolidate their understanding of this subject.
practical exercises and modelling Delegates will be provided with electronic copies of all workshop solutions and examples. They will
workshop all have a comprehensive hard copy course manual.
Strategic The course is valuable for all those in E&P who are interested and involved in strategic
decision making. These can be general- and functional managers and planning managers,
Management in who need a good grasp of modern concepts of strategic management in terms of:
Exploration and • Tools and techniques to be used.
Production • Developing plans to realize the aims and purposes of the organization.
• Developing strategies to adequately respond to the forces in the outside world.
Strategic management requires us to • Contributing and participating valuably in the strategic decision making process.
make sense of complex and dynamic
situations in the Upstream part of the Oil Content
and Gas business where the emphasis lies • Introduction to strategy • Managing value in E&P
in getting access to increasing volumes • E&P business environment • Performance measurement
of HC’s on a regional or global scale.
• Strategic analysis • Balanced scorecard
Duration (days) • Visioning • Roadmap to determine the strategies
5-day • Strategic Decisions
Max Number of Participants During the course the participants focus on topics such as; Strategic Analysis (i.e. to identify
20 key questions to evaluate and understand the industry and market around you), Visioning
Prerequisites (i.e. to understand the capabilities of your enterprise, creating a vision), Decisions, Creative
None Thinking, Managing Value, Performance Measurement (i.e. value drivers, key success factors
and performance indicators) and Balanced Scorecards. Appropriate case studies and exercises
Course Format
clarify the theory.
Petroleum Contracts Audience

Petroleum managers and administrators in the International Oil Companies, the IOCs, as
and Practice in well as G & G specialists and engineers; technical, legal, financial and other specialists in
Negotiations the oil and gas ministries of the Host Governments and in the State Oil Companies.
Content
This course develops an in-depth
knowledge of the legal and contractual • Sovereignty, the state and the ownership of the petroleum resource
framework in which the upstream oil • The petroleum legislation and key issues within it: the Ministry of Petroleum and the
industry conducts its operations. Petroleum Licensing and Monitoring Unit, PLMU. The State Oil Company: two modern
Duration (days)
examples: Pertamina and EGPC. Ten key steps in petroleum licensing and an example
2-day of modern petroleum legislation
• Petroleum leases, concessions, agreements and contracts. The modern Equity
(Royalty-Tax) Agreement, the modern Contractor (Production Sharing) Agreement and the
20
Iranian Buy-Back Agreement
Prerequisites • Technical issues in petroleum agreements: term (duration), work program (duration and
None content: seismic and wells), exploration periods and relinquishment, exploration and
Course Format production licences, discovery , the development plan
Classroom exercises and presentations • Legal and contractual issues in petroleum agreements: the rights, duties, obligations and
liabilities of the parties
• Financial issues in negotiations: lease/signature bonuses, royalty, tax, additional profits
taxes, OPEX, CAPEX, cost oil, profit oil, the Equity Agreement versus the Contractor
• Negotiating strategies, seeking the agreement and closing the deal
“CGG believes in the principle of
Training Offer
significant investment focused
on people to achieve genuine
Learning for Development
success. Our courses are aligned
with the strategies of both CGG
Data Management and our clients.”
The main purpose of E&P Data Management is to make sure that the data available for
analysis and interpretation are of the highest quality. In addition, the data must be kept
secure and accessible without delay to authorized users.
E&P data have a wide variety of formats ranging from large-scale seismic surveys to core
collected during well drilling. Specialized technologies are used to browse, manage and
view selections of data.
109
Data Management
• Fundamentals of E&P Data Management 110
• Overview of E&P Data Management 110
• Well Data Management 111
• Physical Asset Management 111
• ArcGIS for Geoscientists 112
• National Data Repositories 112
• PleXus Fundamentals – End User Induction Training 113
• PleXus for Administrators 113
• Trango Fundamentals – End User Induction Training 114
• Trango Enterprise – End User Induction Training 114
• Trango for Administrators 115
• Map Projections and Datum Transformations 115
Training Offer
Fundamentals of E&P Audience

Data Management Practicing Data Managers. Geoscientists and Engineers from all related disciplines. Technical
managers such as IT specialists. Librarians and Administrators that deal with an organization’s
This course provides a practical awareness E&P data.
of current E&P Data Management,
providing an insight into the governance
Content
and operations for efficient and effective The course consists of 16 modules, each of which examines a different aspect of E&P data
management of data assets. management. An introduction to the value of effective data management is followed by
Duration (days) familiarization with seismic, well, reservoir and production data domains. An analysis of Data
4-day Operations (Data Lifecycle, Cataloguing & Data Standards, Physical Data Handling, Digital
Data Management, Data Quality Assurance & Control, Data Transformation, Data Integration
6 - 12
and Archive Management) is followed by topics that focus on how these data operations
contribute to the execution of effective Business Processes (Business Process Management,
Prerequisites Data Governance and Business Continuity). An evaluation of learning outcomes and the
Academic qualifications related to the above capture of a personal action plan finalizes the course.
roles; experience and practical working
experience of the E&P business sector. Learning Objectives
Software Used • The importance of E&P data management • Operational workflows and procedures
None • The role of the primary data domains essential for managing E&P data
Course Format • The value of E&P data as an asset • Data governance requirements and standards
Classroom delivery with presentations, • Data transformation processes • Business continuity, including recovery
practical exercises and activities • The role of technology from disaster
Overview of E&P Data Audience

Management Practicing Data Managers. Geoscientists and Engineers from all related disciplines.
Technical managers such as IT specialists. Librarians and Administrators that deal with an
It is designed to provide an awareness organization’s E&P data.
of the E&P data management landscape
and how managing data efficiently can
Content
provide benefits to the business. The course consists of 4 modules that examine the highlights of E&P data management.
Duration (days)
Firstly, an introduction to the value of effective data management demonstrates why good
1-day data management contributes to improving business perfomance; secondly, a summary of
best practice for physical and digital data handling is given; thirdly, a module focusing on
Number of Participants the importance of data quality assurance and control. Finally, the topic of data governance
6 - 12
shows how data management operations contribute to the execution of effective business
Prerequisites processes. An evaluation of learning outcomes finalizes the course.
Academic qualifications related to the above
roles; experience and practical working Learning Objectives
experience of the E&P business sector. • The logistics of well drilling and related data
Software Used • The architecture of a well
None
Course Format
• Well completions
Classroom delivery with presentations, • Physical and digital well data management
practical exercises and activities.
Data Management 111
Well Data Audience

Management Practicing Data Managers. Geoscientists and Engineers from all related disciplines.
The course focusses on the lifecycle of organization’s E&P data.
well data, both physical and digital,
from creation through capture, editing
Content
and archiving to eventual disposal. The course consists of 4 modules that examine the management of E&P well data. Firstly,
Duration (days)
the logistics of well drilling are summarized, together with the relevant data generated;
1-day secondly, the architecture of a well is described in the context of the types of data related
to each section of the well; and thirdly, well completion techniques are described. Lastly,
Number of Participants details of appropriate management of physical and digital data are provided. An evaluation
6 - 12
of learning outcomes finalizes the course.
Prerequisites
Academic qualifications related to the Learning Objectives
above roles; experience and practical • The logistics of well drilling and related data
working experience of the E&P
business sector • The architecture of a well
Software Used • Well completions
None
• Physical and digital well data management
Course Format
Classroom delivery with presentations,
practical exercises and activities
Physical Asset Audience

Management Practicing Data Managers, especially those working in Storage Facilities. Geoscientists and
Engineers from all related disciplines. Technical managers such as IT specialists. Librarians
Trainees will gain an insight into the and Administrators that deal with an organization’s E&P data.
different storage requirements for the
various physical E&P data types.
Content
The course consists of 4 modules concerned with the various aspects of physical E&P
Duration (days)
1-day
data management. Firstly, the principles of data storage are examined; secondly, the best
practices for storage facility operations are described; and thirdly, the methods by which
Number of Participants storage facility operations are translated into efficient business processes are discussed.
6 - 12 Lastly, trainees are able to put their new learning into practice during the storage facility
Prerequisites tour. An evaluation of learning outcomes finalizes the course.
Academic qualifications related to the
above roles Learning Objectives
Software Used
• The principles of storing physical E&P data
None • The best practices for storage facility operations
Course Format • Efficient business processes for storage facilities
practical exercises and activities; this • How to put the theory into practice
will be virtual unless course held within
a short distance from one of CGG DMS’s
storage facilities
Training Offer
ArcGIS for Audience

Geoscientists Geoscientists and Engineers from all related disciplines. Practicing Data Managers.
Technical assistants.
This course has been designed Content
specifically for Geoscientists, and will
accelerate their effective use of GIS. The course consists of a series of modules that feature usage techniques that
apply directly to E&P data, both modern and legacy, in the GIS context.
Duration (days)
3, plus 1 optional day Learning Objectives
Number of Participants • Discover the capabilities and uses of GIS
6 - 10
• Become competent users of the functions most useful to Geoscientists
Prerequisites
Academic qualifications related to the • Access, manipulate and add data
above roles. Experience and practical
working experience of GIS in the E&P
• Build presentation-quality montages
business sector is useful but not essential • Build project databases
Software Used
• Amalgamate data types to improve understanding of plays and petroleum systems
ArcGIS (ESRI)
Course Format
practical exercises and activities
National Data Audience

Repositories Practicing Data Managers, especially at senior level. Geoscientists and Engineers from all
related disciplines. Technical managers such as IT specialists. Librarians and Administrators
The course highlights the benefits that deal with the nation’s E&P data.
of operating the NDR effectively
by establishing the appropriate
Content
operations required to support the NDR The course consists of a series of modules that begin by examining all the relevant aspects
environment of E&P data collection as well as the correct handling and storage requirements for such
Duration (days) data. Covering all topics from the legal to the technical, the course provides a ‘how-to’
5-day guide for initiating, designing and specifying an NDR. The course includes lectures, case
studies and group exercises and encourages trainees to apply the principles to their own
6 - 12
country’s circumstances.
Academic qualifications related to the • The definition and purpose of a data repository
above roles
• The requirements for staff resources
Software Used
None • The typical legal frameworks used for NDR’s
Course Format • Strategy for successful operational procedures
practical exercises and activities • Audits and reviews
Data Management 113
PleXus Fundamentals Audience

– End User Induction PleXus Users, such as: Data Managers. Geoscientists and Engineers from related disciplines.
Training organization’s E&P data.
This induction on PleXus Data Content
management services guides the Administrators will become familiar with the processes to set permissions and entitlements
trainee through the initial steps data for every User working with the organization’s PleXus installation.
Management and data governance
Duration (days)
Learning Objectives
Variable Trainees will learn how to:
Number of Participants • Search for data via map interface
Variable
• Search for data via text
Prerequisites
Academic qualifications related to the • Customize data entry screen to suit low or high volume data loading
above roles • Browse for required data via dictionaries
Software Used
PleXus
• Group data into hierarchies
Course Format • Order data required for use in projects
Training provided in person, or via
online tuition
PleXus for Audience

Administrators PleXus Users, such as: Data Managers. Geoscientists and Engineers from related disciplines.
The training for administrators follows organization’s E&P data.
on from the induction training program Content
and addresses higher level topics
This course begins with a brief introduction to the SEG-Y format. Participants then
Duration (days) prepare a processing job, to write 3D marine processed data from processing format
Variable to SEG-Y format.
Number of Participants Learning Objectives
Variable 6 - 12
Trainees will learn how to:
Prerequisites
• Select conditions for the data model
above roles; experience and practical • Establish data registration process
working experience of the E&P business • Maintain corporate data governance policy
sector
• Customize data entry screen to suit low or high volume data loading
Software Used
PleXus • Maintain database dictionaries
Course Format
• Create drop-down lists in data-entry screens
Training provided in person, or via • Create key performance indicators to gauge overall data quality as well
online tuition as project management
Training Offer
Trango Fundamentals Audience

– End User Induction Trango Users, such as: Data Managers. Geoscientists and Engineers from related disciplines.
This induction on Trango gives the Content
trainee an efficient and easy-to-access The induction training familiarizes new End Users with the management of a variety of data
petro-technical way to manage data via types, from legacy data to modern media, including formats, accepted standards and data
an ESRI ArcGIS ® interface
sources. The helpdesk is available at all times to offer additional support.
Duration (days)
Variable Learning Objectives
Variable • Search for data via map interface
Prerequisites • Search for data via text
Academic qualifications related to the • Customize data entry screen to suit low or high volume data loading
above roles
• Creation of database dictionary
Software Used
Trango
• Apply values to data attributes
• Group data into hierarchies
Course Format
online tuition
Trango Enterprise – Audience

End User Induction Trango Users, such as: Data Managers. Geoscientists and Engineers from related disciplines.
This induction on Trango gives the Content
trainee an efficient and easy-to-access
petro-technical way to manage data via
The induction training familiarizes new End Users with the management of a variety of data
an ESRI ArcGIS ® interface types, from legacy data to modern media, including formats, accepted standards and data
sources. The helpdesk is available at all times to offer additional support.
Duration (days)
Variable Learning Objectives
Number of Participants Trainees will learn how to:
Variable • Search for data via ESRI ArcGIS ® interface
Prerequisites • Register data
above roles
• Customize data entry screen to suit low or high volume data loading
• Browse for data via dictionaries
Software Used
Trango • Apply values to data attributes
Course Format • Perform data quality checks
Training provided in person, or via • Order data required for use in projects
online tuition
Data Management 115
Trango for Audience

Administrators Trango Users, such as: Data Managers. Geoscientists and Engineers from related disciplines.
The training for administrators follows organization’s E&P data.
on from the induction training program Content
and addresses higher level topics
The training for administrators follows on from the induction training program and
Duration (days) addresses higher level topics. Administrators will become familiar with the processes to set
Variable permissions and entitlements for every User working with the organization’s Trango.
Variable
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
Academic qualifications related to the • Select conditions for the data model
above roles; experience and practical • Maintain corporate data governance policy
working experience of the E&P business • Customize data entry screen to suit low or high volume data loading
sector • Maintain database dictionaries
Software Used • Create drop-down lists in data-entry screens
Trango • Create key performance indicators to gauge overall data quality as well as project
Course Format
management
online tuition
Map Projections Audience

and Datum Geologists, Geophysicists, Surveyors, Practicing Data Managers and Technical assistants.
Transformations Content
This course has been designed
The course consists of a series of modules which feature usage techniques that apply
specifically for Geoscientists to enlarge directly to E&P data, both modern and legacy, in the Geodetic and GIS context.
their Geodetic awareness in order to A basic introduction to Geodetic theory covering map projections and Datums is presented
improve the quality and the accuracy of
their positioning and map data. at the start of the course. The specifications and impact of the use of different Coordinate
Duration (days) Reference Systems (CRS’s) is discussed and illustrated with hands-on exercises. Practical
1 days basic geodetic theory, practical examples of transformations between different Geodetic Datums and the use of the EPSG
exercises and usage of the EPSG
Geodetic Parameter Dataset. Geodetic Parameter Dataset to find the best available transformation for the area and
Number of Participants coordinate systems in question are presented to and exercised by the participants.
6 - 10
Prerequisites
Learning Objectives
Academic qualifications in (petroleum) Trainees will learn how to:
geology or practical E&P mapping and
datamanagement experience. Working • Learn the basics of Geodetic theory
experience of GIS at the level of the • Understand and use the EPSG database
CGG-DMS ‘ArcGIS for Geoscientist’
course. • Learn the context and use of map datums and projections
Software Used • Become familiar with the effect of changing map projections
Trango • Convert data using predefined EPSG transformations
Course Format • Assemble data with different Coordinate Reference Systems into one
Training provided in person, or via dataset with a common CRS for further processing
online tuition
Training Offer
“Achieving ambitious
goals requires ability
and engagement. Peak
performance, for individuals
and for the company, can be
Business Skills
reached only through strong

leadership at all levels.”
CGG GeoTraining provides world-class Business Training, driven by a philosophy of offering

the best development opportunities. It is of strategic value to be well prepared to manage
the business aspects of a technology company and CGG University provides comprehensive
programs, focused on performance and innovation, which enable technical managers to
develop skills that are critical for success.
Our faculty has vast in-depth experience in business and soft skills development as well as
in the international oil and gas industry.
Business skills curriculum offerings include:
• Development of interpersonal effectiveness, communications and presentation skills
required to manage diverse, high-technology teams.
• Management & Leadership programs to develop and enhance key management skills and
leadership capabilities such as leadership skills, project management, finance, first-time
managers, emotional intelligence, etc.
These programs provide our clients with valuable insight and hands-on practical application
of CGG’s leadership and management knowledge, enabling trainees to be better prepared to
lead high-performing teams.
117
Business Essentials
• The Essentials of Project Management 118
• Finance for Non-Financial Managers 119
Interpersonal Effectiveness
• Interpersonal Communication 120
• High Impact Presentation & Public Speaking 120
• Bridging Cultures 121
Leadership & Management

• Managing Teams Effectively 122
• Introduction to Emotional Intelligence 122
• People & Performance for Managers 123
Training Offer
The Essentials of Audience

Project Management Anyone with little or no project management experience.
Content
Learn what it takes to develop the
Project Management mindset. Project The Essentials of Project Management is designed to provide you with a broad
Management is a professional discipline understanding of project management principles, concepts, tools and techniques. It covers
with a well-defined set of processes. the theory and core methodology you will need to manage projects or participate on project
This course builds your knowledge of teams. This course examines the core elements of project management and emphasizes the
Project Management tools, processes importance of organization, communication, leadership and team development.
and methods. Moreover, it emphasizes
the importance of organization, The key processes include:
communication, leadership and team
development during the whole project. • defining the project
Duration (days) • project organization
2-day • project initiation
Number of Participants • stakeholder involvement and contribution
12 • project planning - from scope to schedule
Prerequisites • monitoring and controlling the project
”Project Management” e-Learning
module • the importance of closure, handover and value creation
None • Manage a project through each stage of the project management life cycle
Course Format • Document the needs and priorities of key stakeholders
Lecture, classroom exercises, groupwork,
case study
• Develop an execution strategy that will fulfill stakeholders’ expectations
• Develop a project plan that balances scope, time, cost and risk
• Assess project complexity and analyze scope to a suitable degree of granularity
• Establish project controls to ensure a successful outcome
• Monitor project activities and effectively assess progress
• Report status and performance efficiently and effectively
• Understand essential project management terminology, models, tools and methods
Business Skills: 119
Business Essentials
Finance for Non- Audience
Financial Managers Non-financial managers and functional experts who want to develop their knowledge of
financial practices to complement their existing professional or technical skills.
This program provides an understanding Content
of financial information, particularly the
profit and loss statement, balance sheet More than ever before, today’s managers are required to understand and speak the language
and cash flow statement. Participants of finance and accounting in order to achieve their goals, objectives and bottom-line
will be more aware of how their decisions results. In this non-technical, real-world-oriented training, you’ll gain the finance and
impact the business, both in the short accounting savvy you need to plan budgets, justify requests, spot problems before they get
and long term. out of hand and much more. You’ll learn the practical financial concepts and skills that will
Duration (days) help you make better management decisions.
3-day
Learning Objectives
12 - 16
• How to focus quickly on the figures that matter most in reports, budgets and balance
sheets
Prerequisites
None
• How to avoid problems and recognize opportunities that can affect the bottom line of your
organization
Software Used
None
• How to use basic financial tools to measure results and plan for growth
• How to present reports and plans in sound financial terms for greater impact and
Course Format
Lecture, classroom exercises, groupwork,
acceptance at all levels of management
case study • How to gain confidence and increase your comfort level in working with financial facts and
figures
• How to save money, time and frustration by learning the standard practices, language and
fundamentals of finance and accounting
• How to use the numbers to gain perspective for strategic planning and decision making
How basic skills in finance and accounting positively affect all parts of your job, including
managing people, setting shortand long-term objectives and controlling costs
Training Offer
Interpersonal Audience
Communication Employees who need to understand the key basics of communication and want to improve
their relationships at work.
2-day
This course provides participants with the fundamentals of communication necessary to
Number of Participants become an effective contributor to the organization and the team.
8 - 12
Prerequisites
Throughout the course participants get peer and faculty feedback and an opportunity to
“MGT-Interpersonal communication” network.
e-Learning and pre-work: identify a The ABC’s of communication are taught. Individual preferences and how they impact team
difficult conversation topic
communications are reviewed.
Software Used
Course Format
• Understand your fundamental relationship orientation and needs
Classroom, exercises, role play, • Know how to effectively handle emotionally charged situations
on-the-job
• Know how to say “No” and set limits
• Understand the role of inferences in our actions and reactions
High Impact Audience

Presentation & This course is recommended for anyone who needs to develop their presentation skills,
speak in front of groups or sell ideas to others.
Public Speaking
Content
Duration (days) High Impact Presentations & Public Speaking will help you develop your presentation
2-day
impact by practicing:
6-8 • Your presentation style - eye contact, gestures, voice, posture, facial expressions, emotions
Prerequisites • How to structure your presentation - define an effective objective, structuring your
None presentation around the benefits for the audience
Software Used • PowerPoint tips
None
• How to deal with unexpected situations or questions
Course Format
Classroom, exercises, role-play Learning Objectives
• Improve Presentation Skills
• Master Powerpoint and visuals
• Highlight the audience needs while delivering a presentation
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Bridging Cultures Audience
Anyone whose role includes working with colleagues, customers and suppliers from
Duration (days) different countries and cultural backgrounds.
1-day
Content
6 - 12 This course helps participants recognize differences between key business cultures and
develop strategic options to manage them proactively.
Prerequisites
Pre-course assignment:TMA Country The golden rules for cross-cultural communication, in particular for French and Anglo-
Navigator Worldprism Profiler Saxon cultures, are introduced. The value of this course is significantly enhanced when
(e-learning questionnaire). Companion participants come from diverse cultures.
reference:TMA Country navigator
(e-resource) This program provides individuals and entire teams with a highly interactive experience that
Software Used
develops skills, knowledge and personal attributes for succeeding in the global workplace.
Course Format • Appreciate the role culture backgrounds plays in the global workplace
Workshop, presentations, group work,
e-learning • Apply an understanding of cultural differences to increase effectiveness in the workplace
• Learn how to apply cultural RISK analysis (Recognize, Impact, Strategize, Know-how)
• Increase cross-cultural communication, thereby enhancing relationship-building
Training Offer
Managing Teams Audience

Effectively Newly appointed team leaders, project leaders, or supervisors.
Content
Duration (days)
2-day Gain the essential skills and knowledge you need to become an effective manager,
supervisor or team leader - delegating, communicating, developing effective skills
Number of Participants for giving feedback and actively listening and resolving conflicts, addressing under-
8 - 12
performance, working with challenging people and more.
Prerequisites
Ideally, participants should attend this Learning Objectives
program within the first 6 months of • Understand the role and challenges of a first-time team/project leader
their appointment as team or project
leader/supervisor • Identify potential sources of motivation and practice discovering what motivates others
Software Used • Be aware of what helps create a good team climate
None
Course Format
Workshop
Introduction Audience
to Emotional All employees.
Intelligence Content
Introduction to Emotional Intelligence introduces participants to the basics of Emotional
Duration (days) Intelligence: What it is, how it impacts behaviour, and how to harness the power of your
1-day
emotional brain--now known to be more important than IQ in predicting future levels of
Number of Participants individual performance, both personally and professionally.
8 - 16
This course teaches participants how to recognize disruptive emotions and how to diffuse
Prerequisites them, get hands-on communication practice, learn about the importance of body language
e-Learning “MGT-Emotional
Intelligence” and some pre-work sent
and how best to present themselves, as well as learn how to become a better manager of
by mail others through developing a better understanding of one’s.
None • Develop your understanding of emotional intelligence
Course Format • Identify the negative consequences of unmanaged emotions on your personal effectiveness
Lecture, participant interaction, front- • Grasp the importance of emotional intelligence to build good relationships
of-the-group presentations, experiential • Increase your empathy and social skills
leaning, personal assessment, reflection • Practice techniques to achieve greater self-awareness, self-control and self-motivation
• Understand how emotional intelligence can be applied in the workplace to enhance
employee relationships and increase productivity
Leadership & Management
People & Audience
Performance for Supervisors, new managers or those leading projects/teams who want to improve their
team management skills.
Managers
Content
Duration (days) This course helps participants to understand how to build high-performance teams, the
2 + 2-day
impact of trust on teams, and knowing the difference between leadership and management
Number of Participants and the skills needed for leadership.
8 - 12
The course continues with a discussion about thinking outside the box and the process
Prerequisites of change, the five styles of team leadership, the roles of high-performance teams and
Some managerial experience
recommended
communicating and creating clarity.

None PART 1:
Course Format • Develop strategies for effective leadership
Workshop, role play, team exercises, • Build the conditions for a collaborative working environment
reflection • Create value through individual performance coaching
PART 2:
• Facilitate collaboration across the organization
• Know how to develop employee talent and motivation
• Clarify team direction, team roles and build high-performance teams
Training Offer
“Our training solutions

cover concepts from basic
software functionality to
highly integrated workflows
so each student maximizes
the value of the software
and your companys return
on investment.”
GeoSoftware offers a comprehensive solution for your integrated geophysical, geological,

petrophysical, rock physics and interpretation needs.
Our extensive portfolio includes HampsonRussell, Jason, InsightEarth, PowerLog, EarthModel
FT and VelPro.
Software
We offer four types of training programs:

• Public Training Courses – Workflow-based training classes covering the entire range
of petrophysics, rock physics, AVO, deterministic inversion, geostatistical inversion and
interpretation.
• Customized training programs – Dedicated longer-term training classes, with more time
for hands-on practice using the client’s actual study data. Test, certification and final
presentation of study results to management.
• Mentoring/coaching consultancy – Using the client’s data and projects within their own
operating environment.
• Workplacement experience programs – Within CGG GeoSoftware’s office for selected
client staff.
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HampsonRussell – Seismic Reservoir Characterization
• HR-100 Foundations of HampsonRussell Software 127
• HR-210 Strata Workshop 127
• HR-215 MapPredict Workshop 128
• HR-220 AVO Workshop 128
• HR-225 Seismic Lithology & AVO Workshop 129
• HR-230 Emerge Workshop 130
• HR-235 ProAZ Azimuthal Attributes Workshop 130
• HR-240 Seismic LithoSI Workshop 131
• HR-245 LithoSI & Emerge Workshop 131
• HR-250 Pro4D (Time-Lapse Seismic Analysis) Workshop 132
• HR-255 ProMC Multi-Component Data Analysis Workshop 132
• HR-260 RockSI Workshop 133
• HR-265 GeoSI Workshop 133
InsightEarth – Advanced Interpretation

• IE-100 Introduction to InsightEarth® 134
• IE-120 Structural Interpretation of Geology with InsightEarth® 134
• IE-130 Interpretation of Depositional Systems with InsightEarth PaleoSpark 135
• IE-150 Solving Interpretation Problems with InsightEarth® 136
Jason – Seismic Inversion Workbench

• JW-120 Rock Physics for Seismic Interpretation 137
• JW-100 Basic Interpretation Techniques for Seismic Inversion 137
• JW-101 Introduction to Acoustic Impedance Inversion 138
• JW-110 Introduction to Constrained Sparse Spike Inversion 138
• JW-130 Basic Rock Physics Modeling in Largo 139
• JW-201 Introduction to Simultaneous Inversion 139
• JW-203 Anisotropic Inversion in the Jason Workbench 140
• JW-220 Introduction to Geostatistical Inversion 140
• JW-310 Deterministic Inversion – Advanced 141
• JW-320 Partial Stack Geostatistical Inversion and Advanced Workflows 142
• JW-420 Modeling Reservoir Properties Using Geostatistical Inversion 142
Courses continued on next page

Training Offer
PowerLog - Petrophysics and Rockphysics

• PL-100 PowerLog® Basic Training 143
• PL-200 PowerLog® Advanced Training 144
• PL-210 PowerLog: StatMin™ Training 144
• PL-220 PowerLog: Rock Physics Module™ Training 145
• PL-230 PowerLog: Capillary Pressure Training 146
• PL-110 PowerLog® Frac 146
EarthModel FT - Geological Modeling

• EM-100 Introduction to EarthModel® FT 147
• EM-110 Introduction to Low Frequency Modeling using EarthModel FT 147
Software: 127
HampsonRussell – Seismic Reservoir Characterization
HR-100 Foundations Audience
of HampsonRussell Geophysicists, geologists, engineers and technical staff who want to understand the theory
and learn how to apply these increasingly critical techniques.
Software
Content
Duration (days) This course presents an introduction to the practical use of the common features of HRS, an
1/2 day & 1-day versions (Full-day
versions include loading data.)
interactive program from software. Topics covered include:
• Loading of logs, tops, deviated geometry, XY coordinates, horizons, 2D and 3D seismic
Prerequisites
None
• Crossplotting of logs and seismic
• Arbitrary lines and area zones
Software Covered • Project structure, moving and deleting of data
All Software Products • Log display options and log operations
Course Format
Instructor-led courses
Learning Objectives
• Explains essential operations that are common to most applications, but which are not
specifically taught in the specialized classes such as Strata or AVO
• Includes Geoview, Well Explorer, eLog, Seisloader and View3D
• Contains no geophysical theory. The theory is taught in the Strata, AVO and Emerge workshops
HR-210 Strata Audience

Workshop Geophysicists, geologists, engineers and technical staff who want to understand the theory
1-day
This course covers the theory and practical use of Strata, an interactive program that is fully
Prerequisites linked within HampsonRussell software and performs pre-stack and post-stack inversion.
None Topics covered include:
Software Covered • Introduction: Convolutional models, wavelets, reflectivity and noise
Strata • Theory: Recursive, sparse-spike, model-based and colored inversion. Pre-stack methods of
Course Format Elastic Impedance and Lambda-Mu-Rho
Workshop • Analysis: Seismic and wavelet processing, amplitude recovery, noise attenuation and imaging
• Practical: Examples of band-limited, sparse-spike and model-based inversion
• Includes pre-stack Simultaneous Inversion
Learning Objectives
• Covers both pre-stack and post-stack inversion, with a largely non-mathematical overview
of current seismic inversion methods
• Demystifies many of the different methods that are used today to invert seismic data
• Combination of theory and practical exercises using the Strata software. Exercises comprise
approximately 50 percent of the course content
Training Offer
HR-215 MapPredict Audience

1-day
This course covers the theory and practical use of MapPredict, an interactive program that
Prerequisites is fully linked to the HRS-10 program and performs geostatistical analysis of map data.
None
Users will learn the basics of variogram analysis, kriging, cokriging, sequential Gaussian
Software Covered simulation (SGS), and multi-attribute map analysis.
MapPredict
Learning Objectives
Course Format
Workshop The student will gain experience in:
• Analyzing map data for both errors and trends (histograms, crossplots, variograms)
• Producing optimal maps from sparse datasets (kriging)
• Improving the fit between two related sets of measurements about the same parameter
(cokriging, KED, combining maps using Emerge)
• Simulating a number of possible maps and make quantitative predictions about their
probability of occurrence (sequential Gaussian simulation)
• Creating multi-attribute map combinations using multivariate statistics
HR-220 AVO Audience

Geophysicists, geologists, engineers and technical staff who want to understand the theory
Workshop and learn how to apply these increasingly critical techniques.
2-day This course covers the theory and practical use of AVO, an interactive program that are fully
Prerequisites
linked within HampsonRussell software and performs Amplitude versus Offset modeling and
None analysis. Topics covered include:
• Introduction: Basic seismic wave principles, Poisson’s ratio, gas saturation, Biot-
Software Covered Gassmann equations, and lithologic examples
AVO
• AVO Theory: Zoeppritz’s equations, Aki-Richards and Shuey’s approximation, elastic wave
Course Format modeling, and impact of anistropy
Workshop • AVO Analysis: AVO attributes, processing concerns, interpretation of AVO measurements,
AVO crossplotting and polarization, AVO Inversion: Simultaneous pre-stack inversion,
Lambda-Mu-Rho, and elastic impedancee
Learning Objectives
• Explains the Rock Physics framework for the study of the AVO method
• Introduces AVO Inversion methods: Simultaneous Inversion, LMR and EI
• Emphasizes practical AVO examples from a number of regions around the world
• Explains both the advantages and potential pitfalls of the AVO method
• Consists of both lectures and hands-on exercises, using the AVO software. The exercises comprise
approximately 65% of the course
Software: 129
HampsonRussell
HR-225 Seismic Audience
Geoscientists, explorationists, and technical staff wanting to understand the theory behind
Lithology & AVO essential reservoir characterization techniques and how to implement this knowledge into
Workshop practical E&P project workflows.
Content
Duration (days)
5-day This course covers the theory and practical use of Strata, AVO, Emerge, ProAZ and LithoSI,
interactive programs that are fully linked within HampsonRussell software. Topics covered include:
Prerequisites • Seismic Inversion
None
• AVO Modeling & Analysis
Software Covered • Seismic Attribute Analysis
Strata, AVO, Emerge, ProAZ & LithoSI • Advanced Topics - Discusses advanced reservoir characterization methods such as
Course Format stochastic and azimuthal inversions, anisotropy, fracture attributes and detection, and
Workshop the new HRS-10 product – LithoSI
Learning Objectives
• Covers both pre-stack and post-stack inversion.
• Introduces AVO Inversion methods: Simultaneous Inversion, LMR and EI.
• Application of neural network technology in well log prediction and petrophysical volume
generation
• Provides a comprehensive look at the theory and application of the AVAZ method
• Basic introduction to Bayesian classification, multivariate Probability Density Functions
(PDFs) and their optimization, Kernel Density Estimation
Training Offer
HR-230 Emerge Audience

1-day
This course covers the theory and practical use of Emerge, an interactive program that are
Prerequisites fully linked within HampsonRussell software and performs multi-attribute seismic analysis for
None
seismic reservoir characterization using multivariate statistics and neural networks. Topics
Software Covered covered include:
Emerge • T heory of seismic attributes, linear, non-linear and neural network methodologies for
Course Format attribute selection, cross-validation and attribute ranking
Workshop •A pplication of attributes to convert seismic data volumes into geological or petrophysical
volumes
• Application of attributes to predict missing log data
• Attributes exercises using seismic data and well logs
Learning Objectives
• A comprehensive overview of the generation of seismic attributes
• Understanding how to recognize reliable attributes when estimating reservoir parameters
• Application of neural network technology in well log prediction, petrophysical volume
generation and seismic lithology classification
HR-235 ProAZ Audience

Azimuthal Attributes Geophysicists, geologists, engineers and technical staff who want to understand the theory
Workshop
Content
Duration (days) • Introduction: Basic seismic wave principles, anisotropy, the relationship between
1-day fractures and anisotropy, observing anisotropy in prestack seismic data, Common Offset /
Common Azimuth (COCA) Gathers.
Prerequisites
None • AVAZ Theory and Modeling and:
- AVAZ Analysis: AVAZ attribute volume generation and considerations, processing concerns,
Software Covered
ProAZ interpretation of AVAZ measurements and examples from published case studies.
- VVAZ Theory and Analysis: Azimuthal NMO and RMS velocities, azimuthal NMO
Course Format corrections, inverting for interval properties using the generalized Dix equation,
Workshop
and examples from published case studies.
Learning Objectives
• Explains the Rock Physics framework linking fractures and anisotropy for the study of the
Amplitude versus Azimuth (AVAZ) and Velocity versus Azimuth (VVAZ)
• Provides a comprehensive look at the theory and application of the AVAZ method,
• Emphasizes practical AVAZ and VVAZ examples from a number of regions around North America
• Explains both the advantages and potential pitfalls of the AVAZ method
Software: 131
HampsonRussell
HR-240 Seismic Audience
LithoSI Workshop Geophysicists, geologists, engineers and technical staff who want to understand the theory
1-day
This course covers the theory and practical use of LithoSI, an interactive program that are
Prerequisites fully linked within HampsonRussell software and is used to analyze combinations of inversion
None
results (typical pre-stack inversion results) to describe classes or lithologies. The outputs are
Software Covered litho-probability cubes, transforming inversion results into geological properties.
LithoSI
Learning Objectives
Course Format
Workshop • Discussion of the LithoSI workflow for facies and fluid classification using multiple elastic
parameters from the inversion of the seismic data
(PDFs) and their optimization through Kernel Density Estimation
• Teaches how to design complex multi-variate probability distribution functions to ensure
proper classification of lithologies and accurate definition of litho-probabilities
• Shows how to understand the quantification of uncertainty in seismic lithology and fluid
prediction
• Practical Exercises: Defining litho-classes, selecting attributes, optimizing PDFs, validating
the results and volume application
HR-245 LithoSI & Audience

Emerge Workshop Geophysicists, geologists, engineers and technical staff who want to understand the theory
1-day
LithoSI is a relatively new, interactive package which complements our very successful
Prerequisites Emerge software. Together with Emerge, they both allow the transformation of seismic
None
volumes and/or elastic attributes (from Strata and/or AVO) to geological or reservoir
Software Covered properties such as facies, saturation and porosity. Note that in this one-day workshop, we
LithoSI, Emerge will not cover all of the material in our standard LithoSI and Emerge workshop.
Workshop
(PDFs) and their optimization, Kernel Density Estimation (LithoSI)
• Teaches the theory and application of linear and multi-linear regression in well log
prediction and seismic lithology classification (Emerge)
• Practical exercises comprise 65% of the unit content
• LithoSI: Defining litho-classes, selecting attributes, optimizing PDFs, validating the
results, volume application
• Emerge: Combining optimal attributes to predict volumes of log data from seismic, cross-
validation techniques, volume application, predicting logs from logs
Training Offer
HR-250 Pro4D Audience

(Time-Lapse Seismic Geophysicists, geologists, engineers and technical staff who want to understand the theory
Analysis) Workshop
Content
Duration (days) This course covers the theory and practical use of Pro4D, an interactive program that are
2-day fully linked within HampsonRussell software and performs time-lapse, or 4D, modeling and
analysis. Topics include:
Prerequisites
None • Time-Lapse Modeling: Log editing and synthetics, Biot-Gassmann fluid replacement
modeling, Zoeppritz and elastic techniques, systematic methods and the wedge model
Software Covered • Seismic Comparison, Calibration and Interpretation: Survey regridding, volume comparison
Pro4D
using correlation, difference and cross-plotting, seismic calibration with time and phase
Course Format shift, application of gain, shaping filters and simultaneous phase and time matching, cross-
Workshop normalization, volumetrics and interpretation
Learning Objectives
• This course covers the theory behind 4D analysis: modeling reservoir changes and
comparing seismic volumes
• Rock and fluid properties are discussed in detail. Practical application to modeling log data
for a range of time-lapse scenarios, such as saturation or pressure changes
• Volumetric analysis and matching mapped 4D response with known production information
• 50% of the course comprises practical exercises using the Pro4D software
HR-255 ProMC Multi- Audience

Component Data and learn how to apply these increasingly critical techniques.
Analysis Workshop Content
This course covers the theory and practical use of ProMC, an interactive program that are
Duration (days)
1-day fully linked within HampsonRussell software and performs multi-component(MC) seismic
analysis and inversion. Topics covered include:
Prerequisites
None • Theory: What is MC data? Its acquisition, processing and uses
• Modeling: PP and PS synthetic generation; correlating PS synthetic and seismic data
Software Covered • MC Seismic Analysis: Event and horizon matching; domain conversion (PP- or PS-time, or
ProMC
depth); generation of Vp/Vs volumes
Course Format • Interpretation Techniques: Mapping Vp/Vs ratios for lithology identification, comparing PP
Instructor-led and PS reflectivity
Learning Objectives
• Detailed, largely non-mathematical overview of current multi-component techniques.
• Highlights the benefits of MC data, such as imaging through gas clouds, lithology and fluid
discrimination
• Interpretation techniques provide Vp/Vs ratio and difference between P and S wave
reflectivity that can be directly related to lithology and fluids
• Combination of both lectures and practical exercises, using the PROMC software. Exercises
comprise 60% of the course content
Software: 133
HampsonRussell
HR-260 RockSI Audience
Geophysicists, geologists, engineers and technical staff who want to understand the
Workshop theory and practice of rock physics and Petro-Elastic models and learn how to apply these
Duration (days)
increasingly critical techniques.
1-day Content
Prerequisites This course presents an introduction to the practical use of RockSI, an interactive rock
None physics program from HampsonRussell, as well as an overview of rock physics theory. Topics
Software Covered
covered include:
RockSI • Introduction to rock physics and the RockSI software program.
Course Format
• Log analysis using RockSI.
Instructor-Led • Rock Physics Template (RPT) and Petro-Elastic Model (PEM) theory.
• Facies creation using Petro-Elastic Models (PEMs).
• Uncertainty analysis using Monte Carlo simulations of PEMs.
• Combining LithoSI and RockSI (Note that LithoSI is a seismic petro-facies program which is
a companion program to RockSI).
Learning Objectives
This course explains both the theory and practice of rock physics using the RockSI (and
LithoSI) modules. Shows how RockSI is fully integrated into the HampsonRussell Geoview
interface and teaches the user how to apply RockSI (and LithoSI) using a real North Sea oil
sand example.
HR-265 GeoSI Audience

Workshop and practice of stochastic inversion and learn how to apply these increasingly critical
Duration (days)
techniques.
1 day Content
This course presents an introduction to the practical use of GeoSI, a stochastic inversion
Prerequisites program from HampsonRussell, as well as an overview of relevant inversion theory. Topics
None
covered include:
Software Covered • Introduction to inversion methods – deterministic and stochastic.
GeoSI
• Log correlation and Model Building on both seismic and stratigraphic grids
Course Format • Basic stochastic inversion theories: Sequential Gaussian Simulation, Bayesian Stochastic
Instructor-Led inversion and GeoSI inversion theory
• Correlation and Variogram modelling
• Facies classification theory
• Stochastic lithology prediction
• Stabilizing the results
• 3D visualization
Learning Objectives
This course explains both the theory and practice of stochastic inversion using GeoSI
modules. Shows how GeoSI is fully integrated into the HampsonRussell Geoview interface
and teaches the user how to apply GeoSI using a real North Sea oil sand example.
Training Offer
IE-100 Introduction Audience

Geoscientists and geotechnicians familiar with seismic interpretation and new to
to InsightEarth® InsightEarth.
Duration (days)
Content
4 hours (1/2 day) Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to apply the tools available
within InsightEarth to:
Prerequisites
Geosciences background recommended • Understand the advantages of using InsightEarth’s 3D interpretation technology
but not required • Proficiently navigate the intuitive user interface within InsightEarth
• Successfully condition data for structure and stratigraphy
Software Covered
InsightEarth Ignition
• Effectively accomplish selected interpretation goals using the workflow guide
• Easily import and export files from/to InsightEarth
Course Format • Effectively use InsightEarth Help
Instructor-Led - Discussion /
Demonstration / Hands-on lab Learning Objectives
This course is intended to provide geoscientists and geotechnicians with an understanding
of the data and visualization management tools within InsightEarth Ignition.
• InsightEarth Overview • Workflow Guide - Demo & student lab
• InsightEarth’s approach to 3D • Data Conditioning - Demo & student lab
Interpretation • Importing Files into and Exporting Files
• System Overview - Demo & student lab from InsightEarth – Demo & student lab
• The Importance of Data Conditioning • Additional Student Resources
IE-120 Structural Audience

Interpretation Geoscientists familiar with seismic interpretation and new to InsightEarth.
of Geology with Content
InsightEarth® This course is intended to provide geoscientists with the skills necessary to apply
InsightEarth in a structured workflow to interpret structure in a 3D seismic volume.
Duration (days)
1 1/2-day Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to apply the tools available
TS-100 Introduction to InsightEarth within InsightEarth to:
Software Covered
• Understand the advantages of using InsightEarth’s 3D interpretation technology
InsightEarth FaultFractureSpark® • Effectively accomplish interpretation goals using the workflow guide
InsightEarth SaltSpark®
• Rapidly construct a 3D structural models of salt bodies, faults and horizons in seismic
Course Format
Instructor-led
volumes
• Efficiently apply InsightEarth technology including Surface Wrapping, Automated Fault
Extraction and Autotracking using multiple stopping conditions
• Accurately Q/C and refine structural interpretations
Software: 135
IE-130 Audience
Interpretation of Geophysicists, geologists, engineers and technical staff who want to understand the theory
Depositional Systems
with InsightEarth Content
PaleoSpark Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to apply the tools available
within InsightEarth to:
Duration (days) • Understand the advantages of using InsightEarth’s 3D interpretation technology
1-day
• Apply domain transformation concepts to more rapidly recognize depositional features
Prerequisites
TS-100 Introduction to InsightEarth • Efficiently convert a time/depth domain volume to the Stratal domain
TS-200 Interpretation of Structural
Geology with InsightEarth • Rapidly create a 3D volume of depositional surfaces
Software Covered • Realistically image, interpret and analyze stratigraphic features in the Stratal domain
InsightEarth PaleoSpark
• Convert Stratal domain interpretation back to the time/depth domain
Course Format
Instructor-led - Discussion / Learning Objectives
Demonstration / Hands-on lab This course is intended to provide geoscientists the skills necessary to apply InsightEarth in
a structured workflow to interpret stratigraphy in a 3D seismic volume.
Training Offer Software:
IE-150 Solving Audience
Interpretation Geoscientists familiar with seismic interpretation and new to InsightEarth.
Problems with Content
InsightEarth® This course is the combination of the TS-100, TS-200, and TS-300 courses. Upon successful
completion of this course students will be able to apply the tools available within
Duration (days) InsightEarth to:
3-day
• Understand the advantages of using InsightEarth’s 3D interpretation technology
Prerequisites
Geosciences background recommended • Efficiently navigate the intuitive user interface within InsightEarth
but not required • Easily import and export files from/to InsightEarth
Software Covered
InsightEarth Ignition, InsightEarth
• Effectively accomplish interpretation goals using the workflow guide
FaultFractureSpark®, InsightEarth • Rapidly construct 3D structural models of salt bodies, faults and horizons in seismic
SaltSpark®, InsightEarth PaleoSpark® volumes
Course Format
Instructor-led - Discussion /
• Efficiently apply InsightEarth technology including Surface Wrapping, Automated Fault
Demonstration / Hands-on lab Extraction, Autotracking using multiple stopping conditions and domain transformation
• Accurately Q/C and refine structural interpretations
• Apply domain transformation concepts to more rapidly recognize depositional features
• Efficiently convert a time/depth domain volume to the Stratal domain
• Rapidly create a 3D volume of depositional surfaces
• Realistically image, interpret and analyze stratigraphic features in the Stratal domain
• Convert Stratal domain interpretation back to the time/depth domain
Learning Objectives
This course is intended to provide geoscientists with an advanced understanding of the
benefits of InsightEarth’s 3D interpretation technology, and the skills necessary to apply
InsightEarth in a structured workflow to interpret structure and stratigraphy in a 3D seismic
volume.
Software: 137
JW-120 Rock Audience
This course is geared towards geoscientists who wish to understand the rock physics behind
Physics for Seismic reservoir characterization, reservoir delineation, hydrocarbon detection and reservoir
Interpretation development. It is suitable for geophysicists, geologists and petrophysicists.
Content
Duration (days) This two-day course is based on a series of lectures supported by basic exercises using
2-day Jason’s Geoscience Workbench running on Windows. The course is designed to provide a
Prerequisites basic understanding of the relationships between elastic and reservoir properties of rocks,
None and demonstrate how rock physics is used to interpret and analyze seismic data.
The course will cover the following topics:
Software Covered • Seismic wave propagation • Seismic anisotropy
Jason Workbench • Seismic attenuation
• Elastic properties of rocks
Course Format • Empirical rock physics relationships • Applying rock physics to well data
Instructor-led - Discussion • Numerical rock physics models • Rock physics-based interpretation
• Fluid models of seismic
• Problems of scale • Seismic anisotropy
• Applying rock physics to well data • Seismic attenuation
• Rock physics based interpretation of seismic
Learning Objectives
• Effective and efficient use of the software
• Ability to manage and QC projects
• Understanding of methods for improved reservoir characterization
JW-100 Basic Audience

Interpretation This course is intended for those who want to learn how to interpret and analyze inversion
results.
Techniques for
Seismic Inversion Content
There are many benefits to using elastic properties such as P-Impedance and Vp/Vs
Duration (days) produced with the Workbench. You will learn how to achieve:
2-day
• More accurate structural and stratigraphic interpretations
Prerequisites • More accurate maps and volumetrics
None
• Conversion of elastic properties into petrophysical reservoir properties
Software Covered
Jason Workbench • A more effective drilling program based on the clearer interpretation of the reservoir
Course Format
• Advanced reservoir description and characterization
Instructor-led This course begins with a basic introduction to elastic parameters and how to qualify and
interpret the seismic inversion results. After this, discussion turns to methods for analyzing
inversion results for qualitative and quantitative reservoir characterization.
Learning Objectives
Enhanced interpretation quality and productivity using seismic inversion data,
interpretation concepts for effective analysis on seismic workstations, and more effective
prospect presentations to management.
Training Offer
JW-101 Introduction Audience

to Acoustic This training course is intended for people who want to start working with Jason software,
or for those who want to learn more about Inversion.
Impedance Inversion
Content
Duration (days) You will learn the workflow and QC procedures to perform an Acoustic Impedance inversion
3-day
using InverTracePlus. Through a combination of lectures and exercises on a 3D Gulf of
Prerequisites Mexico data set, students will learn the following skills:
None
• How to load and QC data
Software Covered
Jason Workbench • How to perform a feasibility analysis to verify that the data is suitable for this technology
Course Format
• How to tie wells, build low-frequency models, and estimate multi-well wavelets
Instructor-led • How to select and test parameters and generate Acoustic Impedance data with
InverTracePlus
• How to QC, analyze, and interpret the Acoustic Impedance data
Learning Objectives
• Effective and efficient use of the software
• Ability to manage QC projects
• Understanding of methods for improved reservoir characterization

to Constrained This training course is intended for people who want to start working with Jason software, or for
those who want to learn more about Simultaneous AVO/AVA Inversion.
Sparse Spike
Content
Inversion
Constrained Sparse Spike Inversion (CSSI) is a technique to invert seismic data to elastic property
Duration (days) volumes. The Jason™ Workbench provides the RockTrace® module to perform Simultaneous AVA/
4-day AVO Inversion based on CSSI. In RockTrace, the objective is to solve for shear impedance and
where possible density in addition to acoustic impedance. The resulting volumes of absolute rock
Prerequisites
None properties are tightly calibrated to the well log data. These results are most commonly used to
delineate lithology, porosity, fluid content and other petrophysical parameters.
Software Covered
Jason Workbench, Inversion with Learning Objectives
RockTrace; Quantitative analysis with This course will teach the participants to independently run the RockTrace’ Simultaneous Inversion
BodyChecking and Facies and Fluids software, QC, interpret and analyses the results. You will learn the workflow and QC procedures to
Probability (FFP) perform an inversion using RockTrace. Through a combination of lectures and exercises on a 3D
Course Format Gulf of Mexico data set, students will learn the following skills:
Instructor-led • How to load and QC data
• How to perform a feasibility analysis to verify that the data is suitable for this technology
• How to tie wells, build low-frequency models, and estimate multi-well wavelets
• How to select and test parameters and generate elastic property volumes with RockTrace
• How to QC the elastic property volumes
• How to interpret these volumes in terms of reservoir bodies, facies probability and net pay
Software: 139
JW-130 Basic Rock Audience
Physics Modeling in This course is intended for people who have a geophysics background and who need to
perform rock physics modeling in their seismic reservoir characterization job.
Largo
Content
Duration (days) This training course gives an introduction on how to perform rock physics modeling using
1-day
the Largo™ module. It also explains some basic rock physics modeling concepts. The main
Prerequisites focus of this course is on velocity modeling for different fluids (Fluid substitution). Upon
Basic understanding of rock physics completion of this course, participants will have the ability to use the different Largo™
Experience working with the Jason sheets to manipulate well curves, to perform basic velocity modeling and fluid mixture
Workbench
Basic knowledge of seismic reservoir
modeling, and to QC the results.
characterization
Software Covered
Jason Workbench, RockTrace® and Largo
Course Format
Instructor-led

to Simultaneous This training course is intended for people who have experience with acoustic impedance
inversion projects and need to learn more about simultaneous inversion.
Inversion
Content
Duration (days) Seismic data responds to both the acoustic impedance and the shear impedance contrasts in
4-day
the subsurface. This additional information within the seismic data can be exploited using the
Prerequisites variation in seismic reflection amplitude with angle or offset.
Introduction to Acoustic Impedance Jason’s Simultaneous Inversion overcomes most of the disadvantages of standard AVO analysis
Inversion (JW-101) and integrates the best of inversion while exploiting the full information within the seismic
Software Covered data. RockTrace is the module within the Jason Workbench that performs simultaneous
Jason Workbench and RockTrace® inversion. RockTrace builds on Jason’s InverTracePlus full stack inversion technology by
Course Format extending it to the AVO domain. The result is three volumes of absolute rock properties
Instructor-led tightly calibrated to the well log data: P-impedance, S-impedance and Density. These
results are most commonly used to delineate lithology, porosity, fluid content and other
petrophysical parameters. This course will teach the participants to independently run the
RockTrace Simultaneous Inversion software, QC, interpret and analyze the results.
Learning Objectives
Acquire the ability to perform Simultaneous Inversion projects with basic settings and QC
analysis. Through practice and experience, you will be able to understand and take full
advantage of RockTrace functionalities and capabilities.
Training Offer
JW-203 Anisotropic Audience

This training course is intended for experienced RockTrace people who want to invert WAZ seismic
Inversion in the data in a quantitative manner, or for those who want to learn more about Azimuthal Inversion.
Jason Workbench Content
CGG has a novel patented method to calculate effective elastic parameters in a variety of
Duration (days)
1-day anisotropic media. These effective elastic parameters allow you to use isotropic modeling and
inversion in an anisotropic environment. You can use existing tools such for Well Tying, Wavelet
Prerequisites Estimation and Pre-stack Inversion in a quantitative manner.
You will gain the most from this course
This course uses a synthetic Wide Azimuth (WAZ) data set that contains several HTI (Azimuthal
if you are experienced in running
Jason’s pre-stack inversion tool Anisotropy) features. On these data several hands-on exercises are offered to acquaint yourself
(RockTrace®) or completed JW-110 with the available HTI-related functionality in the Jason Workbench:
Introduction to Constrained Sparse • Loading and viewing WAZ data • Creating azimuthally-sectored synthetics
Spike Inversion or JW-201 Introduction
to Simultaneous Inversion. • Calculating the expected anisotropy • Inverting and analyzing azimuthally-
• Calculating and analyzing the effective sectored seismic data
Software Covered
Jason Workbench: SEG-Y loader, elastic parameters • Updating the Azimuthal Low Frequency
FunctionMod, CoCa View, Elastic Learning Objectives Model (ALFM)
Volumes Evaluator, Synthetics Toolbox,
Inversion with RockTrace® Acquire the ability to perform Simultaneous Inversion projects on azimuthally-sectored seismic
data. Through practice and experience, you will be able to understand the Azimuthal Inversion
Course Format
Instructor-led
workflow and interpret its results. In doing so, you will learn to take full advantage of Jason’s
HTI-related functionality and capabilities.

to Geostatistical This course is intended for those who want to learn to perform geostatistical inversion
using StatMod.
Inversion
Content
Duration (days) This course covers the basic theoretical concepts and software components necessary
4-day
to perform geostatistical inversion in Jason. Since knowledge of various geostatistical
Prerequisites principles such as multivariate distributions and variograms is necessary, pertinent
Introduction to Acoustic Impedance introductions to these topics are included in the course lectures.
Inversion (JW-101)
Experience performing inversion Learning Objectives
projects Upon completion of this course, participants will have the ability to run basic StatMod.
Software Covered
StatMod
Course Format
Instructor-led
Software: 141
JW-310 Audience
Deterministic This training course is intended for people who already have gained experience with Jason’s
deterministic inversion projects and need to work on more complex projects.
Inversion – Advanced
Content
Duration (days) The advanced course for deterministic inversion captures different techniques that can
3-day
be added to and used as part of the standard CSSI workflow. The proposed methods are
Prerequisites recommended in cases where the results of the conventional approach are not satisfactory.
Introduction to Simultaneous Inversion The course material is divided into several stand-alone modules. Each module focuses on
(JW-201) a technique or a specific Jason tool and explains the background of the technique or tool
Knowledge of modeling
Working experience with Jason and
and advises on how to use them in specific cases.
performing deterministic inversion Course modules include:
projects
• AVO Attribute Extraction—provides instruction on classification of AVO responses based on
Software Covered the present lithology and type of substituting fluid
Map View, Section View, Well Editor
(AVO/AVA), Crossplots and Histograms, • Multi-Attribute Well Interpolator —provides instruction on how to apply attribute-guided
AVO Attribute Extraction, Attribute well log interpolation in Jason
Estimation, ViewMaster, FunctionMod,
Horizon Manager, InverTracePlus, Multi- • LFM Trend Update—provides instruction on the role the low frequency model plays in
Attribute Well Interpolator, Graph View, deterministic inversion. This is demonstrated on a simple Wedge model
Well Manager, WaveletTools, Processing
Toolkit, File Manager, InverTrace® Plus • 4D Inversion—consists of lectures on workflow for performing 4D deterministic inversion,
how to generate time-lapse synthetic data, assessing technical risks and using inverted 4D
Course Format
parameters to map different production effects
Instructor-led
• Wavelet Variations—provides instruction on how to measure the effect of Q attenuation and
to compensate for it during deterministic inversion
• Spectral Decomposition—provides instruction on the basics of spectral decomposition and
how to perform in Jason
• Knowledge of how to use some of the more advanced techniques with the Jason software
• More flexibility in solving problems in deterministic inversion projects
JW-320 Partial Audience
Stack Geostatistical This course is intended for those who want to learn how to perform geostatistical inversion
using RockMod.
Inversion and
Advanced Workflows Content
Students will learn to independently run the RockMod® Partial Stack Geostatistical
Duration (days) Inversion software, QC, interpret and analyze the results. Advanced options are also
1-day presented in lectures and exercises, such as incorporating geological trends and taking
Prerequisites into account spatially-varying seismic quality. At the beginning of this course, the
Introduction to Geostatistical Inversion geostatistical inversion workflow steps are recalled. Exercises follow to introduce the
(JW-220) students to using RockMod, the partial stack geostatistical inversion module of Jason.
Introduction to Simultaneous Inversion Emphasize is set on QC’ing and analyzing the results. The last part is focused on including
(JW-201) large-scale geological trends and spatially-varying seismic data quality in the inversion.
Experience performing (partial stack)
inversion projects in Jason Learning Objectives
Software Covered Upon completion of this course, participants will have the ability to run basic RockMod®
RockMod® projects, in conjunction with other modules of Jason, to perform partial stack geostatistical
Course Format inversion, QC the parameters and analyze the results with minimal expert supervision.
Instructor-led
JW-420 Modeling Audience

Reservoir Properties This course is intended for those who want to learn advanced geostatistical inversion
techniques.
Using Geostatistical
Inversion Content
Students will learn how to run RockMod® Partial Stack Geostatistical Inversion to generate
Duration (days) engineering properties for subsequent usage in flow simulation. Special emphasis is placed on
2-day integrating more geological constraints into reservoir models, particularly in terms of imposing
Prerequisites prior facies distributions and including rock physics models to link engineering properties to
Partial Stack Geostatistical Inversion seismic data. The course begins with an overview of geostatistical inversion in the context
and Advanced Workflows ( JW-320) of geocellular grids and then proceeds with lectures and exercises on modeling geological
Introduction to Geostatistical Inversion
(JW-220) trends and fluid contacts, inverting directly for engineering properties and enhancing prior
Introduction to Simultaneous Inversion information with statistical rock physics. The course concludes with transferring and upscaling
(JW-201)
Experience performing (partial stack) engineering properties onto a geocellular grid required for flow simulation.
inversion projects in Jason
Learning Objectives
Software Covered Upon completion of this course, participants will have a grasp of the key aspects of the
RockMod
workflow required for generating seismically-constrained engineering properties on a
Course Format geocellular grid using RockMod. Participants will be able to use advanced features of the
Instructor-led software to integrate key components of geology, geophysics, rock physics and reservoir
engineering into reservoir models.
Software: 143
PL-100 PowerLog® Audience
This course introduces you to PowerLog’s extensive capabilities and easy-to-use interface.
Basic Training Through a series of hands-on exercises, you learn to use the PowerLog viewers and
Duration (days)
computation modules as you follow a typical petrophysical workflow.
3-day Content
Prerequisites
PowerLog offers robust tools for every phase of well log analysis from data loading
None and initial evaluation to interactive editing, data conditioning, and petrophysical
interpretation. This two-day course introduces you to PowerLog’s extensive capabilities and
Software Covered easy-to-use interface.
PowerLog
Specific topics covered are:
Course Format • PowerLog Administration • Working with Tops and Zones
Instructor-led • PowerLog Overview • Editing Log Curves
• Tools • Preparing Data for Interpretation
• Loading Data • Sample Highlighting
• Viewing Data in Logplot • Interpreting Data
• Viewing and Editing Curve Data • Quality Checking the New Curves
• Computing True Vertical Depth • Creating a Collage
• Presenting Your Data
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to take full advantage of PowerLog®. You
will be able to use the software more efficiently so you can perform your log analysis more
quickly and with confidence in the results.
Training Offer

Advanced Training This course is intended for experienced PowerLog users who want to apply PowerLog’s more
sophisticated tools to complex interpretation projects.
2-day
This two-day course focuses on the advanced tools in PowerLog for petrophysical editing,
Prerequisites computation, and interpretation. Techniques involving multiwell computations are
PowerLog PL-100: Basic Training or
experience using PowerLog
emphasized. You’ll gain hands-on experience through a series of guided exercises and then
apply what you have learned in an independent workshop.
Software Covered
PowerLog
Specific topics are:
• Splicing, baseline shifting, and patching • Writing and running your own programs
Course Format
Instructor-led
curves • Composing image logs and picking dips
• Applying environmental corrections using PowerBatch
• Interactive parameter picking • MultiMin/Complex Lithology analysis
• Generating synthetic curves • Creating a model in EarthModel Builder
• Normalizing curves in Multiwell Histogram • Demo using GeoSoftware Launcher,
PowerLog Enterprise, and EarthModel FT
Learning Objectives
Know when and how to use the more sophisticated tools offered by PowerLog, and gain
confidence and flexibility to handle complex interpretation projects.
PL-210 PowerLog: Audience

StatMin™ Training This course is intended for experienced PowerLog users who need to delineate formation
components in complex environments quickly and reliably, using statistical log analysis.
2-day StatMin is a statistical program that calculates lithology, mineralogy, and porosity. It is
Prerequisites especially useful for modeling complex environments such as those containing sandstones
PowerLog PL-200: Advanced Training or of various mineralogies or carbonate environments in general. In this two-day course, the
extensive experience using PowerLog theory and principles behind StatMin are discussed first; then students set up and run
Software Covered StatMin jobs for two wells. Some of the key topics covered are:
PowerLog • Mathematical foundation of statistical log • Defining prior, main, and alternate
StatMin analysis matrices for StatMin
Course Format • How StatMin computes PHIE, PHIT, Vshale, • Evaluating the model by comparing the
Instructor-led Vclay, and Sw. Iteration in StatMin original input curves and the reconstructed
• Advantage of using linear log responses curves output by StatMin
as inputs • Evaluating the output volume curves
• Using the Compute Endpoints module to obtain in PowerLog
linear endpoint curves from nonlinear logs
Learning Objectives
Delineate formation components in complex environments quickly and reliably, using
statistical log analysis, an iterative approach, and alternative models.
Software: 145
Rock Physics This course is intended for advanced PowerLog users who want to effectively use the Rock
Physics Module.
Module™ Training
Content
Duration (days) Rock Physics Module (RPM) is a calculation engine for computing rock physics models. It
2-day
works in conjunction with PowerLog, using log curves from a PowerLog well as input and
Prerequisites generating output curves that are written back to the PowerLog project. This two-day
PowerLog PL-200: Advanced Training or course is designed to teach you to use Rock Physics Module (RPM) effectively through
extensive experience using PowerLog hands-on experience. After a brief discussion of the kinds of petrophysical analysis needed
Software Covered to prepare input data for rock physics modeling, you will build a simple model (that is, an
PowerLog RPM workflow or directed graph). While continually checking the output in PowerLog, you
Rock Physics Module (RPM) will use a variety of strategies to refine the model.
Course Format Key topics include:
Instructor-led
• Conventional petrophysics vs. seismic petrophysics
• Integrating petrophysics and rock physics
• Building a simple RPM workflow (model)
• Checking the RPM results in PowerLog
• Using a predefined workflow to assess the error in the model and crossplots to identify the
source of the error
• Applying various strategies to refine the model, including curve fitting and parameter
tuning to determine optimal settings for input parameters
• Using predefined workflows to calculate bulk density, compressional velocity, shear velocity,
fluid properties, and Gassmann fluid substitution
• Calculating a workflow for multiple wells and zones
• Customizing the display and printing workflows
Learning Objectives
A rock physics model is your key to integrating petrophysical data and seismic data to
arrive at a consistent inversion and accurate rock property volumes. It also enables you
to combine petrophysical data, core data, and reservoir data to generate rock mechanical
properties for applications such as fracturing design and sanding analysis.
Capillary Pressure Petrophysicists.
Training Content
This is a 2-day course that teaches students how to build a saturation model for calculating
Duration (days) water saturation based only on porosity, permeability and height above free water level
2-day
using Capillary Pressure data. The students learn how to load capillary pressure data,
Prerequisites convert laboratory measurements to equivalent reservoir properties, correct the data for
PL-100 PowerLog Basic training. Also, reservoir conditions, compute J-functions, and construct models of saturation vs pressure
some background experience is required and saturation vs height.
on Petrophysics and Capillary Pressure
Software Covered
Learning Objectives
PowerLog The student will learn how to use the Capillary Pressure Module in PowerLog.
Capillary Pressure Importer Upon completion of this course, participants will be familiar with loading capillary pressure
Capillary Pressure Module
data, converting laboratory measurements to equivalent reservoir properties, correcting the
Course Format data and construct and apply capillary pressure models to build reservoir saturation models.
Workshop

Frac This course is intended for Completions engineers and new PowerLog users interested in
fracture modeling.
3-day
PowerLog Frac offers robust tools for on-the-spot analysis of your fracking projects. This
Prerequisites three-day course is intended to introduce the completion engineer or other interested parties
None
to basic petrophysical analysis and interpretation along with the determination of the rock
Software Covered and fluid properties needed for fracture stimulation.
PowerLog Frac
PowerLog FracRAT
Learning Objectives
The first two days will cover basic petrophysical concepts and methods like data loading,
Course Format
Instructor-led
log editing, depth shifting, and computation of water saturation and porosity using
PowerLog. The final day will cover the generation of rock and fluid properties using
FracRAT and the techniques of exporting these properties in customized formats for use in
commercial fracture simulation packages.
Topics include:
• Basic petrophysical workflows for engineers
• Hands-on experience with the new Zone Average Calculator (ZAC)
• Determining rock and fluid properties needed for fracture simulation
• Quickly exporting results for easy integration into fracture modeling platforms
Software: 147
EarthModel FT - Geological Modeling
EM-100 Introduction Audience
to EarthModel® FT New EarthModel FT users that need to construct 3D models and properties.
Content
Duration (days)
3-day This introductory EarthModel FT course includes background information and specific
examples to help you learn the philosophy and functions of the software. EarthModel FT
Prerequisites is a powerful, flexible, and fully integrated geological reservoir modeling and visualization
Basic knowledge about geologic
modeling
software package.
EarthModel FT has tools to perform the following tasks:
Software Covered
EarthModel FT • Basic user interface introduction • Lithology and facies interpretation
Course Format • Structural modeling including building the • Deterministic & stochastic modeling,
Instructor-led fault framework including Sequential Indicator Simulation
• Building the 3D grid mesh and Sequential Gaussian Simulation
Learning Objectives
• Understand how to load and quality control the data
• Build complex structural and 3D model grids
• Use or processes and assistants to rapidly build a model
• How to do property modeling for use in volume computations
EM-110 Introduction Audience

to Low Frequency New EarthModel FT users that need to construct 3D grids to do inversions in Jason .
Modeling using Content
EarthModel FT This course teaches Jason Workbench users how to build solid models and solid model
properties that can be used for low frequency modeling in Jason. Upon completion of the
Duration (days) course, you will be able to create finely tuned solid models that accurately represent the
4-day geologic structure of the reservoir of interest, including clean and orderly truncations of
Prerequisites faults and horizons. EarthModel FT breadth and basic components:
Basic knowledge about geologic • Loading and viewing input data - data • Transforming interval velocities to a low
modeling & inversion organization frequency P-Impedance model
Jason 101
Software Covered
• Introduction to building complex structural • Merging low-frequency P-Impedance model
EarthModel FT and Jason Workbench models, make corner point grids with the broadband P-Impedance model
Course Format • Velocity data preparation, conditioning and
Instructor-led interpolating velocities
Learning Objectives
• Understand how to load and quality control the data
• Build complex structural and 3D model grids
• Using 3D grids in low-frequency models
Training Offer
“I can’t believe how much

information I have learned in just
2 days, thank you so much!”
Field Courses
The GeoTraining Petroleum Training Centre offers technical specialists the opportunity
to take part in a range of UK and international field trips covering all aspects of
petroleum geology. The programs include an introduction to outcrop analysis; source,
reservoir, seal or trap analogue studies.
The excursions can be used to introduce geoscientists to outcrop analogues of fields
that they are currently operating and enable them to put production issues into context.
They can also be very effective team-building exercises. GeoTraining experience extends
into almost all petroleum provinces worldwide, providing access to specialists capable
of answering many production and exploration questions.
The field courses can be combined with introductory programs.
Europe - UK 149
• Arid Shallow-Marine Carbonate Environments in North-East England, UK 150
• Basin-Fill Carbonates and Evaporites in Southern England, UK 150
• Basin-Fill Sedimentation on the Isles of Raasay and Skye, Scotland, UK 151
• Braided Rivers and Shallow-Marine Carbonates and Evaporites in Northern England, UK 151
• Carbonate Reef Facies of the Craven District, Northern England, UK 152
• Carbonate Reefs and Facies Models in Derbyshire, Northern England, UK 152
• Deltaic Reservoir Geology, South Wales, UK 153
• Fluvial and Aeolian Reservoirs of the East Irish Sea Basin, Wales and NW England, UK 153
• Integrated Clastic Reservoir Description in North East England, UK 154
• Introduction to Depositional Environments, South-West England, UK 154
• Tropical Carbonates of Anglesey, North Wales, UK 155
• Lower Carboniferous Shallow-Marine Limestone of the Great Orme, North Wales, UK 155
• Marine Clays and Fluvio-Deltaic Sands in Yorkshire, North-East England, UK 156
• Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Reservoirs and Source Rocks, South-West England, UK 156
• Shale Gas Source Rocks in Derbyshire, Northern England, UK 157
• Subduction and Deformation on Anglesey, North Wales, UK 157
• Terrestrial to Basinal Environments and Structural Geology in South-West England, UK 158
• Subtropical Clastic Reservoirs in North-East Scotland, UK 158
Europe - France
• Extension and Inversion in the French Alps 159
• Turbidite Systems of the French Maritime Alps 159
• Clastic Basin-Fill Sedimentation in the Pyrenees 160
Europe - Spain
• Shelf and Terrestrial Clastics and Carbonates in the Cantabrian Mountains, Spain 161
Europe - Greece
• Petroleum Systems in Western Greece 162
Europe - Middle East
• Carbonate Reservoir Geology of Oman 163
• Shallow-Marine and Continental Palaeozoic Reservoirs of Oman 163
USA
• Sequence Stratigraphy of the Book Cliffs of Utah, USA 164
Africa
• Rift Basin Geology, Kenya 165
• Rift Sedimentation in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco 165
Training Offer
Arid Shallow- Content

Marine Carbonate The famous Permian rocks along the coast of north-east England comprise a sequence
of limestone, anhydrite, halite and desert sands deposited when this region lay at
Environments in around 20ºN. These outcrops give us a window on lagoonal, reef and platform carbonate
North-East England, depositional environments and processes, and illustrate the role of eustasy as a dominant
UK control. Some of the units to be observed are equivalent to reservoir units of the Southern
North Sea hydrocarbon province.
Duration (days)
3-day This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our Carbonate Reservoir Geology
and Integrated Sequence Stratigraphy courses.
Course Format
Field excursion
Basin-Fill Carbonates Content

and Evaporites in The association of evaporites and carbonates in arid environments can result in reservoir
and seal facies in close proximity, as in the Middle East. Evaporites and carbonates
Southern England, deposited in extensive shallow lagoons during the late Jurassic are exposed along the
UK Dorset coast in southern England, where a shallowing-up succession can be investigated
from basin-centre evaporites through ooid shoals, algal tidal flats and sabkhas to
Duration (days) palaeosols. This region is distinguished by the exceptional preservation of fossil forest
2-day
environments. The preservation of the trees allows us to investigate the nature of the
Course Format hinterland environment and climatic conditions governing the carbonate—evaporite
Field excursion system.
This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our Carbonate Reservoir Geology
course.
Field Courses: 151
Europe - United Kingdom
Basin-Fill Content
Sedimentation on The rugged islands of the Inner Hebrides, western Scotland, include some of the most
spectacular natural scenery in the UK. Their geology is beautifully displayed in extensive
the Isles of Raasay coastal outcrops that illustrate a complete basin fill history that has parallels in all the
and Skye, Scotland, basins of the Atlantic seaboard. Details of potential Jurassic reservoirs, source rocks and
UK tilted fault block traps are explained in detail and the course also includes Palaeogene
intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks that were emplaced in the early phases of creation of
Duration (days) the North Atlantic.
3-day
This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Clastic Reservoir
Course Format Geology, Rift Basins or Basin Analysis.
Field excursion
Braided Rivers and Content

Shallow-Marine West Cumbria in northern England, comprising a series of Permo-Triassic sandstones and
limestones and parts of the Zechstein evaporite series, exhibits some of the best karstic
Carbonates and and mineralisation features in the UK. Localities visited illustrate the evolution of classic
Evaporites in sandy braided river sequences and the association of carbonates and evaporites as reservoir
Northern England, and seal units. This trip also provides the opportunity to view the Pennine fault system,
UK which formed during the Hercynian Orogeny and represents a major control on the structure
of northern England; Ordovician volcanics of the Borrowdale Group, thought to represent
Duration (days) the remains of a volcanic island arc; and the last working deep iron ore mine in Western
3-day Europe.
Course Format This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our Carbonate Reservoir Geology
Field excursion course.
Training Offer
Carbonate Reef Content

Facies of the Craven Rocks of the Craven District in Northern England are instructive in illustrating structurally-
controlled facies variations within the Lower Carboniferous marine carbonate geology of
District, Northern northern England. Reefs accumulated in fluctuating marine environments, with interbeds
England, UK of shale reflecting periodic low energy sedimentation in deeper marine environments and
interbeds of well sorted crinoid debris reflecting higher energy periods associated with
Duration (days) shallower marine environments. Karstic surfaces reflect periods of Emergence with boulder
2-day
beds representing erosion. The extensive carbonate exposures also contain an abundance of
Course Format marine fossil faunas useful for biostratigraphic correlation.
Field excursion
and Integrated Sequence Stratigraphy courses.
Carbonate Reefs and Content

Facies Models in The rolling moorlands of the south eastern Peak District in central England exhibit a
succession of Viséan shelf, reef and lagoonal carbonate lithologies that have been subject
Derbyshire, Northern to significant quarrying, providing extensive exposures of limestone cyclothems. The cyclic
England, UK nature of the succession, which formed in Equatorial conditions, illustrates how sequence
stratigraphy can be applied to carbonate systems and the dominance of eustatic sea level
Duration (days) variation as a control on sedimentary deposition.
3-5-day
This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Carbonate Reservoir
Course Format
Field excursion Geology or Integrated Sequence Stratigraphy.
Field Courses: 153
Deltaic Reservoir Content
Geology, South The Carboniferous sandstones and siltstones of coastal Tenby in South Wales were
deposited in a range of Equatorial deltaic depositional environments. Participants will
Wales, UK gain an understanding of sedimentary structures and processes with applications to
reservoir geology. The successions exposed in the Tenby area also allow for biostratigraphic
Duration (days)
2–3-day correlation of goniatite faunas.
Course Format This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Clastic Reservoir
Field excursion Geology or Fluvial-Deltaic Reservoirs.
Fluvial and Aeolian Content

Reservoirs of the The fluvial and aeolian Permo-Triassic reservoirs of the East Irish Sea Basin have proven
accumulations of both oil and gas. These sediments, which represent facies equivalents
East Irish Sea Basin, to major gas-bearing intervals in the North Sea, are exposed onshore along with the
Wales and NW underlying Carboniferous limestones in some of the most picturesque areas of Britain: North
England, UK Wales, Cheshire, and Cumbria. This field trip provides a unique opportunity to study aeolian
and low-sinuosity fluvial environments in three-dimensional exposure.
Duration (days)
3-4-day This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Clastic Reservoir
Geology or Fluvial-Deltaic Reservoirs or our Exploration Workshop.
Course Format
Field excursion
Training Offer
Integrated Content
Clastic Reservoir This excursion is designed to sample a range of clastic depositional environments, including
shallow marine, fluvio-deltaic and aeolian, from a range of localities including classic
Description in North Permian, Carboniferous and Jurassic sequences. These deposits showcase a wide range of
East England, UK depositional processes, ranging from unidirectional and bidirectional to oscillatory and
combined flow bedforms, water-borne and windblown. The overall aims of the excursion
Duration (days) are to observe, describe and interpret the depositional processes and environments, create
5-10-day
appropriate depositional and sequence stratigraphic models, consider the implications for
Course Format reservoir quality and sand body architecture and visualise the likely expression of these
Field excursion sequences in wireline logs and seismic. All of the sequences visited provide analogues to
equivalent Strata in the Southern North Sea hydrocarbon province.
Geology, Fluvial-deltaic Depositional Systems and Integrated Sequence Stratigraphy.
Introduction to Content
Depositional The south-west coast of England is famous for its rolling landscapes and its spectacular
exposures of folded sedimentary Strata. This field trip covers an almost complete
Environments, stratigraphic section from the Devonian to the Cenozoic, with examples of almost every
South-West England, major depositional environment: deltaic and marine sandstones and shales, conglomerates,
UK alluvial fans, lake sediments, fluvial and aeolian red beds, and restricted, shallow marine,
pelagic and freshwater limestones.
Duration (days)
3-day This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Clastic Reservoir
Geology, Fluvial-deltaic Depositional Systems, and Carbonate Reservoir Geology.
Course Format
Field excursion
Field Courses: 155
Tropical Carbonates Content
of Anglesey, North The carbonate geology of the Isle of Anglesey in North West Wales is both beautiful
and instructive. The Lower Carboniferous Dinantian carbonates of the Clwyd Group
Wales, UK provide an excellent opportunity to study the role of eustatic sea level in carbonate
deposition. They comprise a well-exposed succession of tropical cyclothems, illustrating
Duration (days)
1-day cycles of depositional environments from shoals to open marine shelf, with periods of
Emergence marked by palaeokarstic surfaces and local dolomitisation. The cycles reflect
Course Format climate variations and the advance and retreat of polar ice during the Carboniferous. The
Field excursion
carbonates of Anglesey also host an abundance of marine fossils and some interesting
structural features. This trip can also be combined with our “Subduction and Deformation
on Anglesey, North Wales” field trip for a complete structural and sedimentological picture
of the area.
This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Carbonate Reservoir
Geology, Integrated Sequence Stratigraphy or our Exploration Workshop.
Lower Carboniferous Content

Shallow-Marine Spectacular cyclothems of Asbian to Brigantian limestones are exposed on the Great Orme
peninsula in Llandudno, North Wales. These rocks were deposited on a shallow carbonate
Limestone of the shelf during the later stages of the Lower Carboniferous transgression, and display the
Great Orme, North well-bedded cyclicity characteristic of shallow-water carbonate factories. The shallowing
Wales, UK up succession is capped by karst and the deposition of calcareous sandstone in a shoreface
setting. Dolomitised and mineralised fractures are in evidence, as are a range of fossil
Duration (days) biotas. This trip can also be combined with one or both of our Anglesey field trips for a
1-day fuller picture of Carboniferous geology.
Course Format This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our Carbonate Reservoir Geology
Field excursion
course or our Exploration Workshop.
Training Offer
Marine Clays and Content

Fluvio-Deltaic Sands The Jurassic outcrops of North Yorkshire illustrate the roles of fluctuating eustatic sea level
and regional tectonics on clastic Mesozoic stratigraphy. They include both reservoir and
in Yorkshire, North- source rocks and are in part age and facies equivalent to the Jurassic reservoir and source
East England, UK rock geology of the North Sea Basin, exhibiting outcrops of the widely studied Kimmeridge
and Oxford Clays, the Lias Group and the Toarcian Mudstones around the Scarborough and
Duration (days) Whitby areas. Unique coastal outcrops that clearly demonstrate the reservoir sand body
3-day
geometries and connectivities of fluvio-deltaic reservoirs are a highlight of this course,
Course Format as is the Whitby Mudstone Formation, which contains some of the most spectacular fossil
Field excursion fauna in the UK.
Geology or Fluvial-deltaic Depositional Systems.
Palaeozoic and Content

Mesozoic Reservoirs The Jurassic Coast of south-west England, a World Heritage site that includes spectacular
outcrops of Devonian to Cretaceous sediments, is the focus of this course. An almost
and Source Rocks, continuous sequence that reflects local tectonic and eustatic sea level variations includes
South-West England, reservoir rocks from a wealth of depositional settings: fluvio-deltaic, lacustrine, shallow
UK marine, shelfal and deep marine basinal. This excursion also provides the opportunity to
view extensive world class outcrops of Kimmeridge Clay source rocks.
Duration (days)
4-7-day This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our Clastic Reservoir Geology and
Fluvial-deltaic Depositional Systems courses.
Course Format
Field excursion
Field Courses: 157
Shale Gas Source Content
Rocks in Derbyshire, In the Lower Carboniferous, rifting in the area of Central/Northern England produced a
number of sub-basins that were subsequently filled by giant delta systems prograding from
Northern England, the north. A transgression in the middle Carboniferous resulted in the deposition of the
UK Bowland Shale, now a prolific shale gas source rock, across Northern England. This trip
to the picturesque Peak National Park is an unusual opportunity to view the shale in its
Duration (days) stratigraphic and depositional context. We traverse the entirety of the Dinantian/Namurian
2-day
succession, from the initial algal-reef carbonates through the Bowland Shales into
Course Format turbidites, delta-slope facies, and finally marginal marine interdistributary channels.
Field excursion
This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Unconventionals,
Shale Gas, Clastic Reservoir Geology, Carbonate Reservoir Geology or Fluvial-Deltaic
Reservoirs.
Subduction and Content

Deformation on The Precambrian subduction of Laurentia beneath Gondwana and closure of the Iapetus
Ocean has resulted in exposures of an ophiolitic melange, blueschists and volcanics. The
Anglesey, North outstanding exposures of Precambrian and Palaeozoic successions on Holyhead Island,
Wales, UK Western Anglesey, display spectacular examples of polydeformed metamorphosed turbiditic
sequences with large antiforms and associated minor structures (e.g. minor fold asymmetry
Duration (days) and crenulation cleavage). This trip offers an opportunity to study an ancient subduction
1-day
zone and to unravel the complex deformation history experienced by the sediments
Course Format deposited in a forearc basin.
Field excursion
This field trip can also be combined with our “Tropical Carbonates of Anglesey, North
Wales” field trip, and can be delivered in conjunction with our Structural Geology course or
our Exploration Workshop.
Training Offer Field Courses:
Terrestrial to Basinal Content
Environments and The outstanding coastal sections of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall in south-west England
comprise exceptional exposures of sedimentary rocks deposited in a variety of settings,
Structural Geology in from fluvial and lacustrine to shallow marine shelfal and deep marine basinal. These rocks
South-West England, represent the most complete exposure of the Upper Carboniferous Culm Basin succession.
UK The exposures also display a diverse range of structural features that provide valuable
information about fault geometries and fold development relating to increasing basin
Duration (days) extension and later contraction.
5-day
This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Structural Geology,
Course Format Clastic Reservoir Geology or Basin Analysis.
Field excursion
Subtropical Clastic Content

Reservoirs in North- The coastal margin exposures of the Moray Firth basin, north-east Scotland, include
important outcrops of Permo-Triassic to Jurassic sediments deposited in sub-tropical
East Scotland, UK aeolian, fluvial and marine environments. The reservoir and source-rock potential of these
rocks is equivalent to that of the Mesozoic Strata of the prolific North Sea hydrocarbon
Duration (days)
3-day province. The Strata display a diverse range of sedimentary and diagenetic structures, as
well as Caledonian fold systems and tetrapod trace fossils. The more recent effects of basin
Course Format faulting on sedimentation patterns and mineralisation may also be observed.
Field excursion
This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our Clastic Reservoir Geology.
Field Courses: 159
Europe - France
Extension and The complex tectonic history of the French Alps is beautifully exposed in the Briançonnais
Zone. Extensional features in the external zone reveal how a complex series of fault-
Inversion in the controlled sub-basins controlled the deposition of Mesozoic marine carbonates and shales.
French Alps We then travel towards the core of compression to investigate changes in structural style
with increasing deformation. The structures evident in this region provide insight into how
Duration (days) basin-forming structures can be inverted and deformed during periods of compression.
5-day
This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Structural Geology,
Course Format
Field excursion Rift Basins or Basin Analysis.
Turbidite Systems of Content

the French Maritime The Eocene—Oligocene deep-water turbidites exposed in the spectacular Peira Cave—
Contes and Annot regions of the French Maritime Alps provide an excellent analogue to
Alps some of the more prolific oil and gas reservoirs of the North Sea. These deposits share both
facies types and sedimentological characteristics with the North Sea rocks, and allow a
Duration (days)
4-day detailed, close-up examination of the evolution of such depositional systems, as well as an
excellent opportunity to investigate the effects of basin-floor topography on deep-water
Course Format sedimentation.
Field excursion
Geology or Deepwater Turbidites.
Europe - France
Clastic Basin-Fill Content
Sedimentation in the The exceptional exposures of the southern Pyrenees exhibit Eocene to Miocene sedimentary
basin fill deposits of predominantly clastic material, deposited in a range of continental
Pyrenees to shelfal and marine depositional settings. Also to be examined are the complex Late
Cretaceous to Pliocene extensional and compressional structures and their relation to
Duration (days)
5-day sedimentation patterns. The quality of exposure allows for sand body geometry and
connectivity to be examined in 3 dimensions, providing an analogue for some of the
Course Format producing units of the Central Graben of the North Sea petroleum system.
Field excursion
Geology or Structural Geology.
Field Courses: 161
Europe - Spain
Shelf and Terrestrial Content
Clastics and The Cantabrian Mountains of Northern Spain are known for their spectacular outcrops
of Palaeozoic clastic and carbonate rocks. From the Cambrian to the Upper Devonian,
Carbonates in calcareous sediments were deposited here in relatively shallow water on the continental
the Cantabrian shelf. Trilobites, corals and brachiopods are all in evidence. During the Variscan Orogeny
Mountains, Spain in the Carboniferous, this region underwent a transition from marine to continental
sedimentation. Strike slip tectonics exerts an influence on sedimentation patterns
Duration (days) during the late Carboniferous, resulting in the preservation of a thick succession of
5–7-day clastic sediments deposited in a variety of continental environments. A well preserved
Course Format palaeotopography with deeply incised palaeovalleys preserves proximal red bed alluvial fan
Field excursion and fluvial deposits. Coal beds and lacustrine sediments also abound in this part of the
succession, indicating warm, humid climate conditions with an abundance of vegetation.
Geology or Carbonate Reservoir Geology.
Europe - Greece
Petroleum Systems Content
in Western Greece The fold and thrust belt of the external Hellenides in western Greece comprises sedimentary
successions of Mesozoic carbonates and Cenozoic clastics with source and reservoir
Duration (days) potential. Faulted anticlinal trap structures associated with the Cenozoic collision of the
5-day Apulian (African) and Eurasian plates complete the petroleum system. Thus, the regional
Course Format
geology provides an overview of petroleum systems, demonstrating important aspects of
Field excursion the relationships between tectonics, sea level and stratigraphy.
This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our Structural Geology course.
Field Courses: 163
Europe - Middle East
Carbonate Reservoir Content
Geology of Oman The striking geology of the Oman Mountains comprises Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic
carbonate successions that illustrate in detail the effect of sea level on carbonate
Duration (days) deposition and are known to be prolific producers of oil and gas throughout the Gulf
5-day region. The successions include platform, margin, slope and deep marine carbonates, and
Course Format
the field trip also includes visits to modern examples of reef, lagoon and sabkha facies that
Field excursion have been modified by aeolian and evaporitic processes. The regional geology also displays
structural features of interest, such as the Semail Ophiolite suite, which illustrates the
tectonic development of the Tethyan Margin.
course.
Shallow-Marine Content
and Continental The Huqf Area of eastern Oman is the only area of the country where pre-Permian rocks are
exposed in situ. Here we see glacio-lacustrine, fluvial and shallow marine clastic sediments,
Palaeozoic Reservoirs along with Permian shallow marine mixed carbonate and siliciclastic systems. Further north,
of Oman in the Oman Mountains, the Permian Saiq carbonates, lateral equivalents of the famous
Khuff Formation, are beautifully exposed.
Duration (days)
5-day This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Clastic Reservoir
Geology and Carbonate Reservoir Geology.
Course Format
Field excursion
USA
Sequence Content
Stratigraphy of the The Palaeozoic and Mesozoic sequences of the famous Book Cliffs outcrops of Utah display
beautiful examples of most clastic depositional environments, including fluvio-deltaic,
Book Cliffs of Utah, shoreface, shelf, incised valley, channel and shallow marine sands and muds. This trip
USA offers a world-class opportunity to study the effects of sea-level change on lithology and
architecture. A high-resolution sequence stratigraphic analysis may then be applied to the
Duration (days) understanding of the spatial relations of source, reservoir and seal units within a petroleum
7-day
system.
Course Format
Field excursion This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Integrated Sequence
Stratigraphy, Clastic Reservoir Geology, or Basin Analysis.
Field Courses: 165
Africa
Rift Basin Geology, Content
Kenya This Nairobi-based course is a combination of field trips, class-based workshops and
lectures. The East African rift is an ideal setting to explore the controls on deposition of
Duration (days) source and reservoir facies in a rift-basin setting. Despite the relatively arid climate, this
5-8-day region displays a range of basin hydrologies, with depositional environments ranging from
Course Format
freshwater to hypersaline. The field trip will investigate how controls on source facies type
Field excursion and relationships between structure and reservoir deposition vary in different hydrological
settings. We will also examine microbialite carbonate-silicate reservoir deposition at hot
and cold spring sites. These sites are excellent analogues for the new Pre-Salt plays which
are emerging in the South Atlantic. The class-based workshops and lectures will cover
equivalent relationships in volcanic-poor rift basins, such as Malawi and Tanganyika.
This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Rift Basins or Basin
Analysis.
Rift Sedimentation Content

in the Atlas This field trip takes us from the Tethys to the Atlantic, demonstrating how important the
underlying Palaeozoic units were to the distribution and nature of sedimentation in the
Mountains of Mesozoic. This is a superb example of rift sedimentation, with depositional environments
Morocco ranging from alluvial plains in the early phase to shallow marine and fully marine carbonate
environments. Modern equivalents for the ancient environments are also on display.
Duration (days)
5-7-day This field trip can also be delivered in conjunction with our courses on Rift Basins,
Structural Geology or Basin Analysis.
Course Format
Field excursion
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Training Offer
• Abu Dhabi • Cairo • Dubai • Kuala Lumpur • Massy • Nantes

• Al Khobar • Calgary • The Hague • Llandudno • Moscow • Singapore
• Beijing • Conwy • Houston • London • Muscat • Villahermosa
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For additional information, please contact:

Francois Riff Cell: + 1 713 423 9725
Director, Training Programs for Office: +1 832 351 8155
External Clients, CGG University Email: francois.riff@CGG.com

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GeoTraining

The CGG Integrated Training Offer

An Introduction to CGG GeoTraining

The GeoTraining offer covers many themes including:

CGG GeoTraining leverages the internationally recognized geoscience training and

Seismic Acquisition & Potential Methods......................... 14

Subsurface Imaging ..................................................... 28

Geophysical Interpretation ........................................... 40

Petroleum Geology & Reservoir Engineering..................... 50

Reservoir Characterization & Modeling ............................ 86

Petroleum Management & Economics .............................. 100

Data Management ....................................................... 108

Business Skills ............................................................ 116

Software .................................................................... 124

Field Courses .............................................................. 148

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