Short course information for TSOP - Halifax 2011
|
|
Short course information for TSOP - Halifax 2011
|
|
| Harbour view of downtown Halifax Click image to see larger version
Gold level Core Labs Sproule Southwestern Energy IES GmbH - Schlumberger Silver level CCS Nova Scotia St. Brendan's Exploration Can Soc for Coal & Org Pet Eastrock Resourses Can Assoc of Pet Producers Corridor Resources Pearson Coal Petrography In kind support Global Geoenergy Res Ltd Geological Survey of Can NS Dept of Energy US Geological Survey Can NS Offshore Pet Board
Find information on: Field trip Hotel / Accomodations Registration / Payments Short course Students Technical sessions Program/ Schedule Tours - Spousal / Partner Travel Information Location map Venue / Locale What's new Next Year's Meeting TSOP Homepage Page last modified 25-May-11 |
Course abstract for 'Shale Gas Geochemistry' By Dan Jarvie: There are various controls on whether a shale or closely associated lithofacies will yield commercial amounts of hydrocarbons, either oil or gas. These controls range from geochemical criteria to factors that impact stimulation and drilling costs. This course focuses on basic techniques and applications of organic geochemistry to the assessment of shale resource systems, whether shale gas or shale oil systems. Ultimately the goal is to provide the essential geochemical knowledge to assess such plays for their gas or oil prospectivity. Shale gas resource systems have had a dramatic impact on energy resources in North America and geochemistry has played a significant role in their evolution. Understanding of gas generation, thermal maturity and the role of organics in gas storage have been key points that have aided development efforts of these low porosity, ultra-low permeability systems. However, a paradigm shift in unconventional shale resource systems occurred in 2008 due in large part to the great success of independent oil and gas companies in finding massive amounts of producible shale gas in North America. With a premium on liquid hydrocarbons, the shift was to onshore, unconventional shale oil resource systems. As with shale gas resource systems, shale oil systems demonstrate considerable variation and production results bear witness to disparities among various system types depending on select characteristics, which can be dramatically different from shale gas resource systems. Course abstract for 'Shale Gas Modelling' By Thomas Hantschel and/or Bjorn Wygrala: Petroleum systems modeling technology which has been developed during the last decades to support exploration decisions for conventional hydrocarbons is increasingly being applied to unconventionals. The basic processes of oil and gas generation are identical in conventional and unconventional systems, so quantifying maturation and the resulting petroleum products for unconventionals is an obvious application. This enables, for example, predictions to be made of whether oil or gas is more likely to occur. Improved workflows enable this to be done very efficiently and even in areas with sparse or no data, providing more accurate resource assessments, which are fully auditable and can be performed within an uncertainty analysis framework. In addition to applications for resource assessments for unconventionals, new technical developments in petroleum systems modeling enable additional tasks to be performed which go beyond maturation predictions. These include assessments of gas contents, modeling of short-distance oil and gas migration, and the determination of stress/strain histories using geomechanics simulators in dynamic geological models. Case studies and models from major shale gas and oil plays will be used to demonstrate application workflows and their value. |
Welcome to Halifax...
Enjoy your time with us in Atlantic Canada's gateway port situated on our beautiful east coast. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||