Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of exploration geology. It covers the petroleum industry and the fundamental aspects of full life cycle of oil and gas industry; the oil and gas exploration in international business; the primary and secondary structures and petroleum relationship; the rock types and petroleum relationship covering igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks; and the petroleum systems process including its origin, formation, migration and accumulation. During this interactive course, participants will learn the petroleum systems elements that include oil and gas source rocks, oil and gas cap rocks and oil and gas reservoirs; the exploration methods for oil and gas consisting of surface geology, geophysical methods, geochemical methods and drilling methods; the prospect generation and evaluation including its definition, the play concept, subsurface integration, generation delineation plan and prospect and play evaluation process; the formation evaluation including well-sitting evaluation, petrophysics evaluation and core analysis evaluation; and reservoir characterization through its definition and workflow.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology before or during the course for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued to participants through Haward’s Portal. This includes Wallet Card Certificates if applicable
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy Training Materials (PDF format) will be issued to participant through the Virtual Training Platform
Training Methodology	:	80% of the program will be theory and 20% will be practical sessions, exercises, case studies, simulators or videos
Training Program	:	The training will be for 4 hours per day starting at 09:30 and ending at 13:30
H-STK Smart Training Kit	:	Not Applicable
Hands-on Practical Workshops	:	Not Applicable
Site Visit	:	Not Applicable
Simulators	:	Only software simulators will be used in the virtual courses. Hardware simulators are not applicable and will not be used in Virtual Training