Geochemical Course Offering

Introductory Level Course

Practical Aspects of Petroleum Geochemistry for Conventional and Resource Plays

This introductory course can be tailored to students with either 1) a minimal background in applied petroleum geochemistry, or 2) a working familiarity with source rock and fluid analyses. In the latter case, instructors would go directly to sampling, analytical, and interpretation caveats and, most importantly, pitfalls. We have often presented this course in a 2-day format:

Day One — covers the background topics summarized below.

Day Two — integrates these background discussions with GeoMark-generated client reports and ancillary data. This results in a real-time integration (and perhaps reinterpretation) of our previous work within the geological and geophysical context of the specific use case.

Module	Course Content
Source Rock Evaluation Quantity, quality, and thermal maturity of organic matter to predict hydrocarbon type(s) and yield	Brief review of organic material productivity and preservation, depositional environments, and resulting kerogen types Sampling considerations, usage, and pitfalls of TOC/Rock-Eval™/HAWK™/visual kerogen/Ro
Crude Oil Geochemistry & Correlation	Liquid chromatography (including SARA), gas chromatography, GC-MS, GC-MSMS (aka QQQ), and stable carbon isotopes Cluster analysis/principal components analysis to identify oil families, petroleum systems, and source-reservoir relationships
Natural Gas Geochemistry	Molecular composition vs. carbon isotopes Wet vs. dry gas; thermogenic vs. microbial gas Mud gas isotope analysis to identify source maturity, organofacies, and potential reservoir compartments and completion intervals
Integration of Rock, Oil and Gas Geochemical Data	Utility of diamondoids and carotenoids in complementing more standard data Identification of subtle migration and HC alteration events The Petroleum System in 4 dimensions Geochemical parameters required for successful unconventional and conventional resource plays

Module

Course Content

Source Rock Evaluation

Quantity, quality, and thermal maturity of organic matter to predict hydrocarbon type(s) and yield

Brief review of organic material productivity and preservation, depositional environments, and resulting kerogen types
Sampling considerations, usage, and pitfalls of TOC/Rock-Eval™/HAWK™/visual kerogen/Ro

Crude Oil Geochemistry & Correlation

Liquid chromatography (including SARA), gas chromatography,
GC-MS, GC-MSMS (aka QQQ), and stable carbon isotopes
Cluster analysis/principal components analysis to identify oil families, petroleum systems, and source-reservoir relationships

Natural Gas Geochemistry

Molecular composition vs. carbon isotopes
Wet vs. dry gas; thermogenic vs. microbial gas
Mud gas isotope analysis to identify source maturity, organofacies, and potential reservoir compartments and completion intervals

Integration of Rock, Oil and Gas Geochemical Data

Utility of diamondoids and carotenoids in complementing more standard data
Identification of subtle migration and HC alteration events
The Petroleum System in 4 dimensions
Geochemical parameters required for successful unconventional and conventional resource plays

Additional Modules – designed to further integration with petroleum engineering and geophysical disciplines of our industry

Module	Course Content
Time-Lapse Geochemistry Module	Insight into not only where the hydrocarbon fluids came from, but also how they changed through time
PVT Module Integration with Production Engineering	Basic concepts, including: Phase equilibria, bubble point, dew point, and multi-phase flow in reservoirs Degree of undersaturation and reservoir management considerations Use of petroleum geochemistry to derive PVT relationships across a region
Petrophysics	Summary of applications for multiple, common well log types (e.g. gamma ray, spectral gamma ray, resistivity, density and neutron porosity wireline logs) for deterministic lithology, porosity, and fluid saturation evaluation. Brief introduction to appropriate models for sandstone, shaly sand and carbonate lithologies and their challenges Application to resource plays and integration with petroleum geochemistry Click here to access additional petrophysical courses

Module

Course Content

Time-Lapse Geochemistry Module

Insight into not only where the hydrocarbon fluids came from,
but also how they changed through time

PVT Module

Integration with Production Engineering

Basic concepts, including:

Phase equilibria, bubble point, dew point, and multi-phase flow in reservoirs
Degree of undersaturation and reservoir management considerations
Use of petroleum geochemistry to derive PVT relationships across a region

Petrophysics

Summary of applications for multiple, common well log types (e.g. gamma ray, spectral gamma ray, resistivity, density and neutron porosity wireline logs) for deterministic lithology, porosity, and fluid saturation evaluation.
Brief introduction to appropriate models for sandstone, shaly sand and carbonate lithologies and their challenges
Application to resource plays and integration with petroleum geochemistry

Click here to access additional petrophysical courses

Introductory Level Course

Practical Aspects of Petroleum Geochemistry for Conventional and Resource Plays

Module

Course Content

Source Rock Evaluation

Crude Oil Geochemistry & Correlation

Natural Gas Geochemistry

Integration of Rock, Oil and Gas Geochemical Data

Additional Modules – designed to further integration with petroleum engineering and geophysical disciplines of our industry

Module

Course Content

Time-Lapse Geochemistry Module

PVT Module

Petrophysics