Operations Geology

Upon completion of the course, the participants will be able to:

• Recognise safety considerations in drilling a well.
• Understand the rig and engineering basics.
• Appreciate the role of the Operations Geologist and the other technical roles in operations.
• Acquire an understanding of drilling problems caused by subsurface conditions.
• Understand the role and contributions of the geologist to the well maturation process:
  • Identify data acquisition essentials, the cost and value of information
  • Recognize shallow and deep hazards
  • Get to know what contributions are critical to the pore pressure prediction
  • Provide input into the well design
• Familiarise themselves with wellsite data and drilling reports such as:
  • Quick-look analysis to assess reservoir and hydrocarbons
  • Mudlog data (lithology / cutting description, gas readings, core)
  • Coring
  • Data management and input

The course will benefit professionals such as Explorationists, Development, Production and Well-site Geoscientists who are new to operations / wellsite geology as well as Well Engineers who would like a deeper subsurface understanding on the operations geology responsibilities and content.

• Basic
• Intermediate

Your expert course leader has spent 28 years in the Energy and Mining industries, including 20 years with Shell in Exploration, Development and Carbon Sequestration / New Energies groups. She has played a key role in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico oil discoveries and gas discoveries in Asia.

Within Shell, she was an Operations Geology Subject Matter Expert. She has explored and developed opportunities onshore and offshore in the US, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Her experience has covered high temperature / high pressure wells, both vertical and deviated, in a variety of subsurface conditions and strata. The first seven years of her career was in the mining industry with Phelps Dodge and Placer Dome primarily exploring for gold, copper and zinc. Her M.S. is from Colorado School of Mines with a B.A. in both economics and geology from Lawrence University.

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