Cliffs End Farm Isle of Thanet, Kent: A mortuary and ritual site of the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon period with evidence for long-distance maritime mobility
Euan Mearns - The role of hydrocarbons in the energy equation
Euan Mearns and Hugh Macdonald - Oil and gas geopolitics John Paterson - Oil and gas legislative frameworks Stuart Paton and Stuart Archer - Buisness Ethics, Diversity and HSE Stuart Archer - The geography of global petroleum systems David Macdonald - Narnia: a global basin screening exercise Ken Glennie and Stuart Archer - History of North Sea Exploration Stuart Archer - Britannia Area Exploration Exercise Christine Telford - Operations geology short course and trip to Piper Alpha Memorial Mark Cooper - Plate tectonics, basin classification, structure and traps David Macdonald - Basin analysis: including tectonic setting, subsidence, heat flow and sediment routing Randell Stephenson - Potential fields theory David Fairhead - Gravity and Magnetics in todays exploration industry David Macdonald - Regional exploration methodologies and case studies (including the South Atlantic) Andrew Hurst - Frontier exploration exercise Andrew Hurst and Paul Nadeau - The Golden Zone Concept Stuart Archer - Helmsdale & Moray Coast Field Trip Graham Bryce - Seismic acquisition and processing overview David Iacopini - Geophysical interpretation Russell Holroyd (Landmark) - Openworks/Decision Space training
Stuart Archer - Petroleum System Fundamentals
Nick Schofield and Stuart Archer - Introduction to exploration of volcanic continental margins Stuart Archer and Ron Steel - Skye Field Trip Ron Steel - Continental margin scale sequence stratigraphy Trevor Elliot - Sequence stratigraphy for reservoirs, source and seals Doug Boyd - The value of core and core description in exploration Ken Peters - Source rocks and Geochemistry Schlumberger - Petrel Training Stuart Archer - Clastic diagenesis and resevoir quality risking in exploration Giancarlo Rizzi - Exploration for carbonate reservoirs Dave Healy - The deliberate search for fractured reservoirs John Parnell - Fluid inclusions and their use in exploration Single day field trips - Stonehaven, Arbroath, Fife and Ythan Estuary Adrian Hartley - Clastics exercise in the Brae area Dave Jolley - An introduction the use of biostratigraphy in the hydrocarbon industry Rich Callow - The role of ichnology in the construction of depositional models Geoff Page - Petrophysics / well logging Bill Hakes - ODM short course (Senergy's well log correlation package) Ben Kneller - Exploration for deepwater clastics Ian Alsop - Salt tectonics Stuart Archer - Seal rock characterisation in exploration Bill Ashcroft - A petroleum geologists guide to seismic reflection Alan Macgregor - Well to seismic ties and creation of synthetics
Play and Prospect Analysis including
the Size Of The Prize Simulated Licence Round ( 3 months) Peter Rattey and Stuart Archer - Play analysis and common risk segments Tom Levy - Petrel workflows for play analysis Peter Macalister Hall- Prospect risking Hugh Macdonald and Stuart Archer - Volumetrics Hamish Wilson - Nova Scotian Shelf play analysis exercise Stuart Archer - The use of analogues in exploration Ron Steel and Stuart Archer - International field trip to Wyoming and Utah Lucy MacGregor and Gregor Maxwell - CSEM theory and case studies Chris Cornellius - Unconventionals Sandy Petrie - Reservoir engineering in exploration Schlumberger - Techlog training Hugh MacDonald - Petroleum Economics Francis Harper - Corporate exploration strategies Peter Cunningham - Decision making Peter Rhys-Davies - Portfolio Management - Acquisitions and Dispositions Peter Macalister Hall - Research and development awareness Sidney Johnson - Entrepreneurism in the oil industry
MSc Dissertation ( 3 months)
Independent research project with the option of sponsor project design
and collaboration
Legend:
Field Work
Software Training
exploHUBs mission is to provide a unique exploration
training environment that will prepare exploration geoscientists for the challenge of discovering the Earths remaining hydrocarbon rescources.
For more information about exploHUB please contact:
Dr Stuart Archer Director of exploHUB University of Aberdeen Meston Building Aberdeen AB24 3UE Tel: +44 (0)1224 273449 Fax: +44 (0)1224 272785 Email: explohub@abdn.ac.uk
Cliffs End Farm Isle of Thanet, Kent: A mortuary and ritual site of the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon period with evidence for long-distance maritime mobility