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AAPG WINTER EDUCATION CONFERENCE * January 19-23 • Houston, Texas

*DEEP-WATER SANDS, INTEGRATED STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS - A WORKSHOP USING MULTIPLE DATA SETS
• January 19-21 • John M. Armentrout.....................................................................................................................................................44
*RISK ANALYSIS FOR DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS • January 19-21 • James A. MacKay, Mark McLane .............................................44
*INTEGRATED EXPLORATION AND EVALUATION OF FRACTURED RESERVOIRS • January 19-20 • Ronald Nelson.................................45
*PRACTICAL MAPPING OF SURFACES, PROPERTIES, AND VOLUMES FOR RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; PRINCIPLES,
METHODS, CASE STUDIES, AND WORKFLOWS • January 19-20 • Jeffrey Yarus ................................................................................45
*ESSENTIALS OF SUBSURFACE MAPPING • January 21 • Richard Banks ...................................................................................................45
*CREATIVITY IN EXPLORATION • January 21 • Edward (Ted) Beaumont ......................................................................................................46
*WELL COMPLETIONS & INTERVENTIONS • January 22-23 • George E. King.............................................................................................46
*COALBED METHANE • January 22-23 • John P. Seidle, George Hampton ...................................................................................................46
*INTERPRETATION OF SEISMIC DATA IN A REGIONAL CONTEXT: DEVELOPING FRONTIER EXPLORATION OPPORTUNITIES
• January 22 • Albert Bally, Gabor Tari.....................................................................................................................................................46
*CARBONATE RESERVOIR GEOLOGY • January 22-23 • Jerry Lucia, Charles Kerans, Bob Loucks ............................................................46
*ENERGY DISSIPATION AND THE FUNDAMENTAL SHAPES OF SEDIMENTARY BODIES – LECTURE &POSTER
• January 23 • John Van Wagoner...........................................................................................................................................................47

EFFECTIVELY DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING INTERNATIONAL ENERGY PROJECTS IN TODAY’S

ENVIRONMENT • March 5 • London, England, with APPEX meeting • Tom O’Connor..........................................................................................47
RESERVOIR ENGINEERING FOR PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS • April 17-18 • Dallas, Texas, with AAPG
Annual Meeting • Richard G. Green, William Kazmann...........................................................................................................................................47
E&P METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES: SELECTION AND APPLICATIONS • April 22-24 • Dallas, Texas, with
AAPG Annual Meeting • Alistair R. Brown, Rich Chambers, Akhil Datta-Gupta, Fred Hilterman, Martin P.A. Jackson,
John Johnson, James A. MacKay, Dave Marschall, Jory Pacht, Rawdon Seager, David A. Wavrek .....................................................................47
SILICICLASTIC SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY • May 13-14 • Houston, Texas • Henry W. Posamentier ................................................................48
HIGH-RESOLUTION WELL-LOG SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY — APPLICATION TO EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION
• May 17-21 • Denver, Colorado • C. Robertson Handford, Jeffrey A. May............................................................................................................48
QUANTIFICATION OF RISK - PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION • May 24-27 • San Antonio,
Texas • Gary Citron, James A. MacKay....................................................................................................................................................................49
INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY • June 21-23 • Denver,
Colorado • Susan M. Landon...................................................................................................................................................................................49
GIANT OIL AND GAS FIELDS: GLOBAL INVENTORIES, TECTONIC SETTINGS, STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK, AND PREDICTIVE
PARAMETERS • July 8-9 • Austin, Texas • Paul Mann, Myron (Mike) Horn, C. Robertson Handford...................................................................49
GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION FOR OIL AND GAS: STRATEGIES FOR DOUBLING EXPLORATION SUCCESS WHILE HALVING ITS COST
• July 19-20 • Denver, Colorado • Dietmar Schumacher, Leonard LeSchack.........................................................................................................50
BASIC WELL LOG ANALYSIS • August 10-13 • Austin, Texas • George B. Asquith, Daniel A. Krygowski ............................................................50
ADVANCED RISK ANALYSIS AND PROSPECT EVALUATION • August 23-24 • Dallas, Texas • William Haskett ..................................................50
PORE PRESSURE PREDICTION • September 1-2 • Aberdeen, Scotland, UK • Richard Swarbrick, Martin Traugott............................................51
DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS AND SEQUENCES IN THE PREDICTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SANDSTONE RESERVOIRS
• September 16-17 • San Antonio, Texas • William E. Galloway.............................................................................................................................51
GEOLOGICAL INSIGHTS IN SEISMIC INTERPRETATION • October 4-5 • Houston, Texas • Donald A. Herron, Timothy E. Smith............................51
STRUCTURAL STYLES AND HYDROCARBON TRAPS IN COMPRESSIVE BASINS • October 9-10 • Denver,
Colorado, with SEG Annual Meeting • Shankar Mitra .............................................................................................................................................52
INTEGRATED EXPLORATION AND EVALUATION OF FRACTURED RESERVOIRS • October 23-24 • Cancun,
Mexico, with AAPG International Meeting • Ronald Nelson....................................................................................................................................52
DEEP-WATER SANDS, INTEGRATED STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS - A WORKSHOP USING MULTIPLE DATA SETS
• October 22-24 • Cancun, Mexico, with AAPG International Meeting • John M. Armentrout...............................................................................52
PRACTICAL SALT TECTONICS • October 22-24 • Cancun, Mexico, with AAPG International Meeting • Mark G. Rowan ....................................52

For instructor biographies, see the AAPG Web site • Short course descriptions start on page 44

Acknowledgments: AAPG expresses our appreciation to EMGI at Brookhaven College, Colorado School of
Mines and Landmark Graphics for use of their training facilities in 2003.
On the cover: Deadhorse Point State Park, Utah. AAPG photo by Ron Denton.
 FIELD COURSES
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NEW! THE FUNDAMENTALS OF COALBED METHANE EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION IN FLUVIAL-DELTAIC DEPOSITIONAL
SYSTEMS • May 2-7 • Salt Lake City, Utah • George Hampton, John Seidle, James R. Garrison, Jr..........................................................43
NEW! FUNDAMENTALS OF THE SEISMIC SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF FLUVIAL-DELTAIC AND TURBIDITIC DEPOSITIONAL
SYSTEMS • May 16-22 • Salt Lake City, Utah • John M. Armentrout, James R. Garrison, Jr. ....................................................................43
NEW! DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF FLUVIAL-DELTAIC DEPOSITS: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESERVOIR
DELINEATION, DESCRIPTION, AND CHARACTERIZATION • May 23-29 • Salt Lake City, Utah • James R. Garrison, Jr. ...........................43

For instructor biographies, see the AAPG Web site • Field course descriptions start on page 43

FIELD SEMINARS
CARBONATES
CARBONATE RESERVOIRS: PHYSICAL REALITY MEETS VIRTUAL REALITY IN MIDDLE EASTERN CARBONATES • March 2-6
• Begins and ends in Muscat, Oman • Frans van Buchem, J. M. Daniel, Peter Homewood, Henk Droste,............................................................36
CONTROLS ON POROSITY TYPES AND DISTRIBUTION IN CARBONATE RESERVOIRS • June 13-18 • Almeria Region, SE Spain,
begins and ends in Las Negres, Spain. Fly from London/Barcelona/Madrid. • Evan K. Franseen, Robert H. Goldstein, Mateu Esteban ..............36
SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND RESERVOIR DISTRIBUTION IN A MODERN CARBONATE PLATFORM, BAHAMAS
• June 21-26 • Begins and ends in Miami, Florida. • Gregor P. Eberli, G. Michael Grammer, Paul M. (Mitch) Harris ...........................................36
CRETACEOUS CARBONATE RESERVOIRS & SOURCE ROCKS: GOLDEN LANE/POZA RICA TREND-CLASSIC TERTIARY TYPE
LOCALITIES: TAMPICO/MISANTLA BASIN-MODERN PATCH REEFS: VERACRUZ/ANTON LIZARDO, MEXICO
• Oct. 19 – Oct. 23 (tentative dates – in conjunction with AAPG International Conference in Cancun, Mexico)
• Begins and ends in Veracruz, Mexico. • Paul R. Krutak, Manuel R. Palacios, Gus Morales ...............................................................................37
MIXED CARBONATE–CLASTIC DEPOSITION AND THE EFFECTS OF TECTONICS ON MODERN SEDIMENTATION ALONG THE BELIZE BARRIER
REEF • October 27-31 (in conjunction with AAPG International Conference, Cancun, Mexico) • Begins and ends in Cancun • Clif Jordan ...........37
CLASTICS MODERN
MODERN CLASTIC DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS • April 15-21; April 30-May 6; September 23-29 • Begins in Columbia and
ends in Charleston, South Carolina • Miles O. Hayes...............................................................................................................................................37
MODERN DELTAS • September 13-17 • Begins in Baton Rouge and ends in New Orleans, Louisiana • Harry H. Roberts, Gregory
Stone, Samuel Bentley ..............................................................................................................................................................................................37
QUATERNARY DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS OF THE EAST TEXAS COAST AND SHELF • October 23-24 • Begins and ends in
Houston, Texas • John B. Anderson .........................................................................................................................................................................38
CLASTICS ANCIENT
CLASTIC RESERVOIR FACIES AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF ALLUVIAL PLAIN, SHOREFACE, DELTAIC, AND
SHELF DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS • April 25-May 1 • Begins and ends in Salt Lake City, Utah • Thomas A. Ryer...............................................38
FORELAND BASIN CLASTIC RESERVOIRS, BOOK CLIFFS, UTAH (formerly Wave Dominated Shoreline Deposits, Book Cliffs, Utah)
• June 7-15; August 16-24 • Begins and ends in Moab, Utah • John K. Balsley.....................................................................................................38
SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY
SENSIBLE SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY: PREDICTING CLASTIC RESERVOIRS • June 21-26 • Begins and ends in
Salt Lake City, Utah • Lee F. Krystinik, Beverly Blakeney DeJarnett .........................................................................................................................39
TECTONICS AND SEDIMENTATION
EXPLORATION POTENTIAL, TECTONIC FRAMEWORK, AND DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS OF STRIKE SLIP AND EXTENSIONAL
BASINS • April 24-May 1 • Begins in Palm Springs, California, ends in Las Vegas, Nevada • Tor H. Nilsen; Arthur G. Sylvester ........................39
SALT AND EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS IN THE PARADOX BASIN, UTAH • May 16-21 • Begins and ends at Grand Junction, CO
• Michael Hudec .......................................................................................................................................................................................................39
DELTAIC AND TURBIDITE RESERVOIR SYSTEMS OF SE ASIA: HIGH RESOLUTION EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT MODELS &
APPLICATIONS:FROM OUTCROP TO SUBSURFACE • June 28 - July 5, • Paul Crevello; John Clayburn, Howard Johnson, Yazid Mansor .......40
FRACTURES, FOLDS, AND FAULTS IN THRUSTED TERRAINS: SAWTOOTH RANGE, MONTANA (formerly E&P in Thrusted Terrains)
• August 2-7 • Begins and ends in Great Falls, Montana • Steven N. Boyer; William Hansen; Charles F. Kluth, James Sears ..............................40
SEDIMENTOLOGY AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC RESPONSE OF PARALIC DEPOSITS TO CHANGES IN ACCOMMODATION:
PREDICTING RESERVOIR ARCHITECTURE, BOOK CLIFFS, UTAH. • September 18-24 • Begins and ends in Grand Junction,
Colorado • Keith W. Shanley, J. Michael Boyles.......................................................................................................................................................40
SUBMARINE FAN AND CANYON RESERVOIRS, CALIFORNIA • Begins in San Francisco and ends in Bakersfield, CA • October 4-9
• Tor H. Nilsen ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................41
SALT TECTONICS AND SEDIMENTATION OF LA POPA BASIN, MEXICO • Oct. 28-30 (in conjunction with AAPG International
Conference in Cancun, Mexico) • Begins and ends in Monterrey, Mexico • Kate Giles, Timothy Lawton, Mark Rowan .......................................41
GEOTOURS
LEWIS & CLARK GEOTOUR: MARIAS RIVER TO GATES OF THE MOUNTAINS, MONTANA • July 12-17 • Begins and ends in
Great Falls, Montana • Bill Hansen............................................................................................................................................................................41
GRAND CANYON GEOLOGY VIA THE COLORADO RIVER, ARIZONA • Begins at Marble Canyon, Arizona, and ends Marble
Canyon, or Las Vegas, Nevada • August 5-12 • John E. Warme, William Wade.....................................................................................................42
TIMELESS GEOLOGIC SCENES OF GLEN CANYON AND RAINBOW BRIDGE VIA LAKE POWELL, UTAH-ARIZONA
• August 16-19. • Begins and ends in Salt Lake City, Utah • Doug Sprinkel, Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., Grant Willis ...............................................42
For instructor biographies, see the AAPG Web site • Field seminar descriptions start on page 36
 AAPG Winter Education
Conference
Jan. 19-23, 2004 - Houston
Adams Mark Hotel

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Courses include:
DEEPWATER SANDS, INTEGRATED STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS: A WORKSHOP USING
MULTIPLE DATA SETS – John Armentrout - Mon-Wed.
RISK ANALYSIS FOR DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS –
Jim McKay, Mark McLane - Mon-Wed.
INTEGRATED EXPLORATION AND EVALUATION OF FRACTURED RESERVOIRS –
Ron Nelson – Mon-Tue.
PRACTICAL MAPPING OF SURFACES, PROPERTIES, AND VOLUMES FOR RESERVOIR
CHARACTERIZATION; PRINCIPLES, METHODS, CASE STUDIES, AND
WORKFLOWS – Jeffrey Yarus – Mon-Tue.
ESSENTIALS OF SUBSURFACE MAPPING – Dick Banks – Wed.
CREATIVITY IN EXPLORATION – Ted Beaumont – Wed.
WELL COMPLETIONS & INTERVENTIONS – George King – Thur-Fri.
COALBED METHANE – John Seidle, George Hampton – Thur-Fri.
INTERPRETATION OF SEISMIC DATA IN A REGIONAL CONTEXT: DEVELOPING FRONTIER
EXPLORATION OPPORTUNITIES – Albert Bally, Gabor Tari – Thur.
CARBONATE RESERVOIR GEOLOGY – Jerry Lucia, Charles Kerans,
Bob Loucks – Thur-Fri.
ENERGY DISSIPATION AND THE FUNDAMENTAL SHAPES OF SEDIMENTARY BODIES
– LECTURE &POSTER– John Van Wagoner – Friday
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Carbonate Petrography by Peter Scholle –

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Introduction to Geological
Reservoir Characterization
Instructor: Roger M. Slatt,
University of Oklahoma
Class Begins: January 26, 2004,
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students Structure-contour map of Balmoral Field, North Sea (Slatt
and Hopkins, 1991). Well locations are shown. From
Introduction to Geological Reservoir Characterization

AVO: Principles and Fundamental Applications

Instructor: John P. Castagna, University of Oklahoma
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Introduction to Seismic
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University of Oklahoma
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Hydrocarbon indicators offshore California are

interpreted as the zero-phase response of several gas
accumuluations. From Introduction to Seismic
Interpretation

Schematic diagram of an offset vertical

seismic profiling survey. Several wave types
are indicated. From Introduction to Seismic
Interpretation.

Technical English
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Professional English
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Class Begins: Whenever you want, Lectures and Slides: ONLINE
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 The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) announces
Interactive Online Learning (IOL) in association with the American
Geological Institute (AGI) and the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), at The
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There are 15 individual modules currently available for geoscientists and engineers. These
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opportunity to revisit their own interpretation. Depending on the participant's background the
modules will be basic to slightly advanced. They are multidisciplinary in scope and are for the
new hires and new managers or supervisors taking on new duties.
SALES: The modules are sold primarily through the AAPG Online Bookstore, though they
may also be ordered via phone, mail or fax. The purchaser’s online bookstore username and
password will be used for the training modules. If they do not have a bookstore login, they will
need to establish one before purchasing through the online bookstore. If purchasing via phone,
fax or mail, we will set up a bookstore account for them. Email will be the primary mode of
communication to IOL students.
PRICING: Modules are available individually at $35 per module. All fifteen modules may be
purchased for $400.
CEU CREDIT: Each module earns .2 CEUs that will be credited for members upon request.
DISCOUNT: The modules can be grouped into four modules, in any sequence, representing
one course. This would be a 7-8 hour course. Cost for a four-module set would be $120, or a
savings of $20.

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 IOL MODULES
Module 1: Product Code #911 • Facies Mapping of Fluvial Gas Reservoirs in Seeligson
Field, South Texas • Instructor: William A. Ambrose
Module 2: Product Code #912 • Outcrop Analogs • Instructors: Mark D. Barton, Shirley P.
Dutton
Module 3: Product Code #913 • Correlation of Fluvial Gas Reservoirs in Stratton Field, South
Texas • Instructors: William A. Ambrose, Scott D. Rodgers, John R. Andrews, Dallas B.
Dunlap, Bob A. Hardage
Module 4: Product Code #914 • Seismic Stratigraphy • Instructor: Bob A. Hardage
Module 5: Product Code #915 • Determination of Net Pay in Fluvial/Deltaic Environments •
Instructor: Robert E. Barba, Jr.
Module 6: Product Code #916 • Interpreting Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy from Well
Logs • Instructor: Tucker F. Hentz
Module 7: Product Code #917 • Seismic Attributes • Instructor: Bob A. Hardage
Module 8: Product Code #918 • Thin-Bed Interpretation • Instructor: Bob A. Hardage
Module 9: Product Code #919 • Principles of Onshore 3-D Seismic Design • Instructor: Bob
A. Hardage
Module 10: Product Code #920 • Stratigraphic Calibration of 3-D Seismic Data Using Vertical
Seismic Profiles • Instructor: Bob A. Hardage
Module 11: Product Code #921 • Designing Velocity Checkshot Surveys and Interpreting
Checkshot Data • Instructor: Bob A. Hardage
Module 12: Product Code #922 • Seismic Modeling • Instructor: Bob A. Hardage
Module 13: Product Code #923 • Production History Analysis for Reservoir Characterization •
Instructor: Mark H. Holtz
Module 14: Product Code #924 • Analysis of Initial Fluid Conditions for Reservoir
Characterization • Instructor: Mark H. Holtz
Module 15: Product Code #925 • Pressure-Interference Testing • Instructor: Bob A. Hardage
CORPORATE PURCHASE: Special package pricing is available to firms wishing to subscribe
to IOL modules for multiple users for a fixed period of time. For more information, email:
IOL@AAPG.org or call Education registration at: (888) 338-3387.

DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS: A full description of each module and the system requirements
are available on the AAPG web site. Click on the IOL icon.

MORE MODULES COMING IN 2004!

Funding from the AGI Foundation and AAPG Foundation has made IOL possible.

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Discover the Value of an AAPG
Strategic Training Partnership
Just a Few of Your AAPG Partnership
Benefits
Perhaps you need to fulfill a training obligation
under a concession contract? No matter how long-
term or short-term your career development needs
are, AAPG can help you.
ELEMENTS
TRAINING EVALUATION
AAPG Training Partners offers a complete
professional evaluation of your training needs
as part of your investment. This consultation
would normally cost $1500, but will not be
billed if your firm pursues the Training
Partners Program and places at least 15
students in AAPG public courses or hosts
three AAPG in-house courses within 12
months of the consultation.
AAPG QUALITY
Courses brought to you by AAPG, the world
leader in Petroleum Geology information. Get
the best courses and instructors available
without being limited to “house” staff. Our
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workshops and field seminars.
IN-HOUSE TRAINING PARTNERS COURSES
Significant savings in travel, lodging and out-
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Host a 2-day Training Partner Course in your
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(*For facilities in Houston, Austin, Midland, Dallas,
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using client’s facilities and a/v equipment.)
CUSTOMIZABLE CURRICULUM WITHIN A
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Get the training your people need, while
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enjoying quantity purchase pricing. By having
AAPG design a training program for your
Company or for your concession contract, you
can be assured the training is relevant to the
work you are doing.
PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST PROFESSIONAL
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Ensure a well-rounded E&P team, with
standardized milestones of achievement.
Record of achievement kept in AAPG member
record for planning future training. Record will
“follow” the individual in the event of mergers,
acquisitions.
OTHER STAFF DEVELOPMENT TRAINING ALSO
AVAILABLE.
AAPG can provide non-technical training on
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software, time management and creativity
training.
ACCESS TO THE FULL SUITE OF
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AAPG/Datapages currently offers more than
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is the single largest exploration database
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ACCESS TO OTHER LEARNING AND
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Through participation in AAPG Hedberg
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AAPG Meetings, and access to online learning
resources, Training Partners have unequaled
opportunities to build world-class E&P teams
that define the leading edge.
 PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE
PROGRAM
Designed to recognize levels of experience and
competency within an E&P organization, the AAPG
Professional Certificate Program also provides
guidance to the manager who is responsible for staff development.
Each level includes a mix of classroom, field, online, workshops and even
coaching/mentoring. Because people are not single-method learners, a mix of instruction
methods is needed in the learning process. This blended-learning approach matches the
learning method to the learner. The continuous availability of online materials means the
classroom and field knowledge can be refreshed whenever needed.
Other courses and activities that AAPG offers or recommends will also be available to
meet the needs of candidates and the firms.
The Professional Certificate Program has four levels. Each represents a degree of
knowledge and experience in the E&P profession.

• Level 1 - Fundamental (Basic Technology)

• Recent graduate to 3 years after college

• Level 2 - Proficient (Using Science)

• Four to six years after college

• Level 3 - Advanced (Using technology and basic business)

• Seven-Plus years after college

• Level 4 - Professional (Advanced Technology, Business/Management)

• Seven-Plus years after college

Make AAPG your training partner. Let us work for you!

Contact:

Dr. J.B. (Jack) Thomas, AAPG Geoscience Director

trainingpartner@aapg.org

AAPG Headquarters Web site: http://www.aapg.org

Phone: (918) 560-2555 (USA) Fax: (918) 560-9418

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Education SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
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A WORKSHOP USING MULTIPLE DATA SETS Calendar Legend
John Armentrout - Mon-Wed.

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Epiphany Orthodox Short Course
RISK ANALYSIS FOR DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS Christmas
Jim MacKay, Mark McLane - Mon-Wed. Field Seminar
INTEGRATED EXPLORATION AND EVALUATION OF Meeting
FRACTURED RESERVOIR Field Course
Ron Nelson – Mon-Tue.
PRACTICAL MAPPING OF SURFACES, PROPERTIES, AND
VOLUMES FOR RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION;
PRINCIPLES, METHODS, CASE STUDIES, AND WORKFLOWS
Jeffrey Yarus – Mon-Tue.

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ESSENTIALS OF SUBSURFACE MAPPING
Dick Banks – Wed.
CREATIVITY IN EXPLORATION
Ted Beaumont – Wed.
WELL COMPLETIONS & INTERVENTIONS
George King – Thur-Fri.
COALBED METHANE
John Seidle, George Hampton – Thur-Fri.
INTERPRETATION OF SEISMIC DATA IN A REGIONAL CONTEXT:
DEVELOPING FRONTIER EXPLORATION OPPORTUNITIES

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Albert Bally, Gabor Tari – Thur. Birthday New Year
Observed
CARBONATE RESERVOIR GEOLOGY
Jerry Lucia, Charles Kerans, Bob Loucks – Thur-Fri.
ENERGY DISSIPATION AND THE FUNDAMENTAL SHAPES OF
SEDIMENTARY BODIES – LECTURE &POSTER
John Van Wagoner – Friday
Special Friday-only badges for this lecture/poster session available Winter Education Conference
for $50 that include the lunch buffet.
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www.aapg.org and click on the Education box.

It's not too early – sign up now for

short courses at the Dallas annual
meeting in April!

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featured at the Colorado Plateau Field Institute’s field courses.
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APPEX London 2004 Course at APPEX

Carbonate Reservoirs: Physical Reality Meets Virtual Reality in Middle Eastern Carbonates

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Wadi Nakhr outcrop, northern Oman, shows Middle

Cretaceous strata of the Natih Formation including shallow
water carbonate platform deposits and intrabasinal source AAPG Southwest Section
rocks. The same formation is oil bearing in the nearby
subsurface (Natih and Fahud fields).
Photo courtesy of Frans Van Buchem
GEO 2004

FIELD SEMINARS
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Day Begins
Carbonate Reservoirs: Physical Reality Meets Virtual
Reality in Middle Eastern Carbonates
Leaders: F. van Buchem, J. M. Daniel, IFP, Rueil-Malmaison, France; Peter
Homewood, Henk Droste, Sultan Qaboos Univ., Muscat, Oman
Date: March 2-6 (in conjunction with GEO 2004, Bahrain – March 8-10)
Location: Begins and ends in Muscat, Oman
Tuition: $2,250; includes guidebooks, lodging (four nights, 2-5 March)
transportation expenses, all meals during the course. Arrangements for the
night of the 1st and 6th are the responsibility of the participants. Note:
Registration deadline is 2 February, which provides minimum time needed
for visa applications.

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Projects in Today’s Environment
Date: March 5 Field Seminar
Location: London, England (with APPEX meeting) Meeting
Tuition: $320 • Contents: .7 CEU
Instructor: Tom O'Connor, Consultant, Alexandria, VA Field Course

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CLASTICS — MODERN
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Modern Clastic Depositional Environments

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Leader: Miles O. Hayes, Research Planning, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina March May
Dates: April 15-21; April 30-May 6; September 23-29
Location: Begins in Columbia and ends in Charleston, South Carolina S M T W T F S S M T W T F S
Tuition: $2,200; includes lunches, transfer to Charleston, South Carolina, 1 2 3 4 5 6 1
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Clastic Reservoir Facies and Sequence Stratigraphic
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Analysis of Alluvial-Plain, Shoreface, Deltaic, and Shelf
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Leader: Thomas A. Ryer, The ARIES Group, Inc., Houston, Texas
Date: April 25-May 1

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Location: Begins and ends in Salt Lake City, Utah Daylight Saving Time First Day of Good Friday
Tuition: $1,500; includes field transportation, lunches in the field, guidebook Begins Passover
Limit: 15 • Content: 5.0 CEU Palm Sunday

Exploration Potential, Tectonic Framework, and

Depositional Systems of Strike-Slip and Extensional
Basins
Leaders: Tor H. Nilsen, Consultant, San Carlos, California; Arthur G.
Sylvester, University of California at Santa Barbara
Date: April 24-May 1
Location: Begins in Palm Springs, California, ends in Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuition: $2,050; includes lodging, field transportation, some lunches,

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guidebook and maps Sunday
Limit: 25 • Content: 5.5 CEU
Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday Reservoir Engineering
Reservoir Engineering for Petroleum Geologists Petroleum Geologists
Date: April 17-18 Modern Clastic Depositional Environments
Location: Dallas, Texas, at the AAPG Annual Meeting
Tuition: $665 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructors: Richard G. Green, William Kazmann, LaRoche Petroleum
Consultants, Dallas, Texas

E&P Methods and Technologies: Selection and Applications

Date: April 22-24
Location: Dallas, Texas, at the AAPG Annual Meeting
Tuition: $995 • Content: 2.3 CEU
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Reservoir Engineering
Petroleum Geologists
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Instructors: Alistair R. Brown, Rich Chambers, Akhil Datta-Gupta, Fred Exploration
Modern Clastic Depositional Environments
Hilterman, Martin P.A. Jackson, John Johnson, James A. MacKay, Dave
Marschall, Jory Pacht, Rawdon Seager, and David A. Wavrek E&P Methods and Technologies: Selection and Applications
AAPG Annual Meeting, Dallas

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Exploration Potential, Tectonic Framework, and Depositional Systems of Strike-Slip and Extensional Basins
Clastic Reservoir Facies and Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of Alluvial-Plain, Shoreface, Deltaic, and Shelf Depositional Systems

Modern Clastic Depositional Environments

Field seminar participants at Delicate Arch, Utah.

Photo courtesy of Michael Hudec

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The Fundamentals of Coalbed Methane Exploration and
Production in Fluvial-Deltaic Depositional Systems SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Date: May 2-7
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Tuition: $2,000 includes guidebooks, lodging in Price, Utah (six nights,
transportation during the course, and all meals during the course.
Arrangements for the nights that precede and follow the seminar will be
responsibility of the participant. • Limit: 20 persons • Content: 4 CEU
Instructors: George Hampton, Hampton Associates, Inc., Denver, Colorado;
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Jr., Colorado Plateau Field Institute, Price, Utah Clastic Reservoir Facies and Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis
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Fundamentals of the Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy of Modern Clastic Depositional Environments
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Fluvial-Deltaic and Turbiditic Depositional Systems
Date: May 16-22
Location: Begins (at 2 PM on start date) and ends (at 11 AM on end date) in

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Mawlid an-Nabi
Salt Lake City, Utah
Tuition: $2,500 includes guidebooks, lodging in Price, Utah (six nights),
transportation during the course, and all meals during the course.
Arrangements for the nights that precede and follow the seminar will be
responsibility of the participant. • Limit: 20 • Content: 5.0 CEU
Instructors: John M. Armentrout, Cascade Stratigraphics, Clackamas, Oregon, Offshore Technology Conference, Houston
and James R. Garrison, Jr., Colorado Plateau Field Institute, Price, Utah

Depositional Sequence Stratigraphy of Fluvial-Deltaic Modern Clastic Depositional Environments

Deposits: Implications for Reservoir Delineation, Fundamentals of Coalbed Methane E&P
Description, and Characterization
Date: May 23-29

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Mother’s Day
Location: Begins (at 2 PM on start date) and ends (at 11 AM on end date) in Victory Day
Salt Lake City, Utah
Tuition: $2,500 includes guidebooks, lodging in Price, Utah (six nights),
transportation during the course, and all meals during the course.
Arrangements for the nights that precede and follow the seminar will be Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy
responsibility of the participant. • Limit: 20 • Content: 5.0 CEU
Instructor: James R. Garrison, Jr., Colorado Plateau Field Institute, Price, Utah

FIELD SEMINARS AAPG Pacific Section, Bakersfield, CA

Modern Clastic Depositional Environments

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Leader: Miles O. Hayes, Research Planning, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina Ascension
Dates:April 15-21; April 30-May 6; September 23-29 Day
Location: Begins in Columbia and ends in Charleston, South Carolina
Tuition: $2,200; includes lunches, transfer to Charleston, South Carolina,
lecture notes and SC Coastal Environments CD-ROM. High-Resolution Well-Log Sequence Stratigraphy
Limit: 20 • Content: 5.6 CEU
Salt and Extensional Tectonics in the Paradox Basin, Utah
Salt and Extensional Tectonics in the Paradox Basin, Utah Fundamentals of Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy
Leader: Michael Hudec, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas
at Austin
Date: June 16, 5:00 p.m.-June 21, 7:00 p.m.
Location: Begins and ends at Grand Junction, CO
Tuition: $1,600; includes lodging, internal transportation, field guides, and

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lunches in the field of Shavuot
Limit: 23 • Content: 4.2 CEU

Quantification of Risk — Petroleum Exploration and Production

Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy
Date: May 13-14
Depositional Sequence Stratigraphy
Location: Houston, Texas Memorial

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Tuition: $685, AAPG members; $785, non-members Day
Limit: 50 • Content: 1.5 CEU Observed
Instructor: Henry W. Posamentier, Anadarko Petroleum, Calgary, AB, Canada

Quantification of Risk — Petroleum Exploration and

Production High-Resolution Well Log Sequence Stratigraphy — Application to E&P
Date: May 24-27 • Location: San Antonio, Texas Date: May 17-21
Tuition: $995, AAPG members; $1,095, non-members Location: Denver, Colorado • Tuition: $1,100 AAPG members; $1,200 non-members
Content: 3.1 CEU Content: 3.5 CEU
Instructors: James A. MacKay and Gary Citron, Rose and Associates, Houston, Instructors: C. Robertson Handford, Consultant, Austin, Texas; Jeffrey A. May, EOG Resources,
Texas Denver, Colorado

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FIELD SEMINARS SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Foreland Basin Clastic Reservoirs: Book Cliffs, Utah
Leader: John K. Balsley, Consulting Geologist, Indian Hills, Colorado
Dates: June 7-15; August 16-24 • Location: Begins and ends in Moab, Utah
Tuition: $1,750; includes 4-wheel-drive transportation, river run, lunches and
guidebook • Limit: 17 • Content: 6.0 CEU
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Controls On Porosity Types and Distribution in Carbonate CSPG Annual Meeting, Calgary
Reservoirs
Leaders: Evan K. Franseen, Kansas Geological Survey; Robert H. Goldstein,
University of Kansas; Mateu Esteban, Carbonates International, Mallorca, Spain
Date: June 13-18 • Location: Almeria Region, SE Spain, begins and ends in Las
Negres, Spain. Fly from London/Barcelona/Madrid.
Tuition: $2,000 (dependent on exchange rate); includes field transportation, all
meals and lodging during trip, guidebook
Limit: 15 • Content: 4.8 CEU

Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Distribution in a

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Modern Carbonate Platform, Bahamas Foreland Basin Clastic Reservoirs: Book Cliffs, Utah
Leaders: Gregor P. Eberli, Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory, University
of Miami; G. Michael Grammer, Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo; Paul M. SPWLA Annual Meeting, Netherlands
(Mitch) Harris, ChevronTexaco Exploration & Production Technology Co., San
Ramon, California
Date: June 21-26 • Location: Begins and ends in Miami, Florida. European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Annual Meeting,Paris
Tuition: $3,400; includes lodging on vessel, meals, guidebook

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Limit: 11 • Content: 4.2 CEU Flag Day

Sensible Sequence Stratigraphy: Predicting Clastic

Reservoirs
Leaders: Lee F. Krystinik, Litho-Logic Consulting, Fort Worth, Texas, and Beverly Foreland Basin Clastic Reservoirs: Book Cliffs, Utah
Blakeney DeJarnett, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas,
Houston, Texas Controls on Porosity Distribution in Carbonate Reservoirs
Date: June 21-26 • Location: Begins and ends in Salt Lake City, Utah
Tuition: $1,950, which includes ground transportation, guidebooks, some meals
Limit: 25 • Content: 4.2 CEU

Deltaic and Turbidite Reservoir Systems of SE Asia: High

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Father’s
Resolution Exploration and Development Models & Day
Applications: From Outcrop to Subsurface Summer
Leaders: Paul Crevello, Petrex Asia Reservoir and Stratigraphy Group, Kuala begins
Lumpur, Malaysia; John Clayburn, Howard Johnson, Yazid Mansor, Petronas- Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Distribution in a Modern Carbonate Platform, Bahamas
Carigali, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Date: June 28 - July 5 • Location: Malasia and Brunei Sensible Sequence Stratigraphy– Pedicting Clastic Reservoirs
Tuition: $2,580, which includes lodging, overflight, bus and boat transfers, and
guidebook
Limit: 18 • Content: 5.5 CEU Introduction to Concepts and Techniques of Petroleum Geology
May July
Introduction to Concepts and Techniques of Petroleum

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S M T W T F S S M T W T F S
Geology
Date: June 21-23 • Location: Denver, Colorado 1 1 2 3

Tuition: $700 • Content: 2.0 CEU 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Instructor: Susan M. Landon, Independent Geologist, Denver, Colorado 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

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FIELD SEMINARS SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Deltaic and Turbidite Reservoir Systems of SE Asia: High

1 2 3
June August Canada Day
Resolution Exploration and Development Models &
S M T W T F S S M T W T F S
Applications: From Outcrop to Subsurface
Leaders: Paul Crevello, Petrex Asia Reservoir and Stratigraphy Group, Kuala 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Lumpur, Malaysia; John Clayburn, Howard Johnson, Yazid Mansor, Petronas- 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Carigali, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Tuition: $2,580, which includes lodging, overflight, bus and boat transfers, and
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guidebook
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Independence Day Independence Day
Giant Oil And Gas Fields: Global Inventories, Tectonic Observed
Settings, Stratigraphic Framework, and Predictive
Parameters
Date: July 8-9
Location: Austin, Texas
Tuition: $895, AAPG Members; $995, non-members
Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructors: Paul Mann, University of Texas at Austin; Myron (Mike) Horn,
Consultant, Tulsa, OK; and C. Robertson Handford, Strata-Search, LLC, Austin, TX
Deltaic & Turbidite Reservoir Systems Giant Oil & Gas Fields

Geochemical Exploration for Oil and Gas: Strategies for

Doubling Exploration Success While Halving Its Cost
Date: July 19-20
Location: Denver, Colorado
Tuition: $795, AAPG members; $895, non-members
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Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructors: Dietmar Schumacher, Geo-Microbial Technologies, Inc., Mora, NM,
and Leonard LeSchack, Topaz Energy Exploration Ltd., Calgary, AB, Canada

AAPG GEOTOUR – Lewis & Clark • See page 56 for details

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Geochem. Exploration for Oil & Gas

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This Blue Hole is one of the stops on “Mixed Carbonate-
Clastic Deposition and the Effects of Tectonics on Modern
Sedimentation Along the Belize Barrier Reef” to be held in
conjunction with the AAPG Cancun meeting in October.
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Kane Creek Anticline, Colorado River.

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FIELD SEMINARS
Fractures, Folds and Faults in Thrusted Terrains
Leaders: Steven N. Boyer, Consultant, Tacoma, WA; Charles F. Kluth, Kluth &
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Foreland Basin Clastic Reservoirs: Book Cliffs, Utah
Associates, Littleton, CO; William Hansen, Jireh Consulting Services, Great
Falls, MT; James Sears, University of Montana, Missoula
Date: August 2-7
Location: Begins and ends in Great Falls, Montana AAPG GEOTOUR – Glen Canyon & Rainbow Bridge via Lake Powell
Tuition: $1,500; includes lunches, transportation, guidebooks, admission to
Glacier National Park, and some additional meals See back cover for details
Limit: 20 • Content: 5.0 CEU

Foreland Basin Clastic Reservoirs: Book Cliffs, Utah

Leader: John K. Balsley, Consulting Geologist, Indian Hills, Colorado
Dates: August 16-24
Location: Begins and ends in Moab, Utah
Tuition: $1,750; includes 4-wheel-drive transportation, river run, lunches and
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Basic Well Log Analysis

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Tuition: $995, AAPG members; $1,095, non-members; includes course notes,
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Location: Dallas, Texas
Tuition: $895, AAPG members; $995, non-members, includes hands-on computer
exercises
Content: 1.5 CEU • Limit: 20
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Modern Deltas SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Leaders: Harry H. Roberts, Gregory Stone and Samuel Bentley, Coastal Studies
Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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Orleans, Louisiana • Limit: 25 • Content: 4.0 CEU • Tuition: $2,500; includes 5
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Paralic Deposits to Changes in Accommodation: Predicting
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Tuition: $1,600; includes ground transportation, lunches, and guidebook

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Modern Clastic Depositional Environments

Dates: September 23-29
Location: Begins in Columbia and ends in Charleston, South Carolina
Tuition: $2,200; includes lunches, transfer to Charleston, South Carolina,
lecture notes and SC Coastal Environments CD-ROM.
Limit: 20 • Content: 5.6 CEU APPEX, Houston

Pore Pressure Prediction in Practice, co-sponsored by

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Date: September 1-2
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Tuition: $925, AAPG members; $1,025, non-members
Limit: 50 persons • Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructors: Richard Swarbrick and Martin Traugott, Univ. of Durham, UK
Sedimentology &
Depositional Systems and Sequences in the Prediction and Sequence Strat.
Characterization of Sandstone Reservoirs Modern Deltas
Date: September 16-17 • Location: San Antonio, Texas Depositional Systems & Sequences
Tuition: $685, AAPG members; $785, non-members
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Sedimentology & Sequence Stratigraphic Response of Paralic Deposits to Changes in Accommodation

Modern Clastic Depositional Environments

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Submarine Fan and Canyon Reservoirs, California
Leader: Tor H. Nilsen, Consulting Geologist, San Carlos, California SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Date: October 4-9
Location: Begins in San Francisco and ends in Bakersfield, California

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Limit: 25 • Content: 4.2 CEU
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Leaders: Paul A. Krutak, P. Krutak Geoservices, Rye, Colorado; Manuel R.
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and course materials • Limit: 20 • Content: 4.0 CEU

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Quaternary Depositional Systems of the East Texas Coast
and Shelf
Leader: John B. Anderson, Rice University, Houston, Texas AAPG Eastern Section Meeting, Columbus, Ohio
Date: October 23-24 Structural Styles and
Location: Begins and ends in Houston, Texas Geological Insights in Seismic Interpretation Hydrocarbon Traps
Tuition: $395, includes meals and lodging
Limit: 22 • Content: 1.5 CEU

* Salt Tectonics and Sedimentation of La Popa Basin, Submarine Fan and Canyon Reservoirs, California
Mexico
Leaders: Kate Giles and Timothy Lawton, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces;

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and Mark Rowan, Independent Consultant, Boulder, Colorado Day Begins
Date: Oct. 28-30 (in conjunction with AAPG International Conference in Observed
Cancun, Mexico)
Location: Begins and ends in Monterrey, Mexico AAPG Gulf Coast Section Meeting, San Antonio
Tuition: $1,085, which includes guidebook, ground transportation, lodging,
breakfasts, lunches and one dinner Structural Styles and
Limit: 21 • Content: 2.2 CEU Hydrocarbon Traps
* Mixed Carbonate-Clastic Deposition and the Effects of
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Date: October 27-31
Location: Cancun, Mexico, with AAPG International Conference, Cancun,
Mexico Deep-Water Sands
Tuition: $1,865 • Limit: 24 • Content: 3.5 CEU
Practical Salt Tectonics
Fractured Reservoirs
Geological Insights in Seismic Interpretation Quaternary Depositional
Date: October 4-5 • Location: Houston, TX Systems
Tuition: $895, AAPG members; $995, non-members
Content: 1.5 CEU • Limit: 27 Cretaceous Carbonate Reservoirs in Source Rocks: Golden Lane/Poza Rica Trend
Instructors: Donald A. Herron, BP, Houston, TX, and Timothy E. Smith, Unocal,
AAPG International Conference & Exhibition, Cancun, Mexico

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Basins Deep-Water Sands
Date: October 9-10 • Location: Denver, CO with SEG Meeting Mixed Carbonate-Clastic (Belize Barrier Reef)
Tuition: $725 • Limit: 30 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Salt Tectonics
Instructor: Shankar Mitra, University of Oklahoma, Norman Fractured Reservoirs
Quaternary Depositional Systems
* Practical Salt Tectonics Halloween
Date: October 22-24 • Location: Cancun, Mexico, with AAPG International
Conference • Tuition: $950 • Content: 2.1 CEU
Instructor: Mark G. Rowan, Consultant, Boulder, Colorado
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* Deepwater Sands, Integrated Stratigraphic Analysis - A Fractured Reservoirs INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE &
Workshop Using Multiple Data Sets Date: October 23-24 • Location: Cancun, Mexico, with EXHIBITION, CANCUN, MEXICO
AAPG International Conference
Date: October 22-24 • Location: Cancun, Mexico, with AAPG International
Tuition: $800 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Conference • Tuition: $950 • Content: 2.1 CEU Instructor: Ronald Nelson, Broken N Consulting, Houston,
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The Three Gossips, also called the Three Graces, are one
example of the sculptural beauty found in the Arches National
Park, Utah. The desert southwest of the United States is also
the location of the field seminar “Foreland Basin Clastic
Reservoirs: Book Cliffs, Utah” held in June and August.
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 Field Seminar Descriptions
CARBONATES
Carbonate Reservoirs: Physical Reality Meets Virtual
Reality in Middle Eastern Carbonates
Leaders: Frans van Buchem, J. M. Daniel, IFP, Rueil-Malmaison,
France; Peter Homewood, Henk Droste, Carbonate Research Center,
Sultan Qaboos Univ., Muscat, Oman
Date: March 2-6
Location: Begins and ends in Muscat, Oman
Tuition: $2,250; includes guidebooks, lodging (four nights, 3-6 March)
transportation expenses, all meals during the course. Arrangements for
the night of the 2nd and 7th are the responsibility of the participants.
Note: Registration deadline is February 2, 2004, which provides
minimum time needed for visa applications.
Limit: 25 • Content: 4.0 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and production/reservoir geologists, geophysicists and
reservoir engineers working in carbonate systems worldwide.
Objectives and Content
This is a five day course, including 3 field days, and 2 days with
lectures, exercises, core examination and virtual reality presentations.
Themes:
• Methodology and models in carbonate high resolution sequence
stratigraphy
• Outcrop Analog Studies
• Seismic stratigraphy
• Carbonate reservoir characterization and fluid flow modeling,
including rocktyping and fracture modelization
• Stratigraphic forward modeling
• Virtual reality presentations of 3-D seismic, 3-D fracture modeling and
3-D stratigraphic modeling
Course set up:
Day 1: Carbonate research center at the Sultan Qaboos University.
Morning: Methodology and models in sequence stratigraphy.
Afternoon: Impact of reservoir architecture on fluid flow and production
characteristics.
Day 2: Field Day 1 Sequence stratigraphy of the Natih Formation
(Cenomanian/ Turonian)
Day 3: Field Day 2 Structural context, fracturing and reservoir
architecture of the Natih Formation
Day 4: Field Day 3 Sequence Stratigraphy of the Natih Formation
Day 5: PDO core storage and Carbonate research center.
Morning: Core examination and correlation exercise.
Afternoon: Demonstrations in the virtual reality center and conclusions
Controls On Porosity Types and Distribution in
Carbonate Reservoirs
Leaders: Evan K. Franseen, Kansas Geological Survey; Robert H.
Goldstein, University of Kansas; Mateu Esteban, Carbonates
International, Mallorca, Spain
Date: June 13-18
Location: Almeria Region, SE Spain, begins and ends in Las Negres,
Spain. Fly from London/Barcelona/Madrid.
Tuition: $2,000 (dependent on exchange rate), includes field
transportation, all meals and lodging during trip, guidebook
Limit: 15 • Content: 4.8 CEU
Who Should Attend
Petroleum geologists, engineers, and geophysicists who are involved
in interpreting carbonate sequences.
Introduction
Superb exposures of Miocene carbonates in SE Spain offer an
unrivaled opportunity to learn from undisturbed depositional
geometries. The region shows a variety of carbonate rocks, stratal
patterns and depositional settings. Different types of porosities are
evident, including those related to karst and dolomitization. The area is
a natural classroom for illustrating basic and advanced concepts of
carbonate sequence stratigraphy, new models for controls on basinally
restricted carbonate reservoirs, and influence of paleovalleys on
distribution of carbonate reservoir facies.
Objectives and Content
This field seminar will develop the regional paleogeography of an
area in SE Spain greatly affected by shear-zone and extensional
tectonics. The stratigraphic framework will be developed to show the
controls on depositional sequence location and character. Facies
architecture of Upper Miocene carbonate complexes will be explored
using sequence stratigraphy stacking patterns, controls of basement
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morphology, paleovalley systems, climate and relative sea level.
Topics
• Facies types; fringing coral reefs with continuous progradational talus
slopes grading into basinal deposits, temperate-water carbonate
ramps; evaporites, oolitic shoals and stromatolites.
• Types of unconformities and associated paleokarst reservoirs;
evolution and distribution of karst porosity.
• Relationships and interaction with evaporites; applications to play
concepts in carbonates of the Middle East.
• Relationships and interaction with volcanoes and volcaniclastics;
applications to play concepts in carbonates of SE Asia.
• Tests on large-to small-scale predictability of depositional facies and
porosity trends; estimated reservoir parameters.
Key Benefits
• Depositional and diagenetic models for carbonates that are good
analogs to highly productive reservoirs in the Middle East, including
Cretaceous and Tertiary carbonates from the Persian Gulf (Iran, Iraq,
U.A.E., Qatar, Oman) and carbonates from SE Asia, including
Indonesia. The lessons learned can be applied to carbonate
reservoirs throughout the geologic record.
• Additions to sequence stratigraphy concepts through development of
substrate paleoslope and climate controls on depositional sequence
characteristics.
• Coverage of cool-water as well as warm-water carbonate facies
models.
• Controls of paleovalley morphology on shallow-water and deep-water
carbonate reservoir systems.
• A consistent and detailed sequence stratigraphy approach, involving
the innovative “pinning-point” technique.
Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Distribution in
a Modern Carbonate Platform, Bahamas
Leaders: Gregor P. Eberli, Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory,
University of Miami; G. Michael Grammer, Western Michigan Univ.,
Kalamazoo; Paul M. (Mitch) Harris, ChevronTexaco Exploration &
Production Technology Co., San Ramon, California
Date: June 21-26
Location: Begins and ends in Miami, Florida.
Tuition: $3,400; includes lodging on vessel, meals, guidebook
Limit: 11 • Content: 4.8 CEU
Who Should Attend
Petroleum geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers who are
working in carbonates and need to understand facies heterogeneities
and porosity distribution on exploration and production scales.
Objectives and Content
This seminar consists of a core workshop (1 day) combined with the
examination of modern and Pleistocene deposits on Great Bahama
Bank (5 days). This combination of subsurface data and modern and
ancient deposits helps to illustrate the vertical and horizontal variability
of facies and rock properties in carbonate platform reservoirs.
Cores from a seven hole transect from Great Bahama Bank to the
deep-water areas in the Straits of Florida (Bahamas Transect) provide a
unique opportunity to assess the sequence stratigraphic distribution of
facies and diagenetic modification in platform carbonate reservoirs. Log
and laboratory data from these wells calibrate the rock properties and
provide insights into porosity/velocity relationships and permeability in
platform carbonates.
As modern analogs, the facies belts on Great Bahama Bank display
the depositional heterogeneities that could occur in ancient
hydrocarbon reservoirs. In particular, sedimentary structures,
dimensions and lateral variability of classic reservoir facies are
examined during the seminar. Pleistocene outcrops on Bahamian
islands show how these facies are preserved in the ancient rock record.
The goals of the seminar are (1) to illustrate the processes that produce
heterogeneities in carbonates, (2) to improve the interpretation of
subsurface data sets of carbonate systems and (3) to outline solutions
for the construction of carbonate reservoir models.
Principle Objectives of Seismic and Core Workshop
• To examine the facies, diagenesis and petrophysical properties of the
seven transect holes that provide a ground truth for the seismic
sequences of Great Bahama Bank for a comparison with existing
sequence stratigraphic models
• To relate facies and diagenesis to the rock properties and log and
seismic signatures for a better understanding of the geophysical
expression of reservoir facies in platform margins
• To examine the porosity and permeability distribution along the
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fluid flow pathways from the source to the reservoir
Principle Objectives of Field Seminar
• To observe the size, facies, and heterogeneities of the following
modern carbonate environments, that are potential hydrocarbon
reservoirs in the ancient: ooid shoals, platform interior facies, patch
reefs, barrier reefs, and tidal flats
• To critically evaluate the concepts of cyclostratigraphy for reservoir
characterization, using the modern depositional patterns as a starting
point
• To compare depositional and diagenetic aspects of the various
modern environments with Pleistocene outcrops and subsurface
examples
* Cretaceous Carbonate Reservoirs & Source Rocks:
Golden Lane/Poza Rica Trend-Classic Tertiary Type
Localities: Tampico/Misantla Basin-Modern Patch
Reefs: VeraCruz/Anton Lizardo, Mexico
Leaders: Paul R. Krutak, P. Krutak Geoservices International, Rye,
Colorado; Manuel R. Palacios, Terra Nostra Earth Sciences Research,
Tucson, Arizona; and Gus Morales, Valencia Community College,
Orlando, Florida
Dates: Oct. 19-23 (tentative dates – in conjunction with AAPG
international Conference, Cancun, Mexico)
Location: Begins and ends in Veracruz, Mexico.
Tuition: $1,535; Includes transportation, lodging, lunches, guidebook
and course materials.
Limit: 20 • Content: 4.0 CEU
Who Should Attend
Field and exploration geologists as well as subsurface
biostratigraphers and reservoir engineers who are engaged in exploring
for and interpreting both carbonate and hybrid carbonate/siliciclastic
reservoirs.
Objectives and Content
The first part of this 5-day field excursion involves study and
sampling of many of the classic Tertiary localities in the
Tampico/Misantla Basin (Chapapote, Chicontepec, Escolín, Horcones,
Mesón, and Tuxpan). Participants will be able to obtain outcrop
samples for later thin section and/or micropaleontological analysis. The
seminar also includes study of the classic outcrops of the Sierra de El
Abra reef knolls, which crop out near the village of Taninúl, Mexico.
Subsurface equivalents of the El Abra occur in the Golden Lane oil
fields of the Tuxpan area. The subsurface El Abra contains most of the
facies found in the surface outcrops, and are part of a giant
supercharged petroleum system in the southern Gulf of Mexico, the
Pimienta-Tamabra (!), that has total reserves of 66.3 BBO and 103.7
TCF of natural gas (~83.6 BBOE). During the field excursion,
participants will be able to examine and study two slabbed cores and
associated thin sections from two wells in the Golden Lane trend: (1)
the #101 Las Cañas, and (2) the #1 Mesita. The seminar will end in
Veracruz, Mexico, where we will visit the Fortress of San Juan Ulúa,
which was constructed from coral quarried from the modern Gallega
Reef. During this portion of the seminar, new sedimentologic data will
be presented concerning modern hybrid (mixed) carbonate reef
systems, which are being stressed by advancing siliciclastics. Many
similar ancient systems have produced significant volumes of
hydrocarbons. This seminar ties surface and subsurface data together,
and will result in new exploration perceptions of seismic data, both
from the reservoir engineer’s viewpoint and biostratigraphic/lithofacies
aspect.
Mixed Carbonate- Clastic Deposition and the
Effects of Tectonics on Modern Sedimentation
Along the Belize Barrier Reef
Leader: Clif Jordan, Integrated Data Services, Bonne Terre, Missouri
Date: October 27-31, 2004 (in conjunction with AAPG International
Conference, Cancun, Mexico)
Location: Begins and ends in Cancun, Q.R., Mexico
Tuition: $1,865 • Limit: 24 • Content: 3.5 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and production geologists or geophysicists...those
needing to understand lithofacies patterns in a mixed clastic-carbonate
system.
Objectives and Content
This field seminar is designed to demonstrate models of mixed
carbonate- clastic deposition and to show the effects of tectonics on
modern sedimentation. Three types of patch reefs will be observed, as
well as a mature barrier reef system, the second longest in the world.
Shelf-to-basin sample traverses will be made from the shoreline to the
shelf-edge, contrasting differences between the northern and southern
shelves off Belize.
Offshore atolls will be examined to contrast windward and leeward
reef-rimmed margins. In addition, karst features, carbonate
mudmounds, foram shoals, and algal flat stromatolites will be observed
in the field. Our last field stop shows Pleistocene reefs located in the
same setting and position as the modern reef system.
Belize provides several shelf and reef models that can be applied to
similar ancient settings, especially in Canada, West Texas, Indonesia,
and Africa.
Brief lectures/discussion sessions will be directed toward the
following topics:
• The geologic framework of Belize
• Reef facies: framework, zonations, trends, and models
• A well-documented sedimentary facies map of the Belize Shelf —
mapped in lithofacies terms of ancient rocks (ideal for facies
modeling) —maps based on hundreds of bottom samples —
tested/demonstrated at all field stops by bottom sampling and/or
coring —shows clastic-carbonate facies distribution in detail —
shows several reef types
•Belize compared to other modern shelves
•Belize reefs as models for understanding ancient reefs
A recently prepared field trip guidebook, including a detailed
lithofacies map of the entire Belize Shelf, is available for each
participant.
CLASTICS - MODERN
Modern Clastic Depositional Environments
Leader: Miles O. Hayes, Research Planning, Inc., Columbia, South
Carolina
Dates: April 15-21; April 30-May 6; September 23-29
Location: Begins in Columbia and ends in Charleston, South Carolina
Tuition: $2,200; includes lunches, transfer to Charleston, South
Carolina, lecture notes and SC Coastal Environments CD-ROM.
Limit: 20 • Content: 5.6 CEU
Who Should Attend
Development and exploration geologists, engineers, log analysts,
geophysicists, and exploration and development supervisors who want
to acquaint themselves with a wide range of modern clastic
environments.
Objectives and Content
Participants will walk on, sample, and examine trenches and/or cores
of each of the environments present in the area: fluvial point bars, flood
plain, peat swamps, tidal point bars, mud flats, exposed sand flats, and
a variety of beach/barrier and inlet subenvironments
The purpose of this trip is to acquaint the students with the wide
range of modern clastic depositional environments that occur along the
coastal plain of South Carolina, which is located on the gently
downwarping, trailing edge of the North American plate. Critical
sedimentary features, including the three-dimensional character of the
major sand bodies, that can be used to recognize similar sedimentary
deposits in the rock record will be emphasized.
The first day is devoted to examination of a modern aggraded alluvial
valley initially carved by the Congaree/Santee river systems during
lowstands of the sea during the Pleistocene. Days 2 through 5 will be
spent on the South Carolina coast examining the sedimentary
sequences deposited in the mixed-energy delta of the Santee/Pee Dee
Rivers, the mixed-energy (mesotidal) barrier islands (transgressive and
regressive), and tidal inlets of the region, as well as those of St. Helena
Sound, the largest estuary on the southeastern coastline of the USA. A
half-day session on day 6 will include a synopsis of the reservoir-
quality sand bodies visited, a lecture comparing these sand bodies with
several ancient analogs, and a core lab.
Modern Deltas
Leaders: Harry H. Roberts, Gregory Stone and Samuel Bentley, Coastal
Studies Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Date: September 13-17
Location: Begins in Baton Rouge and ends in New Orleans, Louisiana
Tuition: $2,500; includes 5 nights lodging, bus and boat transportation,
field lunches, and guidebook
Limit: 25 • Content: 4.0 CEU
Who Should Attend
Geoscientists who need to understand the sedimentary architecture
of deltas, internal characteristics of constituent sediment bodies, and
sequence/seismic stratigraphic relationships with surrounding facies.
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The thoroughly documented Mississippi River Delta Complex offers
an unparalleled opportunity to observe depositional processes/products
and develop criteria for recognition of fluvial and deltaic sediment
bodies in subsurface clastic depositional systems. Participants will be
introduced to lithologic, sedimentologic, and stratigraphic
characteristics of: (1) alluvial valley sediment fill; (2) meander belts; (3)
interdistributary basins; (4) deltas; and (5) associated continental shelf
and slope settings. Both active and inactive parts of the system will be
examined. The new delta lobe of the Mississippi River deltaic plain, the
Atchafalaya-Wax Lake delta complex, will provide the opportunity to
study a high sea level parasequence developing along the central coast
of Louisiana.
Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on processes of
deposition and resultant sedimentary facies formed both at rising-to-
high and falling-to-low sea level. Depositional units and bounding
surfaces are analyzed in a sequence/seismic stratigraphic framework
using borings and high resolution acoustic data plus well-logs and
exploration-scale seismic profiles. The depositional framework of the
Holocene Mississippi System will be compared to the most thoroughly
documented Pleistocene shelf edge delta which formed during the last
glacial maximum and also happens to be in the northern Gulf of
Mexico. Other modern deltas (e.g. Mahakam Delta of Borneo, Nile Delta
of Egypt, and Sao Francisco Delta of Brazil) will be compared with the
river-dominated Mississippi to emphasize both similarities and
differences. Formative processes, geometry, and internal architecture of
sand bodies within modern deltas is stressed, with special treatment
given to the Mississippi River Delta Complex.
Quaternary Depositional Systems of the East Texas
Coast and Shelf
Leader: John B. Anderson, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Date: October 23-24
Location: Begins and ends in Houston, Texas
Tuition: $395, includes meals and lodging
Limit: 22 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, reservoir
engineers, exploration and development managers who want a better
understanding of the facies variations that control the distribution of
clastic reservoir facies.
Objectives and Content:
The East Texas coast and adjacent continental shelf is an ideal natural
laboratory for examining depositional processes and facies of shallow
water coastal and marine environments. During this field trip we will
visit and/or discuss several depositional systems, and examine
sediment cores and high resolution seismic records from these and
other offshore environments. The objective is to understand the facies
architecture of these environments, the distribution of these facies on
the continental shelf during the last glacial eustatic cycle, and their
preservation potential. We will also discuss how to predict the
occurrence, shape and internal character of different sand bodies on
the continental shelf given a sequence stratigraphic framework.
Course set up:
First Day-
Morning— Modern and ancient Brazos River channel and point bar
deposits, Oyster Creek meander belt and transgressive surface at
old Oyster Creek river mouth.
Afternoon— the Brazos delta, Follets Island, San Luis Pass tidal delta
and west Galveston Island.
Second Day
Morning—East Galveston Island Transect, Bolivar Roads tidal delta
complex, Bolivar Peninsula
Afternoon—Trinity bayhead delta, Trinity Incised river valley
CLASTICS - ANCIENT
Clastic Reservoir Facies and Sequence Stratigraphic
Analysis of Alluvial-Plain, Shoreface, Deltaic, and
Shelf Depositional Systems
Leader: Thomas A. Ryer, The ARIES Group, Katy, Texas
Date: April 25-May 1
Location: Begins and ends in Salt Lake City, Utah
Tuition: $1,500; includes field transportation, lunches in the field,
guidebook
Limit: 15 • Content: 5.0 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, reservoir
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engineers, log analysts, and managers of exploration and development
programs who want a better understanding of the facies variations that
control the distribution of clastic reservoir facies.
Objectives and Content
This field seminar utilizes a case-study approach and emphasizes
lateral relationships to develop a full understanding of the distribution
of reservoir facies in depositional systems tracts.
Facies/reservoir types examined include: braided stream,
meanderbelt, alluvial valley fill, shoreface, wave- and river-dominated
delta, distributary channel and mouth bar, tidal inlet and tidal channel,
transgressive lag, and shelf sand.
Class size is kept small for mobility and to promote group and
individual discussions with the instructor on the outcrop.
This field seminar focuses on the lithologic variations that
characterize clastic reservoir facies and on development of models that
can be used to predict these variations in the subsurface. The strata
studied include excellent analogs for oil-and-gas productive units
elsewhere, including the Wilcox Formation of the Gulf Coast, the Brent
Group of the North Sea, and a wide range of Cretaceous and Tertiary
formations in South America.
Participants will learn about clastic reservoir facies through a series
of case studies. Case studies initially focus on the vertical facies
successions that characterize particular paleoenvironments, and the
criteria that can be used to recognize them on wireline logs and in
cores. The main emphasis of the case studies, however, is on lateral
relationships within systems tracts. The scales of lateral variations
examined range from reservoir heterogeneities at interwell spacing up
to the more regional facies variations that form the basis for exploration
models.
Lateral relationships that characterize clastic reservoir facies are
demonstrated by walking representative units out in areas of
continuous exposure. Citing just one example: on outcrops of the
Ferron Sandstone, participants will examine the distribution of
sandstone types and sedimentary structures in the landward part of a
parasequence that accumulated on a prograding shoreface. They will
then walk across the landward pinch-out into deposits of the lagoon
and swamp that lay behind the shoreline. The emphasis in this field
seminar is on practical applications: if, for instance, a discovery well
penetrated a hydrocarbon bearing shoreface unit consisting of 20 feet
of upper shoreface and foreshore strata lying directly on a
transgressive surface of erosion, what is the likelihood that an appraisal
well drilled one mile landward would also encounter shoreface strata,
rather than non-reservoir lagoonal beds? The Ferron example
mentioned above serves as an analog and provides an answer.
Larger-scale variations are examined by driving between localities. By
this means, architectures of river-dominated deltas and of the
meanderbelts that fed them are demonstrated in the Ferron Sandstone
in Castle Valley and the Henry Mountains Basin and in the Straight
Cliffs Formation on the Kaiparowits Plateau. The effects of subsidence
patterns on the architectures of channel belts and shoreline sandstone
bodies of the Dakota Sandstone are examined in the Henry Mountains
Basin and on the Kaiparowits Plateau.
Foreland Basin Clastic Reservoirs, Book Cliffs, Utah
(formerly Wave-Dominated Shoreline Deposits and
Foreland Basin Stratigraphy, Book Cliffs, Utah)
Leader: John K. Balsley, Consulting Geologist, Indian Hills, Colorado
Dates: June 7-15; August 16-24
Location: Begins and ends in Moab, Utah
Tuition: $1,750; includes 4-wheel-drive transportation, course notes
and core/log manual on 3 CD-Rom
Limit: 15 • Content: 6.0 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, log analysts,
engineers, and exploration and development managers who want a
thorough working knowledge of productive fluvial, shoreline, and
turbidite systems.
Objectives and Content
This seminar draws upon the complete preservation and continuity of
the stratigraphic record in a classic area - the Cretaceous Book Cliffs of
eastern Utah. The continuous record of deposition exposed along the
Cliffs is the focus of the course. This exceptional record provides an
opportunity to examine a foreland basin onshore to offshore systems
tract comprised of coastal plain braided and meandering fluvial
systems; shoreline wave- and river-dominated delta, strand plain, and
barrier-island systems; and basin floor turbidite systems.
Emphasis is placed upon recognition characteristics of the systems,
depositional processes, and reservoir characteristics including
partitioning and development of secondary porosity. Core and logs
from the systems are examined at the outcrop. Large-scale depositional
patterns controlled by salt tectonics, autocyclic processes, and
differential subsidence rates are discussed and illustrated with
examples.
To supplement reservoir examples from the gas-prone Cretaceous
hydrocarbon system, several examples have been selected from the
underlying oil-prone Pennsylvanian Paradox Basin system. These
examples include outcropping, saturated eolian, eolian-sabkha, and
braided fluvial reservoirs. These examples are used to illustrate both an
arid climatic overprint on the shoreline systems and the development of
secondary porosity and its effects on reservoir quality and hydrocarbon
migration and emplacement.
Interpretation of the ancient systems is aided by six (6) hours of slide
and video presentations covering depositional processes and
analogous modern and ancient systems. Eolian and fluvial depositional
processes are observed in a modern dune field and the Colorado River.
The deep river canyon of the Colorado provides a natural flume in
which fluvial processes and channel and bar deposits can be examined.
SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY
Sensible Sequence Stratigraphy: Predicting Clastic
Reservoirs
Leaders: Lee F. Krystinik, Litho-Logic Consulting, Fort Worth, Texas
and Beverly Blakeney DeJarnett, Houston Research Center of the
Bureau of Economic Geology, Houston, Texas
Date: June 21-26
Location: Begins and ends in Salt Lake City, Utah
Tuition: $1,950, which includes ground transportation, guidebooks,
breakfasts/lunches
Limit: 25 • Content: 4.2 CEU
Who Should Attend
Geologists and Geophysicists of all experience levels
Field Seminar Description:
This six-day field seminar to superb outcrops in SW Wyoming and
NE Utah places a broad spectrum of hydrocarbon productive, non-
marine and marine reservoir successions within an integrated sequence
stratigraphic context and provides tested approaches for predicting
reservoir and seal occurrence. Emphasis is placed on identifying key
stratigraphic surfaces in these successions that drive interpretive
reservoir prediction.
Lectures, outcrop study and exercises emphasize understanding a
basin fill as a dynamic, three-dimensional and largely inter-related
succession of deposits. We compare and contrast basinal areas of high
subsidence with areas of low subsidence and examine the relative
contributions of eustasy, tectonics and sediment supply to the
preserved reservoirs and seals. Although participants are taught the key
terminology and context of sequence stratigraphic nomenclature, our
primary focus is on practical, sensible and tested applications of
sequence stratigraphic principles to finding oil and gas.
Key topics addressed: Sequence stratigraphy, syn-tectonic
sedimentation, predicting reservoir and seal or petroleum systems,
identifying critical controls on the architecture of a subject basin fill
(eustasy, sediment supply and tectonics), outcrop and subsurface
examples, correlation and mapping philosophies.
Objectives and Content
This course is designed to be a pragmatic, “bottom line” oriented
approach to understanding basin fills and the petroleum systems within
them, without the burden of excessive nomenclature. We will
emphasize key controls on sequence stratigraphic architecture,
sequence stratigraphic signatures in different subsidence and
sedimentation settings, and regional prediction of reservoir and seal
facies. We will also focus on how critical assumptions often made in
sequence stratigraphic analysis may not hold true in tectonically active
basins.
Organization of the Stops: Participants are taken from the “thin-
skinned” tectonics of the Western US overthrust belt across the
foredeep of the Western Interior Cretaceous Basin and onto the eastern
flank of the basin where “thick-skinned,” higher-angle tectonics
dominate. Along this traverse we compare the character of key
sequence stratigraphic surfaces and reservoir sandstones as they
change in response to changes in sediment supply and subsidence or
uplift.
Most clastic depositional environments are covered on this trip,
ranging from alluvial fans and eolian deposits, through fluvial and
marine deposits, to turbidite fan complexes.
The stops are designed to take the participant through each of the
sequence stratigraphic stacking patterns and help the participant to
identify the predictable aspects of each component within the basin fill.
Each day will start with thematic lectures during breakfast covering the
key concepts for that field day.
Exercises in the lecture room and on the outcrops are designed to
emphasize the economic applications of these concepts.
TECTONICS AND SEDIMENTATION
Exploration Potential, Tectonic Framework, and
Depositional Systems of Strike-Slip and Extensional
Basins
Leaders: Tor H. Nilsen, Consultant, San Carlos, California; Arthur G.
Sylvester, University of California at Santa Barbara
Date: April 24-May 1
Location: Begins in Palm Springs, California, ends in Las Vegas,
Nevada
Tuition: $2,050; includes lodging, field transportation, some lunches,
guidebook and maps
Limit: 25 • Content: 5.5 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, and
managers working in strike-slip and extensional basins.
Objectives and Content
Three strike-slip basins, two of which have undergone major
extensional histories, will be examined in southern California.
Exploration-related exercises will be undertaken in which the tectonic
and depositional systems of the basins will be demonstrated and their
exploration and development potential evaluated.
Both active modern basins and uplifted ancient basins will be
examined in generally desert settings that provide superb exposures.
This field seminar is a seven-day excursion with related lectures and
discussion sessions to three uniquely well-exposed basins in southern
California that provide excellent models for global exploration and
production in strike-slip and extensional basins. The various types of
structural and depositional systems, trapping mechanisms, source and
reservoir units, and exploration potential of extensional and strike-slip
basins will be investigated in detail.
Following initial lectures on the general setting and principles that
govern the structural, depositional, and geophysical characteristics of
extensional rifts and strike-slip basins, two and one-half days will be
spent in the Salton Trough, two days in the oil-productive Ridge Basin
near Los Angeles, and two and one-half days in the Death Valley area.
Modern and ancient alluvial-fan, fluvial, fan-delta, catastrophic
landslide, eolian, playa, evaporite, turbidite, delta, fan-delta, and other
facies will be examined in detail. The sequence-stratigraphic framework
and geometry of these facies will be studied from the perspective of
hydrocarbon trapping mechanisms. Syntectonic deformation of various
types will be observed and related to various tectonic styles. Various
transpressional, transtensional, and extensional structural features will
be studied in detail, in both presently active structures and older
structures. Detachment faulting and listric normal faulting will be
observed in detail in the Salton Trough and Death Valley areas.
See Website: http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/~arthur/TOR_TRIP_2002/
welcomeAAPG2002.html
Salt and Extensional Tectonics in the Paradox Basin,
Utah
Leader: Michael Hudec, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of
Texas at Austin
Date: May 16-21
Location: Begins and ends at Grand Junction, CO
Tuition: $1,600; includes lodging, internal transportation, field guides,
and lunches in the field
Limit: 23 • Content: 4.2 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, and
managers who are working in salt basins.
Objectives and Content
• Improve understanding of salt and associated stratigraphic and
structural features.
• Study the interplay between salt flow and sedimentation.
• Identify map patterns of salt-related normal-fault systems.
• Examine sub-seismic fault networks.
Exceptional exposures in the northern part of the Paradox Basin
provide a unique opportunity to examine the interplay of salt diapirs
and salt-related extensional structures in the field. In addition, large cliff
exposures allow us to study three-dimensional stratigraphic patterns
within the surrounding sediments.
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 Salt structures examined in the field are pillows, domes, and walls,
all of which can be observed at a variety of structural levels. In addition,
a small-scale salt sheet and pinched-off stock will be visited.
Sedimentary structures include a turtle, two minibasins, and several
salt-flank unconformities. Surface observations are supplemented with
seismic interpretations, well data, and several 3-D geologic models
constructed from surface and subsurface data.
All of the exposed extensional structures are detached above salt.
These include both listric normal faults with attendant rollover
anticlines and smaller faults that formed during the fall of previously
emplaced diapirs. Basement-involved normal faults are observed on
seismic in the area and are interpreted to have influenced both the
location and orientation of salt structures.
Deltaic and Turbidite Reservoir Systems of SE Asia:
High Resolution Exploration and Development
Models & Applications: From Outcrop to Subsurface
Leaders: Paul Crevello, Petrex Asia Reservoir and Stratigraphy Group,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; John Clayburn, Howard Johnson, Yazid
Mansor, Petronas-Carigali, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Date: June 28 - July 5
Location: Begins in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, and ends in
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Tuition: $2,580; includes lodging, overflight, bus and boat transfers
throughout the seminar, and guidebook
Limit: 18 • Content: 5.5 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, log analysts,
reservoir engineers, and exploration and development managers who
want a thorough working knowledge of productive clastic reservoirs of
fluvial, deltaic, estuarine, shoreline, and turbidite systems developed in
SE Asia.
Objectives and Content
a.. Understand factors controlling reservoir geometry, architecture, and
production characteristics of fluvial, deltaic, estuarine, shoreface and
turbidite systems plus syntectonic and structural issues
b.. Examine outcrop examples of turbidite sand-rich versus mud-rich
systems; coarse-grained versus fine-grained; canyon, ponded slope
and basin-floor reservoir models; the implications of tectonic versus
base-level controls on reservoir distribution and quality; implications of
river-dominated deltaic turbidite feeder systems; and comparison with
shelf turbidites
c.. Examine outcrop examples of fluvial, tidal, wave-dominated deltaic
and shoreface reservoir systems d.. Examine an exhumed oil field
exposed on the Miri Anticline, which provides outcrop analogs for
reservoirs, fault compartments and structural style similar to giant
Baram and Champion fields
e.. Evaluate the effects of relative sea-level changes, accommodation,
basin shape and tectonics on reservoir architecture f.. Examine the
facies, architecture and outcrop expression of tectonically-induced shelf
sequence boundaries, which provide insight into sediment flux and
bypass systems associated with incised valley to slope-basin turbidite
reservoir systems
g.. Compare and contrast well-exposed outcrop examples with adjacent
subsurface producing reservoir systems
h.. Develop appropriate reservoir models for exploration, development
and full-field asset studies
This seven-day field seminar will examine outstanding outcrop
examples of basin floor, slope, shoreface and fluvial-deltaic reservoir
systems exposed in the uplifted coastal ranges of NW Borneo. The trip
will also include detailed discussions of production from nearby
subsurface fields.
Lectures will outline the fundamental aspects of clastic depositional
systems common to SE Asia, including depositional processes, facies,
sequence stratigraphy, and reservoir geometries, as well as the tectonic
and depositional framework of SE Asia.
Subsurface welllog and seismic exercises will investigate the tools,
methodology and strategy for developing coherent, seamless geology-
based, static reservoir models for scaling dynamic reservoir
simulations. A core workshop will demonstrate the different reservoir
systems occurring in the offshore of NW Borneo, which will provide
exploration analogs and models for the majority of reservoir systems
occurring in Asia-Indo-Pacific.
Outcrops will provide examples of reservoir facies, depositional,
syntectonic and structural reservoir architecture, heterogeneity, and
trapping mechanism.
Core, well log and seismic exercises will emphasize facies relations,
accommodation patterns, calibration of subsurface data sets, and the
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porosity and permeability/petrophysics in various clastic reservoirs.
Reservoirs in outcrop and subsurface will be placed into a high-
resolution sequence stratigraphic framework suitable for reservoir
prediction and asset evaluation, including parasequences to systems
tracts, major sequence and subsidiary surfaces.
The trip will include an over-flight of a modern, open-shelf, wave-
dominated delta-shoreface system from a structurally confined tidal
and river-dominated deltaic estuarine system.
Fractures, Folds, and Faults in Thrusted Terrains:
Sawtooth Range, Montana (formerly E&P in Thrusted
Terrains: Practical Applications of Structure and
Stratigraphy in the Montana/Alberta Foothills)
Leaders: Steven N. Boyer, Consultant, Tacoma, WA; William Hansen,
Jireh Consulting Services, Great Falls, MT; Charles F. Kluth, Kluth &
Associates, Littleton, CO; James Sears, University of Montana,
Missoula
Date: August 2-7
Location: Begins and ends in Great Falls, Montana
Tuition: $1,500; includes lunches, transportation, guidebooks,
admission to Glacier National Park, and some additional meals.
Limit: 20 • Content: 4.2 CEU
Who Should Attend
Geologists, geophysicists, log analysts, engineers and exploration
managers who want a thorough understanding of the geology and
complexity of exploring in thrust belts.
Objectives and Content
• Examine the mechanics of fracturing, folding, and faulting in thrust
belt terrains.
• Review new ideas of the geometry and kinematics of the
development of thrust belts with examples from the spectacular
Sawtooth Range of northwest Montana.
• Compare seismic interpretation with outcrop examples and review
drilling practices in a “frontier” (Montana) exploration thrust belt
province.
• Review stratigraphic concepts which are essential in the exploration
of thrust belt targets.
This field seminar is unique in that it offers the participant the
opportunity to interact with a number of instructors who have several
decades of experience working in thrust belts of the world. It focuses
on the practical issues of exploration and production of hydrocarbons
in thrust belts, with the Montana Thrust Belt as the backdrop. It will
emphasize how these concepts can be applied worldwide, where
overthrust terrains are increasingly important exploration targets.
The course will integrate concepts of exploration, including a review
of fractured reservoir models, structural geology, stratigraphy, and
hydrocarbon assessment. The spectacular geology of the Montana
Sawtooth Range (an exhumed duplex) will serve as the backdrop for
this field seminar. Time in the field will be bolstered by periodic
classroom sessions on structural geology concepts, fractured
reservoirs, and other issues the explorationist can expect to encounter
in thrust belt exploration.
The seminar will involve traverses to examine multiple thrust sheets
exposed in Sun River Canyon, the famous Teton Anticline, and an
outstanding example of an exposed fractured reservoir along a fault-
propagated fold in Mississippian carbonates at Swift Reservoir.
Discussions will involve new ideas on the geometry and kinematics of
thrust sheets and how they might influence exploration strategies in
those settings.
Discussions will also include the varied undiscovered natural gas
resource estimates for the Montana Disturbed Belt, and the
methodology involved when estimating resources in frontier exploration
provinces. The seminar will continue northward to Glacier National
Park, with a cross-section view of the Lewis Thrust, the Chief Mountain
klippe, discussions of drilling on the nearby Blackfeet Indian
Reservation and the historical giant gas field production across the
border in Alberta, and conclude with a geologic transect along the
scenic Going-to-the-Sun Highway of Glacier National Park.
Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphic Response
of Paralic Deposits to Changes in Accommodation:
Predicting Reservoir Architecture, Book Cliffs, Utah
Leaders: Keith W. Shanley, Stone Energy, Denver, Colorado; J. Michael
Boyles, ConocoPhillips Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Date: September 18-24
Location: Begins and ends in Grand Junction, Colorado
Tuition: $1,600; includes ground transportation, lunches, and
guidebook
Limit: 20 • Content: 5.6 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and production/reservoir geologists, geophysicists and
reservoir engineers working in siliciclastic systems worldwide.
Objectives and Content
The intent of this field seminar is to demonstrate how a combination
of detailed sedimentology and stratigraphy are used in a sequence
stratigraphic approach to aid in the prediction of reservoir facies at both
the exploration and production scale. During the seminar, key sequence
stratigraphic concepts are developed through lectures and computer
modeling, illustrated in outcrop exposures and reinforced through
subsurface exercises.
Exposures of Upper Cretaceous strata in the Book Cliffs of east-
central Utah offer an un-paralleled opportunity to study changes in
sedimentology and reservoir architecture of paralic strata within a high-
resolution sequence stratigraphic framework.
The field trip begins by looking at the sedimentological and
stratigraphic aspects of the Panther Tongue and lower Blackhawk
Formation exposures in the vicinity of Price, Utah. In this relatively
high-accommodation setting, sequence boundary unconformities are
not developed and paralic facies tracts are more fully preserved. The
high-accommodation stratigraphy in the vicinity of Price is contrasted
with observations from the stratigraphically younger Desert Member of
the Blackhawk Formation and the Castlegate Sandstone in the vicinity
of Green River, Utah. In these deposits, subsidence rates are
diminished relative to those found near Price, resulting in progradation
during relative sea level fall and well developed sequence boundary
unconformities. The stratal architecture of these deposits is
dramatically different from the architecture associated with the more
high-accommodation deposits near Price, Utah.
The field trip integrates field observations with data sets drawn from
a variety of subsurface examples with the intent of using observations
from the outcrops to gain insights to understanding and predicting
subsurface stratal architecture in a variety of basin settings. At the end
of the course, participants will have an understanding of deltaic and
fluvial facies and the nature of stratigraphic variations within these
deposits. They will be able to use these facies relationships to
understand stratal stacking patterns that can be used to estimate lateral
extent of reservoir facies. Participants will learn a process of how to
use subsurface data to gain an understanding of depositional systems
and key sequence stratigraphic surfaces to assist in either exploration
or production.
Locations:
Book Cliffs’ outcrops from Price, UT to Grand Junction, CO will be
investigated during the seminar. The trip will also spend time looking at
fluvial deposits in the Morrison Formation near Green River, UT.
Submarine Fan and Canyon Reservoirs, California
Leader: Tor H. Nilsen, Consultant, San Carlos, CA
Location: Begins in San Francisco and ends in Bakersfield, CA
Date: October 4-9
Tuition: $1,750, includes field transportation, lunches and guidebook
Content: 4.2 CEU • Limit: 25
Who Should Attend
Geologists, geophysicists, log analysts, engineers, and exploration
and development managers.
Objectives and Content
• Understand factors controlling reservoir geometry and architecture of
submarine-fan and canyon systems
• Examine field examples of sand-rich, mud-rich, and mixed sediment
submarine-fan deposits
• Evaluate the effects of relative sea-level changes, tectonics, basin
shape, climate, and feeder systems on the character and geometry of
submarine fans
• Examine a variety of submarine canyons of variable scale that are
both sand-filled and shale-filled
• Compare and contrast well-exposed outcrop examples with
subsurface producing fans and canyons
• Develop appropriate models for fan and canyon sedimentation in
convergent, divergent, and strike-slip basin settings
• Examine a variety of trapping mechanisms for gas in the Sacramento
basin and for oil in the San Joaquin basin
This six-day field seminar will examine outstanding outcrop
examples of submarine fans and canyons and will also include detailed
discussions of production from adjacent subsurface units in both
convergent-margin and strike-slip settings in California. Initial lectures
will outline the fundamental aspects of turbidite depositional systems,
including depositional processes, facies, sequence stratigraphy, and
reservoir geometries, as well as the tectonic and depositional
framework of California. Brief discussions each morning will outline the
objectives for the day and provide the regional setting for outcrop
examples. Concluding discussions will synthesize the examples
observed into a coherent framework applicable to global analysis of
deep-marine reservoirs. Outcrops examined will provide outstanding
examples of submarine-fan and submarine-canyon reservoir
architecture, reservoir heterogeneity, and trapping potential. Several
field exercises will focus attention on lateral and vertical facies relations,
hydrocarbon migration pathways, and the development of porosity and
permeability in deep-marine reservoirs. Some examples of related
outer-shelf, slope, and basin-plain deposits will also be examined. The
sequence stratigraphic aspects of lowstand and highstand systems
tracts, with application to reservoir prediction and geometry, will be
emphasized, using some examples from modern active- and passive-
margin systems.
Travel will be by van or bus, beginning near San Francisco Airport,
with travel into the Coast Ranges, Sacramento Valley, and San Joaquin
Valley, ending in Bakersfield.
Salt Tectonics and Sedimentation of La Popa Basin,
Mexico
Leaders: Kate Giles and Timothy Lawton, New Mexico State Univ., Las
Cruces; and Mark Rowan, Independent Consultant, Boulder, Colorado
Date: Oct. 28-30 (in conjunction with AAPG International Conference,
Cancun, Mexico)
Location: Begins and ends in Monterrey, Mexico
Tuition: $1,085, which includes guidebook, ground transportation,
lodging, breakfasts, lunches and one dinner
Limit: 21 • Content: 2.2 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, and
managers who are working in salt basins.
Objectives
• Improve understanding of salt and associated halokinetic stratal and
structural features.
• Relate progressive structural deformation to stratigraphy within the
new concept of halokinetic sequences.
• Observe variability of stratal and structural geometry adjacent to salt
structures in terms of diapiric evolution, basin paleogeography,
sediment dispersal pathways, and petroleum exploration and
exploitation strategies.
• Discern structural and stratigraphic features related to halokinesis
versus regional shortening.
Description
This 2.5-day field seminar will examine exceptional outcrop
exposures in NE Mexico of structural and sedimentologic features
related to halokinesis. The salt structures examined in detail are a
passive salt stock with a large overhang and a 25 km-long vertical salt
weld. The seminar is aimed at providing outcrop scale detailed
examination of near-diapir salt-sediment interaction, development of
halokinetic sequences, and nature of near-diapir faults and folds at
several different stratigraphic and structural levels. Participants will also
examine the effects of regional shortening on diapiric systems and will
compare them to salt-cored detachment folds in the area.
GEOTOURS
Lewis & Clark Geotour: Marias River to Gates of the
Mountains, Montana
Leader: William Hansen, Jireh Consulting Services, Great Falls, MT
Date: July 12-17
Location: Begins and ends in Great Falls, Montana
Tuition: $1,200, includes one day outfitted whitewater float trip and one
day outfitted canoe trip on Missouri River, guided trips to the Great
Falls of the Missouri, White Bear Island Portage Camp, Sacagawea
Sulfur Springs, Marias River “decision” point, and historic Fort Benton
Missouri River steamboat wharf; admission to Lewis & Clark
Interpretive Center, C. M. Russell Western Art Museum, Ulm Pishkun
Buffalo Jump and Giant Springs State Parks; cruise boat trip through
Lewis & Clark’s “Gates of the Mountains” canyon in the Montana
Thrust Belt, wild west dinner train through central Montana with Prime
Rib dinner, lunches, transportation during Geotour, guidebook and
barbecue dinners during river trips.
Limit: 11 • Content: 4.2 CEU
Who Should Attend
Geologists, geophysicists, spouses, and families interested in the
geology surrounding the 200th Anniversary of the Lewis & Clark
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Expedition in Montana and who would enjoy a mix of history and
geology. The Missouri River is a great river to float and canoe for
beginners, and the pace is leisurely. Some moderate hiking will occur.
Objectives and Content:
In celebration of the upcoming 200th Anniversary of the Lewis &
Clark Expedition, this six day excursion will focus on the geology of the
northern Montana portion of their journey. Visits will be made to the
new Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center and then visit the adjacent Giant
Springs, described by Lewis in 1805. We will view the Great Falls of
the Missouri, which forced Lewis & Clark to endure a grueling, month-
long 25 mile portage in 1805 (no portage necessary on Geotour!)
Lower Cretaceous Kootenai (Mannville equivalent) channel sands are
exposed in the gorge of the Missouri below the falls. We will then
proceed to historic Fort Benton, the oldest city in Montana and a major
steamboat port in the mid to late 1800’s, and take a side trip to the
Marias River “decision point”, where Lewis & Clark spent an agonizing
nine days trying to decide which fork of the Missouri to follow.
An outfitted raft trip will follow through the one whitewater stretch of
the Missouri downstream of Great Falls. An additional one day canoe
trip is scheduled through the quiet water in the Missouri River Canyon
upstream of the falls. On our way, we will visit the Ulm Pishkun Buffalo
Jump, and examine outcrops in the Adel Mountains volcanic field (late
Cretaceous) and the Helena Salient of the Montana Thrust Belt. The
tour will continue with a boat cruise through the spectacular limestone
canyon that Merriwether Lewis called the “Gates of the Rocky
Mountains”.
The Geotour will conclude with a tour of the C.M. Russell Western
Art Museum, followed by brief trip through Central Montana to
Lewistown, Montana. Here we will board the Charlie Russell Dinner
Train and view the geology of central Montana by rail. Prime rib dinner
and wild west “holdup”, no extra charge!
Grand Canyon Geology Via the Colorado River,
Arizona
Leaders: John E. Warme, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO;
William Wade, The Woodlands, Texas
Location: Begins at Marble Canyon, Arizona, and ends Marble Canyon,
Arizona, or Las Vegas, Nevada
Date: August 5-12
Tuition: $2,375; includes boats, boatmen, crew tips, life jackets,
camping gear, excellent food, river-runner’s guidebook, geological
guidebooks, National Park fee, and helicopter and fixed-winged aircraft
liftout to Marble Canyon or Las Vegas.
Limit: 28 • Content: 5.0 CEU
This 8-day excursion provides a trip of a lifetime. Participants will
trace much of the route of the John Wesley Powell expedition 135
years ago, through the Marble Canyon and Grand Canyon of the
Colorado River. We will travel for 188 miles from Lee’s Ferry to
Whitmore Wash, studying the Paleozoic Permian to Cambrian and
Precambrian formations exposed in the Canyon as it cuts down
through the uplift of the Colorado Plateau. Emphasis is on
paleoenvironments, bounding unconformities, and overall geological
history of the sedimentary formations, as well as on the modern
Colorado River and its tributaries. The trip ends in the spectacular
terrane of volcanics that spill into the Canyon near Lava Falls, the most
awesome rapid on the river. The scenery and natural history of the
area are world famous and unforgettable.
River travel through the Grand Canyon demonstrates how careful
management and stewardship can allow both intense utilization and
remarkable preservation of a public recreational and scientific resource
in a wilderness setting.
We will travel by large motorized rubber boats, and camp each night
on river beaches. Our outfitter provides boats, licensed and
experienced boatmen, excellent food, and life jackets. Time is
scheduled for daily side-canyon hikes to out-of-the-way geological,
archeological, and natural history features. Past Geotourists have
unanimously treasured the friendships and camaraderie that develop
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during this excursion through the canyon. Participants should be in
good physical condition.
Begins: Marble Canyon, Arizona; ends: Marble Canyon, Arizona, or Las
Vegas, Nevada. Participants can drive or fly to the Marble Canyon
departure point. We will exit the Canyon by helicopter liftout at
Whitmore Wash, and then take fixed-winged aircraft back to the
Marble Canyon departure point, or to Las Vegas, Nevada. Complete
instructions and transportation options will be mailed to each
participant.
Timeless Geologic Scenes of Glen Canyon and
Rainbow Bridge via Lake Powell, Utah-Arizona
Leaders: Doug Sprinkel, Tom Chidsey, and Grant Willis, Utah
Geological Survey, Salt Lake City.
Date: August 16-19
Location: Begins and ends in Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit Bryce
Canyon National Park, Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument, Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area,
and Rainbow Bridge National Monument. Lodging in Page, Arizona.
Tuition: $1135.00, includes ground transportation, charter boat and
kayak expenses, three lunches, one dinner, drinks, snacks, geologic
road and lake logs, and a copy of Utah Geological Association
Publication 28, “Geology of Utah’s Parks and Monuments.”
Limit: 22 (no children under six years of age).
Content: 3.0 CEU
Who should attend
Geologists, geophysicists, spouses, guests, and families interested
in the geology of the Colorado Plateau and Utah’s parks and
monuments, and who would enjoy exploring the bays and canyons of
beautiful Lake Powell. For those who want to relax there will be time
for exploring in slot canyons, swimming, and kayaking.
Objectives and Content
The Colorado Plateau is recognized as one of the best natural
laboratories in the world to view and study classic geologic principles
and phenomena, and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area includes
some of the best examples of the spectacular geology and canyon
scenery the Colorado Plateau has to offer. The canyons in the
recreation area formed within the past 5 million years by the vigorous
downcutting of the Colorado and San Juan Rivers and their tributaries.
Nearly 9,000 feet of bedrock are exposed spanning approximately 235
million years (Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation to Upper Cretaceous
Straight Cliffs Formation). The canyons provide exquisite views of
marine, fluvial, and eolian depositional environments—most of which
have petroleum-producing analogs around the world. The canyons are
also natural cross sections that display folds that formed during the
Laramide orogeny.
Near the foot of Navajo Mountain and along the shore of Lake
Powell is the impressive Rainbow Bridge, the largest natural bridge in
the world. Formed in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Rainbow Bridge
spans 275 feet and rises 290 feet—about the height of the Statue of
Liberty—above a small tributary that flows into Lake Powell. The
geology at Rainbow Bridge offers an excellent example of bridge and
arch formation.
The best way to view the geology of Glen Canyon and Rainbow
Bridge is by powerboat on Lake Powell. For two days we will travel the
southern part of the lake exploring many of Lake Powell’s fabled bays
and canyons like Padre Bay, Last Chance Bay, Dangling Rope Canyon,
and, of course, Forbidding Canyon—site of Rainbow Bridge. Some of
the geologic highlights include reservoir characteristics of eolian
deposits; hydrocarbon flow in eolian, fluvial, and marginal marine
sandstone beds; massive sandstone injection and collapse features;
giant pot holes; dinosaur tracks; spring-fed hanging gardens in
beautiful alcoves; enormous landslides; Laramide structures; carbon
dioxide sequestration; and regional petroleum geology.
The first day of overland travel to Lake Powell will include stops in
the world-renowned Bryce Canyon National Park and Grand Staircase-
Escalante National Monument.
Expedition in Montana and who would enjoy a mix of history and
geology. The Missouri River is a great river to float and canoe for
beginners, and the pace is leisurely. Some moderate hiking will occur.
Objectives and Content:
In celebration of the upcoming 200th Anniversary of the Lewis &
Clark Expedition, this six day excursion will focus on the geology of the
northern Montana portion of their journey. Visits will be made to the
new Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center and then visit the adjacent Giant
Springs, described by Lewis in 1805. We will view the Great Falls of
the Missouri, which forced Lewis & Clark to endure a grueling, month-
long 25 mile portage in 1805 (no portage necessary on Geotour!)
Lower Cretaceous Kootenai (Mannville equivalent) channel sands are
exposed in the gorge of the Missouri below the falls. We will then
proceed to historic Fort Benton, the oldest city in Montana and a major
steamboat port in the mid to late 1800’s, and take a side trip to the
Marias River “decision point”, where Lewis & Clark spent an agonizing
nine days trying to decide which fork of the Missouri to follow.
An outfitted raft trip will follow through the one whitewater stretch of
the Missouri downstream of Great Falls. An additional one day canoe
trip is scheduled through the quiet water in the Missouri River Canyon
upstream of the falls. On our way, we will visit the Ulm Pishkun Buffalo
Jump, and examine outcrops in the Adel Mountains volcanic field (late
Cretaceous) and the Helena Salient of the Montana Thrust Belt. The
tour will continue with a boat cruise through the spectacular limestone
canyon that Merriwether Lewis called the “Gates of the Rocky
Mountains”.
The Geotour will conclude with a tour of the C.M. Russell Western
Art Museum, followed by brief trip through Central Montana to
Lewistown, Montana. Here we will board the Charlie Russell Dinner
Train and view the geology of central Montana by rail. Prime rib dinner
and wild west “holdup”, no extra charge!
Grand Canyon Geology Via the Colorado River,
Arizona
Leaders: John E. Warme, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO;
William Wade, The Woodlands, Texas
Location: Begins at Marble Canyon, Arizona, and ends Marble Canyon,
Arizona, or Las Vegas, Nevada
Date: August 5-12
Tuition: $2,375; includes boats, boatmen, crew tips, life jackets,
camping gear, excellent food, river-runner’s guidebook, geological
guidebooks, National Park fee, and helicopter and fixed-winged aircraft
liftout to Marble Canyon or Las Vegas.
Limit: 28 • Content: 5.0 CEU
This 8-day excursion provides a trip of a lifetime. Participants will
trace much of the route of the John Wesley Powell expedition 135
years ago, through the Marble Canyon and Grand Canyon of the
Colorado River. We will travel for 188 miles from Lee’s Ferry to
Whitmore Wash, studying the Paleozoic Permian to Cambrian and
Precambrian formations exposed in the Canyon as it cuts down
through the uplift of the Colorado Plateau. Emphasis is on
paleoenvironments, bounding unconformities, and overall geological
history of the sedimentary formations, as well as on the modern
Colorado River and its tributaries. The trip ends in the spectacular
terrane of volcanics that spill into the Canyon near Lava Falls, the most
awesome rapid on the river. The scenery and natural history of the
area are world famous and unforgettable.
River travel through the Grand Canyon demonstrates how careful
management and stewardship can allow both intense utilization and
remarkable preservation of a public recreational and scientific resource
in a wilderness setting.
We will travel by large motorized rubber boats, and camp each night
on river beaches. Our outfitter provides boats, licensed and
experienced boatmen, excellent food, and life jackets. Time is
scheduled for daily side-canyon hikes to out-of-the-way geological,
archeological, and natural history features. Past Geotourists have
unanimously treasured the friendships and camaraderie that develop
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during this excursion through the canyon. Participants should be in
good physical condition.
Begins: Marble Canyon, Arizona; ends: Marble Canyon, Arizona, or Las
Vegas, Nevada. Participants can drive or fly to the Marble Canyon
departure point. We will exit the Canyon by helicopter liftout at
Whitmore Wash, and then take fixed-winged aircraft back to the
Marble Canyon departure point, or to Las Vegas, Nevada. Complete
instructions and transportation options will be mailed to each
participant.
Timeless Geologic Scenes of Glen Canyon and
Rainbow Bridge via Lake Powell, Utah-Arizona
Leaders: Doug Sprinkel, Tom Chidsey, and Grant Willis, Utah
Geological Survey, Salt Lake City.
Date: August 16-19
Location: Begins and ends in Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit Bryce
Canyon National Park, Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument, Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area,
and Rainbow Bridge National Monument. Lodging in Page, Arizona.
Tuition: $1135.00, includes ground transportation, charter boat and
kayak expenses, three lunches, one dinner, drinks, snacks, geologic
road and lake logs, and a copy of Utah Geological Association
Publication 28, “Geology of Utah’s Parks and Monuments.”
Limit: 22 (no children under six years of age).
Content: 3.0 CEU
Who should attend
Geologists, geophysicists, spouses, guests, and families interested
in the geology of the Colorado Plateau and Utah’s parks and
monuments, and who would enjoy exploring the bays and canyons of
beautiful Lake Powell. For those who want to relax there will be time
for exploring in slot canyons, swimming, and kayaking.
Objectives and Content
The Colorado Plateau is recognized as one of the best natural
laboratories in the world to view and study classic geologic principles
and phenomena, and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area includes
some of the best examples of the spectacular geology and canyon
scenery the Colorado Plateau has to offer. The canyons in the
recreation area formed within the past 5 million years by the vigorous
downcutting of the Colorado and San Juan Rivers and their tributaries.
Nearly 9,000 feet of bedrock are exposed spanning approximately 235
million years (Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation to Upper Cretaceous
Straight Cliffs Formation). The canyons provide exquisite views of
marine, fluvial, and eolian depositional environments—most of which
have petroleum-producing analogs around the world. The canyons are
also natural cross sections that display folds that formed during the
Laramide orogeny.
Near the foot of Navajo Mountain and along the shore of Lake
Powell is the impressive Rainbow Bridge, the largest natural bridge in
the world. Formed in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Rainbow Bridge
spans 275 feet and rises 290 feet—about the height of the Statue of
Liberty—above a small tributary that flows into Lake Powell. The
geology at Rainbow Bridge offers an excellent example of bridge and
arch formation.
The best way to view the geology of Glen Canyon and Rainbow
Bridge is by powerboat on Lake Powell. For two days we will travel the
southern part of the lake exploring many of Lake Powell’s fabled bays
and canyons like Padre Bay, Last Chance Bay, Dangling Rope Canyon,
and, of course, Forbidding Canyon—site of Rainbow Bridge. Some of
the geologic highlights include reservoir characteristics of eolian
deposits; hydrocarbon flow in eolian, fluvial, and marginal marine
sandstone beds; massive sandstone injection and collapse features;
giant pot holes; dinosaur tracks; spring-fed hanging gardens in
beautiful alcoves; enormous landslides; Laramide structures; carbon
dioxide sequestration; and regional petroleum geology.
The first day of overland travel to Lake Powell will include stops in
the world-renowned Bryce Canyon National Park and Grand Staircase-
Escalante National Monument.
 2004 Field Courses
Can’t decide whether you want an intense classroom course or a field seminar? We’ve got just what you
need.
AAPG is proud to offer a combination of classroom learning with field experience. These Field Courses
contain both classroom lecture and exercises with field work on the incredible Colorado Plateau in Utah.
They are a joint effort between AAPG and the Colorado Field Plateau Institute, Price, Utah.
The Fundamentals of Coalbed Methane Exploration
and Production in Fluvial-Deltaic Depositional
Systems
Instructors: George Hampton, Hampton Associates, Inc., Denver,
Colorado; John Seidle, Sproule Associates, Denver, Colorado;
James R. Garrison, Jr., Colorado Plateau Field Institute, Price, Utah
Logistics: Barb Benson, Colorado Plateau Field Institute, Price, Utah
Date: May 2-7
Location: Begins and ends in Salt Lake City, Utah
Tuition: $2,000; includes guidebooks, lodging in Price, Utah (six
nights), transportation during the course, and all meals during the
course.
Limit: 20 • Content: 4.2 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and production/reservoir geologists and engineers
working in coalbed methane reservoir systems worldwide that have a
need to understand the exploration and production of coalbed gas from
fluvial-deltaic reservoir systems.
Objectives and Content
This four day hands-on workshop consists of a series of exercises,
lectures and field excursions focused on the exploration and production
of coalbed methane from fluvial-deltaic deposits. The classroom
lectures will cover the geological and engineering aspects of coalbed
methane production. Examples from the Drunkards Wash Coalbed
Methane Field within the Ferron Sandstone Coalbed Methane Play will
be used. The classroom lectures will be augmented by classroom
exercises. Field excursions provide a field examination of the geometry,
architecture, and characteristics of coals within the Ferron Sandstone
Coalbed Methane Play in Eastern Utah.
The succession of classroom exercises will expose the participants to
the petrophysical and geochemical data used to understand coalbed
methane deposits and to develop coalbed reservoir models.
Course set up:
Day 1 – Classroom: A practical introduction to the fundamentals of
coal geology and geochemistry and coalbed gas reservoir
characteristics will be presented, including the use of logs, cores,
desorption tests, and sorption isotherms and the determination of
coalbed permeability. The concepts of sampling and the
development of recovery factors will be discussed. The geological
aspects and producibility of under-saturated coals will be
addressed.
Day 2 – Field: Field Excursion to the coal-bearing Upper Ferron
Sandstone Last Chance Delta. The coalbed-scale variability of coal
zones will be examined, including the variability of coal quality,
heterogeneity, and composition of coals, including coal zone
heterogeneity, coal zone facies variations and the development of cleat.
Day 3 – Classroom: A practical introduction to the reservoir
characteristics and the production characteristics of coalbed gas
will be presented, including completion strategies, water
production, negative decline characteristics, estimation of flow
rates, and reservoir engineering of coalbed reservoirs. Coalbed gas
production strategies, enhanced recovery techniques, and
exploration models and approaches will be addressed.
Day 4 – Field: Field Excursion to the coal-bearing Upper Ferron
Sandstone Last Chance Delta. The reservoir-scale geometry,
architecture, and distribution of coals will be examined, including
the principles of coal correlations and the recognition of coal
pinchouts, splits and coal zone facies variations. The variability of
coal continuity, quality, and thickness will be examined as a function
of stratigraphic position and depositional sequence stratigraphic
architecture.
Please note that some of the field trip stops involve walking and
climbing in rough terrain. Participants should be prepared for
climbs and hikes that gain 100-300 meters of elevation at 1500-
2000 meters altitude in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau.
Weather is variable and participants should be prepared for
changing high desert weather conditions.
Fundamentals of the Seismic Sequence
Stratigraphy of Fluvial-Deltaic and Turbiditic
Depositional Systems
Instructors: John M. Armentrout, Cascade Stratigraphics,
Clackamas, Oregon; James R. Garrison, Jr., Colorado Plateau Field
Institute, Price, Utah
Logistics: Barb Benson, Colorado Plateau Field Institute, Price, Utah
Date: May 16-22
Location: Begins (at 2 PM on start date) and ends (at 11 AM on
end date) in Salt Lake City, Utah
Tuition: $2,500; includes guidebooks, lodging in Price, Utah (six
nights), transportation during the course, and all meals during the
course.
Limit: 20 • Content: 5.0 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and production/reservoir geologists and geophysists
working in clastic reservoir systems worldwide that have a need to
understand the seismic stratigraphy of fluvial-deltaic and turbiditic
reservoir systems.
Objectives and Content
This five day hands-on workshop consists of a series of exercises,
lectures and field excursions focused on the sequence stratigraphic
analysis of depositional systems. Classroom examples include both
deltaic and turbiditic systems using logs, seismic and biostratigraphic
data from the Gulf of Mexico and Niger Delta Neogene, North Sea and
North Slope Alaska Mesozoic, and West Texas Paleozoic basins. Field
excursions provide a 1:1 example of primary mapping surfaces and
facies within the Ferron Sandstone Last Chance Delta system.
The succession of exercises will expose the participants to
depositional systems, facies analysis, chronostratigraphic framework,
integration of multiple data sets, comparison of local to global
depositional patterns, and application of the integrated approach to
stratigraphic analysis.
Course set up:
Day 1 — Classroom: The Sequence Stratigraphic Model
Depositional Systems – Gulf of Mexico Plio/Pleistocene
Clinoform Interpretation – North Slope Alaska Mesozoic
Day 2 — Classroom: Clinoform Depositional Facies – Svalbard,
Norway, Eocene • Scale Issues – outcrop versus log and seismic
data • Log Motif Analysis – North Sea Paleogene
Day 3 — Field: Proximal Depositional Facies and Mapping Surfaces
Day 4 — Classroom: Calibration of Regional Seismic Transect –
Gulf of Mexico Neogene • High-Resolution Biostratigraphic Analysis
– Gulf of Mexico Neogene • Turbidite Reservoirs – Gulf of Mexico
Neogene • Shelfedge Deltaic Reservoirs – Niger Delta and Western
Siberia basins
Day 5 — Field: Distal Depositional Facies and Mapping Surfaces
Please note that some of the field trip stops involve walking and
climbing in rough terrain. Participants should be prepared for
climbs and hikes that gain 100-300 meters of elevation at 1500-
2000 meters altitude in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau.
Weather is variable and participants should be prepared for
changing high desert weather conditions.
Depositional Sequence Stratigraphy of Fluvial-
Deltaic Deposits: Implications for Reservoir
Delineation, Description, and Characterization
Instructor: James R. Garrison, Jr., Colorado Plateau Field Institute,
Price, Utah
Logistics: Barb Benson, Colorado Plateau Field Institute, Price, Utah
Date: May 23-29
Location: Begins (at 2 PM on start date) and ends (at 11 AM on
end date) in Salt Lake City, Utah
Tuition: $2,500; includes guidebooks, lodging in Price, Utah (six
nights), transportation during the course, and all meals during the
course.
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Limit: 20 • Content: 5.0 CEU
Who Should Attend
Exploration and production/reservoir geologists, geophysists, and
engineers working in fluvial-deltaic systems worldwide who need to
understand the stratigraphy, sedimentology, architecture, and reservoir
characteristics of fluvial-deltaic reservoir systems and the processes
that control fluvial-deltaic systems.
Objectives and Content
This is a five-day course, including 3 field days, and 2 days with
lectures, classroom exercises, and core examination.
Themes:
• The effects of sedimentation rate and relative change in sea-level
on the sedimentology, stratigraphy, architecture, and reservoir
quality of deltaic deposits
• The recognition of key surfaces for delineating the depositional
sequence stratigraphy of fluvial-deltaic deposits, including
transgressive ravinement surfaces, unconformities, and flooding
surfaces, systems tracts, and incised-valley deposits
• The effects of sedimentation rate and relative change in sea-level
on the geometry, architecture, sedimentology, and reservoir quality
of fluvial deposits
Course set up:
Day 1 — A practical introduction to the sedimentology, seismic
stratigraphy, architecture and sequence stratigraphy, and reservoir
characterization of fluvial-deltaic rocks. An examination will be
made of cores and logs through delta front and delta plain facies
associations.
Day 2 — A field examination of the sedimentology, architecture, and
reservoir characterization of the delta plain and delta front facies
association of the Upper Ferron Sandstone Last Chance Delta.
Discussions of the production characteristics of delta front
sandstone reservoirs.
2004 SHORT COURSES
AAPG Winter Education Conference
Date: January 19-23
Location: Houston, Texas
Tuition: $1095 (registration is for the entire week, and is
transferable)
*Courses included in Winter Education Conference
*Deep-water Sands Integrated Stratigraphic
Analysis – A Workshop Using Multiple Data Sets
Date: January 19-21 • Content: 2.1 CEU
Instructor: John M. Armentrout, Cascade Stratigraphics, Clackamas,
Oregon
Who Should Attend
The workshop is organized for geologists and geophysicists with an
introductory knowledge of stratigraphy and sedimentation, and for
geoscientists and reservoir engineers involved in deep-water
exploration and development.
Objectives
This two-day hands-on workshop consists of a series of exercises
and lectures focused on deep-water deposits of sand-prone facies,
most often called turbidite systems. Exercises involve the integration of
seismic record sections, wireline logs, and biostratigraphic data that
define both the vertical succession of facies and the sub-regional
depositional geometry of the depositional systems.
Content
The data sets are from the North Slope of Alaska, North Sea - United
Kingdom sector, Offshore Nigeria, and the Gulf of Mexico. Field
examples of turbidite systems include Eocene succession of Svalbard,
Norway, and Lower Cretaceous of Alaska’s North Slope.
Workshop Elements
• Overview
• Introduction to Deep-Water Sands
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Day 3 — Core examination and a correlation exercise through an
incised-valley complex and through a delta plain facies association.
Day 4 — A field examination of the sequence stratigraphy,
stratigraphy of incised-valley deposits, and the recognition of
significant surfaces (sequence boundaries, chronostratigraphic
boundaries, transgressive ravinement surfaces, and flooding
surfaces) within the Upper Ferron Sandstone Last Chance Delta.
Day 5 — A field examination of the sedimentology, stratigraphy,
architecture, and reservoir characterization of fluvial channel belt
sandstones as a function of sedimentation rate and rate of relative
change in sea-level within the Upper Ferron Sandstone Last Chance
Delta. There will be discussions of the reservoir quality and
continuity and the production characteristics of fluvial sandstone
reservoirs.
Principal objectives:
• To obtain an understanding of concepts and application of the
depositional sequence stratigraphy of fluvial-deltaic deposits in
exploration and production of hydrocarbon reservoirs.
• To be able to identify and delineate the architecture of fluvial-deltaic
deposits utilizing outcrops, logs, seismic data, and cores.
• To obtain an understanding of the effects of changes in
sedimentation rate and the rate of relative change in sea-level on
the architecture, reservoir continuity, and reservoir quality of fluvial-
deltaic reservoirs.
Please note that some of the field trip stops involve walking and
climbing in rough terrain. Participants should be prepared for climbs
and hikes that gain 100-300 meters of elevation at 1500-2000 meters
altitude in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau. Weather is variable
and participants should be prepared for changing high desert weather
conditions.
• Depositional Systems (Gulf of Mexico Pleistocene/Holocene).
• Introduction to Sequence Stratigraphic Methodology
• Lapout Exercise (fundamental patterns of observation)
• Clinoform Exercise (North Slope of Alaska Seismic)
• Foreland Basin Turbidite Outcrops (Svalbard, Norway)
• Log-Motif Analysis Exercise (North Sea Paleogene)
• Prograding Complex Exercise (Niger Delta Slope)
• Annot Sandstone Turbidite System (French Alps)
• 3-D Seismic Analysis of Gravity-Flow Systems (Nigeria)
• Deep-Water Sand Reservoir Types (Gulf of Mexico)
The succession of exercises will expose participants to depositional
systems, facies analysis, chronostratigraphic framework, integration of
multiple data sets, comparison of local to global depositional patterns,
and application of the integrated approach to stratigraphic analysis.
*Risk Analysis for Development Applications
Date: January 19-21 • Content: 2.1 CEU
Limit: 40
Instructors: Jim MacKay, Mark McLane, Rose & Associates,
Houston and Midland respectively
Who Should Attend
Engineers, geoscientists and planners involved with drilling, reservoir
evaluation and production management.
Objectives and Content
Sound estimation of key geotechnical, engineering and economic
parameters is essential for maximizing profitability of oil and gas field
development and operations. Characteristic key drivers for development
projects include: producing rate, capital cost & wellhead price,
production profile, EUR, and completion & mechanical chance.
Traditional deterministic methods call for ongoing study of key
parameters to get ever closer to “The Truth.” Probabilistic methods, on
the other hand, accept that irreducible uncertainty surrounds most
parameters, even through the development phase. Accordingly, a
sounder approach is to accommodate this uncertainty through
probabilistic expression of key parameters, using the extra time created
to evaluate other projects. This course helps professionals learn to
become capable probabilistic estimators!
The course begins by considering fundamental concepts of statistics
and uncertainty theory, and then uses them to quantify the chief
development value drivers for subsequent economic evaluation. It
reviews Value of Information procedures that impact important
development decisions. We conclude with sections on project roll-ups,
portfolio management, and systematic performance tracking as the
keys to profit improvement.
This course makes use of (1) realistic games and exercises to
illustrate principles and mechanics of estimating methods; and (2)
analytical procedures involved with uncertainty and risk associated with
modern petroleum field development and production. It identifies
fallacies and unintended consequences of many procedures for field
production estimating, and shows the exploitation & development
teams how to get better at what they do.
The organization of this course follows the characteristic chain of
considerations that attend most Development projects through post
appraisal. The course outline is as follows:
• Day 1: Identify the Value Drivers!
Introduction
Probability, Distributions & Dependency
Estimating Uncertainty
Techniques for Identifying Value Drivers
• Day 2: Characterize the Value Drivers!
Petroleum Reserves Estimating
Production Forecasting
Chance of Success
Economics: Value Integration
• Day 3: Learning and Profiting from the Value Drivers!
Value of Information
Portfolio Principles and Rollup Methods
Performance Tracking
Conclusions
*Integrated Exploration and Evaluation of
Fractured Reservoirs
Date: January 19-20 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructor: Ronald Nelson, Broken N Consulting, Houston, Texas
Who Should Attend
Geoscientists and reservoir engineers who need to know how
fractured reservoirs differ from conventional reservoirs and how to
approach their study in a systematic manner will benefit from this
course. Successful participants should be able to determine the major
data requirements and exploration and production issues associated
with various types of fractured reservoirs and to predict optimum drill
locations in various structural situations.
Objectives and Content
This two-day course will cover the basic elements needed in the
evaluation of fractured petroleum reservoirs from both an exploration
and development point of view.
A general sequence of study will be presented, as well as the data
types needed to complete the study. Techniques presented will
emphasize outcrop and subsurface rock data, petrophysical data, rock
mechanic principles, reservoir performance data, and geophysical
attributes. A multidisciplinary approach to the study of these reservoirs
will be stressed. World-wide examples will be used from the instructor
personal experience. Participants should leave the course with
knowledge of what controls short-term and long-term performance in
fractured reservoirs and the types of data necessary to evaluate and
explore for them.
Major topics of the course include:
• A workflow for fractured reservoir studies
• Reservoir screening techniques
• Fracture system origin
• Determining reservoir properties of the fracture system
• Fracture and matrix porosity interaction
• Classification of fractured reservoirs
• Predicting production and development problems by reservoir type
• Predicting and imaging “sweet spots” in fault-related fracture
systems
• Seismic attributes for defining subsurface fracture properties
• Determining optimum well paths in fault-related fracture systems
• Evaluating reservoir volume in fault-related fracture systems
• Preparing for reservoir simulation in fractured reservoirs
*Practical Mapping of Surfaces, Properties, and
Volumes for Reservoir Characterization;
Principles, Methods, Case Studies, and Workflows
Date: January 19-20 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructor: Jeffrey Yarus, Quantitative Geosciences, Houston, TX
Who Should Attend
The course is intended for geologists, geophysicists, and engineers
considering or engaged in reservoir modeling projects who wish to
understand more about the geostatistical methodology.
Content
This class presents an overview of the reservoir modeling process,
from conceptual geological models of depositional environments to the
development of computer-based geological models prepared for flow
simulation. The focus is developing realistic geological maps and
volumes using deterministic and geostatistical methods such as
Kriging and conditional simulation for assessing reservoir properties.
The course reviews workflow principles for integrating and preserving
geological and geophysical information in numerical models, and
simply explains modeling methods and techniques supported in
commercial software. The presentation includes a variety of exercises,
demonstrations, and an informal, interactive discussion on current
topics and future directions.
Day 1
• Introduction to geological characterization of reservoirs
• Turning conceptual geological ideas into computer models
• Review of basic data analysis statistics
• Measuring the continuity of geological features (spatial analysis)
• Hands-on exercises; univariate/bivariate statistics, variograms
Day 2
• Review geological computer mapping methods and introduction to
Kriging
• Combining seismic and geological data into the model using
Collocated CoKriging
• Capturing the heterogeneous character of reservoir properties using
conditional simulation
• Using geological maps to estimate risk and uncertainty
• Case Studies and commercial software review
• Hands-on Exercise, the problems with upscaling for flow simulation
Objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants should be familiar with:
• The basic statistics necessary for characterizing reservoirs
• How to measure spatial continuity of geological features
• When to apply Kriging and conditional simulation methods
• How to integrate seismic data into the geological model
• Using geological maps to assess risk and uncertainty
• Workflows enabling them to negotiate the reservoir modeling
process
*Essentials of Subsurface Mapping
Date: January 21 • Content: .7 CEU
Instructor: Richard Banks, Scientific Computing Applications, Inc.,
Tulsa, OK
Who Should Attend
Exploration or production geologists, geophysicists and engineers.
Objectives
1. Gain new insight into techniques of hand contouring
2. Be able to generate contour maps by hand
• Single surface
• Multi surface
• Faulted
3. Learn the methods used by computers to generate contours
4. Learn how to assess the veracity of computer contoured maps
• Single surface
• Multi surface
• Faulted
Course Description
Compare and contrast various methods of contouring, by hand or by
computer, single surface or multi surface, nonintersecting or
intersecting surfaces, faulted or nonfaulted. You will spend about half
of your time contouring single surface, multi surface and faulted
problems and comparing your results to those same problems
contoured by the computer.
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*Creativity in Exploration
Date: January 21 • Content: .7 CEU
Instructor: Edward (Ted) Beaumont, Consultant, Tulsa, OK
Who Should Attend
Anyone who wants to explore the possibility that by enhancing their
thinking skills, they will become a more effective explorationist. This
includes geologists, geophysicists, and petroleum engineers.
Objectives and Content
People who find commercial oil and gas more than once may be
thought of as more than just “lucky”. They are skillful, purposeful
professionals who we call oil and gas finders. Reflecting on their
philosophies can be very important in improving the effectiveness of
modern petroleum exploration. From the few publications where they
articulated their philosophies we know that: 1) oil and gas finders are
positive thinkers; negative thinking people do not find oil and gas; 2)
they have strong visual thinking skills; 3) they have vivid imaginations
controlled by facts; 4) they have a great desire to find oil and gas; 5)
they are self-motivating and self-starting; 6) they are optimistic; 7) they
are persistent; and above all 8) they love the thrill of discovery and the
deep satisfaction of being able to use science and art to find a valuable
resource. Visual thinking skills and creativity are mentioned again and
again in articles published by oil and gas finders as critical to finding
oil or gas in places that others have decided are barren. The essence of
oil-finder extraordinaire Wallace Pratt’s philosophy is “that oil must
first be sought in our minds”. What is your philosophy? How do you
approach exploration? Build a strong philosophy of exploration, and
you will become a more effective explorationist.
During the course, participants will:
• learn how the creative process is applied in petroleum exploration
• learn about conceptual blocks common in exploration and how to
avoid them
• be shown various petroleum exploration case histories that
illustrate how oil and gas is found
• do exercises that give insight into the importance and uses of
visualization in exploration
This course presents new concepts of “whole-brain” thinking and
their links with conceptualizing plays and prospects. Exposure to the
theory and practice of creativity in petroleum exploration gives
explorationists a start toward the ultimate goal of being “oil finders”.
*Well Completions & Interventions
Date: January 22-23 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructor: George E. King, BP, Houston, TX
Who Should Attend
Anyone whose work areas are impacted by the design of a well
completion or who just wants a good introduction to well design and
stimulation.
Objectives
This course will introduce you to the basics of well completion
design and stimulation in a way you never expected. The focus will be
on how the well should be designed to take advantage of what the
formation and the reservoir fluids offer.
The course includes introductory well design for conventional,
horizontal, injection and specialty wells such as sand control and tight
gas. Examples of wells in each completion type are presented with
common errors and problems created by inflexible well designs. This
course will be one of the few that looks specifically at the rock for
clues in permeability damage, reservoir-wellbore access over time, and
ways to use the reservoir to gain productivity improvements.
Content
• Well placement - you put it where?
• Basic tubular selection and isolation – Why the engineers designed
it that way.
• Formation-to-wellbore access – the cause of most economic well
failures?
• How a well flows – not quite like you think.
• Formation damage and diagnostics – not as bad as you feared –
most of the time.
• Brine and mud interactions with the rock – why beaker tests are
worthless.
• Sand Control – how and when you shouldn’t.
• Injection wells – why they don’t work, how they can work, how to
design them.
• Highly deviated wells – panacea or curse?
• Stimulation – creating what nature didn’t give you.
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*Coalbed Methane
Dates: January 22-23 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructors: John P. Seidle, Sproule Associates, Inc., Denver,
Colorado; George Hampton, Hampton Assoc., Denver, Colorado
Who Should Attend
Geologists, geophysicists, engineers, technical and managerial staff
involved with coalbed methane exploration and development.
Objectives and Content
This two-day course covers fundamental coal properties,
introductory coal geology, and basic CBM reservoir engineering. It is
designed to help attendees assess coalbed methane exploration and
development opportunities to calculate coal gas reserves, and estimate
recovery factors. CBM Simulation and the basics of enhanced coalbed
methane recovery are covered. Specific topics include:
• Coal Fundamentals & Geology
• Measurement of Coalbed Gas Content
• Isotherms, OGIP, and Recovery Factor
• Coal Permeability
• Coal Well Drilling and Completion
• Water Production from Coalbeds
• Basic CBM Reservoir Engineering
• Simulation of Coalbed Methane Recovery
• Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery (ECBM)
• Review of CBM in Three Basins
*Interpretation of Seismic Data in a Regional
Context: Developing Frontier Exploration
Opportunities
Date: January 22 • Content: .7 CEU
Instructors: Albert Bally, Consultant, Houston, TX; and Gabor Tari,
Vanco Energy Co., Houston, TX
This one-day seminar offers practical applications of the reflection
seismic method for exploration. As the regional geological
understanding is a pre-requisite for any new exploration venture, the
seminar provides simple analysis and documentation of a few major
sedimentary basins. Using selected examples, the seminar highlights
the basis for comparison of one basin with another in strategic
decision making as well as the basis for an analogue approach. The
course materials include selected seismic reflections profiles from
around the world, with emphasis on the regional-scale integration of
seismic reflection data with other surface and subsurface geological
and geophysical information. Effective workflow schemes designed for
frontier hydrocarbon exploration are also illustrated using several case
histories.
*Carbonate Reservoir Geology
Date: January 22-23 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructors: Jerry Lucia, Charles Kerans, Bob Loucks, Bureau of
Economic Geology, Austin, TX
Who Should Attend
All geologists, geophysicists, and petroleum engineers who are
interested in building carbonate reservoir models.
Objectives and Content
This course is designed to be an introduction to the key elements
required to model and predict performance of carbonate reservoirs and
includes lectures and exercises. Topics to be covered are depositional
environments, sequence stratigraphy, and rock fabrics. Knowledge of
depositional environments is basic to the architectural construction
and any carbonate reservoir, and this course will review depositional
environments from tidal flat through shelf margin to slope and basin
with field examples. Sequence stratigraphy is a powerful tool for
constructing 3D models of carbonate reservoirs. Methods and
techniques for building the chronostratigraphic geologic framework
necessary for predicting reservoir performance will be stressed. Rock
fabrics are the basic link between geologic models and petrophysical
quantification necessary for performance prediction, and this course
will present relationships between rock fabrics, diagenesis, and
petrophysical properties.
*ENERGY DISSIPATION AND THE FUNDAMENTAL
SHAPES OF SEDIMENTARY BODIES – LECTURE
&POSTER
Date: January 23 • Content: .7 CEU
Instructor: John Van Wagoner, ExxonMobil, Houston, TX
Tuition: included in price of Winter Education Conference, or $50
for persons wanting to attend only this session
Who Should Attend
Exploration and development geologists and geophysicists who are
involved with exploration in frontier as well as mature basins where
stratigraphic insights can impact risk management.
Description
After years of systematic application and validation, sequence
stratigraphy remains, in our opinion, the fundamental framework for
the characterization and prediction of siliciclastic reservoirs. Recent
advances and modifications to the sequence stratigraphic model have
resulted as our stratigraphic resolution has increased through the
careful integration of high-quality 3-D seismic surveys with well logs,
cores, and outcrops. One outcome of the analysis of these data is that
sedimentary bodies appear to have similar shapes regardless of
environments of deposition and scale. For example, deltas resemble
submarine fans (Beaubouef et al); the shapes of fluvial bars are related
to the shapes of cross beds. An analysis of these similarities was
conducted using fluid-dynamics simulation, laboratory experiments,
ultra-high resolution 3-D seismic data, numerical simulation, and
outcrop and modern studies. Based on this research we propose a new
physics and hydrodynamics-based sedimentology that provides a
unifying context for the analysis and interpretation of clastic
sedimentary systems, largely independent of depositional environment
and scale. We hypothesize that this new physics involves energy
dissipation predicted by nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
Effectively Developing and Implementing
International Energy Projects in Today’s
Environment
Date: March 5
Location: London, England, with APPEX meeting
Tuition: $320 • Content: .7 CEU
Instructor: Tom O’Connor, Consultant, Alexandria, VA
Who Should Attend
Senior technical and general managers of oil and gas companies who
are interested in expanding their operations outside of their familiar
domestic areas of operations, into the rest of the world. Particular
reference to those countries in the developing world will be discussed.
In similar fashion, senior managers of National Oil Companies (NOC)
who are interested in attracting Foreign Direct Investment into their
countries as a means of more rapidly and efficiently developing their
national petroleum resource base should also attend.
Objectives and Content
The course is not about technology; it is assumed that the
participants and the companies they represent are sufficiently well
versed in state of the art technology to be able to succeed anywhere in
the world, or they would be seriously lagging their competitors. It is
about how to take a company without much foreign experience through
the thought process of going foreign, how to “educate” its own
management, select the target country and basin as well as the area of
specific interest, negotiate the deal, select partners, see about financing,
deal with the host government and in general how to run a successful
operation in unfamiliar environments and operating conditions. The
course will conclude with four case studies, two that were failures and
two that were successes as a means of learning from experience.
Course Outline
• Introduction
• Factors involved in the decision to become involved in non-
domestic ventures
• Methodology for selecting the target entry country
• Psychology of understanding the Government’s position
• How to make the deal (right location, right time, right product)
• The issues involved in looking for local partners; the case for taking
on the NOC as a partner.
• What to do after the deal is signed
• Development of effective business relationships between your
company and the host Government
• Case studies of successful and unsuccessful international ventures.
• Conclusions
Reservoir Engineering for Petroleum Geologists
Date: April 17-18
Location: Dallas, Texas, with AAPG Annual Meeting
Tuition: $665 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructors: Richard G. Green, William Kazmann, LaRoche
Petroleum Consultants, Dallas, Texas
Who Should Attend
The course is designed for personnel who wish to acquire a broad
understanding of the factors that influence the production of oil and
gas from reservoirs. The course presents information that can be
applied to geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, land management
specialists, and managers with no previous training in reservoir
engineering. It can also serve as an introductory course for engineers
who have not had previous training in reservoir engineering.
Objectives and Content
The basic purpose of every individual in a producing company is the
same: to find and produce oil and gas in an efficient manner to the
economic benefit of the company. A reservoir engineer cannot predict
the production performance of an oil reservoir with any degree of
certainty without a knowledge of the physical characteristics - the
geology - of that reservoir.
Neither can the geologist describe the physical characteristics of a
reservoir and be sure of his work without considering the producing
characteristics as evidenced by production and pressure data. This
course is an attempt to bridge that particular chasm, being an
introductory description of the field and techniques of petroleum
reservoir engineering.
The course will cover:
• Reservoir Rock Properties; as porosity, fluid saturations, and
permeability
• Reservoir Fluid Properties; as fluid types, reservoir oil, reservoir gas
• Reservoir Fluid Flow; as Darcy’s law, reservoir drive mechanisms
• Reservoir Production Evaluation Techniques; as volumetric
calculations, material balance, decline curves and deliverability
• Well Testing and Sampling; as well stabilization and conditioning,
pressure measurements, well completion techniques
• Reservoir Exploitation and Recovery Enhancement; as secondary
and tertiary recovery, reservoir simulation
• Economics; as reserve classification, product pricing, economic
components
Reservoir engineering can be defined as the design and evaluation of
field development and exploitation processes and programs. As such, it
can overlap the fields of geology, drilling and completion, production
engineering, and reserves and evaluation. Therefore, some of each of
these fields are included, but the major emphasis is on the techniques
and methods utilized to characterize and predict the flow of fluids
within petroleum reservoirs under natural depletion and various
secondary and tertiary recovery operations.
E&P Methodes and Technologies: Selection and
Applications
Date: April 22-24
Location: Dallas, Texas, with AAPG Annual Meeting
Tuition: $995 • Content: 2.3 CEU
Instructors: Alistair R. Brown, Rich Chambers, Akhil Datta-Gupta,
Fred Hilterman, Martin P.A. Jackson, John Johnson, James A.
MacKay, Dave Marschall, Jory Pacht, Rawdon Seager, and David A.
Wavrek
Who Should Attend
This is a broad spectrum course that targets members of integrated
teams through middle managers, up to and including business unit
leaders. Anyone who must design and select exploration and
development teams will benefit from this course. The course will have
value not only to geoscience professionals, but also to reservoir
engineers and managers of all disciplines who supervise oil-finding
teams.
Objectives
The course is modeled after the highly successful Advanced
Technology School presented by the AAPG during the late 1980’s. This
current program is an updated version of the Current Technology and
Processes School which has been a sell-out at previous national AAPG
meetings. This year’s content recognizes recent shifts within the
industry to include an increased emphasis on asset evaluation, quick-
look techniques and the closer collaboration among the petroleum
sciences. Additionally, emergence of information and knowledge
management has called into question some traditional workflows within
exploration, exploitation and development and this course helps
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“demystify” these changes.
Course Content
• Appreciation of available tools and technologies
• New applications for some time-tested methods
• Vocabulary of new and emerging technology
• Decision-making templates for technology selection
• Value of “off-the-shelf” technology versus customized solutions
• Cost-benefit techniques for technology and process selection
• Fitting new technology into the existing workflow
• Pitfalls, limitations and boundaries of recent methods and
processes
The course consists of the following eleven modules presented
during three days, each taught by an industry professional recognized
as a significant contributor within their respective specialities. The
course is coordinated by Skip Rhodes of El Paso Production in
Houston.
• Seismic Data - Fred Hilterman
Advances in the quantitative calibration of seismic amplitude to rock
properties has led to a breadth of new seismic attributes that assist in
the prediction of lithology. In order to capitalize on these new
techniques, today’s criteria for acquisition and processing of seismic
data must produce not only the proper imaging of geologic structures,
but also the seismic amplitude control necessary for delineating
lithology.
• Pitfalls in 3-D Seismic Interpretation - Alistair Brown
What can we really get out of 3-D data today in terms of structural
detail, stratigraphic patterns and reservoir characterization? There is
much underutilization of 3-D seismic data today. This can be corrected
by a better understanding of geophysical principles and of the many
workstation tools available.
• Sequence Stratigraphy Revisited - Jory Pacht
Recent work in sequence stratigraphy has moved away from simple
correlation towards using the predictive capabilities of sequence
stratigraphy to help delineate reservoir and seal strata.
• Reservoir Geochemistry - David A. Wavrek
Reservoir geochemistry involves the study of fluids within petroleum
reservoirs to provide impact to exploration, appraisal, and production
operations. Examples of topics addressed include: reservoir
compartmentalization, identification of pay zones, prediction of
hydrocarbon quality, and flow assurance.
• Salt Tectonics - Martin Jackson
The effects of salt tectonics dominate some of the hottest regions for
exploration and development, including the Gulf of Mexico, the South
Atlantic margins, the North Caspian, and the North Sea. This module
reviews key features of salt tectonics, who’s understanding has been
revolutionized in the last decade.
• Advancements in Petrophysics - Dave Marschall
Well bore technology is approaching the point where continuously
acquired digital data collected during drilling or from wireline tools
allows decisions in real time at both the well site and remote locations.
The quality of this data approaches that of core analysis and, in some
ways, is better when considered from the in-situ perspective.
• Geostatistics: A Powerful Reservoir Modeling Tool - Rich
Chambers
The enormous expense of developing heterogeneous, deep-water
offshore fields and the desire to maximize the ROI, has spurred oil
companies to use innovative reservoir characterization techniques.
Geostatistics is one of the many new technologies incorporated into the
reservoir characterization workflow, bridging the gap between geology,
geophysics and reservoir engineering.
• “Measuring” Permeability - Akhil Datta-Gupta
As the industry learns to apply more efficient completion techniques
to previously un-economic reservoirs, one enigma remains. The
derivation of permeability often affects the final decision of where and
how to complete a well. Multi-variate techniques borrowed from other
disciplines now offer an improved method of determining permeability
from wireline log data. Electrofacies techniques may significantly
enhance previous multiple regression methods used on petrophysical
data.
• Reserve Determinations - Rawdon Seager
The last year has imposed unprecedented scrutiny on the manner by
which U.S. companies determine value. The management of oil and gas
reserve bookings has previously been closely held by reserve groups in
many companies. Asset teams are now players in determining and
valuing reserves soon after discovery. An overview of SEC rules and
guidelines can simplify this process and minimize reserve errors.
• Drilling and Completion Technology - John Johnson
As integrated teams become the norm within our industry,
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geoscientists are playing an active role in selecting and implementing
wellbore technology. The spectrum of recent advancements is
extensive and includes monobores, multi-frac horizontal completions,
horizontal gravel packed completions, extended reach drilling, drilling
fluids, cuttings disposal and oil base cuttings encapsulation, and
directional drilling measurement accuracy.
• Decision Risk Analysis - James A. MacKay
This module includes explanations of new and existing risk
assessment methods to make business decisions on the application of
geological, geophysical and engineering technology. It will include a
discussion of methods that can be applied to better predict the results
of a project or portfolio.
Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy
Date: May 13-14
Location: Houston, Texas
Tuition: $685, AAPG members, $785, non-members
Limit: 50 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructor: Henry W. Posamentier, Anadarko Petroleum, Calgary,
AB, Canada
Who Should Attend
Exploration and development geologists and geophysicists who are
involved with exploration in frontier as well as mature basins where
stratigraphic insights can impact risk management. In addition, this
course will be useful to any geoscientists involved with subsurface or
outcrop geologic mapping.
Objectives and Content
The objectives of this course are to review the basic concepts of
sequence stratigraphy and to illustrate their practical application to the
study of petroleum systems. The principles and methodology learned
from this course should be directly applicable to day-to-day geologic
problems. Emphasis will be on the application of sequence stratigraphy
to well log, seismic, core, outcrop, and biostratigraphic data both for
petroleum exploration as well as field development scale studies.
The course will be based on a first-principles approach to sequence
stratigraphic analysis, underlining the notion that applications of these
concepts will be successful only if sequence stratigraphy is utilized as
an approach rather than as a template. One of the greatest strengths of
the sequence stratigraphic approach lies in its encouragement of the
use of integrated databases. Thus, sequence stratigraphy provides a
vehicle to facilitate the integration of seismic data with well log, core,
and biostratigraphic data, yielding a far more robust interpretation.
On completion of this course, participants should be able to:
• apply sequence stratigraphic concepts in a flexible manner so as to
account for local variations in tectonics, sediment supply,
physiography, etc.
• apply sequence stratigraphic concepts to the practical problems of
field and reservoir development as well as regional exploration
• apply sequence stratigraphic concepts to analyze and integrate a
variety of data bases including seismic, well log and
biostratigraphic data.
High-Resolution Well Log Sequence Stratigraphy
— Application to Exploration and Production
Date: May 17-21
Location: Denver, Colorado
Tuition: $1,100 AAPG members; $1,200 non-members
Content: 3.5 CEU
Instructors: C. Robertson Handford, Consultant, Austin, Texas;
Jeffrey A. May, EOG Resources, Denver, Colorado
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for exploration/production geologists, and
geological managers who wish to learn how to do the following:
(1) directly apply the concepts of sequence stratigraphy to well-log
correlations and mapping for the purpose of regional to local (field-
scale) investigations;
(2) use the interpretations to develop exploration strategies for
stratigraphic traps or enhance production from existing fields.
Objectives and Content
This classroom seminar provides a hands-on and practical approach
to the sequence stratigraphic analysis of well logs and correlation
techniques. It will be devoted to a workshop type of environment within
which participants will be introduced to the basic concepts and models
of sequence stratigraphy followed by numerous well-log exercises. The
key objectives of this course are to develop the techniques and skills to
subdivide, correlate, and map stratigraphic units (reservoirs, seals, and
source rocks) with well logs through the use of sequence stratigraphic
concepts in a variety of non-marine, shallow-marine, and deep-marine
environments in siliciclastic and carbonate settings. The application of
sequence stratigraphy to the well-log tool allows one to resolve
genetically and chronostratigraphically related packages of strata that
are often too thin to recognize with seismic reflection data alone.
During the course, participants will learn how to integrate concepts
with practical applications through workshops in the following:
• Graphic description and sequence stratigraphic interpretation of
carbonate and siliciclastic cores (depends on availability of core
and layout space)
• Integrate core description and interpretation with well logs
• Subdivision of stratigraphic successions into packages of
increasing or decreasing accommodation (transgressive or
regressive) and the selection of correlation points or
chronostratigraphically significant surfaces (flooding surfaces,
sequence boundaries, etc.)
• Correlation of well-logs using sequence stratigraphic concepts
• Integration of reservoir-seal-source rock concepts into the
sequence stratigraphic cross section
• Construct maps of sequence stratigraphic units
• Use the newly acquired concepts to identify and predict new
stratigraphic prospects or previously untapped reservoir
compartments
• Use the new skills and concepts to recognize and understand
sequence stratigraphic controls on reservoir quality and flow units
Quantification of Risk – Petroleum Exploration and
Production
Date: May 24-27
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Tuition: $995, AAPG members; $1,095, non-members
Content: 3.1 CEU
Instructors: Gary Citron and James A. MacKay, Rose and
Associates, Houston, Texas
Who Should Attend
Course is designed for geologists, geophysicists, engineers, and
their managers. The course is also helpful for financial advisors,
corporate planners, accountants, and state and federal government
individuals.
Objectives and Content
This intensive four-day course focuses on the chief problem in
exploration risk analysis: translating the subjective data and knowledge
of geologists, geophysicists, and engineers into the “hard” numbers
required for accurate economic analysis of proposed drilling ventures.
The course has a strong practical orientation. It makes abundant use
of realistic games to illustrate applications and mechanics of the
various concepts and analytical procedures involved in evaluating and
ranking exploration and development ventures.
Participants will learn how to make better estimates of the
geotechnical elements that affect prospect value: reserves, geological
chance of success, and the commercial chance of success. They will
learn how to employ field size distributions as both reality checks and
predictive tools. Students will learn how to evaluate and integrate the
geological, geophysical, engineering, and economic aspects of
petroleum ventures, and how individual projects are “rolled up” into
E&P portfolios that implement corporate strategies. They will also be
introduced to risk analysis of exploration plays as full-cycle economic
ventures.
The organization of the course follows the characteristic chain of
considerations that attend most exploration projects, including both
theory and application. The course utilizes the latest methods for
dealing with risk and uncertainty. Completion of the course should
prepare participants to carry out sound risk analysis of their
exploration prospects, which may then be utilized in project
inventories and portfolios.
Course Curriculum: Introduction; Probabilities and Distributions;
Dealing with Uncertainty; Estimating Prospect Reserves; Expected
Value, Geological Chance Factors, Chance of Success (Geologic
and Commercial); Model Prospect Exercise; Exploration Sequence
and Value of Information; Understanding Cash Flow Models;
Economic Measures - Formal and Informal; Prospect Inventories
and Portfolios; Risk Aversion; Bidding Phenomena and Alternative
Acquisition Strategies; Accuracy and Improvement of Geotechnical
Predictions; Risk Analysis of Exploration Plays; Implementing
Corporate Risk Analysis; Summary and Lessons.
Introduction to Concepts and Techniques of
Petroleum Geology
Date: June 21-23
Location: Denver, Colorado
Tuition: $700
Content: 2.0 CEU
Instructor: Susan M. Landon, Independent Geologist, Denver,
Colorado
Who Should Attend
Geological technicians and other support personnel (landmen,
attorneys, secretaries) with minimal background in geology who would
benefit from an introduction to the principles of petroleum geology.
Support staff are an integral part of corporate teams, and better
understanding of industry goals and petroleum geology will allow
these individuals to make a more significant contribution to the
organization.
Objectives and Content
The primary objective is to provide geological support staff with the
basics of petroleum geology to improve their effectiveness on
exploration or development teams. This understanding of concepts
and terminology will facilitate communication within the organization.
Specifically the course will cover:
• Geologic time
• Plate tectonics and basin formation
• Environments of deposition
• Structural styles
• Petroleum geology
• Geological and geophysical techniques
A variety of workshops will provide new skills and place skills into
the context of petroleum geology - why we do it, as well as how we do
it. Many workshops will be completed and presented in teams to
continue to emphasize the importance of communication.
Workshops will include:
• core and rock descriptions
• subsurface mapping: paleogeographic, structure
• cross section construction
• log correlations
A one-day field trip will be held to relate field observations to
subsurface geology so that participants gain an understanding of
geologic scale and spatial relationships, emphasizing topics covered in
classroom lecture.
Giant Oil And Gas Fields: Global Inventories,
Tectonic Settings, Stratigraphic Framework, and
Predictive Parameters
Date: July 8-9
Location: Austin, Texas
Tuition: $895, AAPG Members; $995, non-members
Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructors: Paul Mann, University of Texas at Austin; Myron (Mike)
Horn, Consultant, Tulsa, OK; and C. Robertson Handford, Strata-
Search, LLC, Austin, TX
Who Should Attend
Managers, exploration geologists and geophysicists involved in both
regional and development projects where understanding of giant field
distribution, settings, and predictive parameters can better focus future
exploration efforts. Familiarity with tectonic concepts and sequence
stratigraphic terminology is useful, but not necessary.
Participants should bring laptop computers for viewing and
exercises related to giant field CD compilation.
Objectives and Content
“Giant” oil and gas fields is a commonly used term that is often
poorly understood by many managers and explorationists. This course
will provide participants with a holistic understanding of all aspects of
the current inventory of 877 giant fields including precise size
definitions, current global inventories, tectonic setting, and several, key
stratigraphic and structural parameters which re-occur in carbonate
and clastic-hosted giants that provide useful concepts for future
exploration. The course runs for two days and consists of a series of
lectures, worked examples, and practical exercises using well and
seismic data from known carbonate- and clastic-hosted giants.
The main objectives of the course are to:
1) Define giant oil and gas fields.
2) Show significance of current compilations of giant oil and gas
fields for the world’s resource base. Review and distribute the recently
published CD-ROM, “Giant fields, 1868-2002”.
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 3) Show clustering of 877 current giants into 27 regions of the
world; the course will focus on the description, spatial trends, and
predictive parameters within these clusters.
4) Classify settings of 877 giant fields by tectonic basin type and
summarize most common basin types and structural traps hosting
giant fields.
5) Review and analyze giant stratigraphic fields.
6) Burial history curves for known giant fields to illustrate tectonic
history and to make hydrocarbon generation predictions.
7) Summarize main trends in discoveries of giants for the last 20
years, 10 years, 5 years and predict these trends into the figure for the
27 regions where giants cluster. Discuss regions and basin types where
future giant discoveries are most likely.
8) Summarize structural and burial history characteristics of giant
fields in clastic and carbonate hosted settings. Illustrate main recurrent
parameters of South American clastic-hosted giant fields.
9) Summarize stratigraphic and burial history characteristics of giant
fields in clastic and carbonate hosted settings. Illustrate main recurrent
parameters of Middle Eastern carbonate-hosted giant fields.
Geochemical Exploration for Oil and Gas:
Strategies for Doubling Exploration Success While
Halving Its Cost
Date: July 19-20
Location: Denver, Colorado
Tuition: $795, AAPG members; $895, non-members
Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructors: Dietmar Schumacher, Geo-Microbial Technologies, Inc.,
Mora, NM, and Leonard LeSchack, Topaz Energy Exploration Ltd.,
Calgary, AB, Canada
Who Should Attend
CEOs, VPs of exploration, exploration managers, investors and
drilling fund managers and, of course, exploration and development
geoscientists. This course is essential for anyone who needs to cost-
effectively develop, evaluate, or fund prospects. It will also be of
interest to senior government officers concerned with enhancing
domestic energy production and related environmental issues.
Objectives
The objective of this course is to expose attendees to a new
paradigm of exploration for hydrocarbons, not yet taught in the
professional schools. Covered will be proven exploration technologies,
based on geochemistry, that have been demonstrated to be
unequivocally successful throughout the world, and typically achieve
between 70% and 90% success in new field discoveries, that are half
the cost of conventional exploration, and that are environmentally
friendly.
This course addresses one of the chief uncertainties of petroleum
exploration: hydrocarbon charge. It is now well documented that most
accumulations leak, and that prospects associated with a hydrocarbon
seepage anomaly are 4-6 times more likely to result in a commercial
discovery than prospects lacking such an anomaly.
This course will examine the varied near-surface expressions of
hydrocarbon migration and microseepage, review exploration
technologies developed to map these hydrocarbon-induced changes,
and demonstrate the applications of these methods to finding and
producing oil and gas. Numerous case histories will be presented
which document both the direct and indirect measurement of surface
geochemical data for evaluating frontier basins, prospect development
and evaluation, and field development and production. These case
histories will include examples from throughout the world, onshore and
offshore. Statistical summaries of world-wide exploration successes
using these geochemically-based exploration technologies will be
provided attendees.
Strategies for applying these technologies to corporate and
governmental needs will be discussed.
Content:
• Near-surface expressions of hydrocarbon migration
Onshore and offshore observations
• Models and mechanisms for hydrocarbon migration and seepage
• Direct hydrocarbon detection methods
Soil gas, fluorescence, heavy hydrocarbons
Sniffers, airborne and satellite sensors
• Indirect detection methods: geochemical and geophysical
Seismic, non-seismic, electrical, magnetic
• Geochemical survey objectives, survey design, method selection
• Exploration and development case histories
Reconnaissance surveys
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Prospect generation and evaluation
Field development and production
• Interpretation guidelines
Integration of geologic and seismic data
• Strategies for applying a new exploration paradigm
• Summary and conclusions
Basic Well Log Analysis
Date: August 10-13
Location: Austin, Texas
Tuition: $995, AAPG members; $1,095, non-members; includes
course notes, and a copy of Basic Well Log Analysis by George
Asquith and Daniel Krygowski, with Neil Hurley and Steve
Henderson
Content: 2.8 CEU
Instructors: George B. Asquith, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,
Texas; Daniel A. Krygowski, Landmark Graphics, Austin, Texas
Who Should Attend
Geologists, engineers, geophysicists, log analysts, and other
professionals with a need to understand basic approach to open hole
well log analysis and interpreting skills.
Objectives and Content
• Offers a “how to” approach to basic open hole well log analysis
• Explains different jargon from 50-year history of well logging
• How to determine best log suites to use
• Calculate well logs in practical exercises
• Logging research and the future
This school offers a “how to” approach to basic well log analysis and
interpretation skills for both geologists and engineers. Care is taken in
the school to guide the participants through the logging jargon which
has accumulated over the last 50 years.
Participants will develop a better understanding of why so many logs
are necessary for the proper evaluation of a formation, and which ones
are preferred under specific circumstances. Newer logging tools are
discussed as to how they can be applied to special logging problems or
how they can improve interpretation over older logs.
Practical exercises and examples are taken from situations
encountered in a variety of lithologies and drilling environments. The
practical orientation of the course does not allow major attention to tool
theory, but there is a thorough review of the basic tool concepts and
how the tools respond to changes in the borehole environment. There
are work sessions designed towards different skill levels so the
participants can work at their desired level of logging expertise.
Topics include:
• Introduction to petrophysical well logging
• Description of correlation/lithology, porosity, and resistivity logs
• Interpretive techniques using logs singly and in combination
• Determination of lithology, porosity, and fluid saturation from logs
• Lithology identification from logs
• Interpretation exercises at a variety of skill levels
• Log quality control
• Introduction to magnetic resonance logging
Advanced Risk Anaysis and Prospect Evaluation
Date: August 23-24
Location: Dallas, Texas
Tuition: $895, AAPG members; $995, non-members, includes
hands-on computer exercises
Content: 1.5 CEU • Limit: 20
Instructor: William Haskett, Decision Strategies, Inc., Houston, TX
Who Should Attend
This course is an excellent opportunity for earth-scientists and
engineers who are experienced in distribution based resource
assessment, or who are at least comfortable with the concepts
presented in a typical basic risk analysis course, to enhance their skills.
Additionally, industry professionals involved in the coaching of
evaluation consistency, portfolio planning, and economics based
decision making will find the topic discussion and practical techniques
invaluable.
Objectives and Content
The AAPG Advanced Risk Analysis course takes the participant well
beyond the scope of three-factor lognormal estimation methods. This
two-day course examines current evaluation pitfalls, and provides
practical methods of reserve estimation and assessment validation. All
topics maintain ties to modern business oriented decision analysis and
portfolio principles. Techniques and tools presented provide the
participant with the skills and understanding necessary to deal with
some of the more common, interesting, and challenging aspects of
assessment. Multiple zones, dependency, and correlation are covered in
detail and the attendees will create their own stochastic multi-
zone/multi-prospect/portfolio resource assessment tool. Two new
sections in this year’s course will feature concepts of optimizing
appraisal programs or appraisal well locations, and resource
assessment by depth-area methodology including time-depth
uncertainty.
Topics to be covered include:
• Beyond Lognormal – dealing with real world distributions
• Pitfalls of over-reliance on and miss-use of statistics
• Distribution validation, end-point management and estimation
• Dependency: shared-risk, partial, learned, and contingent methods
• Multiple zones, splitting vs. lumping
• Multiple zones with dependency and correlation
• Value of Information Techniques and applications
• Optimal Appraisal Location – using VoI and uncertainty
management principles
• Portfolio or prospect grouping roll-up considerations
• Adaptation of probabilistic methodology to seismic surface and
volume uncertainty
• Understanding simulation
• Interpreting log-probability plots
Each participant will be contacted prior to the course in order to
identify additional topics of particular concern.
Pore Pressure Prediction
Date: September 1-2
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Tuition: $925, AAPG members; $1,025, non-members
Limit: 50 persons • Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructors: Richard Swarbrick and Martin Traugott, Univ. of
Durham, UK
Who Should Attend
Geologists, geophysicists, engineers, petrophysicists, and drillers,
who are involved in overpressure, including deep water plays. Tools will
be discussed that can help with the exploration of deep water plays,
one of the principal areas of undrilled prospects.
Objectives and Content
The principal objective of the course is to teach participants how
pressure data relate to the safe and efficient exploration and
exploitation of petroleum reservoirs. The course teaches participants:
• Pore Pressure prediction - methods and limitations
• Recognition of abnormal pressures and principle causes
• Influence of abnormal pressures on trap integrity, sealing efficiency,
reservoir quality and maturation/migration efficiency in petroleum
systems
The course is based around the following topics:
• Definitions and units
• Sources of pressure data - direct and indirect
• Abnormal pressures - recognition and causes
• Pore pressure in well design
• Pressure prediction methods and limitations of each
• Deep-water drilling - a special area in relation to pore pressures
The course is a mixture of short lectures, ample “hands on”
exercises with pressure data and case studies. Material for the course
will include many of the classic overpressure areas, such as Caspian
Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, and basins of SE Asia.
Depositional Systems and Sequences in the
Prediction and Characterization of Sandstone
Reservoirs
Date: September 16-17
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Tuition: $685, AAPG members; $785, non-members
Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructor: William E. Galloway, The University of Texas at Austin
Who Should Attend
Geologists and geophysicists involved in both regional and
development projects where understanding of sandstone reservoir
distribution and attributes can reduce risk. Familiarity with conventional
sequence stratigraphy terminology and models is useful, but not
necessary.
Objectives and Content
Fluvial, deltaic, shore-zone, shelf, and slope depositional systems
consist of process-related assemblages of lithofacies. Framework sand
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bodies of each system exhibit characteristic dimensions, geometries,
lateral relationships to sealing facies, and internal reservoir architecture
that reflect depositional origin. Erosional environments within systems
create internal bounding surfaces that punctuate the depositional
record. Regional stratigraphic surfaces of diverse types produced by
system responses to changes in sea level, sediment supply, and energy
fluxes bound facies successions to form stratigraphic sequences.
Understanding these relationships allows the interpreter to combine
well, seismic, paleo, and core data to predict reservoir distribution and
internal attributes. This course emphasizes observational, process-
based sequence interpretation rather than models. The objective is a
practical and predictive understanding of the target reservoir systems
that will reduce risk.
The course consists of three parts:
• Review and synthesis of the facies and stratigraphic architecture of
each of the five major clastic depositional systems. Emphasis is on
their subsurface recognition using logs and seismic data, sequence
stratigraphic significance, and applications to reservoir prediction
and characterization.
• Discussion of the origins and significance of various stratigraphic
surfaces and bedding geometries. Recognition of different kinds of
surfaces provides a generalized approach to sequence-stratigraphic
analysis applicable to diverse basin fills and paleogeographic
settings.
• Synthesis of facies and sequence analyses through a series of
exercises using well and seismic data sets. Methodologies
emphasized include log pattern analysis, integration of
paleontologic, seismic- and well-based sequence recognition, and
interpretive lithofacies correlation and mapping.
Case histories and exercises, drawn from the Gulf of Mexico basin
illustrate common facies associations and bounding surfaces,
providing examples of how interpretations impact exploration
decisions.
Geological Insights in Seismic Interpretation
Date: October 4-5
Location: Houston, Texas
Tuition: $895, AAPG members; $995, non-members
Content: 1.5 CEU • Limit: 27
Instructors: Donald A. Herron, BP, Houston, TX, and Timothy E.
Smith, Unocal, Houston, TX
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for geologically based interpreters who wish
to gain greater geological insight into seismic interpretation and to
expand their understanding of significant techniques and developments
in exploration geophysics.
Objectives & Content
Enhanced insight and understanding of seismic interpretation is vital
for exploration success, since increasing numbers of geologists and
geologically oriented geophysicists are involved in seismic
interpretation. Attendees should gain a greater appreciation of the
strengths and weaknesses of various interpretation techniques and
geophysical approaches for a given interpretation project. The course
topics, listed below, are presented by means of lectures, examples, and
interspersed exercises:
• Objectives of seismic interpretation
• Overview of seismic velocities
• Overview of time and depth migration
• Interpretation approach, style and limitations
• Paper sections vs. the workstation: pros and cons
• 2-D vs. 3-D seismic: characteristics and limitations
• 2-D vs. 3-D interpretation: similarities and differences
• Problems associated with gridded maps
• Seismic characteristics of thin beds
• Statics corrections for land data
• Overview of AVO
These topics are covered throughout the first day and the beginning
portion of the second day. The remainder of the second day is devoted
to a paper interpretation and mapping exercise, done by groups of two
or three people, covering a complex structural regime. There are two
parts to this exercise: (1) correlation of a limited grid of 2-D time
migrated lines, and (2) building on the 2-D interpretation, correlation of
an extended grid of 3-D time migrated lines and structural mapping
based on the 3-D interpretation. The results of this exercise are
analyzed, compared among groups, and used for a concluding
discussion on seismic interpretation concepts and limitations.
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Structural Styles and Hydrocarbon Traps in
Compressive Basins
Date: October 9-10
Location: Denver, Colorado, with SEG Annual Meeting
Tuition: $725
Limit: 30 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructor: Shankar Mitra, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Who Should Attend
Exploration and production geologists and geophysicists. The course
is designed for geoscientists working in complex structural provinces,
who need to apply structural models and methods such as 2-D and 3-
D balancing to improve interpretations for prospect evaluation and field
development.
Objectives and Content
Compressive structural provinces contain complex trap-forming
structures, which are usually not well imaged on seismic data. The
objective of the course is to discuss the 2-D and 3-D geometry and
evolution of these structures and techniques for constructing balanced
structural interpretations through them. Trap-forming structural models
for fold-thrust belts, foreland basement structures and inversion
structures will be presented. Problem sets will provide hands-on
experience in developing and testing multiple structural solutions for
subsurface case studies.
The course consists of the following topics:
• Structural geometry and 2-D and 3-D evolution of common fold-
thrust structures including fold-accommodation faults, faulted
detachment folds, fault-propagation folds, fault-bend folds,
duplexes, fold-thrust systems and growth-structures. Examples of
trap-forming structures from the Alberta foothills, the Utah-
Wyoming belt, sub-Andean fold belts, and the Dinaride, Carpathian,
and Zagros fold belts, will be discussed.
• Role of mechanical stratigraphy in controlling structural styles in
fold belts. Examples of the correct and incorrect use of mechanical
stratigraphy to choose between multiple structural solutions will be
discussed.
• Structural geometry of Foreland Basement-involved structures,
Inversion Structures, and Reactivated structures. Mechanisms
associated with the formation of fore-limb deformation zones and
back-limb dips will be analyzed. The use of syngrowth units and
mechanical stratigraphy in determining the geometry of subsurface
structures will be discussed. Examples of trap-forming structures
from the Rocky Mountain foreland, the Central Basin uplift, the
Southern Gas Basin, the Taranaki Basin, Indonesian Basins, and
Algeria, will be discussed.
• Methods for constructing balanced cross sections, maps and 3-D
interpretations including the use of line-length, area and volumetric
balancing. Common pitfalls in the construction of structural maps
and cross sections will be discussed. Methods for integrating maps
and cross sections to develop a consistent 3-D interpretation will
be presented.
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Integrated Exploration and Evaluation of Fractured
Reservoirs
Date: October 23-24
Location: Cancun, Mexico, with AAPG International Meeting
Tuition: $800 • Content: 1.5 CEU
Instructor: Ronald Nelson, Broken N Consulting, Houston, Texas
See course description under “Winter Education Conference” in
January on page 45
Deep-Water Sands, Integrated Stratigraphic
Analysis – A Workshop Using Multiple Data Sets
Date: October 22-24
Location: Cancun, Mexico, with AAPG International Meeting
Tuition: $950 • Content: 2.1 CEU
Instructor: John M. Armentrout, Cascade Stratigraphics, Clackamas,
Oregon
See course description under “Winter Education Conference” in
January on page 44
Practical Salt Tectonics
Date: October 22-24
Location: Cancun, Mexico, with AAPG International Meeting
Tuition: $950 • Content: 2.1 CEU
Instructor: Mark G. Rowan, Consultant, Boulder, Colorado
Who Should Attend
Exploration and production geologists, geophysicists, and managers
working in salt basins worldwide who need either an introduction to
salt tectonics or an update in this rapidly evolving field.
Objectives
Our understanding of salt tectonics has advanced significantly in
recent years, and this course will help industry geoscientists in
understanding and applying the newest concepts, models, and
techniques. We will use a combination of seismic data, realistic models,
and reconstructed histories to illustrate the varying 3-D geometry and
evolution of real salt structures from various salt basins. This is an
applied course that will introduce practical tools for seismic
interpretation and emphasize the impact of salt on fault and trap
geometries, sedimentation, and hydrocarbon maturation and migration.
The course will consist of a combination of lectures and workshop
exercises.
Content
• Mechanics of salt deformation
• Initiation and growth of diapirs and salt sheets
• Extensional and contractional salt tectonics
• Allochthonous salt systems (Canopies, nappes)
• Salt-sediment interaction
• Salt and hydrocarbon maturation/migration
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Introduction to Geological Reservoir
Characterization
Dates: Spring and Fall 2004 sessions
Tuition: $600 (includes textbook), Content: 12 CEU, Limit: 25 students
Instructor: Roger M. Slatt - University of Oklahoma
This course covers the principles and practice of characterizing
petroleum reservoirs using geologic and engineering data, including
well logs, sample descriptions, routine and special core analyses, and
well tests. This online course is done on a definite timetable with other
students taking the same course both online and in the classroom.
There is some flexibility on assignments and readings, but it is not a
self-paced course.
Emphasis is placed on practical analysis of such data sets from a
variety of clastic depositional environments. The compartmentalized
nature of reservoirs will also be emphasized. Most modules have
electronically-based exercises.
Many exercises will be done by hand, without computer-assist (i.e.
mapping, correlation, etc.). No sophisticated software will be required.
For detailed information on this class, go to:
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Course Outline
• Introduction to reservoir characterization;
• Tools and techniques for characterizing static and dynamic
properties of oil and gas reservoirs;
• Value of outcrops;
• Structure and structurally compartmentalized reservoirs;
• Stratigraphy and stratigraphically compartmentalized reservoirs;
• Basics of sequence stratigraphy;
• Incised valley fill reservoirs;
• Shoreface reservoirs;
• Deepwater clastic (turbidite) reservoirs;
• Geologic controls on reservoir quality (porosity and permeability);
• Diagenesis and diagenetically compartmentalized reservoirs;
• Simple volumetric calculations, and geologic controls on
volumetrics;
• Petrophysical properties of reservoirs;
• Fractured reservoirs;
• Introduction to geological modeling.
Who Should Take this Course?
This course is ideal for the petroleum industry professional who is
involved in analysis and/or decision-making. Geologists, project
managers, engineers, and geophysicists will find this course to be
both useful and stimulating. It should be considered an intermediate-
level course which will provide individuals with the knowledge
necessary to take more advanced courses.
Syllabus
There will be an exercise for each of the 14 Units (11 Lessons).
Some exercises will just be answering a few questions. Others will
involve mapping, cross-section interpretation, and other types of
analysis. To be graded, each exercise will have to be submitted to Dr.
Slatt electronically, no later than one week after it is given to you.
There will be a final exam, which will be a reservoir characterization
project, for which you will be given one week to complete.
Online Courses – Self-Paced
AVO
Dates: Variable, completely self-paced online.
Instructor: John Castagna – University of Oklahoma
Exercises and Exams administered by instructor via email
Tuition: $600 (includes textbook), Content: 5.4 CEU
This course covers basic principles of offset-dependent reflectivity
as applied to hydrocarbon exploration and development.
The course deals with integrated approaches to practical AVO
analysis as applied by the petroleum industry. Units explore the
properties of AVO indicators.
Others discuss lessons learned from full-waveform elastic
modeling, while the last paper of the chapter describes complicating
effects of realistic earth media that exhibit weak anisotropy.
Who Should Take this Course?
This course is ideal for petroleum industry professional who has a
basic understanding of geophysics and geology who is involved in
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analysis and/or decision-making. Geologists, managers, engineers,
and geophysicists will find this course to be both useful and
stimulating. It should be considered an intermediate-level course
which will provide individuals with the knowledge necessary to take
more advanced courses.
Seismic Interpretation
Dates: Variable, completely self-paced online.
Instructor: John Castagna – University of Oklahoma
Exercises and Exams administered by instructor via email
Tuition: $600 (includes textbook), Content: 5.4 CEU
This course gives students the background necessary to begin basic
interpretation of seismic records. The following items are covered:
• Seismic interpretation of transgressive and progradational sequences
• The value of seismic amplitude
• Discrimination of porous zones and shale intervals using seismic
logs
• Complex seismic trace attributes
• Balanced cross sections
• Structural , utility and interpretation of single-point seismic data
• Interpretation of complex structure using 3-D seismic modeling
Who Should Take this Course?
This course is ideal for petroleum industry professional who has a
basic understanding of geology who is involved in analysis and/or
decision-making. Geologists, managers, engineers, and
geophysicists will find this course to be both useful and stimulating.
It should be considered a basic course which will provide individuals
with the knowledge necessary to take more advanced courses.
Sharpen your communications skills with:
Technical English
Dates: Variable, completely self-paced online.
Instructor: Susan Nash – University of Oklahoma
Exercises and Exams administered by instructor via email
Tuition: $300 (includes textbook), Content: 5.4 CEU
Ideal for scientists, managers, and professionals for whom English
is a second language. This course helps individuals at any level
sharpen their skills in written technical English, and provides one-on-
one tutoring and guidance in a wide range of areas needed by
professionals in the petroleum industry.
The underlying philosophy incorporates rhetorical theory and a
“building block” approach that results in a highly effective
methodology for developing high-quality discourse.
This course is particularly useful for professionals involved in
writing research papers, proposals, dissertations, theses, and
technical monographs.
Abstracts // Technical Papers
Grammar / Style / Revision
Proceedings // Proposals
Revision // more
Individualized instruction.
Professional English
Dates: Variable, completely self-paced online.
Instructor: Susan Nash – University of Oklahoma
Exercises and Exams administered by instructor via email
Tuition: $300 (includes textbook) • Content: 5.4 CEU
Upon completion of this course, students will have gained an ability
to develop and organize documents both printed and on the Internet
which are read by individuals outside their company.
This course is ideal for individuals seeking to develop highly
effective documents for their companies, personal businesses, and
associations
• Memoranda, PowerPoint Presentations, Meeting Documents
• Quarterly and Annual Reports
• Reports and Presentations to Investors, Shareholders, Stakeholders
• Websites, Promotional Items
• Resumes
• Directories of Services, Virtual Information Libraries
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 AAPG GEOTOUR
Lewis & Clark Geotour: Marias River to Gates of the Mountains, Montana
Leader: William Hansen, Jireh Consulting Services, Great Falls, MT
Date: July 12-17
Location: Begins and ends in Great Falls, Montana
Tuition: $1,200, includes one day outfitted whitewater float trip and one day outfitted
canoe trip on Missouri River, guided trips to the Great Falls of the Missouri, White Bear
Island Portage Camp, Sacagawea Sulfur Springs, Marias River “decision” point, and
historic Fort Benton Missouri River steamboat wharf; admission to Lewis & Clark
Interpretive Center, C. M. Russell Western Art Museum, Ulm Pishkun Buffalo Jump and
Giant Springs State Parks; cruise boat trip through Lewis & Clark’s “Gates of the
Mountains” canyon in the Montana Thrust Belt, wild west dinner train through central
Montana with Prime Rib dinner, lunches, transportation during Geotour, guidebook and
barbecue dinners during river trips.
Limit: 11 • Content: 4.2 CEU
See page 41 for details

Lewis and Clark’s “Gates of the Mountains,” along the Missouri River, south of Great Falls, Montana.
The canyon consists of Mississippian Limestones exposed in the hanging wall of the Eldorado Thrust
along the Missouri River.
Photo by William Hansen

56 1-888-338-3387 (USA only)

 AAPG GEOTOUR
Grand Canyon Geology Via the Colorado River, Arizona
Leaders: John E. Warme, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; William Wade, The
Woodlands, Texas
Date: August 5-12
Location: Begins at Marble Canyon, Arizona, and ends Marble Canyon, Arizona, or Las
Vegas, Nevada
Tuition: $2,375; includes boats, boatmen, crew tips, life jackets, camping gear, excellent
food, river-runner’s guidebook, geological guidebooks, National Park fee, and helicopter
and fixed-winged aircraft liftout to Marble Canyon or Las Vegas.
Limit: 28 • Content: 5.0 CEU
See page 42 for details

Photo by David Lazor

 AAPG GEOTOUR
Timeless Geologic Scenes of Glen Canyon and Rainbow Bridge via
Lake Powell, Utah-Arizona
Leaders: Doug Sprinkel, Tom Chidsey, and Grant Willis, Utah Geological Survey,
Salt Lake City.
Date: August 16-19
Location: Begins and ends in Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit Bryce Canyon National Park,
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area, and Rainbow Bridge National Monument. Lodging in Page, Arizona.
Tuition: $1,135, includes ground transportation, charter boat and kayak expenses,
three lunches, one dinner, drinks, snacks, geologic road and lake logs, and a copy
of Utah Geological Association Publication 28, “Geology of Utah’s Parks and
Monuments.”
Limit: 22 (no children under six years of age). • Content: 3.0 CEU

See page 42 for details

AAPG Geoscience Education

P.O. Box 979
Tulsa, OK 74101-0979 USA

Phone: 918 560 2650

Fax: 918 560 2678
E-mail: educate@aapg.org
Registration toll free(USA only): 888 338 3387
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