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MSc in Hydrocarbon Exploration

Global Basin Screening (3 months)

Petroleum System Fundamentals (3 months)

Euan Mearns - The role of hydrocarbons in the energy equation


Euan Mearns and Hugh Macdonald - Oil and gas geopolitics
John Paterson - Oil and gas legislative frameworks
Stuart Paton and Stuart Archer - Buisness Ethics, Diversity and HSE
Stuart Archer - The geography of global petroleum systems
David Macdonald - Narnia: a global basin screening exercise
Ken Glennie and Stuart Archer - History of North Sea Exploration
Stuart Archer - Britannia Area Exploration Exercise
Christine Telford - Operations geology short course and trip to Piper Alpha
Memorial
Mark Cooper - Plate tectonics, basin classification, structure and traps
David Macdonald - Basin analysis: including tectonic setting, subsidence,
heat flow and sediment routing
Randell Stephenson - Potential fields theory
David Fairhead - Gravity and Magnetics in todays exploration industry
David Macdonald - Regional exploration methodologies and
case studies (including the South Atlantic)
Andrew Hurst - Frontier exploration exercise
Andrew Hurst and Paul Nadeau - The Golden Zone Concept
Stuart Archer - Helmsdale & Moray Coast Field Trip
Graham Bryce - Seismic acquisition and processing overview
David Iacopini - Geophysical interpretation
Russell Holroyd (Landmark) - Openworks/Decision Space training

Stuart Archer - Petroleum System Fundamentals


Nick Schofield and Stuart Archer - Introduction to exploration of volcanic continental margins
Stuart Archer and Ron Steel - Skye Field Trip
Ron Steel - Continental margin scale sequence stratigraphy
Trevor Elliot - Sequence stratigraphy for reservoirs, source and seals
Doug Boyd - The value of core and core description in exploration
Ken Peters - Source rocks and Geochemistry
Schlumberger - Petrel Training
Stuart Archer - Clastic diagenesis and resevoir quality risking in exploration
Giancarlo Rizzi - Exploration for carbonate reservoirs
Dave Healy - The deliberate search for fractured reservoirs
John Parnell - Fluid inclusions and their use in exploration
Single day field trips - Stonehaven, Arbroath, Fife and Ythan Estuary
Adrian Hartley - Clastics exercise in the Brae area
Dave Jolley - An introduction the use of biostratigraphy in the hydrocarbon industry
Rich Callow - The role of ichnology in the construction of depositional models
Geoff Page - Petrophysics / well logging
Bill Hakes - ODM short course (Senergy's well log correlation package)
Ben Kneller - Exploration for deepwater clastics
Ian Alsop - Salt tectonics
Stuart Archer - Seal rock characterisation in exploration
Bill Ashcroft - A petroleum geologists guide to seismic reflection
Alan Macgregor - Well to seismic ties and creation of synthetics

Play and Prospect Analysis including


the Size Of The Prize Simulated Licence Round ( 3 months)
Peter Rattey and Stuart Archer - Play analysis and common risk segments
Tom Levy - Petrel workflows for play analysis
Peter Macalister Hall- Prospect risking
Hugh Macdonald and Stuart Archer - Volumetrics
Hamish Wilson - Nova Scotian Shelf play analysis exercise
Stuart Archer - The use of analogues in exploration
Ron Steel and Stuart Archer - International field trip to Wyoming and Utah
Lucy MacGregor and Gregor Maxwell - CSEM theory and case studies
Chris Cornellius - Unconventionals
Sandy Petrie - Reservoir engineering in exploration
Schlumberger - Techlog training
Hugh MacDonald - Petroleum Economics
Francis Harper - Corporate exploration strategies
Peter Cunningham - Decision making
Peter Rhys-Davies - Portfolio Management - Acquisitions and Dispositions
Peter Macalister Hall - Research and development awareness
Sidney Johnson - Entrepreneurism in the oil industry

MSc Dissertation ( 3 months)

Independent research project with the option of sponsor project design


and collaboration

Legend:

Field Work

Software Training

exploHUBs mission is to provide a unique exploration


training environment that will prepare exploration
geoscientists for the challenge of discovering the
Earths remaining hydrocarbon rescources.

For more information about exploHUB please contact:


Dr Stuart Archer
Director of exploHUB
University of Aberdeen
Meston Building
Aberdeen
AB24 3UE
Tel: +44 (0)1224 273449
Fax: +44 (0)1224 272785
Email: explohub@abdn.ac.uk

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