This document outlines the curriculum for an MSc in Hydrocarbon Exploration which is divided into three phases over 12 months. The first phase focuses on global basin screening and petroleum system fundamentals over 6 months. The second phase involves play and prospect analysis including a simulated license round over 3 months. The final phase is a 3 month independent research dissertation with the option for an industry sponsored project. The curriculum covers topics such as tectonics, geophysics, geology and engineering applied to exploration. Field work and software training is integrated throughout.
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A brochure explaining course content of Hydrocarbon Exploration Msc. program at University of Aberdeen
This document outlines the curriculum for an MSc in Hydrocarbon Exploration which is divided into three phases over 12 months. The first phase focuses on global basin screening and petroleum system fundamentals over 6 months. The second phase involves play and prospect analysis including a simulated license round over 3 months. The final phase is a 3 month independent research dissertation with the option for an industry sponsored project. The curriculum covers topics such as tectonics, geophysics, geology and engineering applied to exploration. Field work and software training is integrated throughout.
This document outlines the curriculum for an MSc in Hydrocarbon Exploration which is divided into three phases over 12 months. The first phase focuses on global basin screening and petroleum system fundamentals over 6 months. The second phase involves play and prospect analysis including a simulated license round over 3 months. The final phase is a 3 month independent research dissertation with the option for an industry sponsored project. The curriculum covers topics such as tectonics, geophysics, geology and engineering applied to exploration. Field work and software training is integrated throughout.
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
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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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