CSPG24SC Integrated Basin and Play Analysis (Student Only Course)
Location: Instruction will be provided at facilities determined by Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil and CSPG, Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil will provide breakfast, lunch, and snacks.
In the course, we will explore all of the concepts, methods, and tools of petroleum geoscience, including structure and stratigraphy, which we use on a day-to-day basis to make exploration decisions in the energy industry. We will focus on how we make decisions with limited information, identify critical information in light of multiple scenarios, evaluate risk vs. uncertainty, maximize the value we get from integrated teams, etc. To investigate these topics, we will generate play element maps, play summary charts, cross-sections, and play fairway maps. The course will combine lecture materials and hands-on exercises, with an emphasis on the exercises. Course materials will be borrowed from existing lecture and exercise materials used for in-house training purposes.
The course will review the fundamental concepts as well as the play elements required for significant volumes of hydrocarbons to exist in the subsurface. We will focus on an applied problem in basin exploration and progress from regional to basin to play to prospect scale. Students will make play maps, bid on prospective acreage, and then analyze individual prospects within that acreage. Throughout the course we will stress the importance of integration across disciplines and scales, focusing on the interaction and expression of fundamental basin formation, fill, and evolution processes from regional to basin and play to prospect scale. These discussions will include consideration of plate motion, paleogeography, stratigraphy, structural deformation, sedimentology, rock properties, subsurface imaging, burial history, and fluid migration.
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Bob Stewart is a senior technical professional at ExxonMobil, where he has been employed since 1981. Bob has extensive experience as an exploration geologist, and is a company expert in sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis. He has studied over 100 basins throughout the world, and managed several frontier exploration teams. In 2002, he became the supervisor of Geoscience Recruiting for ExxonMobil. During his tenure as recruiting supervisor, he developed a significant set of short courses for students. As of year end 2009, he had taught over 200 short and field courses around the world. Bob was a graduate of Texas A&M University in 1981.
