🌍 Integrated Basin Analysis – Concepts, Workflows & Applications
🧾 Course Description: This advanced course provides participants with a robust understanding of integrated basin analysis, combining geological, geophysical, geochemical, and geochronological data to understand sedimentary basin evolution and petroleum systems. The course emphasizes multi-disciplinary integration to assess source rock …
Overview
🧾 Course Description:
This advanced course provides participants with a robust understanding of integrated basin analysis, combining geological, geophysical, geochemical, and geochronological data to understand sedimentary basin evolution and petroleum systems. The course emphasizes multi-disciplinary integration to assess source rock potential, maturation, migration, reservoir presence, and trap integrity. Real case studies and workflows illustrate how integrated basin analysis reduces exploration risk and enhances subsurface evaluation.
👥 Who Should Attend:
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Exploration and development geologists
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Basin modelers and geochemists
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Petroleum system analysts
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Geophysicists and geoscientists involved in prospect evaluation
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E&P professionals looking to improve exploration risk assessment
🛠️ Training Format:
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5 days – Classroom or virtual instructor-led format
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Includes theoretical lectures, real case studies, mapping workshops
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Hands-on exercises using actual datasets and manual methods
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Optional software demos if applicable (e.g., PetroMod, BasinMod)
📆 5-Day Detailed Agenda with Time Breakdown:
📘 Day 1 – Introduction to Basin Systems and Tectonic Framework
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome, Course Objectives, Participant Introductions |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | 🌐 Basin Types & Global Tectonic Settings |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | 🧭 Plate Tectonics and Basin Evolution Models |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽️ Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | 🔍 Structural Architecture of Basins (Rifts, Foreland, Passive Margins) |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | 🗺️ Case Study: Structural Restoration and Basin Modeling Concepts |
📗 Day 2 – Stratigraphy, Sedimentation and Burial History
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:30 | 🧱 Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentation Patterns |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | 🏞️ Depositional Systems in Different Basin Types |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽️ Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | 🌡️ Subsidence, Uplift and Burial History Modeling |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | 🧪 Thermal Maturity & Heat Flow – Calculations and Exercise |
📙 Day 3 – Petroleum Systems, Source Rock and Migration
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:30 | 🔬 Source Rock Evaluation: TOC, Kerogen Types, and Quality |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | 🔥 Hydrocarbon Generation: Windows & Kinetics |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽️ Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | 🛢️ Migration Pathways & Hydrocarbon Expulsion Dynamics |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | ⚙️ Petroleum System Modelling: Manual Workflow and Examples |
📒 Day 4 – Traps, Timing and Prospect Risking
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:30 | 🧱 Trap Types: Structural, Stratigraphic, and Combined |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | ⏳ Charge Timing, Seal Effectiveness, and Trap Integrity |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽️ Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | 📉 Exploration Risk Analysis & GPoS Calculation |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | 📊 Risk-based Basin Evaluation Exercise (Group Activity) |
📕 Day 5 – Integration & Final Workshop
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:30 | 🔗 Integrating Logs, Seismic, Cores, Geochemistry & Basin Data |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | 🗺️ Regional Play Fairway Mapping |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽️ Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | 🧠 Final Workshop: Build and Interpret a Complete Basin Model |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | 🎓 Wrap-Up, Discussion, Feedback, and Certificate Distribution |
Target audiences
- Reservoir Engineers, Geologists
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