Geochemistry Training Courses Now Live!
During 2024, APT's geochemistry SME's traveled to the SAGA Wisdom studio in Calgary to record 4 comprehensive geochemistry courses covering:
Course 1: Heavy Oil Geochemistry & Applications
Instructor: Dr. Barry Bennett
Duration: 4 hours, 37 minutes
No. of Chapters: 4
Chapter 1 - Heavy Oil
Chapter 2 - Methods for Characterizing Heavy Oil
Chapter 3 - Biodegradation & The Origin of Heavy Oil
Chapter 4 - Reservoir Geochemical Applications
Course 2: Conventional Reservoir Geochemistry
Instructor(s): Dr. Julian Moore & Dr. Craig Barrie
Duration: 5 hours, 2 minutes
No. of Chapters: 1 (9 Lessons)
Lesson 1 - Reservoir Geochemistry & Models of Reservoir Filling
Lesson 2 - Compositional Variations, Filling History & Compositional Grading; Petroleum biodegradation, water washing, phase separation; Tar Mats, Fluid Properties From Geochemistry
Lesson 3 - Reservoir Compartmentalization Geochemical Examples
Lesson 4 - Reservoir Compartmentalisation Application & Mixing Timescales
Lesson 5 - Introduction to Production Allocation in Conventional Reservoirs
Lesson 6 - The Mathematics Underpinning Allocation & the APT Allomon™ Solver
Lesson 7 - Examples of Deployment of Allocation Programs in Conventional Settings
Lesson 8 - A Production Allocation Case Study from the North Sea
Lesson 9 - Allocation Workflows Using Gas
Course 3: Well Site Gas for Reservoir Evaluation
Instructor(s): Dr. Julian Moore & Eric Michael
Duration: 4 hours, 8 minutes
No. of Chapters: 1 (10 Lessons)
Lesson 1 - Introduction to Well Site Data and its Applications
Lesson 2 - Mercer (1974) Gas Classification
Lesson 3 - Using (normalized) Well Site Gas Data to Spot Pay
Lesson 4 - Wellsite Gas Composition Vs Reservoir Compositions
Lesson 5 - Re-Cap, Some Things To Think About And Some Comments On Set-Up
Lesson 6 - Summary
Lesson 7 - Selected Real World Examples – OBM Isabella UK North Sea HPHT
Lesson 8 - Selected Real World Examples – WBM Rosebank UK West Of Shetlands
Lesson 9 - Selected Real World Examples – WBM ROC-1 Bedout Sub-basin, Australia Oil Or Gas?
Lesson 10 - Selected Real World Examples – Montney Play Canada WCSB
Course 4: Geochemistry for Unconventional Play Development and Optimization
Instructor(s): Dr. Craig Barrie & Eric Michael
Duration: 11 hours, 1 minute
No. of Chapters: 9 (26 Lessons)
Chapter 1 - Introduction, Best Practices, Collection & Methods
Chapter 2 - Resource Density Assessment
Chapter 3 - Production Allocation: Quantitative & Qualitative
Chapter 4 - Production Allocation Case Studies
Chapter 5 - Gas Allocations
Chapter 6 - Production Monitoring
Chapter 7 - Cross-Discipline Integration
Chapter 8 - Well Integrity
Chapter 9 - Production Metrics
For further details on these courses, to view sample lessons and to subscribe visit the SAGA Wisdom website. You can also find out information on the other categories of courses they offer from clean energy and computing & data science to completions engineering and facilities.