W011 North Sea Reservoirs Series - New Perspectives on North Sea Plays
W011 North Sea Reservoirs Series - New Perspectives on North Sea Plays
This play-based overview spans the entire spectrum of North Sea plays. Fundamental knowledge regarding the stratigraphic and structural setting of each play will be transferred using standard subsurface datasets (seismic, wireline and core) as well as a new angle using historical statistics (success rates, discovery sizes and area yield). Although the plays are defined through the lens of reservoir geology, other elements of the petroleum system will also be discussed (seal, traps, source, charge and timing).
This course is delivered in four webinar sessions over a two-day period and comprises lectures, discussion, case studies, and practical exercises.
The course will cover
The two-day webinar format will be divided into four sessions, as below.
Session 1: Introduction to the North Sea Plays, play analysis and play-based statistical methods
Session 2: Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic
Session 3: Jurassic, Cretaceous,
Session 4: Tertiary, discussion session, conclusions, take home messages and a look to the future.
This course will benefit any subsurface professional working in the North Sea. The course is aimed primarily at geologists but geophysicists, reservoir engineers, team leaders and managers will also benefit from a deeper understanding of the classic play types.
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Background
Dave is a consultant geoscientist with MGS Energy in Denmark, Chairman of the Manx Geological Survey in the Isle of Man and is a researcher affiliated with the University of Manchester in the UK. He is currently contracted with Cairn Energy but has previously worked in oil and gas exploration in Shell, Burlington Resources, Hess, Maersk and OGA and also as a lecturer in Petroleum Geoscience at Oxford Brookes University.
Dave regularly publishes and presents on risk, uncertainty and resource prediction; play analysis; seismic interpretation; salt tectonics; continental break-up and the energy transition.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD University of Leicester
BSc University of Liverpool - Geology
Courses Taught
W011: North Sea Reservoirs Series - New Perspectives on North Sea Plays
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