Event Details

Paid Event Open to the Public Wednesday, 22 April 2009 Commencing at 08:30 AM for 2 day(s) Deepwater Petroleum Systems Where: Parmelia Hilton Hotel 14 Mill Street PERTH Presenter(s): Dr Grant D Wach Details: COURSE OBJECTIVES This programme is specially designed for G&G personnel involved in the exploration and development of deepwater projects. This advanced 2-day course will allow participants to understand the critical elements needed to evaluate their deepwater venture. The training modules include seismic and well log interpretation and characterization of deepwater depositional systems and topics on geohazards, reservoir continuity and connectivity. Other areas to be covered include deepwater petroleum systems in mobile shale and salt provinces and deepwater reservoir characterisation. The course will include case studies and dry hole analysis from deepwater developments and utilise subsurface examples and outcrop analogs from around the world to illustrate the challenges to G&G operations. These will include examples from South Africa, Nigeria, Trinidad, Chile, Colombia, Gulf of Mexico, California, Texas and Atlantic Canada. Course Presenter: Dr. Grant D. Wach. Director, Energy at Dalhousie Dalhousie University, Department of Earth Sciences Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Grant Wach is Professor of Petroleum Geoscience at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Prior to this he was Geoscience Research Associate at Texaco Upstream Technology (now Chevron). As a specialist in deepwater depositional systems, reservoir characterization, sequence stratigraphy and clastic sedimentology, he was directly involved with exploration and commercialization of deepwater developments with business units, operating affiliates and partners around the globe, with considerable experience in West Africa, the Far East, Americas and Western Europe. He conducts research on, and leads field schools and courses on deepwater exploration, development and reservoir characterization in several countries. At Texaco he was named “Outstanding Instructor” for his contributions to training. Wach has been a Visiting Professor at both the University of West Indies (Petroleum Geoscience programme) and the University of Adelaide’s Australia School of Petroleum and Co-operative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies. Professor Wach has an Honours B.A. (Geography/Geology) from the University of Western Ontario, a M.Sc. (Geology) from South Carolina, and a D.Phil. (Geology) from the University of Oxford. Contacts: Bev Butters Email: pesa.sec@bigpond.com.au Registration Closed