A Comprehensive Introduction to the Upstream Hydrocarbon Industry: from the Rock to the Pipeline

This tutorial is aimed at all non-technical, commercial, legal, financial, management and administrative personnel in upstream oil and gas companies, government energy departments, energy law firms, financial institutions with an energy portfolio, upstream consultancies, and also universities. It aims to give a broad overview of how oil and gas occur within the ground and also a short section on the downstream sector from reservoir to petrol pump. The course comprises:

• A general introduction to geology (sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic rocks)
• Reservoir rocks (clastic, carbonate and basement)
• Source rocks
• Seals
• Migration
• Trapping styles
• Data types
• Petroleum systems analysis
• Play fairway analysis
• Petroleum economics
• Downstream

This course, like our other computer tutorials, is HTML / Java based and contains a large number of photographs, diagrams and interactive practical exercises as well as the equivalent of 200 pages of typed pages of text and figures.

For a copy of this tutorial on CD-ROM or to request further information please contact the Petroleum Training Centre.