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MSc in Hydrocarbon Exploration

Legend:

Euan Mearns - The role of hydrocarbons in the energy equationEuan Mearns and Hugh Macdonald - Oil and gas geopolitics John Paterson - Oil and gas legislative frameworksStuart Paton and Stuart Archer - Buisness Ethics, Diversity and HSEStuart Archer - The geography of global petroleum systemsDavid Macdonald - Narnia: a global basin screening exerciseKen Glennie and Stuart Archer - History of North Sea ExplorationStuart Archer - Britannia Area Exploration ExerciseChristine Telford - Operations geology short course an d trip to Piper AlphaMemorialMark Cooper - Plate tectonics, basin classication, structure and trapsDavid Macdonald - Basin analysis: inc luding tectonic setting, subsidence,heat ow and sediment routingRandell Stephenson - Potential elds theoryDavid Fairhead - Gravity and Magnetics in today’s exploration industryDavid Macdonald - Regional exploration methodologies andcase studies (including the South Atlantic)Andrew Hurst - Frontier exploration exerciseAndrew Hurst and Paul Nadeau - The Golden Zone ConceptStuart Archer - Helmsdale & Moray Coast Field TripGraham Bryce - Seismic acquisition and processing overviewDavid Iacopini - Geophysical interpretationRussell Holroyd (Landmark) - Openworks/Decision Space training

Stuart Archer - Petroleum System FundamentalsNick Schoeld and Stuart Archer - Introduction to exploration of volcanic continental marginsStuart Archer and Ron Steel - Skye Field TripRon Steel - Continental margin scale sequence stratigraphyTrevor Elliot - Sequence stratigraphy for reservoirs, source and sealsDoug Boyd - The value of core and core description in explorationKen Peters - Source rocks and GeochemistrySchlumberger - Petrel TrainingStuart Archer - Clastic diagenesis and resevoir quality risking in explorationGiancarlo Rizzi - Exploration for carbonate reservoirsDave Healy - The deliberate search for fractured reservoirs John Parnell - Fluid inclusions and their use in explorationSingle day eld trips - Stonehaven, Arbroath, Fife and Ythan EstuaryAdrian Hartley - Clastics exercise in the Brae areaDave Jolle y - An introduction the use of biostratigraphy in the hydrocarbon industryRich Callow - The role of ichnology in the construction of depositional modelsGeoff Page - Petrophysics / well loggingBill Hakes - ODM short course (Senergy's well log correlation package)Ben Kneller - Exploration for deepwater clasticsIan Alsop - Salt tectonicsStuart Archer - Seal rock characterisation in explorationBill Ashcroft - A petroleum geologists guide to seismic reectionAlan Macgregor - Well to seismic ties and creation of synthetics

Peter Rattey and Stuart Archer - Play analysis and co mmon risk segmentsTom Levy - Petrel workows for play analysisPeter Macalister Hall- Prospect riskingHugh Macdonald and Stuart Archer - VolumetricsHamish Wilson - Nova Scotian Shelf play analysis exerciseStuart Archer - The use of analogues in explorationRon Steel and Stuart Archer - International eld trip to Wyoming and UtahLucy MacGregor and Gregor Maxwell - CSEM theory and case studiesChris Cornellius - UnconventionalsSandy Petrie - Reservoir engineering in explorationSchlumberger - Techlog trainingHugh MacDonald - Petroleum EconomicsFrancis Harper - Corporate exploration strategiesPeter Cunningham - Decision makingPeter Rhys-Davies - Portfolio Management - Acquisitions and DispositionsPeter Macalister Hall - Research and development awarenessSidney Johnson - Entrepreneurism in the oil industry

Global Basin Screening (3 months) Petroleum System Fundamentals (3 months) Play and Prospect Analysis includingthe “Size Of The Prize”Simulated Licence Round ( 3 months)

MSc Dissertation ( 3 months)Independent research project with the option of sponsor project designand collaboration

Field Wor k Software Training

For more information about exploHUB please contact:

Dr Stuart ArcherDirector of exploHUBUniversity of AberdeenMeston BuildingAberdeenAB24 3UE

Tel: +44 (0)1224 273449Fax: +44 (0)1224 272785Email: explohub@abdn.ac.uk

exploHUB’s mission is to provide a unique explorationtraining environment that will prepare explorationgeoscientists for the challenge of discovering the

Earth’s remaining hydrocarbon rescources.