Evaluating Pre-salt Rift Play and Prospects

This course is designed to provide geoscientists with an understanding of all of the elements of the sub-salt petroleum system including how to put those elements together in order to define plays and to find, evaluate, and risk leads and prospects in those plays.

Key Learning Objectives
•    Understand the various types of data needed to understand the petroleum system, including an understanding of the quality, scale, uncertainty, and limitations of that data.
•    Learn how to use the data, as well as geologic models and principals to understand and delineate each element of the rift basin petroleum system; source rock, migration pathway, reservoir, trap and seal as well as the linkage between these elements.
•    Be able to bring the petroleum system elements together to be able to define plays and to find, evaluate, and risk prospects.
•    Understand the fundamentals of salt tectonics, the geometry of autochthonous and allochthonous salt bodies and salt withdrawal mini-basins.
•    Optional for day 3: Learn key industry best practices needed to qualitatively review maps to ensure they are valid, use and honor all of the data, and are as accurate as the data allows