DOWAC short courses provide an avenue to explore new ideas of how to find oil at relatively

low costs. It also serves as a refresher to the understanding of various geological concepts that
can help enhance participants' E&P skills. With these in mind, the organizers of DOWAC are
offering the following courses at the conference.

1. Sequence Stratigraphy Applied to Exploration *for students only* (two days)

2. Writing for the NAPE/AAPG Bulletin (two days)
3. Introduction to Directional Drilling and Logging Operations (one day)
4. An Introduction to Exploration & Production (two days)
5. Project Petroleum Economics Fundamentals Course (two days)
6. Reservoir Characterization from Seismic Data (one day)
7. Fundamentals of Play Evaluation and Assessment (one day)
8. Advances in Reservoir Fluid Property Characterization (two days)

The courses are designed achieve the following:

• Improved understating of geological concepts
• Networking and knowledge sharing platform for oil and gas professionals
• Added skills to geoscientist and non oil and gas professionals
• Cost effective and fit for purpose training

Registration Information

• Short course enrollment is limited and will be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.
• If you do not plan on attending the conference, a US $30 enrollment fee will be added to
the short course fee. This fee may be applied toward registration if you decide to attend
the conference at a later date.
• A wait list is automatically created if a short course sells out. Short Course committee
will notify you if space becomes available.
• If any of these short courses meet your needs or the needs of your professional staff, you
are strongly encouraged to register early.
• To help us better anticipate the number of attendees and avoid premature cancellation of
short courses, please register before 23 October 2010. Short course cancellations due to
low enrollment will be made at this time.
• Courses will mainly be held in Transcorp Hilton Hotel, however participants will be
advised of any changes.
• There are a limited number of discounted registrations available for students on a
first-come, first-served basis. If you wish to register for one of the discounted spots,
please email your registration directly to JoyRoth@chevron.com; kalyea@aapg.org or
contact the NAPE secretariat. If discounted space is no longer available, you can register
at the full fee and/or you can place your name on the waiting list for a discounted space in
the short course.
• Contact JoyRoth@chevron.com directly to register for the free Sequence Stratigraphy
course for students.
 Sequence Stratigraphy Applied to Exploration *for students only* (two days)
This course is designed to teach graduate students the principles, concepts and methods of
sequence stratigraphy. Sequence stratigraphy is an informal chronostratigraphic methodology
that uses stratal surfaces to subdivide the stratigraphic record. This methodology allows the
identification of coeval facies, documents the time-transgressive nature of classic
lithostratigraphic units and provides geoscientists with an additional way to analyze and
subdivide the stratigraphic record.
Using exercises that utilize outcrop, core, well log and seismic data, the course provides a hands-
on experience to learning sequence stratigraphy. The exercises include classic case studies from
which many sequence stratigraphic concepts were originally developed. The main objectives of
the course are to review:
• Basic concepts and terminology of sequence stratigraphy
• The stratigraphic building blocks of depositional sequences
• Recognition criteria for the identification of depositional sequences and their components
in outcrops, cores, well logs and seismic
• The application of sequence stratigraphy in non-marine, shallow marine and submarine
depositional settings.
• Implications for play element prediction in petroleum exploration

Instructor: Vitor Abreu, ExxonMobil

Vitor Abreu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil and his Ph.D. degree at Rice University. His Ph.D. work had a strong impact in the SEPM
60 Special Publication, where he documented possible global links for sequence stratigraphic
surfaces in the Cenozoic and Upper Cretaceous. He has published more than 50 papers and
abstracts on subjects ranging from sequence stratigraphy, paleoceanography, evolution of passive
margins, and deep water reservoirs. Surrounding his doctoral studies, he worked for Petrobras
and Unocal. Vitor has been working for XOM since 2000, starting at the Exxon Production
Research and currently working as Stratigraphy Advisor in the ExxonMobil Exploration
Company. His work spans from reservoir characterization of deep water systems in the Gulf of
Mexico and West Africa, developing research projects including deep water outcrops in North
America and Europe, and regional stratigraphic projects in several sedimentary basins around the
world.
Vitor is an Adjunct Professor at University of Houston and at Rice University where he took
responsibility for the course on Sequence Stratigraphy after Peter Vail’s retirement. He has been
a diligent member of both AAPG and SEPM, organizing technical sessions and teaching short
courses in the annual meetings.
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 13-14 November
Time: 8.00am – 5.00pm

Course fee: Students only, free

 Writing for the NAPE/AAPG Bulletin (two days)

Students, young professionals and experienced professionals considering publishing their work
in the AAPG Bulletin will benefit from this course. Attendees will learn how to write for
publication in the AAPG Bulletin, from creating an abstract to outlining, writing and illustrating
their work. During the full-day course, attendees will work on abstracts and outlines. Lectures
will provide guidance for finishing other parts of the manuscript.

In addition, attendees will learn how to reduce their time to publication and how to support the
AAPG Bulletin as reviewers.

Topics include:
• Why do we write?
• Writing an abstract (exercise)
• Parts of a manuscript – abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusions,
references and acknowledgements
• Writing an outline (exercise)
• Figures and figure captions
• Examples from the AAPG Bulletin
• Dealing with a journal – following instructions to authors, increasing the likelihood of
manuscript acceptance and learning about and supporting the journal by serving as a
manuscript reviewer
• Tips on writing
• Resources for writing

Instructor: Gretchen Gillis, Schlumberger

After receiving her B.S. and M.S. in geology, Gretchen began her career as an exploration
geologist in Dallas working for an independent oil company. She concurrently pursued freelance
writing and editing opportunities involving geology. She then found a position with
Schlumberger that drew on both her writing and editing interests. In this role she has developed
the Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary as well as serving the dual role as editor and writer for the
quarterly magazine Oilfield Review. These assignments convinced her that clear communication
is not only possible but essential for broad technical understanding by increasingly busy readers.
Gretchen is currently the AAPG Editor 2007-2010 and Editorial Advisor for Schlumberger.

Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 13-14 November

Time: 8.00am – 5.00pm

Course fee:
• Professional $200 or N30,000
• NAPE / AAPG member $150 or N22,500
• Student (Limited) $100 or N15,000
 An Introduction to the Exploration & Production (two days)

The course structure follows the reservoir/oilfield life cycle from exploration stages through
reservoir management and production operation phases. The course includes exercises, class
discussions/ team presentations, and interactive challenges. Relevant concepts and topics from
geology, geophysics, petrophysics, reservoir engineering, economics, drilling engineering, and
production operations are integrated into the overall life cycle framework of the course.
Course Objectives
 Introduction to the oil field
 Phases in the life cycle of a reservoir
 Exploration geology and geophysics
 Exploration business processes and risk assessment
 Reservoir appraisal and engineering: reservoir properties, testing, and analysis
 Planning for field development
 Reservoir development and drilling
 Drilling equipment and personnel, well planning, well construction, drilling economics
 Completion and production operations
 Downstream overview

Audience: Appropriate for entry-level professionals of all disciplines as well as non-technical

support staff.
Instructor: John Afilaka, Schlumberger
• M.Phil and PhD in geological engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de
Paris, France
• B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mineral Resources Engineering and Rock Mechanics, respectively
from Imperial College, London
• John has spent the last 18 years with Schlumberger working in various roles starting off
as an engineer and moving into management, He has worked in Data and Consulting
Services, Network of Excellence in Training (NExT), and Schlumberger Information
Solutions in Europe, the USA, South America, the Middle East, and Africa. He
specializes in rock mechanics, reservoir characterization, reservoir simulation, integrated
reservoir studies, reservoir modeling, and reserves estimation and risk analysis.
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 13-14 November
Time: 8.00am – 5.00pm

Course fee:
• Professional $400 or N60,000
• NAPE / AAPG member $300 or N45,000
• Student (Limited) $150 or N22,500
 Project Petroleum Economics Fundamentals Course (two days)
A strong understanding of the fundamentals of petroleum economics is critical to conducting
project evaluations and comparing opportunities in a meaningful way. Learn economics basics so
you are better able to understand project dynamics at a glance and make decisions you can trust.


Course Objectives
 Understand petroleum economics
 Estimate reserves or production rate forecasts
 Sensitize pricing schedules
 Determine estimated future costs and expenses
 Select proper tax treatments
 Calculate cash flows
 Calculate net present values and profit indicators
 Apply risk methods and advanced property analysis
 Understand all inputs to project economic evaluations
 Run detailed economic calculations and analyze results
 Analyze and report on the resulting cash flows and economic indicators
 Learn cash flow analysis techniques
 Understand key project valuation components
 Learn economic limit concepts
 Understand the role of inflation in economic forecasting
 Learn about discounting: the time value of money
 Review commonly used economic indicators
 Know and analyze the various mechanisms within a fiscal regime
Target Audience: engineers, geoscientists, managers, field accountants, economists, and other
personnel who need to develop or improve their understanding of project petroleum economics.
Instructor: Adeoye Alabi, Schlumberger
Adeoye Alabi joined Schlumberger in 2001 as an economics & production consultant providing
services to clients in Nigeria. He has held various Schlumberger assignments in the UK as a
Senior Consultant, Business Development, and Service Delivery Manager, providing support and
consultancy services to clients in Europe and Africa. He is currently the Manager, Economics &
Planning services, for Schlumberger in Nigeria & Gulf of Guinea Africa.
He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Lagos in 1998, and
also has to his credit, a certificate of completion in Organizational Behavior from the Edinburgh
Business School, United Kingdom. Adeoye has over 10 year’s professional experience in
Petroleum Economics, and has taught several high profile Petroleum Economics courses for
clients in Europe, West Africa, Middle East and Asia. His areas of expertise are in Petroleum
Economics, Fiscal Policies & Regimes, Reserves Reporting Systems, and Business Applications.
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 13-14 November
Time: 8.00am – 5.00pm
Course fee:
• Professional $450 or N67,500
• NAPE / AAPG member $350 or N52,500
• Student (Limited) $200 or N30,000
 Reservoir Characterization from Seismic Data (one day)

With advances in computer power, we can process seismic data that approximate reflectivities at
major rock interfaces. With nearby well control, we can (sometimes) generate 3D volumes that
approximate rock properties (such as porosity) and fluid content, though with limited horizontal
and vertical resolution. In this short course, learn how to estimate rock properties before drilling
wells.

Course Outline
 Introduction
 Rock physics
 Forward modeling
 Manipulating AVA products: rotating axes and other techniques
 Data conditioning: well logs and seismic data
 Inversion: band-limited, full-bandwidth, and the low-frequency mode
 Relating acoustic properties (from inversion) to rock properties
 Integrating seismically-derived rock properties into reservoir models

Target audience: earth scientists and petroleum engineers with a general knowledge of
geology, geophysics or reservoir modeling
Instructor: Bob Kieckhefer, Chevron
Bob Kieckhefer is a geophysical specialist with Chevron Nigeria Limited in Lagos, Nigeria. For
the past decade, much of his work has been estimating reservoir properties from seismic data.
He has also developed and taught three schools for Chevron offices around the world, including
a well-tie school that he and two colleagues developed here in Nigeria in 2004. Bob has also
lived and worked in New Zealand, Norway, Indonesia, Thailand prior to Nigeria. He earned his
Bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and his Doctorate from
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. His oil-
industry career began in 1981 with Gulf Oil in Harmarville, Pennsylvania, USA. In the 19 years
prior to his technical-geophysics specialization, he worked for 4 years with the Gulf and Chevron
research laboratories, then 15 years on exploration projects for Chevron and Caltex in the US,
Indonesia, Brazil, Australia, and Azerbaijan.
Date: Sunday, 14 November
Time: 8.00am – 5.00pm

Course fee:
• Professional $225 or N33,750
• NAPE / AAPG member $175 or N26,250
• Student (Limited) $100 or N15,000
 Introduction to Directional Drilling and Logging Operations (one day)

The drilling environment today calls for many directional challenges. It has become critical to
both control the wellbore position during drilling and to relate the position of existing wellbores
to other wells, fluid contacts, geological targets lease boundaries etc.

Directional drilling and Logging While drilling sensors are the tools utilised to achieve the
requirements for accurate wellbore positioning. This course is designed to give a basic industry
overview for non-technical, or new employees wishing to gain an understanding of the
fundamentals of directional drilling and logging while drilling (LWD) technology and
operations. Directional surveys, data acquisition, LWD sensors and directional drilling methods
and concepts are covered.

Logging While Drilling

• LWD Data Acquisition Process
• Mud Pulse Telemetry
• Negative and Positive Pulser
• Electromagnetic Transmission
• Intelliserve Interface
• Time/Depth Conversion Process
• Directional Surveys
• Typical LWD Sensors and what they measure

Directional Drilling
• Deflection Methods, Tool Alignment and Orientation
• Positive Displacement Motors
• Basic Math Concepts
• Rotary Steerable

Audience: Appropriate for entry-level professionals of all disciplines and non-technical staff.
Instructor: Kehinde Kafidipe, Halliburton
Kenny has ten years of direct field experience in formation evaluation, specializing in directional
drilling. He has worked in West Africa and the Middle East. Kenny currently is supervising
both MLD/LWD onshore and offshore operations and has been responsible for training
personnel in the use of Halliburton formation evaluation tools.

Date: Thursday, 18 November

Time: 8.00am – 5.00pm

Course fee:
• Professional $225 or N33,750
• NAPE / AAPG member $175 or N26,250
• Student (Limited) $100 or N15,000
 Fundamentals of Play Evaluation and Assessment (one day)

The play is the foundation of exploration. It is impossible to understand and evaluate a prospect
unless it is done within the context of the plays that make up its potential. Understanding the
resource potential of a play (number of prospects, prospect success ratio, minimum, average, and
maximum prospect size, minimum economic prospect size) is the foundation for decisions
regarding valuing a play for concession or deciding whether to pursue concessions in an area.
Play evaluation sets the framework for prospecting within that play.



This course uses a mixture of lecture and hands-on exercises to illustrate the fundamental
techniques of indentifying a play, evaluating the factors that will go into determining its value,
and then, assessing that value for use in decision-making.

Course Outline
 Basin, Plays, and Petroleum Systems: What is the difference?
 Integrated Petroleum Systems-based Play to Prospect Exploration: What is it? Why do it?
 Play Identification: Includes Petroleum System Timing
 Play Evaluation: Includes number and size of potential prospects
 Volumes, Play Chance, and Prospect Chance of Success
 Play Fairway Mapping and Risk Mapping: Trap, Reservoir, Charge, and Seal
 Play Resource Assessment: Methodologies
 Opportunity analysis



Target audience: Geoscientist with several years experience who want to have a basic
understanding of Integrated Petroleum Systems-based Play to Prospect Exploration.
Instructor: Tom Levy, Schlumberger
Tom is a geoscientist with 35 years of experience spread between Exploration, Development,
and Production. After retirement from ExxonMobil in 2006, Tom has been working as an
Exploration Advisor with his main focus on Play-to-Prospect Exploration. He has worked most
recently as part of Schlumberger’s Integrated Services for Exploration group on play evaluation
and petroleum systems modeling and evaluation.
Tom has had significant experience working in Nigeria, but has also worked on projects in the
North Sea, GOM, Kazakhstan, Middle East, India, Norway, Mexico, Australia, and Chad. He has
had experience with most of the major basin types in the world. He brings this unique breadth of
experience to the courses he teaches.
Date: Thursday, 18 November
Time: 8.00am – 5.00pm

Course fee:
• Professional $225 or N33,750
• NAPE / AAPG member $175 or N26,250
• Student (Limited) $100 or N15,000


 Advances In Reservoir Fluid Property Characterization (two days)

Course Objectives
 Obtain basic knowledge of reservoir fluid properties
 Understand reservoir fluid sampling techniques and routine PVT experiments
 Appreciate advances in PVT Correlations, Ranking and Selection for Reserves
Estimation and Production facility design

Course Content
 Introduction to PVT Analysis
 Classification & Composition of Reservoir fluids
 Phase behaviour of Reservoir Fluids
 Equations of State
 sampling
 determination of reservoir fluid properties from correlation
 PVT data validation
 reservoir fluid correlations assessment
 PVT correlations development

Audience: petroleum engineers, production engineers, reservoir engineers, production

technologists, process engineers, production chemists, field engineers, supervisors and
inspectorate staff.

Instructor: Sunday S. Ikiensikimama, University of Port Harcourt

 Senior Lecturer in Petroleum/Chemical Engineering specializing in Gas Engineering and
Computer applications
 B. Eng and M.Sc. Chemical Engineering, University of Port Harcourt
 M.Sc, and PhD Petroleum Engineering, University of Port Harcourt
 Expert in reservoir fluid properties
 Spent 3 years in SPDC East as a Research Fellow (2005-2008)
 Published many papers in technical journals
 Registered with different professional bodies (SPE, COREN, NSE, etc.)

Date: Thursday & Friday, 18-19 November

Time: 8.00am – 5.00pm

Course fee:
• Professional $570 or N85,500
• NAPE / AAPG member $470 or N70,000
• Student (Limited) $235 or N48,750
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