WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Exploration and Structural Geologists, Geophysicists, Operation Geologists, Reservoir Engineers, Supervisors and Managers.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The emphasis is on encouraging the development of skills needed to create new plays and prospects from old and new data. These skills include the ability to visualize structures in three dimensions and to critically examine traditional and current concepts in structural interpretation. The theme is "nothing is unique' and the 350-page sourcebook contains examples of different structures from all over the world.

The course is designed for geologists, geophysicists, and others working in areas of complex structure geological structure.

The course has been presented to more than 40 organizations in 36 countries, all of which have contributed their own insights into structural geology. Starting with an introductory video ("Birth of the Rockies"), the course comprises a mixture of informal PowerPoint presentations, separated by workshop exercises, many involving balanced cross-sections, and breaks. Hands-on exercises utilize real and simulated exploration problems. Material is selected to develop a three-dimensional understanding of geologic structures worldwide with a view to creating new structural prospects in domestic and foreign exploration. Case histories illustrate exploration failures and successes, and evolving styles of structural interpretation, thin- and thick-skinned modes of deformation and combinations thereof, pitfalls in seismic and subsurface interpretation are discussed. Hundreds of original diagrams and photographs are provided through PowerPoint presentations. The 350-page sourcebook provided for each participant contains extra material for ongoing reference and study. A separate book of workshop exercises is also provided.

COURSE CONTENT

Day One

Rock materials and geometry of layered and anisotropic sedimentary rocks. Pitfalls created by fault terminology and geometry, thrust tectonics and the role of overpressure in deformation. Fault propagation in time and place. Detachments and duplex structures- the most important reservoirs in fold and thrust belts.

Day Two

Wedge Tectonics and its enhancement of hydrocarbon potential worldwide." The ancient curse of the sledrunner fault" and other problems in interpretation and correlation. Extensional structures in compressional terrains and vice-versa, basement involved structures.

Day Three

Real and spurious unconformities, dating of structural events. Inversion tectonics. Structures associated with strike-slip faults Structures in mud, evaporates and salt and other incompetent rocks.

Day Four

Low-tech Exploration methods. Developing new exploration plays from old seismic and geologic data. Interpretation of subsurface geology from surface geology and cross-sections. Balanced cross-sections, analog models, and their limitations. Gravity-driven structures

Day Five

Geological maps and cross-sections. Common pitfalls in seismic interpretation. Exploration case histories. Human and cultural factors in interpretation. The improbability factor (IF): a valuable tool for re-interpretation of data. Group discussion of participants' own seismic profiles and other material is encouraged, if available.

LOCATION

First day will be held at the Sofitel Hotel, in Cairo. The participants will fly the next day to Hurghada to continue course the course.

COURSE FEES

FIVE DAYS    U.S.$ 1750
Inclusive of refreshment and lunch at the Sofitel Hotel. Air Ticket Cairo/Hurghada/return and accommodation in double room in Hurghada.

INSTRUCTOR PROFILE

Peter Jones is a researcher and consulting geologist specializing in petroleum exploration in areas of complex structures, especially in deformed belts. Based in Calgary, Canada, he has been involved in petroleum and minerals exploration and development since the nineteen-fifties, with two years spent as an assistant professor of geology in Ethiopia. Initially working for BP, BP Alaska, Amerada-Hess, and Dome Petroleum in Calgary, he was a wellsite geologist, field party chief, and senior project geologist leading subsurface and field studies in western and Arctic Canada, Alaska, Ethiopia, and the Canadian shield.

In 1979 he formed International Tectonic Consultants Ltd. to specialize in petroleum exploration in areas of complex structures, primarily associated with thrust and fold belts. This work has taken him to the U. S. A., Russia, China, France, Poland, U. K., Austria, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, India, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, and Venezuela, between working in Calgary on projects in those and other countries, involving compressional, extensional, and Strike-slip structures. Clients have included BP/Amoco, Mobil, Superior, Imperial Oil, Canadian Hunter, Devon, Nexen, Sherritt International, Huffco, and many smaller domestic and foreign oil companies. Jones has a B. Sc. from Nottingham University, U. K. and a D. Sc. from Colorado School of Mines, U. S. A., with geophysics as a minor subject. His publications, more than forty of them, arose from his work in petroleum exploration. The resultant revision of structural interpretations that followed resulted in major new oil discoveries in an unknown number of countries but acknowledged in the USSR, Cuba, and Argentina.

In 1997 he was awarded the Douglas medal of the Canadian Society of Petroleum geologists, for "having contributed enormously to our understanding and evolution of deformed belts in general and the Canadian Rocky Mountain fold and thrust belt in particular". In 1998 he was elected an Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, for contributions to the tectonics of Russia. In 1987 and 2003, Jones lectured at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan and Beijing), Northwest China University (Xian), and Nanjing University.