Geochemistry as the Most Useful Tools for Evaluating and Developing Conventional and Unconventional Plays
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Course Description:
Instructor Bio:
Dr. Wahid Rahman is currently working as the Director of Geoscience at Impac Exploration Services, Houston Texas. Dr. Rahman has previously worked as Sr Staff Scientist/Program Coordinator at TCEQ, Austin, Texas; as Director of Geoscience at GPR, Inc, Houston, Texas; as Chief Geochemist at Paladin Geological Services, Edmond, OK; as Geological Adviser at Ossidiana Energy, Denver, CO; as Adviser Geochemist-Petroleum Systems Analyst at Pioneer Natural Resources, and Devon Energy Corporation. Wahid has 20+ years of industry, academic, and research experience as Geochemist and he has worked on most of the North American unconventional and conventional basins and many international basins. He has over 50 conference presentations, and peer reviewed journals (with more than 775 citations) in the field of geochemistry, environmental geochemistry, and geology. He received his Ph.D. in Organic Geochemistry from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL; M.S. in Geology from Auburn University, Auburn, AL; M.S. and B.S. in Geology from University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- The Geochemistry course will provide introduction and evolution of conventional and unconventional petroleum systems. The intent is to cover most of the geochemical methods: total organic carbon (TOC), organic facies (kerogen/maceral types), vitrinite reflectance/thermal maturity (Ro) and its equivalent (VRoE) from bitumen, pyrolysis data (Hydrogen index, Tmax,) and produced oil and gas.
- Geochemistry to understand level of organic maturation (LOM), prediction of hydrocarbon phase, API gravity, gas-to-oil ratio (GOR), condensate-to-gas ratio (CGR), production allocation (rock extracts-produced fluids) to identifying drainage volume (DRV).
- Geochemistry data to analyze and understand petroleum systems from molecular scale to basin scale through basin modeling.
- The course will also cover oil to oil, oil-gas, gas-gas, and oil to source rock correlations from source rock (e.g., TOC, SRA, Rock-Eval, Hawk pyrolysis) data to produced hydrocarbon (oil and gas) geochemistry data (GC, GCMS, GC-IRMS).
- There will be examples from different US onshore unconventional resource plays (e.g., Anadarko Basin) and conventional plays from published data.
- Course attendees will be able to learn the fundamentals and application of geochemistry to exploration, development, and production of oil and gas for both conventional and unconventional plays.
Instructor Bio:
Dr. Wahid Rahman is currently working as the Director of Geoscience at Impac Exploration Services, Houston Texas. Dr. Rahman has previously worked as Sr Staff Scientist/Program Coordinator at TCEQ, Austin, Texas; as Director of Geoscience at GPR, Inc, Houston, Texas; as Chief Geochemist at Paladin Geological Services, Edmond, OK; as Geological Adviser at Ossidiana Energy, Denver, CO; as Adviser Geochemist-Petroleum Systems Analyst at Pioneer Natural Resources, and Devon Energy Corporation. Wahid has 20+ years of industry, academic, and research experience as Geochemist and he has worked on most of the North American unconventional and conventional basins and many international basins. He has over 50 conference presentations, and peer reviewed journals (with more than 775 citations) in the field of geochemistry, environmental geochemistry, and geology. He received his Ph.D. in Organic Geochemistry from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL; M.S. in Geology from Auburn University, Auburn, AL; M.S. and B.S. in Geology from University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.