Gushor offers full and part day courses regarding heavy oil and oil sands geochemistry and engineering. Furthermore, we can combine parts of courses to tailor a course specifically to your company's interest areas. For customized courses please indicate your interest by selecting the course or course component. If you are interested in pricing or have other questions, please contact Richard Stephens at rstephens@gushor.com or 403.210.7594.
Please check out our upcoming events page for additional course offerings.
THE ORIGIN, PREDICTION AND IMPACT OF FLUID PROPERTY VARIATIONS IN HEAVY OIL AND OIL SAND RESERVOIRS (FULL DAY)
1hr - Methods, Parameters, Oil Charging and Mixing (Steve Larter)
1hr - Introduction to the Biodegradation of Petroleum and the Origin of Heavy Oil (Steve Larter)
1hr - The geochemistry of biodegradation and heavy oil formation - the chemical toolbox (Barry Bennett)
1hr - Prediction of fluid properties, rates of degradation and modeling (Steve Larter)
1hr - Applying the chemical toolbox to solving heavy oilfield problems (Barry Bennett)
1hr - Impact of Oil Viscosity Heterogeneity on the Production Characteristics of Oil Sand and Heavy Oil Reservoirs (Steve Larter)
1hr - Future options and synopsis. Can biodegradation help recover HOOS? (Steve Larter)
THERMAL RECOVERY: TIPS ON GEOTAILORING (FULL DAY)
2hr - Introduction to Heavy Oil: overview of fluid physical properties, heavy oil reservoirs, viscosity variation and viscosity mapping. (Ian Gates, Steve Larter)
2hr - Steam & Steam-Solvent Heavy Oil/Bitumen Processes: CSS, SAGD, CSS + Solvents, Expanding Solvent SAGD. (Ian Gates)
2hr - Heat & Steam Transfer in Reservoirs: Heterogeneities in oil sand reservoirs, conduction of heat in oil sand and caprock, convection transport of steam in oil sand, steam fingers, heat transfer ahead of moving front, energy efficiency of thermal process. (Ian Gates)
2hr - Thermal Recovery Process Design: design considerations, design of CSS steam injection, design of SAGD steam injection, optimization of thermal processes, geotailoring thermal recovery process, geotolerant design. (Ian Gates)
ORIGIN AND OCCURRENCE OF UNCONVENTIONAL NATURAL GAS (FULL DAY)
1hr - Introduction to Unconventional Resources (Steve Larter)
1hr - Sources and Types of Unconventional Gas (Steve Larter, Lloyd Snowdon)
1.5hr - Methods: gas compositions, isotopes, host rock properties, numerical modeling, biomarkers, petrophysical logs. (Steve Larter, Lloyd Snowdon)
1hr - Biogenic Gas Associated With Oil Sands Deposits. (Steve Larter, Haiping Huang)
1.5hr - Shale Gas (Steve Larter)
SHALES AND SHALE GAS (FULL DAY)
0.5hr - Mudstone Deposition and Sedimentology (Steve Larter & Andy Aplin)
0.75hr - Mudstone Diagenesis (Steve Larter & Andy Aplin)
0.75hr - Capillary Pressure (Steve Larter & Andy Aplin)
0.75hr - Geological and Lithological Controls on Threshold Capillary Entry Pressure (Steve Larter & Andy Aplin)
0.75hr - Mudstone Permeability (Steve Larter & Andy Aplin)
0.75hr - Estimation of Pore Pressure in Muds and Mudstones (Steve Larter & Andy Aplin)
0.75hr - ShaleQuant© (Steve Larter & Andy Aplin)
0.75hr - Mechanical Failure (Steve Larter & Andy Aplin)
0.75hr - Indicators of Caprock Leakage (Steve Larter & Andy Aplin)
0.75hr - The Shale Gas Petroleum System: Present Knowledge and Future Challenges (Steve Larter & Andy Aplin)
If there are other topics of interest regarding reservoir geochemistry, petroleum geology and reservoir engineering beyond those covered above, please let us know and we may be able to develop new material to suit your needs.
