Please indicate in your registration the Short Courses which you want to attend. Please consider that only two Short Courses can be chosen.
On Tuesday, Sep 8 there will be two parallel Short Courses.

Monday, Sep 7:
Establishing Petroleum Systems Using Biomarkers and Chemometrics
Ken Peters
Schlumberger

Who Should Attend - This one-hour course is designed for geoscientists who must interpret large volumes of multivariate geochemical data. It will focus on new chemometric methods to correlate crude oils and source rocks and to de-convolute oil mixtures, but the methods can be used on all types of data.

Ken Peters is Business Development Manager, Integrated Services for Exploration (ISE), Schlumberger. He uses geochemistry and numerical modeling to study petroleum systems and has a Ph.D. in geochemistry from UCLA. Ken spent 15 years with Chevron, 9 years with ExxonMobil, and 6 years with the USGS and taught petroleum geochemistry and basin modeling at Chevron, Mobil, ExxonMobil, Oil & Gas Consultants International, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University. Ken is principal author of The Biomarker Guide (2005, Cambridge U. Press) and Consulting Professor at Stanford University, Chair of the AAPG Research Committee, and Associate Editor for AAPG Bulletin and Organic Geochemistry. Ken was co-organizer for the AAPG Hedberg Research Conference on “Basin and Petroleum System Modeling” in Napa California (May 2009), 2009 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer (Europe), and editor of the 2009 AAPG compact disk “Getting Started in Basin and Petroleum System Modeling”.

Tuesday, Sep 8:
Terrestrial source rocks and oils: concepts and tools for improved assessment and prediction
Richard Sykes
GNS Science, New Zealand

Despite globally being the poor cousins of marine and lacustrine source rocks, terrestrial sources have produced numerous mid-sized to giant oil fields, predominantly in the Cretaceous–Tertiary basins of SE Asia and Australasia. Terrestrial organofacies are more heterogeneous than their aquatic counterparts; the paleoecological controls on their gas:oil ratios are more diverse; and their maturation characteristics are fundamentally different. These differences have not always been fully appreciated and, as a result, methods and guidelines developed in the main for marine and lacustrine source rocks commonly produce misleading or erroneous results for terrestrial systems. On the other hand, a more customised approach to the assessment of terrestrial petroleum systems may lead to new opportunities for oil discoveries in basins that have hitherto been dismissed as too gas-prone. This short course presents customised concepts and tools for improved assessment and prediction of the oil potential of coaly and other terrestrial source rock sequences and for more reliable modelling of the timing, depth and volumes of oil expulsion. Using examples from New Zealand and Indonesian basins, it covers environments of deposition of terrestrial organic matter; identification and prediction of oil-prone coaly organofacies; distinction and assessment of coal rank and maturity; and oil-source rock correlation in terrestrial systems.

Tuesday, Sep 8: (Link to download)
Microbiology for Geochemists
by Bert Engelen (ICBM, University of Oldenburg)

Over the last years, the cutting-line between geochemistry and microbiology became more and more fuzzy. However, as every subject has its own techniques, limitations and languages, it is important to understand the basics of the different disciplines for gaining synergistic effects. In this lecture, general principles of microbiology will be explained with respect to geochemical questions.

Wednesday, Sep 9:
Oil biodegradation: fundamental concepts and possible modelling for petroleum reservoirs
by Francoise Behar (IFP) & Frank Haeseler (IFP)

During this short course, we propose in a first step to review the huge progresses made in the recent years on hydrocarbon biodegradation. In a second step we will show how some key parameters governing the biodegradation are also out-puts from basin modellers and can be used for predicting biodegradation at large scales. At the end it is an integrated biodegradation model at basin scale starting from the compositional oil generation data and leading to exhaustive qualitative and quantitative information on the biodegraded oil that will be proposed.

Thursday, Sep 10:
LC/MS in organic geochemistry: techniques & applications
by Ellen Hopmans (NIOZ) & Julius Lipp (MARUM, University of Bremen)

Over the last 10 - 15 years LC-MS has become increasingly popular among organic geochemists and many groups are adding this technique to their repertoire. The aim of this short course is to introduce the technique and develop an appreciation of the data generated by it. A range of topics will be presented covering a.o. instrumentation, method development, applications, and quality control. These concepts will be illustrated using examples from intact polar lipid, GDGT, and ladderane analysis and recent literature.