Evaluating and Developing Heavy Oil Resources - HOED

Program Overview

This comprehensive course delves into the geology, evaluation, and development of heavy oil and in-situ oil sands resources. Through case studies and unbiased analysis, participants will learn the importance of heavy oil/oil sands in the global energy market and gain the skills to evaluate and exploit these resources effectively.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This course is designed for geoscientists or engineers who need to advance their understanding of heavy oil/in-situ oil sands resources. It covers both beginning level concepts and more technically advanced topics, making it suitable for a broad audience, including non-technical, administrative, and business groups.

Objectives:

Participants will learn how to:

• Evaluate and develop heavy oil/oil sands resources
• Understand the importance of heavy oil/oil sands resources in today's world energy market
• Understand the geology, critical attributes, and commerciality of the Canadian heavy oil/oil sands
• Collect the appropriate data and evaluate the critical geologic and reservoir parameters of various types of heavy oil/oil sands resources
• Recognize and evaluate the environmental challenges required to develop and produce heavy oil/oil sands resources
• Understand the process and methodology to evaluate, select, plan, design, and implement a heavy oil/oil sands recovery project
• Become knowledgeable of the worldwide distribution and geologic setting of the more significant heavy oil occurrences including Venezuela

Other:

• The course contains actual producing fields examples to support the presentation.
• The course is also available upon request as a private, on-site seminar.
• The course is available in In-Classroom format.
• The instructor for the course is Gary Massingill.