Throughout the whole O&G industry, exploration programs and production plan commonly fail to achieve their anticipated success rates, resulting in higher than anticipated finding costs.

Well-bore failure, reservoir uncertainties, lost circulation, which can cost millions of dollars and hundreds of man hours overnight, are nightmares haunting the O&G operators.  O&G companies are forced to seek for practical and effective basin analysis techniques to facilitate better geological interpretations and predictions, which will translate into higher drilling success rates.

The objective of this 3-day training course is to improve the accuracy of basin evaluation and reservoir assessment and to achieve better control of exploration and production risks.  This specially designed training course will address the top risks confronting O&G operators prior to drilling and production, including trap and seal quality, reservoir stability, as well as hydrocarbon charge and migration.

This intensive course will also present the latest advancement of quantitative basin analysis techniques on tackling the potential production problems, including reservoir description techniques, burial history reconstruction and thermal modelling, log analysis techniques, reservoir modelling and simulation techniques, etc.

Mohammad Reza Kamali Director of Center for Exploration and Production Studies and Research Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Iran

With more than 20 years experience in O&G industry and research, Dr. Kamali is a popular short course instructor with O&G industry on the topics of Petroleum Geology, Reservoir characterization, Reservoir Quality and Organic Geochemistry in petroleum exploration.

Dr. Kamali has been in close technical cooperation with O&G institutes and companies in Australia, Japan and India. He has three registered patents and extensive publications.

Some of Dr. Kamali’s recent milestone:

• Petroleum System study & Basin Modelling in Persian Gulf
• Determination of oil families based on biomarker fingerprints in the Zagros Basin
• Investigation on Petroleum Geochemistry of candidate source rocks and related oil seeps in Central Alborz Basin
• Reservoir characterization of Qum Formation, Alborz Field, Yorte-shah, Central Iran.
• Burial history reconstruction and thermal modelling in Iranian oil and gas fields
• Application of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for estimation of petrophysical parameters in several oil and gas fields
• Application Neuro-Fazzy technique in determining TOC in organic-rich source rocks

Other Achievements

• Received the first rank award for research from the Ministries of Petroleum and Science, Research and technology for the year 2002
• Received the best speaker’s Gold Coin prize at 9th Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Conference, 1998
• Member of Research and Development Council of Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (IOOC)/NIOC

Supaporn Pisutha-Arnond Senior Geologist PTT Exploration and Production Public Co Ltd

Supaporn Pisutha-Arnond is a senior geologist of the Geology Department at PTT Exploration and Production Public Co. Ltd.  She has been working in the petroleum industry more than 15 years.  She had worked for Schlumberger Overseas in Bangkok during 1984 – 1986 as a log analyst. Prior to work with PTTEP she spent 7 years with BP Petroleum Development (Thailand) as a Senior Exploration Assistant where she involved mostly the exploration in Thailand both onshore and offshore. Recently she leads the exploration team in South Asia namely Myanmar, Bangladesh and India.

Dr. B. Kumar Consultant/ Adviser Surface Geochemical Prospecting & Carbon Sequestration

Dr. Baleshwar Kumar, with nearly 40 years’ experience in O&G industry, is presently working as Adviser/Consultant, Carbon Sequestration at NGRI, Hyderabad. He has coordinated projects sponsored by International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria; Department of Science and Technology (DST), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) and Oil Industry Development Board (OIDB) etc. He has led surface geochemical surveys for hydrocarbon research and exploration in frontier onshore and offshore basins of India.

For more information about the event, please contact Joyce at +65 6732 0906 or by email.