Craig Barrie Eric Michael

Geochemistry for Unconventional Play Development and Optimization Course

Eric Michael and Craig Barrie

This professional training course on Geochemistry for Unconventional Play Development and Optimization provides a comprehensive introduction to the application of geochemical workflows across the unconventional resource lifecycle. It emphasizes practical, applied methods to assess resource density, production allocation, and optimization through case studies from North America and beyond. Participants will learn best practices in sample collection, program design, data integration across disciplines, and leveraging legacy data. The course covers fundamental to intermediate topics, including oil in place quantification, time-lapse geochemistry, and evaluation of completions and well integrity. Through detailed lessons, learners gain tools to improve recovery and optimize development strategies in complex unconventional reservoirs.Read more...

Who Should Take This Course
• Engineers focused on production optimization
• Professionals using legacy or newly collected data
• Geoscientists involved in unconventional resource plays
• Petrophysicists seeking geochemical application knowledge

What You Will Learn
• Best practices in geochemical sample collection
• Quantitative and qualitative oil in place estimation
• Production allocation methods in unconventional plays
• Integration of geochemistry with geology and engineering

Why This Course Works
• Optimize well spacing and production allocation
• Enhance completion design and refrac effectiveness
• Improve understanding of resource density and mobility
• Support decline curve analysis and well integrity evaluation

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Course contents

Chapter 1 - Best Practices, Collection & Methods

Chapter 2 - Resource Density Assessment

  • 02-01 - Mobility Definition (5 min.) Quiz
  • 02-02 - Oil in Place (OIP) (23 min.) Quiz
  • 02-03 - Production Fractionation in Tight Reservoir Applications (21 min.) Quiz
  • 02-04 - Organic Facies & Mobility (16 min.) Quiz
  • 02-05 - Integrating Resource Density & Production Allocation (15 min.) Quiz

Chapter 3 - Production Allocation: Quantitative & Qualitative

  • 03-01 - Principles of Allocation (21 min.) Quiz
  • 03-02 - Error Analysis in Allocation Workflows (17 min.) Quiz
  • 03-03 - Defining End Members (17 min.) Quiz
  • 03-04 - Mathematical Approaches to Allocation (19 min.) Quiz
  • 03-05 - Allocation Toolkits: Graphical & Matrix Approaches (11 min.) Quiz
  • 03-06 - Allocation Toolkits: APT Allomon (18 min.) Quiz
  • 03-07 - Qualitative Evaluation Using Similarity Indices (SI) (19 min.) Quiz

Chapter 4 – Production Allocation Case Studies

  • 04-01 - Case Study I - Lithology Considerations (21 min.) Quiz
  • 04-02 - Case Study II - Baseline Proximity & Coverage (22 min.) Quiz
  • 04-03 - Case Study III - Evaluating Conventional, Unconventional Plays (28 min.) Quiz
  • 04-04 - Case Study IV - High Maturity Wolfcamp (26 min.) Quiz
  • 04-05 - Case Study V - Targeting the Barnett/Woodford (28 min.) Quiz

Chapter 5 - Gas Allocations

  • 05-01 - Allocating Gas Samples (26 min.) Quiz

Chapter 6 - Production Monitoring

  • 06-01 - Well Interference Monitoring & Refrac Evaluation (26 min.) Quiz

Chapter 7 - Cross-Discipline Integration

  • 07-01 - Cross-Discipline Integration With Geochemistry (25 min.) Quiz

Chapter 8 - Well Integrity

  • 08-01 - Fugitive Hydrocarbons & Well Integrity Studies (14 min.) Quiz

Chapter 9 - Production Metrics

  • 09-01 - Time Lapse Fluids & Production Metric Assessment (17 min.) Quiz