Instructors:  Larry Meckel (Exploration Geologist) and John Kulha (Petrophysicist)

The fee includes refreshments, workbook and PDH certificate.

Class will combine classroom learning with hands on work with core. The first day will be spent discussing the geology of different deposition environments and learning to recognize their log signatures. The last day will be spent looking at examples from the Rocky Mountain basins. This 2-day course at the Denver USGS Core Facility will address some of the basic concepts and tools we use to recognize, map, and evaluate these pervasive tight gas reservoir systems. These resource plays have been around a long time (therefore lots of good data), are still being aggressively developed (downsized), and are the focus of new exploration (one very new play may well become the largest gas field in the U.S.). So even though gas prices are depressed, these plays have not gone away and are still very much on the industry’s radar screen.

The instructors have over 70 years of combined experience in these plays. They will address concepts, useful techniques, and problem areas on the first day via lectures and use the second day to look at a variety of outstanding cores from fields in four Rocky Mountain basins.