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Dear Colleagues, In case you may have thought you'd missed it, there are still a few places left on this year's Applied Micropalaeontology short course to be held at the University of Bonn, Germany (7-9th April). The course is primarily aimed at anyone who is contemplating taking employment as an industrial biostratigrapher, or who will be conducting research involving industrially derived samples. The course describes the various processes that the different kinds of industrial samples with their biostratigraphic components go through from being cut by the drilling bit to when they appear below the microscope for analysis, highlighting the problems and difficulties dealing with such material. It also covers how data from these analyses are compiled and contribute to the various stages of hydrocarbon exploration programmes including integration with seismic studies, and application in horizontal drilling. Those wishing to attend the course should contact me within the next two weeks. For more details, see below. David Jutson SHORT COURSE: APPLIED MICROPALEONTOLOGY David Jutson, Gitte Laursen, Emma Sheldon and Martin Langer A Short Course to be held at the Department of Paleontology University at Bonn April 7-9, 2005 PROGRAM INFORMATION Applied micropaleontology and biostratigraphy are integral tools in the exploration for oil and gas. Provided that the global population and economy will continue to grow at the current rate, the demand for fossil fuel energy resources will remain at a high level for at least another 60 to 80 years. This provides the economic incentive to sustain and reinvigorate training programs in the university community to meet the future demand of stratigraphic (micro-)paleontologist in the next several decades. The course is designed to give the participants an introduction to, and an understanding of, the methods that have been developed to apply micropaleontology to the requirements of the hydrocarbon industry. A full description of the various stages of drilling a well will be given with discussion of how these processes affects the sample material recovery and quality. The various techniques employed by industrial micropaleontologists from collecting sample material to applying the analytical results will be discussed and demonstrated in practical exercises. It is hoped that the course will give the participants an insight into applied micropaleontological methods that will aid the understanding and application of analytical results when they are dealing with drilled material for academic or industrial purposes and in this respect it should be particularly useful for academic researchers who undertake work for oil companies and students contemplating working in oil exploration and production. The course "Applied Micropaleontology" is intended for geology/paleontology students at advanced, undergraduate or early postgraduate level who have a keen interest, but little experience, in industrial and applied micropaleontology. Additional Information and further program details are available at http://www.Paleontology.uni-bonn.de/mitarbeiter/LANGER/INDEX.HTM Applied Micropaleontology: Course Outline: Academic approaches to micropalaeontology Historical background to applied micropalaeontology Drilling a Well - Drilling Rigs - The cutting system - The mud system - The history of a well from beginning to end - Samples derived from drilling wells and their reliability for micropaleontological analysis. - Effects of cutting techniques on sample quality - Effects of drilling materials on sample quality - Additional sample degradation problems - Adaptation of academic micropalaeontology to industry - Traditional uses of micropalaeontology in hydrocarbon exploration. - Working at Wellsite and in the laboratory: Techniques, problems and examples - Recent, high resolution applications and new approaches to applied micropalaeontology including biosteering and reservoir characterisation by detailed morphological analysis of microfaunas with examples - Unconventional uses of micropalaeontology Practical Work - Checking the characteristics of sample - Processing and analysing ditch cutting samples - Real time wellsite micropalaeontology: analysis simulation Horizontal Drilling - Horizontal drilling from pre-spud to wellsite - Horizontal drilling exercise From exploration to production - from theory to practice Exploration - Seismic stratigraphy (including pitfalls) - Seismic stratigraphy exercise Exploration / Discovery - Bio-Sequence stratigraphy - exercise: well to seismic, identification of surfaces Appraisal - exercise: second well, tie to first well and seismic - exercise: third well, log correlation, compare result with biostratigraphy Graphic correlation as a tool Building a reservoir zonation - exercise: horizontal drilling Carbonate production in present-day oceans - Larger Foraminifera as Carbonate Reservoirs - Recognizing foraminiferal reservoirs - Practical Case Study: Lagoon at Madang, Papua New Guinea - Increasing Biostratigraphic Resolution with Molecular Biology - The future of Industrial Micropaleontology Course Fees: 80 Euro (Students) / 200 Euros (Professionals) Accommodation Housing can be arranged on request by sending an e-mail to: martin.langer@uni-bonn.de Course fees do not cover accommodation, insurance or travel expenses. Closing date for registration: 25 February 2005 Instructors Dr. David Jutson is an industrial micropaleontologist with more than 25 years experience in the oil industry during which he has worked for international oil exploration companies, government geological surveys and biostratigraphic consultants. He currently works for RWE-Dea at their research laboratory at Wietze, Niedersachsen. He has worked extensively at wellsite in the North Sea, onshore Europe and Angola. He retains his links with research and academia and has recently published several papers with subjects ranging from Lower Cretaceous microfaunas and nannofloras from Denmark to Paleocene diatoms from the North Sea to Danian nannofossils from Belgium. Most recently, he has been involved with a multidisciplinary project to define the age and origin of the Silverpit Impact structure from the North Sea. Gitte V. Laursen is an industrial micropaleontologist with 10 years experience in the industry with the Norwegian state oil company Statoil. She is currently involved in, and supervising, the interpretation of biostratigraphic data from contractors (Tertiary foraminifera, palynology and nannofossils). Through the Statoil university programme, she keeps contact with academic research and has recently published a paper on a multidisciplinary approach to the interpretation of paleoenvironments. Emma Sheldon is a biostratigrapher with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), working primarily with calcareous nannofossils and foraminifera. She has undertaken research projects in the Danish, Norwegian and Dutch sectors of the North Sea, onshore East Denmark, and onshore and offshore West Greenland. She has also worked at wellsite as a consultant industrial biostratigrapher for Amerada Hess, RWE-Dea and Mærsk. Currently, she is carrying out research for her doctorate (Danian and Late Cretaceous nannofossils). Host and Instructor: Martin Langer is Professor of Micropaleontology at the University of Bonn. He specializes in the evolutionary paleobiology, biogeography, carbonate productivity, molecular evolution and biodiversity of foraminifera. His interest in foraminifera has sustained over 10 years of research and field work in the South Pacific, the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea and the Indo-Pacific. His current research concerns pathways of distributions in both ecological and evolutionary time-frames and the development of foraminiferal proxies as prognostic tools to assess future changes associated with predicted patterns of climate change. Registration: Participants can register by sending ane-mail to David.Jutson@rwedea.com Additional Information Bonn - The City of Science The city of Bonn looks back on 2000 years of history. Since the 2nd decade B.C. the Romans settled in this part of the Rhineland calling it "Castra Bonnensis". "Its location on the great main road along the Rhine river also meant witnessing turbulent events since the Roman days and many historical events influenced today's townscape including its university. The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University was founded in 1818 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III, who ruled the Rhineland as part of Prussia from 1815. The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn is among the largest universities in Germany. It ranks as third largest university in the State of North-Rhine Westphalia, with around 38,000 students. As part of its decision on 20th June 1991 to move Parliament and parts of the Government from Bonn to Berlin an advisory group headed by the then Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl had agreed upon compensation and to make "Bonn a research region". In the modern city's streets of Bonn, on pleasant old markets, stores, pedestrian malls, parks and in the handsome Südstadt residential area, life is unhurried by the standard of larger cities. You can enjoy a glass of wine in the shadow of an old gate, in front of the baroque facade of the old town hall or at Beethoven's feet. _____________________________________________________________ Dr. David Jutson RWE Dea E & P Labor Wietze, Industrie Str.2, D-29323 WIETZE, DEUTSCHLAND / TYSKLAND / GERMANY. Tel: +49 5146 89285 Fax: +49 5146 89275 email: david.jutson@rwedea.com
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