Field Workshops
We are highly experienced field leaders that have run workshops in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Nova Scotia for over 25 years. Build your team's regional knowledge, see the rocks you are mapping in the subsurface, team building and training. Participants in past field workshops include ENI, TotalEnergies, Shell, Chevron, Mazzarine Energy, Hunt Oil, Kosmos, Occidental, Woodside, Sound Energy, ExxonMobil, CNOOC.
Atlantic Margin Petroleum Systems
A 5 to 7-day field workshop in the Essaouira-Agadir Basin, Agana Basin and High Atlas, Western Morocco. Examining the entire Central Atlantic Margin sequence from Paleozoic basement, Triassic continental rift sequences to Jurassic passive margin carbonates and Early Cretaceous paralic deposits, the feeder systems to potential offshore deepwater reservoirs. Regional tectonics and salt evolution.
Evaluate the tectono-stratigraphic framework, reservoir characterization, source to sink and depositional systems. Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous petroleum systems. Analogue to plays offshore Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia and the Nova Scotia / US conjugate margin
North Africa Palaeozoic Plays
A 5 - 7 day workshop that provides an overview of the geology of Eastern Morocco, which contains most elements of the prolific Palaeozoic and Mesozoic petroleum systems active across North Africa.
The field localities have been chosen as being representative of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic depositional systems in North Africa, to provide you with a broad overview of the main elements of the petroleum systems and the structural evolution of the basins.
This workshop will also highlight the exploration potential of Morocco, which, as we will see, has a number of conventional and unconventional petroleum systems and plays in the region that are still largely untested.
Fundy Basin - Nova Scotia
Examine the Triassic Fundy Basin, Eastern Canada and integrating outcrop and sub-surface data sets derived from coeval Permo-Triassic basins along the North Atlantic passive margin.
The course focuses on the characterisation of continental depositional systems in a rift setting from basin to pore scale and will also develop participants’ petroleum system and play analysis skills by examining the key elements of the Fundy Rift Basin from regional tectonics, reservoir development and characterisation to seal and source rock distribution.
Reservoir characterisation, depositional architecture, tectonics and petroleum systems analysis of continental depositional systems in a rift setting.
Tunisia Petroleum systems
A 6-day field course in Central Tunisia, that examines the onshore geology of Tunisia, focussing on two main tectono-stratigraphic units separated by a major thrust front. These units are (1) the ~2500-3000 m-thick, turbiditic facies of the Numidian Flysch Formation (Fm.) (Oligocene to lower Miocene clastic target), and (2) the Tellian units (i.e., Jurassic to Oligocene marine carbonates and mudstones, including the carbonate targets of the Upper Cretaceous Abiod Fm. and the lower Eocene Bou Dabbous Fm.). A major thrust front is associated with Palaeogene mudstones or Triassic evaporites, which act as major detachment levels at depth.
Includes assessment of reservoir, source and seal potential, plus the regions tectonic evolution. This trip is run in collaboration with Prof Mohamad Soussi of Tunis El Manar University
Gallery
Some photographs from recent field courses
