WELCOME TO VAGABOND GEOLOGY WHERE GEOLOGY ROCKS!
Vagabond Ventures Oil Co.
Don Beaumont and his Vagabond adventurers, Sandi Phillips & Rocky Romero, create an imaginary oil company, Vagabond Ventures Oil, and go looking for oil and gas. Will they become black-gold millionaires or dry-hole hobos?
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Course Outline in Detail
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Class 1 - Don gives an OVERVIEW: GEOLOGY OF HYDROCARBONS
(Coal, Oil and Gas: Chemical composition – what is a ‘hydrocarbon’; Geologic formations; Major basins and potential; Requirements for success: source – reservoir – trap - migration timing) (6.6MB)
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Class 2 - Don finishes up GEOLOGY OF HYDROCARBONS and Sandi presents the WORLD OF GEOPHYSICS
(Faulting, contour maps and cross-sections, salt intrusion & deformation, looking for new sources of oil & gas, fossil fuel formation, subsurface imaging, seismic surveying, interpreting the data, land-leasing/offshore blocks) (20.4MB)
(Faulting, contour maps and cross-sections, salt intrusion & deformation, looking for new sources of oil & gas, fossil fuel formation, subsurface imaging, seismic surveying, interpreting the data, land-leasing/offshore blocks) (20.4MB)
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Class 3 - Rocky presents the first two roles of the PETROLEUM ENGINEER: RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION & DRILLING
(Laboratory analysis, paleontology, porosity, permability, reserves, well design, casing, perforating, well location, drilling success rate, drilling rig components, drilling mud, drilling cores, well logging) (6.2MB)
(Laboratory analysis, paleontology, porosity, permability, reserves, well design, casing, perforating, well location, drilling success rate, drilling rig components, drilling mud, drilling cores, well logging) (6.2MB)
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Class 4 - Sandi & Rocky present the TWO "INVESTMENT" OPTIONS: Deepwater, Gulf of Mexico and the Marcellus Shale
(outlined geologic settings, drilling program and projected costs for both options leading to class "investment" selection - Winners become "black gold millionaires"!)
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Class 5 - Sandi & Rocky anticipate a successful drilling effort and PLAN FOR PRODUCTION
("investor" statistics revealed; current "drilling" status as seen on seismic; factors that could affect "drilling"; current fracking bans; what is "production" and how is it cleaned up for sale; what's a PFD; equipment layouts - onshore and offshore; offshore development options; pipelining "our production" to shore; enhanced oil recovery -secondary & tertiary; well stimulation - fracking) (20.3MB)
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Class 6 - Don, Sandi & Rocky wrap-up the class with GEOLOGY IN THE NEWS, DRILLING RESULTS and PROJECT ECONOMICS
(Don reviews current geology in the news issues, Sandi explains geologically why the Marcellus Shale was a dry hole and why the Offshore GOM Baha#2 well was a success; Rocky explains how economics for the two projects and for the alternatives were calculated ) (9.6MB)
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