Fwd: FW: IAP course on Oil and Gas Exploration and Production technology

[Will Ward]

Opportunity to discuss environmental perspectives.

Overview of the technologies involved in the upstream oil and gas business and might be of interest to members of the Energy Club, particularly those in the Oil and Gas Community.

Tuesday - Friday, January 17 - 20, 1 - 5 pm, in the Green Building, 54-517.  For the first 2-1/2 sessions we take the students through the technologies of the upstream business - exploration geology and geophysics, drilling, petrophysics, reservoir engineering and production technology.  

To illustrate the business we use real data from a major frontier natural gas discovery and in the last day and a half the students break into teams and put together a notional development plan for the field.  In addition to the technology, we place the field in a fictitious country with a new government, a benevolent dictatorship of sorts, and keep tossing different real life problems into the mix that impact the potential development, including environmental and social issues.

I co-teach the class with another Shell retiree.  We each have 40+ years experience in the business so are able to address many aspects of the business and answer questions you might have.  I was initially a geophysicist and retired from Shell in 2009 as a senior executive.  The other instructor, David Murphy is a petrophysicist and since retiring from Shell, he teaches industry courses through PetroSkills.

For completeness, here is the link to the course listing.

https://eapsweb.mit.edu/classes/iap-classes

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Dear MOG members,

Please see below for an interesting oil and gas IAP course!

Justin

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Dear Oil and Gas community members,

I hope you had a great holiday season!

Please find below the information about one interesting IAP course that will be taught later this month.

Best,

Sergei Shangin

Co-Chair of Oil and Gas Community | MIT Energy Club

2018 MBA Candidate

MIT Sloan School of Management

(617)817-7483

sha...@mit.edu 

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From: Richard A Sears [ras...@stanford.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 3:47 PM
To: Taylor Joseph Higgins; Sergei Shangin; Benjamin Lawrence Magolan; Libby DeLucia
Subject: IAP course on Oil and Gas Explioration and Production technology

Taylor, Sergei, Ben, Libby,

I wanted to make you aware of an IAP course that I will be teaching at MIT later this month.  The course is an overview of the technologies involved in the upstream oil and gas business and might be of interest to members of the Energy Club, particularly those in the Oil and Gas Community.

Below is a description of the course.  I would appreciate it if you could make your club members aware of it.  Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Rich Sears

12.095 Delivering Energy at Scale: Science, Technology, and Sustainable Development

The class is for 4 days.  Tuesday - Friday, January 17 - 20, 1 - 5 pm, in the Green Building, 54-517.  For the first 2-1/2 sessions we take the students through the technologies of the upstream business - exploration geology and geophysics, drilling, petrophysics, reservoir engineering and production technology.  

To illustrate the business we use real data from a major frontier natural gas discovery and in the last day and a half the students break into teams and put together a notional development plan for the field.  In addition to the technology, we place the field in a fictitious country with a new government, a benevolent dictatorship of sorts, and keep tossing different real life problems into the mix that impact the potential development, including environmental and social issues.

I co-teach the class with another Shell retiree.  We each have 40+ years experience in the business so are able to address many aspects of the business and answer questions you might have.  I was initially a geophysicist and retired from Shell in 2009 as a senior executive.  The other instructor, David Murphy is a petrophysicist and since retiring from Shell, he teaches industry courses through PetroSkills.

For completeness, here is the link to the course listing.

https://eapsweb.mit.edu/classes/iap-classes

Richard A Sears

Consulting Professor

Department of Energy Resources Engineering

Stanford University

Green Earth Sciences Building

367 Panama Street, Room 50

Stanford, CA 94305

ras...@stanford.edu

832-814-2986 (cell)