Pressures & Overpressure

in the Subsurface
3 Day Training Course

Date: 16th - 18th November 2015

Location: Tokyo, Japan Contact: mramli@ikonscience.com
Price: JPY 350,000 Telephone: +60 3 2725 3500

Overview
Understanding subsurface pressures and their effects on the hydrocarbon sytem
is a key input for developing successful exploration strategies, efficient well
planning and ensuring the safe and effective exploration and exploitation of
petroleum reservoirs. The principal objective of the course is to raise awareness of
how best to utilise pressure data and predict subsurface pressures in the context
of the regional and local geology. Phillip joined Ikon
Science in 2006 as
The course is designed for geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists and reservoir/ a senior geologist
drilling engineers who have an interest in, or need to ustilise pressure data in their specialising in pore
workflows, and wish to gain a deeper understanding of the relationships between pressure and has been
geology and overpressure. closely involved with
several major pressure
Participants will learn how to analyse pressure data, calulate overburden and projects working in areas
fracture gradients and use industry standard techniques to predict pore pressures such as the North Sea,
in the pre-drill environment. In addition, the course will cover topics such as well Mid Norway, Barents Sea,
planning, hydrodynamics and seal breach risk. Black Sea, Gulf of Mexico,
A familiarity with oilfield practices will be an advantage. The course is presented SE Asia, Eastern Canada
as a combination of Powerpoint based lectures and practical exercises. , Western Canada and
NW Australia as well as
many smaller projects
worldwide.

Day 1 In 2010, in addition

to his role as a senior
- Introduction geologist he took on
- Fundamentals of Pressure the responsibility for
running pressure courses
within Ikon. He has
Day 2 taught pressure courses
all over the world for
- Mechanisms for Generating Overpressure all of the major oil
- Pore Pressure Prediction companies and many
- Reservoir vs. Shale Pressure smaller operators. In
- Secondary MechanismsDay 2014 he was appointed
as Global Training
Manager GeoPressure
Day 3 for Ikon Science. Phillip
is also an instructor for
- The Use of Drilling Data the Geoscience Training
- Well Planning Alliance (GTA) and the
- Seal Breach Risking European Association
- Mapping Overpressure of Geoscientist and
- Hydrodynamics Engineers (EAGE).