Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC (SCA)

Course Title: "Data Analytics Workflows for Artificial Lift, Production and Facility Engineers" Instructor: Rajan Chokshi, PhD (https://lnkd.in/gwGFGj5H) Date: May 15, 2025 (Houston, TX) Course Description: Participants of this course will enhance their knowledge base, increase technology awareness, and improve the facility with different data analysis techniques applied on large data sets.?Students will review data analysis, data science techniques, and workflows applied to petroleum production (specifically artificial lift). The focus is on developing data-driven models while staying close to the underlying oil and gas production principles. Registration link: https://lnkd.in/gu8Xbcwn. #dataanalytics #workflow #artificiallift

Course Title: "Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage - An Engineering Perspective" Instructors: Christine Economides, PhD (https://lnkd.in/gnFiCkzT) and Dimitrios Georgios Hatzignatiou, PhD (https://lnkd.in/ggxsVmT4) Date: May 13-16, 2025 (Live Online - Four Half-Day Sessions) Description: Topics covered include: Methane leak avoidance and CO2 emissions capture; CO2 EOR; Blue hydrogen and CO2 transport and storage; Saline aquifer storage with Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV); and Economics. Learning outcomes:? - Estimate CO2 storage capacity, well injectivity, a suitable Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) plan, and storage cost in $/tonne, based on geologic models and (where applicable) reservoir production data. - Explain quantitative evidence for sustainable CO2 storage in terms the public can understand. - Locate information essential to storage asset evaluation from digital publications and online data Registration link: https://lnkd.in/gdez2XEs. #carboncapture #carbonutilization #carbonstorage?

Course Title: “Applied Deep-Water Sedimentology & Stratigraphy" Instructor: Jonathan Rotzien, PhD (https://lnkd.in/gKVxjMe3) Date: May 12-16, 2025 (Houston, TX) Description: This course provides professionals with a modern awareness of the spectrum of deep-water sedimentation, stratigraphy, and depositional environments. Diverse industry datasets are used to illustrate the broad variation of deep-water sedimentation and the implications for petroleum reservoirs and their quality.?Participants will also explore the transport processes and depositional products in a variety of deep-water depositional systems along active and passive margins using outcrop, core, borehole image and seismic data. This course draws from materials presented in field courses to world-class outcrops and petroleum basins in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Register today: https://lnkd.in/gKcwD_Ri. #deepwater #sedimentology #stratigraphy

Course Title: "Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping" Instructor: Robert Shoup (https://lnkd.in/gpHdGCNx) Date: May 5-9, 2025 (Bakersfield, CA) Description: Students of our flagship five-day course will learn the applied, hands-on knowledge required to generate sound subsurface maps. Learning outcomes include understanding the application of different hand contouring and the pitfalls of selected computer contouring methods, learning how to integrate fault data from well logs and seismic data, generating fault surface interpretations and maps, understanding the construction and application of various types of cross sections, and generating net pay isochore maps for both bottom and edge water reservoirs. Participants will receive a copy of "Applied Three-Dimensional Subsurface Geological Mapping with Structural Methods 3rd Edition" textbook. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gX8QRstT. #geology #subsurface #mapping #energyindustry

Course Title: "Practical Interpretation of Open Hole Logs" Instructor: Bob Barba (https://lnkd.in/gBnb5DtP) Dates: April 30 - May 2, 2025 (Houston, TX) Description: Students will learn systematic log interpretation procedures and real world practicalities, determination of the main lithologies and volumes of each, how to calculate porosity, detection of hydrocarbons and quantification, systematic log interpretation procedures and their real world practicalities, and the uses and limitations of the main specialty logging tools. This public course is also part of the Spring offering of our 12-week Geoscience Certification Program. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/g7ynNQ_Y. Registration link: https://lnkd.in/dq8BrEsq. #openholelogs #loginterpretation

Course Title: "Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping" Instructor: Sia Agah (https://lnkd.in/gA4WKani) Date: December 2-6, 2024 (Houston, TX) Description: Students of our flagship five-day course will learn the applied, hands-on knowledge required to generate sound subsurface maps. Learning outcomes include understanding the application of different hand contouring and the pitfalls of selected computer contouring methods, learning how to integrate fault data from well logs and seismic data, generating fault surface interpretations and maps, understanding the construction and application of various types of cross sections, and generating net pay isochore maps for both bottom and edge water reservoirs. Participants will receive a copy of "Applied Three-Dimensional Subsurface Geological Mapping with Structural Methods 3rd Edition" textbook. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gX8QRstT. #geology #subsurface #mapping #energyindustry

Current SCA job opportunities include: - Reservoir Engineer - Accounts Payable Accountant - Geographic Information Systems Analyst Review and apply for these positions here: https://lnkd.in/gwfR9MUS. Be sure to check back in periodically for future openings!

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Program Title: "The Daniel J. Tearpock Geoscience Certification Program ('Geoscience Boot Camp')" Instructors: SCA Staff (https://lnkd.in/g7ynNQ_Y) Date: April 21 - July 11, 2025 (Houston, TX) Description: Students who participate in SCA's intensive 12-week flagship training program will spend the first six weeks learning fundamental interpretation, engineering, and mapping skills through a variety of courses, and then put those skills to the test in a follow-up six-week project using seismic data, well logs, and production information from an actual development prospect. This program is recommended for early career geoscientists and engineers who will benefit from a timely and cost-effective means of learning and applying geology, geophysics and engineering fundamentals. Registration link: https://lnkd.in/g7ynNQ_Y. #training #geoscience #bootcamp #energyindustry

Course Title: "Basic Petroleum Economics" Instructor: C. Susan Howes, PE, PHR (https://lnkd.in/gcUQv_n5) Date: April 25, 2025 (Houston, TX) Description: Participants of this course will learn the fundamental concepts of petroleum economics while reviewing and constructing simple economic models using spreadsheets. Participants will also receive the "Introduction to Petroleum Economics" textbook (2017) and a lab manual with exercises. Learning outcomes include: - Fundamental concepts of cash flow from one entity to another including is it relevant, how big is it and when does it occur. - Cash flow within the phases of the asset life cycle including exploration, appraisal, development, production, and decommissioning. - Concession and contractual fiscal terms, production sharing contacts, royalty or production taxes, and cost recovery. - Net cash flow projections, discounting, net present value (NPV), and return on investment (ROI). - Economic metrics including unit costs, margin, payback, internal rate of return (IRR), present value index (PVI), and corporate hurdle rates. - Building discounted cash flow models. This public course is also part of the Spring offering of our 12-week Geoscience Certification Program. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/g7ynNQ_Y. Register today: https://lnkd.in/gDDUUCYZ #petroleumindustry #economics