Unconventional Oil and Gas Evaluation Course

Name: Unconventional Oil and Gas Resource Evaluation Training Course
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Integrate subsurface evidence, well performance, uncertainty, and economics to support tight and shale development decisions.

Unconventional Oil and Gas Evaluation Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Addis Ababa, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Toronto, Montreux, Seoul and more
Next session: 9 – 13 November 2026, Addis Ababa
Average fee: 7,500 €

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Overview

Unconventional Oil and Gas Resource Evaluation Training Course is a one-week course for geoscientists, engineers, asset teams, and technical decision-makers who leave with an Unconventional Resource Evaluation and Development Decision Pack. Participants integrate tight and shale plays, reservoir characterization, production analysis, uncertainty, economics, and development decisions rather than treating each discipline separately. Agile Leaders Training Center presents this course on unconventional oil and gas resource evaluation.

Who Should Attend

Functions responsible for unconventional resource geology and play definition
Teams responsible for petrophysical and geomechanical reservoir characterization
Personnel responsible for reservoir, production, and well performance evaluation
Groups responsible for drilling, completion, and stimulation interfaces
Asset teams responsible for development planning, economics, and technical assurance

The course assumes participants interpret subsurface, well, production, or economic evidence at work; it leaves out software-specific simulation and detailed hydraulic-fracture design.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that evaluate, develop, finance, or advise unconventional resources.

Oil and gas exploration and subsurface functions
Reservoir, production, drilling, and completion departments
Integrated asset and field development teams
Energy investment and technical due-diligence groups
Engineering consultancies and geoscience service organizations
Environmental, operational risk, and technical assurance functions

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze unconventional petroleum systems and play elements
Integrate core, log, petrophysical, and geomechanical evidence
Evaluate well placement, completion, and stimulation context
Diagnose production behavior with transient and decline methods
Compare development scenarios, economics, and uncertainty
Build an evidence-based resource development decision pack

Course Agenda

Day 1: Frame Unconventional Resource Systems

Conventional and Unconventional Resource Comparison Matrix
Tight and Shale Play Elements Map
Source-Rock Maturity and Fluid Window Chart
Pore-System and Storage Mechanism Diagram
Resource Evaluation Data Inventory

Day 2: Characterize Rock and Reservoir Quality

Core and Log Integration Workflow
Total Organic Carbon and Maturity Profile
Petrophysical Cutoff and Saturation Matrix
Geomechanical Brittleness and Stress Map
Reservoir Quality Sweet-Spot Ranking

Day 3: Connect Wells, Stimulation, and Flow

Horizontal Well Placement Decision Sheet
Completion and Stage Architecture Map
Hydraulic-Fracture Context and Containment Diagram
Fracture-Network and Matrix Flow Model
Operational and Environmental Interface Register

Day 4: Evaluate Production and Development

Rate-Transient Analysis Diagnostic Plot
Decline-Curve and Recovery Forecast Set
Well Spacing and Interference Assessment
Development Scenario Economics Model
Resource Uncertainty and Decision Matrix

Day 5: Practice Unconventional Development Decisions

Suggested Exercise: Classify a Tight and Shale Play
Suggested Exercise: Rank Reservoir Sweet Spots
Suggested Exercise: Interpret Production Decline
Suggested Exercise: Compare Development Scenarios
Capstone Exercise: Present an Unconventional Resource Evaluation and Development Decision Pack

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to convert geological, petrophysical, well, production, and economic evidence into development choices.

Suggested activity: classify a play using source, reservoir, maturity, storage, and flow evidence.
Suggested activity: integrate core, log, petrophysical, and stress indicators to rank sweet spots.
Suggested activity: interpret transient and decline evidence while documenting forecast uncertainty.
Suggested activity: compare spacing, completion, recovery, cost, environmental, and operational assumptions across development scenarios.

FAQs

Who suits unconventional oil and gas resource evaluation training, and what does it assume?

Geoscience, reservoir, production, well, asset, and technical decision functions suit the training. It assumes experience interpreting subsurface, well, production, or economic evidence.

How does unconventional oil and gas resource evaluation differ from hydraulic-fracturing design training?

Unconventional resource evaluation integrates geology, petrophysics, geomechanics, wells, production, uncertainty, and economics. Hydraulic-fracturing design training concentrates on stimulation engineering, treatment design, execution, and diagnostics.

How are sweet spots identified in tight and shale plays?

Sweet spots are identified by combining petroleum-system evidence, reservoir quality, organic richness and maturity, saturation, pore structure, geomechanical properties, stress, completion access, and expected flow behavior.

How is production evaluated in unconventional oil and gas reservoirs?

Production is evaluated by checking data quality, recognizing flow regimes, applying rate-transient and decline methods, testing interference, forecasting recovery, and recording the assumptions and uncertainty behind each estimate.

How should unconventional development scenarios be compared?

Development scenarios should be compared through consistent assumptions for well placement, spacing, completion approach, production profile, recovery, cost, schedule, operational constraints, environmental interfaces, uncertainty, and decision criteria.

Conclusion

Participants take an Unconventional Resource Evaluation and Development Decision Pack back to their organization. It connects play definition, reservoir quality, well context, production behavior, economics, and uncertainty. Teams can use the pack to rank evidence, compare development scenarios, document assumptions, and explain technical recommendations.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Addis Ababa	Week 46, 2026 9 – 13 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Frankfurt	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Lisbon	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Toronto	Week 48, 2026 29 November – 3 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€16,000
Montreux	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
Seoul	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
London	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Abu Dhabi	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Tashkent	Week 52, 2026 27 – 31 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
Amman	Week 53, 2027 3 – 7 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Manama	Week 02, 2027 17 – 21 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Singapore	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Abu Dhabi	Week 05, 2027 1 – 5 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Doha	Week 05, 2027 7 – 11 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€7,000
Prague	Week 07, 2027 15 – 19 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€7,500
Bangkok	Week 08, 2027 28 February – 4 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
Vienna	Week 10, 2027 8 – 12 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€7,500
Athens	Week 11, 2027 15 – 19 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€7,500
Kuala Lumpur	Week 13, 2027 29 March – 2 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Madrid	Week 13, 2027 29 March – 2 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewUnconventional Oil and Gas Resource Evaluation Training Course is a one-week course for geoscientists, engineers, asset teams, and technical decision-makers who leave with an Unconventional Resource Evaluation and Development Decision Pack. Participants integrate tight and shale plays, reservoir characterization, production analysis, uncertainty,…

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Unconventional Oil and Gas Evaluation Course