SCOPE OF THE COURSE
This two-day course is designed to train the explorationist in efficiently predicting and mapping these pervasive, large opportunities. These plays can occur in both clastics and carbonates, and examples will be provided for both reservoir types. Inasmuch as these resource plays will be a main focus of future gas exploration in North America, it is advantageous to understand the occurrence and characteristics of these unconventional traps.

MAIN TOPICS

Tight gas opportunities occur in a variety of basin types and can occur in different positions within a single basin. We will discuss a wide variety of these tight gas plays, commonly called "resource plays" today. We will also discuss some of the new technology that makes these formerly uneconomic plays attractive today.

COURSE INSTRUCTOR
As a consultant, Larry Meckel has been involved in Tight Gas Exploration since 1975. He has worked these units in more than 20 basins in Canada, the U.S., and currently in Mexico. His experience spans both clastic and carbonate plays. Dr. Meckel has been a part of various teams that have made significant discoveries and he will bring this experience to the course to illustrate how to integrate all the pertinent data (rock, logs, pressures, test recoveries) and resolve conflicting pieces of information. He is also keenly aware that these plays are not always the easiest to sell to management and thus will have some useful suggestions.

Prior to forming his own consulting company, Dr. Meckel was a partner and cofounder of Sneider and Meckel Associates, Inc.. and a geologist with Shell Oil and Development Companies. He studied modern clastic facies and developing depositional models in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Coast, coastal and offshore California, and the Colorado Delta area of Baja California; thus acquiring experience in a variety of climates (semi-tropical to arid) with varying levels of marine energy (micro tidal to macro tidal). He now serves as an adjunct professor at the Colorado School of Mines.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The course will be very useful for any person trying to correlate, map, and interpret clastic reservoirs in the subsurface in order to predict geometries and anticipate hetergeneities. The information presented will be useful for work at various scales: regional mapping, prospect generation, or field development work.

LOCATION
The course will be held at:

The Metropolitan Conference Centre
333 Fourth Ave., S.W.
CALGARY, ALBERTA CANADA T2P 0H9
Telephone: (403) 266-3876
Fax: (403) 233-0009

Class hours are 8:00 am to 5:00 pm with an hour lunch break. Class the first day will begin at 8:30 am with check-in beginning at 8:00 am.

REGISTRATION FEE
The registration fee is $895.00 (U.S.), which includes tuition, breaks, and text materials. It does not include meals or lodging. Enrollment is limited and applications will be accepted in the order received.

You may register electronically or by sending to the address below for a brochure with registration form. The sponsor reserves the right to cancel the course and return registration fees if enrollment is insufficient. Payment and/or purchase order or training order must be mailed in additionally to complete electronic registration.

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Cancellations or transferring of registration fee will be charged a $150.00 fee. No refunds will be made to registrants who fail to cancel 5 working days prior to course delivery. Personnel substitutions may be made at any time without cost penalty.

CREDIT
The Colorado School of Mines will award 1.3 Continuing Education Units (CEU's) upon successful completion of this course. This course is offered in cooperation with the Extended Studies Program of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.

ACCOMMODATIONS, TRAVEL, AND MEALS
Registrants are responsible for their own lodging, food, and travel arrangements. Click here for accommodations information and for travel information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

For technical information contact:
Mr. Larry Meckel
L.D. Meckel & Company
1120 Race Street
Denver, CO 80206
Phone: 303/377-4146
Fax: 303/377-4664
Email: meckel@flash.net or
blmeckel1@mindspring.com

For registration information contact
Office of Special Programs and Continuing Education
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 303/273-3321
Fax: 303/273-3314
E-mail: space@mines.edu