One for Domestic Audiences, One for International
Instructor Program Expands for Second Season
AAPG’s Distinguished Instructor program, entering its second season, will expand to two instructors – one for domestic groups, and one for international.
The Distinguished Instructor program is intended to complement the Distinguished Lecture series. DI instructors, who serve two-year stints in the program, offer half-day, full-day and/or two-day short courses as opposed to one-hour lectures.
Their itinerary is based on requests received at headquarters in Tulsa.
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AAPG’s Distinguished Instructor program, entering its second season, will expand to two instructors – one for domestic groups, and one for international.
The Distinguished Instructor program is intended to complement the Distinguished Lecture series. DI instructors, who serve two-year stints in the program, offer half-day, full-day and/or two-day short courses as opposed to one-hour lectures.
Their itinerary is based on requests received at headquarters in Tulsa.
This year’s instructors are:
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Vitor Abreu, last year’s inaugural instructor, is back for a second year, offering a course on “Sequence Stratigraphy for Petroleum Exporation.” He is with ExxonMobil Exploration in Houston.
His international itinerary to date includes:
- Nov. 9-10 – Associacao Brasileira de Geologos de Petroleo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Nov. 13-14 – Geological Society of Peru, Lima.
- Nov. 16-17 – Geologi cal Society of Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.
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Kevin M. Bohacs , senior hydrocarbon systems analyst for ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co., Houston, is the domestic instructor.
His topic is “Sequence-Stratigraphic Analysis of Shales: Key to Paleoclimate Archives, Subsurface Fluid Flow and Hydrocarbon Source, Reservoir and Seal.”
His course will be “a hands-on workshop on the expression and correlation of depositional sequences in seismic, well-log, core and outcrop data using Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic examples.”
For information on the Distinguished Instructor program - or to request an instructor - contact Karen J. Dotts.