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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:

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

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