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GeoSkill 2010 - EAGE Workshop on the Challenges of Training and Developing E&P Professionals in the 21st Century
- Conference date: 29 Sep 2010 - 01 Oct 2010
- Location: Pau, France
- ISBN: 978-90-73781-90-0
- Published: 16 September 2010
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The Trans-pyrenean Geological Road
By J. GauthierSituated in the valleys of Aspe on the French side of the border, and Upper-Aragon on the Spanish side, and with permanent installations available to the general public on a free-access basis, the primary vocation of the TPGR is geotourism. However, with qualified supervisory staff, it is also a training aid for geoscience professionals and for anyone working in the subsurface domain.
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Geo-flightseeing - How to use Google Earth to Bring Virtual Field Trips to the Regional Scale
Authors G.M. Burridge Ltd and C. TurriniThe start of the 21st Century has been marked by the revolutionary accessibility of information provided by virtual globes. These tools can be used by everyone, from students integrating their work into a synthesised whole or by energy industry teams looking to coherently bring together all their surface-upward data. Such globes can also represent a structural interpretation tool, enabling deductions to be formulated from the surface outcrop imagery. In this paper, we illustrate how Google Earth can provide an aerial geological journey across the Apennine-Alpine chain and its power as a presentational and learning device. During this virtual field trip, we examine features at the regional scale, before selectively zooming in to highlighting areas of interest. What kind of information can be displayed and how can our data-voracious geoscientist integrate it with other geoscience tools? We illustrate how such a technology can be used in formulating a coherent integration of data from above, within and below the surface. This we hope will encourage geoscientists to harness the benefits provided by virtual globes, such as Google Earth, to geological projects and the art of interpretation.
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Hunting for Oil - An Innovative, Interactive Computer-assisted Tutorial Course
Authors B. Michaud and B. MichaudHunting For Oil (HFO©) is a dynamic training tool based on an innovative learning platform that proposes a hands-on, experiential simulation designed to give professionals an overall understanding of the oil & gas industry. The HFO course is modular and flexible, and can be adjusted according to client-specific wishes. It enables DALLAS© software to cover all key processes from prospect exploration to field development. The HFO competition is more than just a fun game: it brings the participants a vision of the petroleum industry from the technical, business and environmental perspectives, so they gain a greater ability to make informed, appropriate decisions, via an effective team building process. The HFO experience provides attendees with a complete view of the upstream Oil&Gas industry's technical fundamentals and related challenges.
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Generic Virtual Training
By JP CrelierTo meet the needs of its customers and insure the deployment of Generic Virtual Training (GVT®), Nexter Systems, main french integrator of land armament, created on January 1st, 2009 Nexter Training, a subsidiary specialized in training exploiting virtual reality. The platform GVT® enables production of training media in 3D. A concept of training built with GVT® is carrier of strong added value: it allows the acquisition of knowledge, know-how and knowledge-being in the strategic field of the technical training. The platform GVT® is marketed in the form of licenses and allows the customer to realize his own 3D training media in an autonomous way. Nexter Training proposes an accompaniment towards a complete solution fit to the needs of its customers : - The preliminary study (educational concept, technical configuration), - The development of scenarios, - The deployment of the solution (which is modular and customizable), - The preservation in operational condition and capitalization.
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ITSA (International Training for Space Applications) implementation
Authors P.L. LATTES and O.A. AmramThe proposed creation of a Toulouse International Training Center dedicated to Space Applications was labelised in October 2009 by the competitiveness cluster Aerospace Valley. This ambitious project, called ITSA - International Training Center for Space Applications - brings together key players in the space Midi-Pyrenees and Aquitaine: institutional bodies, large corporations and SMEs and major academic players.
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Improving mechanical engineering training by using a serious game
Authors C. LELARDEUX, O. Baptista, B. Bacuez, M. GALAUP, S. Torki, F. Viallet, P. Torguet, P. Lagarrigue and P. ChâtellierMecagenius is a serious game for students attending mechanical engineering training. The player will discover, through fun activities, a mechanical engineering workshop, learn how to use a NC machine tool and then will have the opportunity to manage a manufacturing project inside a virtual company. The Mecagenius project is an on-line multiplayer game, based on a distributed architecture integrating collaborative services (chat, share files, webcam, whiteboard...). It targets as well beginners and advanced students in initial training, as professionals in continuing education. World of Mecagenius will be accessible to a very large number of players simultaneously by the Internet and via a simple browser. This innovative project gathers multi-disciplinary skills to ensure the success of the project. CUFR Champollion has partnered with the Clément Ader Institute (the laboratory of research in mechanical engineering), IRIT (the laboratory of research in computer science from Toulouse), "didactic phenomena" team of the UMR EFTS (the laboratory of research in social sciences), and the SME KTM-Advance to put into practice expertise and technological know-how of each participant. MECAGENIUS project: http://mecagenius.univ-jfc.fr
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How Can the Learning Process during which a Student is Shaped into a Young Professional be Optimised?
Authors V. Vedrenne and J.P. RoyWe propose a list of elements that we believe are important to try to bridge the gap between academia and the industrial world, from the recruitment at BSc level to the final industrial placement, including students' selection, technical programme, relationships between students and industrial reality.
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Recruitment Strategy Through a Hands-on Exploration Workshop
By C. HopkinsIn an era when the most attractive careers for young Geoscience graduates would appear to be in the environmental sector, and the hydrocarbon sector might be perceived as the arch enemy, how can we best attract and select quality recruits? As we are all aware, our industry is currently faced with exciting technical challenges, and for many decades has been at the forefront of geoscience and engineering research and innovation. Fossil fuels will continue to play a significant role well into the foreseeable future, as the world confronts new environmental and energy problems, and the technical innovations required to solve these will be driven by the hydrocarbon industry. Attracting the best young graduates is the key to our success. Often the standard interview process may be too short a period to assess potential and to open candidates’ eyes to opportunity. Essentially what is required is a longer period of exposure, time to stimulate and enlighten candidates to the opportunities that our industry offers. One answer to this is Fugro Robertson’s (FRL’s) annual graduate recruitment workshop. Delivered in-house, this 4-week programme is based around FRL’s flagship ‘Exploration and Appraisal Workshop’, which is also delivered to clients globally. The process allows both a thorough assessment of the potential recruit, and the opportunity for graduates to learn first-hand about our industry and to be exposed to exciting career and work opportunities. Returning to the first principles of exploration, participants integrate real-life seismic, well, field and seeps data, with laboratory analysis results and the published literature to first identify, and then risk and rank prospects. Men and women from different backgrounds and with a variety of skills work in multidisciplinary teams, reporting their progress to senior management in weekly presentations. Not only is there ample opportunity to extol the virtues of the industry and company, but the potential recruits are challenged technically, learn teamwork and presentation skills, and, above all, make friends. The work environment accurately reflects the time pressures faced by exploration teams, and FRL takes note of each individual’s responses and behaviours. For FRL, the workshop provides ample time to assess each individual from all aspects. Successful participants are offered employment, unsuccessful participants leave with vital industry-relevant training. For clients, the exercise allows them to assess the potential of their staff, identify skills gaps, arrange their teams to maximise potential, and up-skill to prepare for the crew change. The poster examines the benefits, versatility and success of this training/recruitment model.
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Angolan Geosciences and Total: A fifty years perspective
By CS SEYVESince the beginning of Angolan petroleum Exploration and Development Total has been closely associated with the geosciences education system and professionals.Such a long term investments have proven efficiency.
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Challenging Training of Geoscientist in Brest University, Past, Present and Future
By D GraindorgeThe European Institute of Marine Sciences (IUEM) from The University of Brest (UBO) in collaboration with IFREMER is proposing an original approach of training marine geoscientists based on the competitive Oceanic Domains laboratory and the large experience of at sea and on land data acquisition coming from an historical context and a strong local network of collaboration. The master is based on a major practical formation including field trips (Alps, Brittany), sea data acquisition (seismic, multibeam) and processing dedicated to develop autonomy, responsibility and multi disciplinary competencies of our future geoscientists.
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Generating Educational Projects of Initiative Master Students
By D.A. MednykhThe numbers of master students in geophysics have ideas for making education process better. That ideas are sometimes unusual or defiant for traditional educational system, because of the classical education system was organized for a long time.
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Developing Russian Talent in Petroleum Geoscience – An International Collaboration Between Industry and Academia
By C.F. EldersOil and gas exploration and production forms a significant part of the Russian economy and has been one of the most important factors driving economic growth.
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Integrating Master Degree Level Education into the Recruitment and Training Process- an Experience in Indonesia
By A MitchellTOTAL E&P INDONESIE (TEPI) is Indonesia’s largest oil & gas producing company, producing 36% of the country’s gas. This very large operation involves more than 2000 permanent national staff, around 1200 contracted nationals and also more than 100 expatriates.
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Global Training Challenges
Authors J.P. Roy and V. VedrenneThe upstream petroleum sector is characterized by a high level of technology and a growing demand from producing countries for local content. There is therefore an educational challenge for all the players: NOC, IOC, service companies, training providers and universities. Several models are proposed to meet the challenge.
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How to manage a large e-learning training project with internal know-how expertise
By A. L. FrouteBecause of the "big Crew change" but mainly because geosciences impose for each company to develop its own expertise and know-how, one of the key issues for skill development is knowledge capitalization and sharing thoughout the organization, while experts have less and less time to share their knowledge towards affiliates. Because geoscience manipulates images with high quality and interpretative knowledge, distance learning becomes then a challenge. Key issue is to gather a group of experts, initiate, communicate, motive, accompany, train them in order to produce e-learning module, taking into account the specificity of distance learning and multimedia. The poster will present a process and examples of such projects carried out within Total EP.
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Multidisciplinary Petroleum Design at Colorado School of Mines: Applied Integrated Problem Solving
More LessExploration geoscience hires in the petroleum industry are expected to work closely in teams with other geoscientists, geophysicists, and petroleum engineers. Undergraduate and graduate students at Colorado School of Mines take courses in which faculty and students come from the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, the Department of Geophysics, and the Department of Petroleum Engineering. Student teams consisting of representatives of each department are assembled for studying practical problems and case studies in integrated subsurface exploration and development. Open-ended problems using real-world data are assigned including the development of a prospect in an exploration play and a detailed engineering field study. Detailed reports and presentations are required for the prospect evaluation and engineering field study. This presentation will also report on an integrated geological and engineering field-based course with faculty and students from Colorado School of Mines and the Kazakh National Technical University. Again, students and faculty from both institutions represented geology, geophysics, and petroleum engineering. Field courses were conducted in the Malyi Karatau region of southern Kazakhstan in Summer 2009 and in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado USA in Summer 2010.
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Blended Learning in Exploration Production: an Effective Way to Solve Your Training Needs with Operational Constraints
By J. NegronWith increasing needs for professional training with operational constraints, emerging technologies sustained by high speed web connectivity world wide allows new efficient training methods to become available in Exploration Production domains. IFP Training has opted for Blended learning that offers an effective way of teaching and managing skills.
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