Training Courses
Training Courses
Oolithica offers a range of ready made training courses comprising either field or office based seminars. Please click on the links below for more details.
These courses are run either on a single company basis, or as multi-client seminars dependent upon demand.
We are also happy to create bespoke training courses to match our clients requirements.

Arid Coastlines, Abu Dhabi
Field seminar to examine the modern day arid carbonate coastline in Abu Dhabi. Course has previously been run for the AAPG.

North Oman
Field seminar to examine outcrops of Permian to Cretaceous carbonates representing analogues to producing Middle East Fields

Central Oman
Field seminar to examine outcrops of Permian to Cretaceous carbonates representing analogues to producing Middle East Fields

Sardinia
Field seminar to Sardinia examining Upper Jurassic passive margin carbonates as analogues for West Africa Atlantic margin play fairways

Loughor Estuary
Examine modern day depositional environments in a tidal estuary and wave dominated shoreline, to develop analogues for subsurface reservoirs

Cotswold Carbonates
Field seminar to examine facies variation and sequence stratigraphy in Jurassic (Aalenian) oolitic carbonates

Worcester Graben
Learn how to correlate using sequence stratigraphy in an oolitic Jurassic carbonate sequence with limited biostratigraphic markers.

Wessex Basin
Examine the elements of a working petroleum system in Permian to Cretaceous strata, including Purbeck lacustrine microbial carbonates

Western Ireland
Field seminar to examine excellent coastal exposures of seismic scale deltaic and turbidite basin fill sediment architecture.

Zechstein Evaporites
Field seminar to examine depositional facies and sequence stratigraphy of a mixed carbonate and evaporite systems of the Permian Zechstein Basin.

Derbyshire Carbonates
Examine an exhumed Carboniferous carbonate platform margin subjected to hydrothermal mineralisation and porosity enhancement.

Carboniferous S Wales
Field Seminar to examine Carboniferous carbonates in a series of excellent coastal exposures.

Hebridean Basin
Field seminar to examine Mesozoic strata, age equivalent to North Sea Jurassic Hydrocarbon reservoirs

Tremp-Graus Basin
Field Seminar to examine a seismic scale piggy back basin fill succession exposed in the Spanish Pyrenees

Carbonate Petrography
Training course covering carbonate components, microfacies and palaeoenvironment, carbonate diagenesis and petrographic techniques.
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