Who Should Attend
The course is geared toward exploration/development geologists, especially those engaged in basin modelling and/or geochemical applications. Although several new technologies and methods will be presented in this course, no particular knowledge or experience is required to understand them and benefit (i.e., beginners will benefit). However, for those who do have experience, even for seasoned experts in geochemistry, the technology and methods to be presented will add enormously to their problem-solving abilities (i.e., advanced participants will also benefit).
Objectives
The technologies and methods to be presented in this course have been underutilized compared to the wealth of new understanding they can bring forth when applied to petroleum system analysis and modeling. Participants will learn:

new skills for identifying where deep sources occur
methods for determining their provenance from analysis of liquids,
technology for determining co-sourced oil mixtures,
and the latest techniques for constraining the age of an oil source from analysis of an oil sample (age-related biomarkers).
These are techniques that can be applied in both conventional and unconventional exploration and production. In the unconventional realm maturity assessment by quantitative diamondoid analysis has become particularly useful when vitrinite reflectance or programmed pyrolysis fail to produce confident results and/or to determine when fluid migration might have occurred.