Training

Brian Zaitlin of Zaitlin Geoconsulting Ltd. offers applied training seminars to the petroleum industry and has instructed and/or co-instructed more than 60 formal courses, field trips and/or core workshops for university, industry and geological societies, and has presented numerous guest lectures (e.g., Colorado School of Mines, University of Calgary, University of Saskatchewan, University of Regina, APEGA Geoskills, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, CSPG Distinguished Lecturer).  

Zaitlin Geoconsulting (in association with Petrel Robertson Consulting) offers:

•  “Lunch and learns” or short, focused lectures on specific topics of interest to the client

•  Public training courses and/or a series of in-house Introductory, Intermediate and Exploration 

• Play/Formation level, 1 – 3-day lecture, and core-based workshops (listed below)

• Customized training courses where the content of all courses can be modified to suite the training needs and focus of the individual client

•  Courses can be presented in the client’s offices, virtually or at the AER Core Lab

•  Project-based and/or staff mentoring

• Introduction to Hydrocarbon Systems and the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (1 Day - Lecture)

• Introduction to Clastic Core Logging and Core Analysis (2 Day – Lecture and Core)

• Clastic Facies and Depositional Environments in Core (2 Day - Lecture and Core)

• Sequence Stratigraphy: Examples from the WCSB (2 days - Lecture)

• Geology for non-geologists (2 days - Lecture)

• Depositional Systems – Source to Sink (2 day - Lecture and Core)

• Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of Non-marine, Marginal Marine and Incised Valley Deposits: Example from the WCSB (2 or 3 day - Lecture and Core)

• Stratigraphic Organization of Incised Valley Systems (2 day - Lecture and Core)

• Fluvial Systems (2 day - Lecture and Core)

• Shoreface and Incised Valley Systems (3 day - Lecture and Core)

• Shelf, Slope and Deepwater Systems (2 day - Lecture and Core)

• Resource Plays: Examples from the WCSB (3 day - Lecture and Core)

• WCSB Jurassic-Cretaceous Foreland Basin Play Types - Core and Correlation Workshop (3 day - Lecture and Core)

• Upper Cretaceous Viking, SWS, Cardium and Belly River Formations (3 day - Lecture and Core)

• Lower Cretaceous Glauconitic Formation (2 day - Lecture and Core)

• Lower Cretaceous Basal Quartz/Cadomin, Ostracod Formations and equivalents (3 day - Lecture and Core)

• Triassic – Montney, Halfway and Doig (2 day - Lecture and Core)

• Wabamun – Exshaw – Banff (WEB) Play (2-3 day – Lecture and Core)