The HGS Continuing Education Committee organizes and presents short courses, seminars, and symposia for HGS members and the local geoscience community. We use the efforts of many talented members of the Houston geoscience community to present high quality, state of the art programs on timely topics.
We pride ourselves in providing informative, up-to-date courses, seminars and programs, which are low cost, and which the participants can use immediately in their work. We are very fortunate to have a large pool of talented and skilled geoscientists in the Houston area, who always give freely of their time and talents for the enrichment of our community. Most of our programs are 1/2 day up to 2 day courses and symposia.
A good example of the type of quality Continuing Education seminars was the March 2024 “Clastic Depositional Systems Course” presented by Dr. Dr. Mike Sweet of University of Texas. This course covered how sediment is routed through clastic depositional systems from source to sink, identifying clastic depositional environments using core, log and seismic data and how the spatial organization of facies in each environment of deposition affects the subsurface flow of fluid.
We welcome ideas for Continuing Education programs, or if you would like to join the Continuing Education Committee, please email office@hgs.org.
Lectures and course for Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
• Practical aspects of conventional core analysis, by Alfonso Quaglia Inter-Rock USA. October
2024, 1-day in-person.
• Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Science, Discovery and Applications. Jon Rotzien 2-day, Fall 2024
• DHI, Henry Pettingill, Fall 2024, in-person,
• Petroleum Geochemistry by Jagos Radovic from UH, Spring 2025,
• Applications of geochemistry in geological carbon storage. Angel Callejon, Spring 2025
• Carbonates, practical application in E&P. Bill Raatz OXY. Spring 2025
•Stochastic Methods for Reservoir Characterization, by Reinaldo J. González. 1-day in person, Spring 2025
• Mature Fields Revitalization, Role of Geoscientist. Sharma Dronamraju, Webinar, Fall 2024-
Spring 2025
•Fundamentals of Basin Modeling in Oil Exploration for AAPG-IBA teams, 5 1-hour webinar sessions in early December 2024