GEOSCIENCES APPLIED GRADUATE STUDIES

Language: English Duration: 16 months IFP School’s Master’s degree/Specialized engineering degree (Diplôme d’ingénieur spécialisé)

Want to work in natural resources? Our Petroleum Geosciences program offers cutting-edge training, based on field trips and tackling case studies proposed by companies within the sector. You’ll be immediately operational upon graduation, contributing to the energy transition by applying your Exploration-Production skills to discover and describe

Oil & Gas fields, identify new geothermal projects, and define sustainable strategies for geological CO2 storage. A single training course for a multitude of current and future job prospects: don’t wait, join us today!

The world demand for hydrocarbons is Our course content evolves as innovations occur constantly growing. The Oil & Gas industry in industry. For this purpose, you will have access HIGHLIGHTS is facing key challenges for the next decades: to all the necessary means: case studies based discover new reserves and better understand on data provided by industry, use of industrial • Various field trips: basin, the architecture of existing reservoirs in order software, organization of several field trips in reservoir, seismic to optimize their development. and geophysics. Common courses acquisition will allow you to obtain a core understanding • Customizable academic Meanwhile, associated with the energy transition of the different disciplines in geoscience. path and the concern for a cleaner environment, new Later on you will be able to choose specific fields of application of the Exploration-Production courses to specialize or to broaden your technical • Team work on case studies tools and methods emerge to address the skills. You will conduct work and projects with provided by the industry underground storage of gas and CO2, geothermal students from many different origins and • High tech tools and energy or civil engineering. cultures. This will also prepare yourself advanced workflows for for working in industries that are by nature exploration and production Geoscientists are vital to these challenges. international. of georesources Students are trained in new concepts, new technologies and new tools in geology The Petroleum Geosciences program specializes • Lectures by best and geophysics,at the scale of both basins in two types of geoscience applications in professional specialists and reservoirs. Exploration-Production of georesources: basin • Wide range of international You will be able to implement cutting-edge exploration and reservoir characterization. opportunities technologies: acquisition and processing of seismic and well data, basin evaluation, • Exploration geoscientists implement the and characterization techniques and tools needed to acquire and the methodologies needed to make and interpret data in order to evaluate basins decisions for exploration. and identify new resources. They can also be involved in the geological monitoring of drilling operations or geophysical aspects of data CAREER acquisition. OPPORTUNITIES • Reservoir geoscientists interpret and integrate all available data to characterize the reservoir’s • Oil & Gas companies architecture and properties. They equally (IOC and NOC) evaluate its potential and contribute to future • Oil & Gas service companies developments. • Geothermal energy industry • Energy consulting companies • International institutions • Big data companies Find out more: www.ifp-school.com SCHOOL PETROLEUM GEOSCIENCES APPLIED GRADUATE STUDIES

TYPICAL CLASS PROFILE/ Professionals Apprentices MAIN SPONSORS

Students in this program are almost all sponsored by companies (through sponsorships or apprenticeships) that finance Scholarship their living expenses during the academic recipients period and contribute towards their tuition. Among these companies, the following have Sponsored been IFP School partners in recent years (continuous) (non-exhaustive list): BG Group, BP, BRGM, Cepsa, CGG, Engie, , ExxonMobil, GNPC, Hocol, IFPEN, Lundin, Maurel & Prom, Onhym, Pemex, , PTT, , , Shell, Sonangol, Storengy, Total.

PROGRAM CONTENT PROGRAM SCHEDULE

The two examples of schedules shown below correspond to the most > The program is divided into 3 major themes frequently encountered cases for students in this program: 16-month Topics continuous program for students with a 4- or 5-year degree, and Geology, geophysics & exploration tools alternating school/company Introduction to basin studies 19-month program for students Structural analysis with a 5-year engineering degree. Rock physics & geophysics 16 months Drilling, well site geology, geohazards Continuous program , petrophysics Geostatistics Basics of Seismic interpretation and basin evaluation 19 months Alternating school/company program Seismic interpretation Basin analysis and evaluation Advanced basin analysis and evaluation Seismic methods

Advanced seismic interpretation IFP School Company Reservoir characterization Sequence stratigraphy Advanced seismic interpretation There are other possible cases, Carbonate deposits Advanced geophysics such as: 22-month alternating school/company program for Clastics deposits Reservoir geophysics students in their penultimate year Reservoir characterization and modeling of a major European school or university having signed a double- Advanced reservoir Fractured reservoirs degree agreement with IFP School. characterization and modeling Unconventional hydrocarbons

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