2024 PUBLIC TRAINING CALENDAR

We practice what we teach.

SUBSURFACE CONSULTANTS & ASSOCIATES, LLC
Serving the Upstream Oil & Gas Industry Since 1988
www.scacompanies.com • @scacompanies
 Date Course Name Location Instructor
JANUARY
15-16 Introduction to Subsurface Machine Learning Houston, TX Misra
29 Basics of the Petroleum Industry Houston, TX Howes
FEBRUARY
Reservoir Management of Unconventional Reservoirs: From Inception to
14-15 Houston, TX Kabir
Maturity
How to Maximize the Value of Conventional Oil Reservoir Developments:
19 Houston, TX Prasad
Best Practices
20 Developing Robust Production Forecasts: Do’s and Don’ts Houston, TX Prasad
26-27 Managing Mature Oilfields with Capacitance-Resistance Modeling Houston, TX Lake & Jensen
MARCH
Producing Unconventional with Gas Lift - From Annular to PAGL to
4-6 Houston, TX Chokshi or Takacs
Plunger Lift and In-Between NEW
4-7 Production Forecasting for Low Permeability Reservoirs Live Online Lee
6-8 Reservoir Characterization for Mudrock Reservoirs Houston, TX Sonnenberg

7-8 Araujo, Pastor, &

Geomechanics Aspects of CCS Projects NEW Houston, TX Fernandez-Ibañez

7-8 Cement Evaluation and Repair Workshop Houston, TX Ott & Smolen
18-20 The Practice of Seismic Stratigraphy in Deepwater Settings Houston, TX Prather
18-22 Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping Houston, TX Agah
25-27 Geothermal Energy NEW Houston, TX Dindoruk & Livescu
25-28 PRMS and SEC Reserves and Resources Regulations Live Online Lee
25-29 Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping Dallas, TX Brenneke
APRIL
1-2 Applied Drilling Engineering Optimization for Drilling Engineers Midland, TX Samuel
1-5 Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy Houston, TX Lopez-Gamundi
3-4 Applied Drillstring Mechanics for Drilling Engineers Midland, TX Samuel
5 Principles and Practices of Mud Motor Midland, TX Samuel
8-12 Well Stimulation Workshop: Practical & Applied Live Online Roodhart & Nitters
9-10 “Best Practices” for New Well Fracs and Legacy Well Refracs Houston, TX Barba
11 Geosteering: Best Practices, Pitfalls, & Applied Solutions Houston, TX Woolsey
15-16 In-Well Fiber Optic Sensing Houston, TX Dria
17 Navigating CCUS - Gulf Coast Region - Workshop Houston, TX Pande
The Daniel J. Tearpock Geoscience Certification Program
4/22 - 7/12 Houston, TX SCA Staff
(“Geoscience Boot Camp”)
22 Basics of the Petroleum Industry Houston, TX Howes
22-26 Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping Kuala Lumpur Shoup
Elements of Energy Geology – Basin Analysis & Petroleum, Helium,
23-25 Houston, TX Sonnenberg
Hydrogen, Geothermal, Uranium, Subsurface Energy Storage NEW
26 Basic Petroleum Economics NEW Houston, TX Howes
29 Basic Petroleum Engineering for Non-Engineers Houston, TX Howes
30 Applied Contouring Workshop Houston, TX Agah

LEGEND: Flagship Course Boot Camp Course Live Online Offering Field Course Webinar Recording
4/29 - 5/3 Pore Pressure, Fracture Pressure, and Well-Bore Stability Houston, TX Shaker

MAY
1-3 Practical Interpretation of Open Hole Logs Houston, TX Barba
6-9 Structural Styles in Petroleum Exploration and Production Houston, TX Taylor
6-10 Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping Bakersfield, CA Shoup
10-11 Structural and Sequence Stratigraphic Field Course Hill Country, TX Taylor
13-17 Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping Houston, TX Agah
13-17 Applied Deep-Water Sedimentology & Stratigraphy Houston, TX Rotzien
13-17 The Book Cliffs, UT: A Case Study in Coastal Sequence Stratigraphy Salt Lake City, UT Little

14-17 Economides &

Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage - An Engineering Perspective Live Online Hatzignatiou
Clastic Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization with
20-24 Houston, TX Shoup & Olson
Core Workshop NEW
Modern Depositional Systems as Analogs for Subsurface Characterization
25 Galveston, TX Olson
NEW

27-28 Applied Seismic Interpretation Workshop Houston, TX Willis

29-31 Mapping Seismic Data Workshop Houston, TX Cherry
JUNE
3-6 Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage - A Geological Perspective Live Online Sonnenberg
3-6 Cased Hole and Production Log Evaluation Houston, TX Barba
13-14 Artificial Neural Systems in Petroleum Engineering NEW Houston, TX Shelley
24-26 Seismic Geomorphology NEW Houston, TX Wood
JULY
10-12 Energy Transition for Petroleum Professionals (Part 1) Live Online Meehan
15-17 Energy Transition for Petroleum Professionals (Part 2) Live Online Meehan
15-19 Pressure Transient Well Test Design and Interpretation Houston, TX Economides
15-19 Sequence Stratigraphy Applied to O&G Exploration Houston, TX Lopez-Gamundi
22-25 Production Forecasting for Low Permeability Reservoirs Live Online Lee
7/29 - 8/1 PRMS and SEC Reserves and Resources Regulations Live Online Lee
7/29 - 8/2 Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping Denver, CO Brenneke
AUGUST
Reservoir Management of Unconventional Reservoirs: From Inception to
5-6 Houston, TX Kabir
Maturity
7-8 Introduction to Subsurface Machine Learning Houston, TX Misra
12-13 Applied Drilling Engineering Optimization for Drilling Engineers Houston, TX Samuel
12-14 Geothermal Energy NEW Houston, TX Dindoruk & Livescu
14-15 Applied Drillstring Mechanics for Drilling Engineers Houston, TX Samuel
16 Principles and Practices of Mud Motor Houston, TX Samuel
Seal and Reservoir Pressures Analysis for E&P Prospect’s Risk
19-21 Houston, TX Shaker
Assessment
19-23 Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy Houston, TX Lopez-Gamundi
SEPTEMBER
9 Navigating CCUS - Gulf Coast Region - Workshop NEW Houston, TX Pande
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 9-12 Basic Reservoir Engineering for Non-Petroleum Engineers Houston, TX Economides
10-12 Unconventional Resource Plays - Workshop Houston, TX Sonnenberg
The Daniel J. Tearpock Geoscience Certification Program
9/16 - 12/6 Houston, TX SCA Staff
(“Geoscience Boot Camp”)
16 Basics of the Petroleum Industry Houston, TX Howes
17 Basic Petroleum Economics NEW Houston, TX Howes
Elements of Energy Geology – Basin Analysis & Petroleum, Helium,
18-20 Houston, TX Sonnenberg
Hydrogen, Geothermal, Uranium, Subsurface Energy Storage NEW
23-26 Structural Styles in Petroleum Exploration and Production Houston, TX Taylor
27-28 Structural and Sequence Stratigraphic Field Course Hill Country, TX Taylor
30 Basic Petroleum Engineering for Non-Engineers Houston, TX Howes
9/30 - 10/1 Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage - A Geological Perspective Houston, TX Sonnenberg
9/30 - 10/4 Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping Midland, TX Brenneke
OCTOBER
1 Applied Contouring Workshop Houston, TX Agah
2-4 Practical Interpretation of Open Hole Logs Houston, TX Barba
Data Analytics Workflows for Artificial Lift, Production, and Facility
7 Houston, TX Chokshi
Engineers NEW
7-11 Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping Houston, TX Agah
7-11 The Book Cliffs, UT: A Case Study in Coastal Sequence Stratigraphy Salt Lake City, UT Little
14-18 Applied Deep-Water Sedimentology & Stratigraphy Houston, TX Rotzien
Clastic Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization with
14-18 Houston, TX Shoup & Olson
Core Workshop NEW
Modern Depositional Systems as Analogs for Subsurface Characterization
19 Galveston, TX Olson
NEW

21-22 Applied Seismic Interpretation Workshop Houston, TX Willis

21, 23, 25 Managing Mature Oilfields with Capacitance-Resistance Modeling Live Online Lake & Jensen
21-24 Deepwater Jackfork Field Course (Arkansas - Oklahoma) NEW Little Rock, AR Wood
23-25 Mapping Seismic Data Workshop Houston, TX Cherry
28 Geosteering: Best Practices, Pitfalls, & Applied Solutions Houston, TX Woolsey
30-31 Artificial Neural Systems in Petroleum Engineering NEW Houston, TX Shelley
NOVEMBER
4-5 In-Well Fiber Optic Sensing Houston, TX Dria
6-8 Energy Transition for Petroleum Professionals Houston, TX Meehan

11-13 Economides &

Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage - An Engineering Perspective Houston, TX Hatzignatiou

14-15 “Best Practices” for New Well Fracs and Legacy Well Refracs Houston, TX Barba
18-20 The Practice of Seismic Stratigraphy in Deepwater Settings Houston, TX Prather
20-22 Unconventional Resource Plays - Workshop Houston, TX Sonnenberg
DECEMBER
2-6 Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping Houston, TX Brenneke
9-10 Cement Evaluation and Repair Workshop Houston, TX Ott & Smolen
9-13 Pore Pressure, Fracture Pressure, and Well-Bore Stability Houston, TX Shaker

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 Our Services
TRAINING SERVICES
Our mission at SCA is to provide a quality training experience that brings added success to our upstream oil and
gas industry clients. From its founding in 1988, SCA has provided leading edge, technical training services around
the world to over 27,000 petroleum industry professionals of all experience levels. We offer both in-person and
live online training courses in the following categories:
• Geoscience • Energy Transition
• Engineering • Formation Evaluation
• Unconventional Reservoirs • Multi-Disciplinary & Introductory
• Field Courses
CONSULTING & DIRECT HIRE SERVICES
SCA is a world leader in providing petroleum exploration, development, and production consultancy and direct
hire services. Our experts have conducted consulting assignments in over 50 countries and in virtually every
major producing basin around the world. We can provide consultants or direct-hire support in various areas of
expertise including:
• Geologists • Geotechnicians • Completions Engineers
• Geophysicists • Engineering Technicians • Production Engineers
• Geoscientists • Petroleum Engineers • Drilling Engineers
• Petrophysicists • Reservoir Engineers • Facility Engineers

PROJECTS & STUDIES

SCA provides teams of seasoned professionals to conduct projects and studies at your office, in remote locations
around the world, or in our Houston-based Team Rooms. Examples project types include:
• Integrated, Multi-Disciplinary Studies • Asset/Portfolio Evaluation
(Exploration, Development, Production) • Structural and Stratigraphic Interpretation
• Basin Studies and Mapping
• Exploration and Development Prospect • Post-drilling Evaluation and Assessments
Generation and Evaluation • Structural Analysis
• Acquisition or Divestiture Evaluation • Resources and Reserves Studies

QUALITY ASSURANCE
SCA provides teams of expert consultants with global experience in quality assurance to conduct reviews at the
corporate strategy, play assessment, prospect portfolio, or major capital project sanctioning level. These reviews
can help identify technical flaws or failures of logic (example: prospect appears reasonable but does not fit the
geologic context), reduce uncertainty, mitigate risk, enhance decision quality and instill functional excellence.
SCA experts can provide:
• Industry recognized expertise in specific • Mentoring to reinforce key skills or
disciplines supplement teams on a short term or
• Independent perspectives that may identify periodic basis
internal technical or strategic bias • Training options to upgrade internal skills
• Experience with global analogs/best
practices

OIL & GAS ADVISORY

SCA offers Oil & Gas Advisory Services to E&P companies as well as non-industry clients considering the acquisition
of or investment in producing properties, exploration, or development opportunities. Using available information,
we conduct independent, unbiased 3rd party evaluations for financial institutions, private or public equity investors,
family offices or ultra-high net worth individuals, asset managers, intermediaries and advisors including:
• Confirm technical validity of the opportunity • Identify reserves/resources potential and
• Assess risk factors and identify risk probabilistic distributions
abatement strategies • Determine asset value range and upside
potential
 TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Due to limited seats in each course, it is recommended we cancel a course, enrollees will be notified via email
that participants register at least one month in advance. and given the opportunity to transfer to another course
However, we will accept paid registrations up to the last or receive a refund. NOTE: Should there be a difference
business day before the class, provided there are seats in the tuition, the difference will be paid/refunded on or
available. Registrants will receive a confirmation email before the start of the class. SCA is not responsible for
within 48 hours of registration and will receive complete any penalties charged for canceling or changing your
venue information at least two weeks prior to the first day travel arrangements. Please keep our cancellation policy
of class. The final decision to hold a course is usually in mind when planning your travel.
made about two weeks prior to the course start date.
VISIT OFTEN: Due to the addition of new training courses
As a reminder, your seat in a course throughout the year, please visit our website frequently
is not confirmed until payment is received. for the latest calendar of courses. SCA strives to offer
the best curriculum and schedule possible.
TUITION FEES are due at the time of registration. An
invoice can be provided via email as long as payment
is received before the start of class. Tuition fees are
payable in US dollars and do not include the cost of
accommodation and travel. The fees include the tuition,
course materials, and daily refreshments.

TRANSFERS and SUBSTITUTIONS are accepted if

received at least seven (7) days before a course begins.
In the event that the registrant cannot attend a scheduled
course for which he or she is enrolled, registration can be
transferred to another course or another person can be
substituted. Substitutions may be made without penalty.
In addition, SCA reserves the right to substitute course
instructors as necessary.

CANCELLATIONS and REFUNDS: If it is necessary to

cancel an enrollment, the tuition will be reimbursed in
full provided notification of the cancellation is received
at least 10 days prior to the first day of class. For
cancellations received less than 10 days in advance,
a 150.00 nonrefundable portion of the tuition will be
retained by SCA.

SCA reserves the right to cancel any course session at

any time. The final decision to hold a course is usually Pictured Above: SCA’s instructor Sia Agah assisting a student
made about two weeks prior to the course start date. If during an offering of Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping.

Serving the Upstream Oil & Gas Industry Since 1988

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 Primary Services
Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC provides training, consulting, and direct-
hire recruitment services to professionals in the upstream oil and gas industry. Our
catalog contains courses spanning Geoscience, Engineering, Unconventional
Reservoirs, Energy Transition, Formation Evaluation, Multi-Disciplinary & Introductory,
and Field Courses.

Business Advisory Services

Addresses asset value optimization, organizational efficiency, non-operator influence,
strategy, and transformation. These advisory services can impact company
performance and bottom-line delivery, combine extensive hands-on experience
and direct access to high-quality technical experts, and are led by high-profile oil
and gas executives and managers.

Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

Provision of geoscience and engineering experts to handle all technical aspects of
the CCUS storage project workflow including site selection, injectivity, seal integrity,
capacity, and modeling. We can also provide expertise to audit and certify ongoing
CO2 sequestration projects. SCA offers four training courses that emphasize CCUS.

Subsurface Alliance
A network of subsurface specialists that uses a Team-of-Teams approach to efficiently
solve problems that have a direct business impact in today’s fast-paced and evolving
energy industry. SA offers comprehensive subsurface services to help mitigate risks
at every stage of a project. Through use of advanced geoscience and engineering
tools, they deliver world-class models and superior consulting and training services.

Competency Development
IHRDC is a Boston-based company that accelerates workforce development through
customized solutions to fit client needs. Through our Joint Marketing and Sales
Agreement, SCA and IHRDC offer the oil and gas industry a broad spectrum of high-
quality training content and effective blended learning delivery options.

For more information about our training solutions and delivery options,
contact SCA’s Training Department at [email protected] or (713)789-2444.

Register online at www.scacompanies.com

Headquarters/Training Center: 10700 Richmond Ave., Ste. 325 • Houston, TX 77042