On Monday 6 August, a group of excited students arrived at DTU for the beginning of the very first DHRTC Summer School. Dedicated lecturers from the oil and gas industry will spend the next two weeks teaching the participants about mature oil fields.
The Danish North Sea consists of a number of mature oil fields. The DHRTC Summer School has been specifically designed to provide participants with a common background on the fundamental concepts of oil production in mature oil fields.
The DHRTC summer school has successfully started. It is the DHRTC partner institutions, AAU, AU, KU, GEUS and DTU, who organize the summer school. Each day new lecturers are presenting their different areas under the overall topic, mature oil fields, giving the participants a high level of interdisciplinary training on the fundamental processes and recent methodological advances that have emerged in the study and development of mature oil fields.
One of the head organizers, senior researcher, Hamid Nick says, “I am very happy to see students joining the summer school from different institutes in Denmark with relevant backgrounds such as geology, petroleum engineering, and mechanical engineering”. He continues, “This is the first summer school we have organized together with DHRTC’s partner institutions and Total’s experts on Mature Oil Fields. We hope students by the end of the two weeks have an in-depth understanding of the mature oil fields, their challenges and technological advances”.
The summer school consists of lectures and exercises as well as field trips. In week one, students are taken on a tour to the scenic Stevns Klint to learn about the aspects of dynamic chalk and bryozoan limestone sedimentation and reservoir properties. In week two, students are going on a tour to the port of Esbjerg, visiting different oil and gas companies, like SemcoMaritime and Total Engineering.
The first DHRTC Summer School is taking place at the Technical University of Denmark in week 32 and continues in week 33 during which it will move to Aalborg University Esbjerg.
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