CSM Short Courses

Besides the educational opportunities for CVX employees chosen to be students at CSM, the faculty and staff offer several short courses and field courses for ‘just in time’ training of other CVX employees.  These short courses can be modified to focus on individual SBU problems.  The Center budget does not support these courses however, so costs for the courses would have to be paid by the SBU.  For details of the course content and information on the costs for each individual course, contact Charlie Rourke in the Center in Golden.

Leader	Field Course
Hitzman	Hydrothermal dolomitization – Unconventional petroleum traps
Humphrey	Understanding dolomite and dolostones Reef diagenesis – Timing and porosity evolution Various advanced modern and ancient carbonate field seminars
Kluth	Basic structural geology for petroleum geologists (shortening or extension, classroom and field) Petroleum geology for non-geologists Structural interpretation of seismic data (2D or 3D) Structural geology for development geologists Advanced structural geology of traps in thrust terranes Advanced structural geology of traps in extended terranes Structural geology of growth structures Tectonics and sedimentation in rifted terranes Structural geology in salt-related structures Dipmeter interpretation (SCAT) Structural interpretation tools
Pyles	Field School to the Ross Sandstone, Ireland: Outcrop analog for ponded submarine fans deposited in structurally confined basins Field School to the Cretaceous Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, Wyoming: Outcrop analog for submarine fans and deltas deposited on prograding, graded basin margins Field School to the Capistrano and Scripps-Ardath Formations, California: Outcrop analog for confined slope systems
Trudgill	Structural interpretation of seismic data Salt tectonics and petroleum prospectivity Normal Fault Growth and Linkage: Implications for Petroleum Prospectivity in Rift Provinces Extensional tectonics and normal fault patterns in a salt detached setting Controls on stratigraphic development in an evolving salt basin: The Paradox Basin of SE Utah
Warme	Carbonate Tectonics and Sedimentation, High Atlas Jurassic Rift, Morocco Deepwater confined canyon and unconfined channel sandstone facies, Eocene and Cretaceous examples, La Jolla, California Cratonal carbonate and clastic facies, sequences and reservoirs, Grand Canyon of Arizona via the Colorado River Classic carbonate platform facies, reefs and cycles, Devonian, Nevada