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15 February, 2002

TDI-Brooks Heat Flow Short Course

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Course Outline

TDI-Brooks is hosting a Heat Flow Short Course from 9:00 to 5:00 on Tuesday, February 26th in Houston, Texas. The short course will be conducted by Dr. Trevor Lewis. The price per participant will be $750. Participants will receive a notebook of material covered.

An outline of the Short Course is provided below along with a brief resume of Dr. Lewis. Mr. Gary Cole is also tentatively scheduled to give an hour overview on how BHPBilliton has used TDI-Brooks' consortium heat flow data from the Gulf of Mexico to constrain their TemisPack thermal maturity models. The short course will be held in a hotel conference room in the Galleria area of Houston.

This first short course will be limited to 15-20 individuals on a first come basis. If you or individuals in your company are interested in attending, we would welcome an expeditious commitment. For more course information, please contact Dr. James Brooks at 979-696-3634 or email at drjmbrooks@aol.com.

Date: Feb. 26th
Time: 9AM-5PM
Location: Double Tree Hotel Post Oak
2001 Post Oak Blvd. Houston, TX 77056
Phone: (713) 961-9300
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Cost per participant is $750 (USD). To facillitate payment, TDI-Brooks has created an electronic payment account with PayPal. Click the button below to submit payment via PayPal (requires registration for new users). If you are unable to submit payment via PayPal, please contact Mrs. Suzanne Cardwell at 512-863-7254 or email at tdibrooks@aol.com.

ABBREVIATED RESUME OF DR. TREVOR J. LEWIS

The instructor will be Dr. Trevor J. Lewis who holds a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Western Ontario. He is the former Editor and Director of the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association and the Former Secretary of the International Heat Flow Commission of IASPEI. He was employed for 33-years as a Physical and Research Scientist for the Geological Survey of Canada where he held positions as the Head of the Cordilleran Geophysics Section and Acting Director of the Pacific Geoscience Centre (PGC). He has over 70 publications including 40 in refereed journals mostly related to geothermal and heat flow studies.

OUTLINE OF HEAT FLOW WORKSHOP

1. Introduction
-Objective
-Uses of geothermal measurements
-Worldwide heatflow data base
-Heat flow variation with age
-Oceanic lithosphere
-SI units used

2. Reliability of the measurements
-original results from marine probes
-self consistency of repeated measurements
-comparison to measurements in ODP wells
-comparison to downhole temperatures, BHT measurements

3. Theory and techniques
-conductive regime
-standard instrument
-outriggers
-acoustic surveying of the seafloor
-acoustic monitoring
-thermistors
-calibration
-extrapolation of cooling curves
-Bullard plots

4. The thermal conductivity
- Water content, geometric model
- Measurement on cores
- anisotropy
- thermal conductivity of shale

5. Possible complications
-shallow water
-winch and wireline
-hard sediments
-surficial processes
-sedimentation and erosion
-dewatering and water movement

6. Bottom water temperature stability
-ocean temperatures
-examples of modeling BWT changes

7. Gas hydrates
-general description
-Gulf of Mexico
-Cascadia basin

8. Choosing heat flow sites and considerations for modeling

9. Radioactive heat generation