Evaluation of Oil & Gas Properties For Technical Professionals

This comprehensive course is an introduction or refresher for the techniques of evaluating Canadian oil and gas properties, but the techniques used in this course also apply to oil and gas properties elsewhere in the world. There is ample opportunity to work problems in class. By the end of this course, participants will be able to evaluate an oil and gas property and interpret evaluations done by others.

Topics Include:

• How to estimate oil and gas reserves and forecast production
• Forms of ownership and the crown royalty regimes in Western Canada
• How to understand and categorize capital and operating costs
• How to discount future cash flows and interpret profitability
• How to check income tax calculations in evaluations
• Using evaluations for investments, acquisitions and divestments
• Understanding probability in estimating reserves

Why Attend?

The material in the course is very practical, with many tips and insights in evaluating wells, groups of wells, properties and companies.

Who Should Attend

This course is for engineers, geologists, geophysicists, land negotiators, accountants, technologists, and anyone who wants to understand the process and results of evaluating Canadian oil and gas properties.

Course length:

5 days

Primary Instructor:

Cameron Six

Course Outline:

1. Geology & Geophysics in Evaluations
2. Reserve & Resource Definitions
3. Estimating Oil & Gas reserves & Production rates
4. Introduction to Probabilistic Reserve estimation techniques
5. Interests & Royalties
6. Capital & Operating Cost estimation
7. Income taxes in evaluations
8. Time value of Money and WACC
9. Oil & Gas Price forecasts
10. Profitability indices
11. Uses of evaluations

Course length:

5 days

Group Discounts

Group discounts are available to groups of 3 or more people from the same company. Please contact Sproule ERCE for more information ([email protected]).

Cancellation Policy

Any registration cancellation requests must be made on or before September 18, 2025, and will be subject to a $250 processing fee.

We reserve the right to cancel the course if minimum registrations levels are not met. As such, please purchase refundable/transferable airfare if you are flying in for this course. Decisions regarding cancellation will occur several weeks before the start date, and registrants will be notified and refunded if the course does not run.

Course Contacts:

For further information about the course contents and registration information, please contact the course administrator, [email protected] or [email protected].