Bad Interpretations = Bad Investments
Pre Convention Course 1 :
“Bad Interpretations = Bad Investments”
Instructor : Robert Shoup - Subsurface Consultants & Associates (SCA)
Dates : 19 May 2026
Venue : Hotel Santika Premier – ICE BSD City
Time : 08:00 – 12:00 (Half day) – Jakarta Time
Cost : IDR 800K+ VAT 11% (IPA Individual Member)
IDR 1000K + VAT 11% (Non-IPA Individual Member)
Includes : Digital course manual, 1x Coffee Break + Lunch.
We encourage Participants to apply as IPA Individual Member to get benefit for registration cost.
SUMMARY
The aim of every company is to make money. Every dry hole, sub-commercial discovery, or poorly developed field negatively impacts a company’s profitability. This ½ day course highlights the principal causes of dry holes and sub-commercial well and developments, and will discuss how to address those causes in order to improve profitability.
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
The course will examine the three most common interpretation mistakes and errors that significantly impact profitability: incorrect well correlations, incorrect structure maps, and geometrically impossible reservoir maps and geomodels. The objective is to learn how to recognize and to correct the bad interpretations that lead to bad investments.
CLASS OUTLINE:
Understanding and closing the capability gap
Causes of dry holes
Well log correlation
Recognizing incorrect structure maps
Recognizing reservoir maps and geomodel errors
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Geoscientists, reservoir engineers, supervisors, managers, investors and anyone involved in exploration and development approvals and decisions, farm-ins, acquisitions, or portfolio management.
WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
To help improve your company’s profitability.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Robert ‘Bob’ Shoup is a Board-Certified Petroleum Geologist with over 40 years of experience in basin analysis, regional studies, new play generation, prospect evaluation, field studies, and project management. Bob began his career at Shell Oil in 1980; followed by four years working for private oil companies before becoming an independent consultant in 2003. Bob teaches various Subsurface Consultants & Associates (SCA) training courses areas around the world and currently serves as SCA’s Chief Geologist. For Asia Pacific. Bon is also the Director of Clastic Reservoir Systems. Throughout his career he has discovered or helped to discover over 185 MMBOE.
Bob is a recognized expert in clastic depositional environments, rift basins, syndepositional structural systems, Map quality assurance and quality control, and conventional resource assessment.
Bob is an active contributor to the professional community. He is a Past President of Bangkok SEAPEX and AAPG’s Division of Professional Affairs and past Secretary-Editor and Chair of the AAPG House of Delegates. He has served on numerous AAPG Committees and was Chairman of AAPG's Mentor, Membership and Student Chapter Committees. He is a recipient of eight AAPG Certificates of Merit; AAPG’s Distinguished Service Award in 2000, and the DPA’s Distinguished Service Award in 2008 and made Life Member of the DPA in 2010.
Bob is also a life member of the IPA, the Geological Society of Malaysia, and the South East Asia Exploration Society
HOW TO REGISTER :
- Please contact to Anna Sulistiyaningsih : anna.sulistiyaningsih@ipa.or.id or WhatsApp : +62-81292961610
- Complete the registration form : https://forms.gle/nxwitGfgv9rqzV3h9
- Registration will be closed on 12 May 2026
