The Master Géologie des Réservoirs is responding to a need of our 21st century society by forming specialists in Geology. They will be able to constrain, dimension and forecast reservoir architecture and dynamics in the upper crust in order to preserve Earth :

► Findings and feedings in mineral and energy resources ;

► drinkable water resources and management ;

► waste and CO2 sequestration and burial.

The first two periods (year 1) of structured teaching is an intensive treatment of the fundamental skills needed – the “building blocks” of earth sciences, with particular focus towards subsurface sciences (sedimentology, tectonism, hydrology etc...) and intense fieldworks (in the vicinity of Montpellier and in Spain).

The third period (year 2) integrates the material presented earlier by focussing on the application of these skills to Reservoir Geology and petroleum geology. About 75% of courses is supervised by professionals from various fields of industry (Schlumberger, Total, British Gas, Eliis, Techsia etc...).

The last part of the programme (year 2) – a six months internship in industry– is an integral part of the training and forms a large part of the assessment of each student. This internship can be done in any related industry in France, in Europe or in the world. At the end of the period, the student submits a full report of his activities. The student validates its graduation with a public defense of the report in front of a jury composed of teachers, supervisors and professionals.

Main aims

a. forming specialists of reservoirs architecture in the subsurface,

b. forming students to fieldwork and lab work,

c. acquisition of fundamental and applied geology based on the specific Montpellier’s skills in analysing geological bodies,

d. building a network using large interactions with industry,

Skills

a. Acquisition of a wide knowledge of "geo-reservoirs" for minerals, oils, water and other fluids,

b. multidisciplinary analysis of sedimentary basins,

c. special focus on sedimentology and tectonism in the brittle domain,

d. well geophysics, seismic stratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy, 2D-3D seismic interpretation (work done on workstations)

e. building numerical models of reservoirs.