A course delivered by James Hutton Institute specialist staff [1] with contributions by honorary associate Tony Fraser [2].
This course is designed for the oil industry to help understand the nature, properties, behaviour and occurrence of clays in the context of hydrocarbon exploration and production and to demonstrate in a practical way how clay minerals can be identified and characterised using the primary analytical techniques of X-ray powder diffraction [3], infrared spectroscopy [4] and electron microscopy [5]. Many people from other industries have attended the course (for example, from the bentonite industry) and found the content applies to them also.
Since 2011 courses have run successfully annually or biannually.
To find out more or register an interest to attend, please contact us [6].
For more about clays and minerals at the James Hutton Institute, visit www.claysandminerals.com [7].
Links:
[1] http://www.claysandminerals.com/staff
[2] http://www.hutton.ac.uk/staff/tony-fraser
[3] https://www.huttonltd.com/services/x-ray-powder-diffraction-xrpd
[4] https://www.huttonltd.com/services/fourier-transform-infrared-spectroscopy-ftir
[5] https://www.huttonltd.com/services/scanning-electron-microscopy-sem
[6] mailto:%20Helen.Pendlowski@hutton.ac.uk;%20stephen.hillier@hutton.ac.uk
[7] https://www.claysandminerals.com