Industry field schools · exclusive
Geology Field School &
Equus Energy Partners, LLC
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) President · 2013–14
Three remodeled clastic field schools — Rock Springs Uplift, Powder River Basin, and Rio Grande Rift — built around today’s money problems, five learning outcomes each, and honest geoscience fractions with teach-to-hit unlocks. Lee instructs; Christopher Oswalt runs field ops and exclusive Geology Field School drone models. Each course card below blends the science with Scout → Pinnacle pricing (default Type Section).
Courses
Three laboratories · science + experience tiers
Lee, this hub is the peer briefing for the three remodeled weeks. Each card below leads with the science (gateway, geoscience fractions, remodel), then embeds the Scout → Pinnacle flip card defaulted to Type Section. Competitor N451 / N463 / N407 day themes are benchmarks only — never Geology Field School product names.
Four experience tiers sit inside each course card below (slider defaults to Type Section). Scout is the low-dollar end: lodging plus a knowledgeable guide on a non-technical geology tour-type trip — you give up Lee’s technical instruction, the print book, three-dimensional models, website, sport-utility vehicles, hosted dinners/breakfasts, and industry geoscience-fraction depth. Entrada is university-level bare bones: basic hotels (possibly shared), fifteen-passenger van, lunches yes — no breakfasts, no dinners, no print materials, no models package.
Type Section is the normal trip we run: print book, three-dimensional models, website, sport-utility vehicles, dinners/lunches/breakfasts/snacks, high-end hotels from major chains. Pinnacle is the high-dollar end: everything in Type Section plus luxury hotel, curated experiences built into the technical trip, an additional instructor, and year-round access to the three-dimensional model library. Scout · Entrada · Pinnacle stickers carry a small WORKING badge, they are conceptual only right now. Lower tier can be locked out altogether. Flip any card for logistics by tier.
Rock Springs Uplift
Siliciclastic sequence stratigraphy on uplift — Almond, Ericson, Rock Springs Formation · Wyoming · /rsu
Gateway: Salt Lake City → Rock Springs
- 60% Geol
- 20%* Eng
- 10%* Completions
- 10%* GeoPhys
Distributary versus incised-valley fill, barrier–lagoon compartments, and accommodation-driven fluvial style — five learning outcomes tied to today’s Wamsutter / Vermillion money problems.
Remodel versus competitor N451 benchmark
- We rebuilt the week around today’s money problems, then locked exactly five learning outcomes — not catalog vibes.
- Every architecture stop now closes with engineering and geophysics teach-to-hit language so continuity claims stay falsifiable.
- The field spine follows Lee’s May 2026 Devon itinerary from Salt Lake City into Rock Springs.
- Public geoscience fractions stay honest: Geology is earned; Engineering, Completions, and Geophysics stay provisional until unlock actions land — and we refuse geothermal, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and saltwater disposal (SWD) padding.
- Exclusive Geology Field School drone and photogrammetry models come with the industry seat.
Unlock notes (provisional fractions)
- Engineering: Every architecture stop: 2–3 min continuity → well placement / drainage / compartment close
- Completions: Almond day: 20 min barrier–lagoon baffles → completion / stage / parent–child risk talk
- Geophysics: Day-5-style subsurface exercise framed as seismic-scale vs facies-belt scale
Full unlock checklists live on each course page.
Powder River Basin
Tight-oil sandstones + Niobrara/Mowry hybrids · landing, completions, stacked benches · Wyoming · /powder
Gateway: Casper, Wyoming (no Newcastle overnight)
- 50% Geol
- 15% Eng
- 10% Completions
- 10%* GeoPhys
- 5%* Geotherm
- 5%* CCS
- 5%* SWD
Stop fracking past geology — Shannon–Sussex enigmas, fringe versus core, Frontier remnants, and Niobrara ≠ Mowry systems for stacked-bench landing and parent–child risk.
Remodel versus competitor N463 benchmark
- We base the week in Casper and run the eastern margin as day trips, so participants are not overnighting in Newcastle.
- Five learning outcomes cover fringe versus core, isolated shelf sands, synsedimentary tectonics, parent–child interference, and Niobrara versus Mowry systems.
- Day 3 carries an explicit drill-and-complete matrix, and Day 5 closes with a shared geo–eng parent–child model.
- Lee is the sole instructor on this Geology Field School card, with exclusive drone models in the package.
- Geophysics, geothermal, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and saltwater disposal (SWD) fractions stay provisional until Lee locks the named evening modules.
Unlock notes (provisional fractions)
- Geophysics: Day 0 or Day 5: 30–45 min limited-data frameworks talk (facies belts at seismic vs outcrop scale)
- Geothermal: Evening or van-drive module 30–45 min: PRB as low-T / localized-anomaly province
- carbon capture and storage (CCS): Evening or Day-2/3 Frontier context module 30–45 min
- saltwater disposal (SWD): Short field talk or evening module 20–30 min: produced-water disposal/reuse ops overlay
Full unlock checklists live on each course page.
Rio Grande Rift
Active rift laboratory — San Luis · Española · Albuquerque · New Mexico / Colorado · /rift
Gateway: Alamosa → Santa Fe
- 50% Geol
- 15% Eng
- 10% Completions
- 15% GeoPhys
- 10%* Geotherm
Axial versus tributary fairways, transfer zones, volcanic seismic false positives, and fault damage seals versus baffles — transferable to global extensional basins.
Remodel versus competitor N407 benchmark
- Ops now open in Alamosa and finish the week from Santa Fe, which is a cleaner participant pattern than the old gateway mix.
- Five learning outcomes include a named volcanic seismic false-positives talk and plan-of-depletion work at fault-scarp trenches.
- Type Section list pricing is economics-backed and sits well below competitor catalogs near about fourteen thousand dollars — those catalogs are benchmarks only.
- The geothermal geoscience fraction stays provisional until Day-0 heat-flow and Day-3/4 systems modules lock on the run-of-show.
- We do not invent stops beyond the San Luis · Española · Albuquerque rift laboratory themes.
Unlock notes (provisional fractions)
- Geothermal: Day 0: 20–30 min SLV / Rio Grande Rift heat-flow brief (Alamosa No. 1 BHT; permeability = risk)
Full unlock checklists live on each course page.
* Dashed geoscience fractions are provisional until Lee locks teach-to-hit modules. Full unlock checklists are on each course page.
Instructor
Lee F. Krystinik
Ph.D. Geology, Princeton University (1981). Past President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG, 2013–14) and SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology); AAPG Distinguished Lecturer (North America and Latin America). Career path: USGS → Reservoirs Inc. → Union Pacific Resources Chief Geologist → ConocoPhillips Global Chief Geologist → Fossil Creek Resources (sold ~2014) → Equus Energy Partners. Geologist by training with extensive experience working with engineering, geophysics, and related disciplines.