Clastic Sedimentation and Sequence Stratigraphy (GEO69)
Description
This course provides a detailed overview of common clastic sedimentary systems and how the reservoir characteristics of the resulting deposits are controlled by the combination of their depositional environment and sequence stratigraphic setting. A good understanding of these key controls on the distribution, size and shape of clastic reservoir and non-reservoir rocks as well as their internal properties, is of fundamental importance to sound reservoir characterisation and consequently to Exploration & Production decision-making. This applies throughout the hydrocarbon resource life-cycle, all the way from exploration, through appraisal, to development and eventually abandonment.
Course Level: Skill
Duration: 5 days
Instructor: Evert van de Graaff
Course Level: Skill
Duration: 5 days
Instructor: Evert van de Graaff
Designed for you, if you are...
- A petroleum geoscientist or petroleum engineer in the initial phase of your E&P career, who needs to be fully conversant with sedimentology and stratigraphy as key tools in the oil & gas industry
How we build your confidence
The course uses a combination of lectures and paper exercises. The exercises are mostly built around correlation problems to highlight the importance of using sound sedimentological and stratigraphic concepts for building fit-for-purpose subsurface models.In addition to the course manual participants will receive a copy of the textbook 'Sedimentology and Stratigraphy'.
The benefits from attending
By the end of the course you will be able to:- Describe the main characteristics of common clastic reservoir types and how these characteristics are controlled by the combination of depositional origin and sequence stratigraphic setting
- Identify the key practical implications of the inferred reservoir characteristics, both for your own discipline and for the E&P project as a whole
- Communicate effectively about these technical issues with the other disciplines involved in the E&P project
- Contribute effectively to managing and mitigating risks to exploration and/or development activities in E&P projects
Topics
- Introduction
- Clastic reservoir systems - an overview
- Fluviatile depositional systems and their reservoir characteristics
- Lacustrine depositional systems and their reservoir characteristics
- Deltaic and coastal depositional systems and their reservoir characteristics
- Deepwater depositional systems and their reservoir characteristics
- Sea-floor topography as a key control on deepwater depositional systems
- Carbonates vs. Clastics: why and how do they differ
- Sea-level change: the fundamentals
- Sequence stratigraphy: the fundamentals
Optional topics for in-house presentation (subject to prior arrangement):
- Lecture module on desert and/or glacial depositional systems
- Workshop module emphasizing a particular type of reservoir, if a suitable data set is provided by client
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