Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A professional in the oil and gas industry, regardless of your technical background
• A geologist, engineer, or any non-technical professional

How we build your confidence

• Clear and impressive field stops allow a visualisation of the different facies typical of carbonate reservoirs
• Graphic material on site as well as correlation with seismic and well datasets will help you understand the geological control factors typical of reservoir modelling
• Practical exercises on geometries, fractures and heterogeneities of the reservoir will be conducted in quarries where a multiple exposure and variable geometries of cliffs permit a 3D visualisation of critical surfaces

The benefits from attending

• Geological key elements for the characterisation of carbonate reservoirs
• How to analyse and assess the different control factors influencing a fractured reservoir, starting with petrophysical datasets, and exporting them to the large-scale reservoir

Topics

• The first day field trip will be devoted to the Mesozoic carbonates from the Palermo Mountains
• Stop 1.1 will show the Upper Triassic carbonate succession of the Panormide Platform at Cozzo di Lupo (Monte Cuccio area) and illustrate the reef to back-reef lagoon facies relationships and transition
• Practical exercise
• Packed lunch in the field
• Stop 1.2 at the Monte Gallo Quarry (Palermo Mts) will illustrate the interference between shallow carbonates, unconformity, and deep-seated tectonic structures
• Stop 1.3 (optional): Rudist carbonates and build-up in a Cretaceous succession

• From Palermo the excursion will reach about 100 km westward along the Tyrrhenian coast, the San Vito lo Capo Peninsula (Trapani Mts.)
• Stops 2.1 to 2.3 will take place at Mt. Sparagio, close to the amazing San Vito playa, to show the evolution and facies architecture into a Cretaceous carbonate slope
• Comparison between km-scale outcrops, forming the Sparagio Anticline (field analogue) and the quarries inside the mountain
• Stop 2.4 will be focused on the structural pattern and deformation of the Trapanese carbonates
• Practical exercise
• Stop 2.5: Strada dei Marmi (marble road) facies types and cyclic arrangement in a peritidal zone of an Upper Triassic carbonate platform
• Promenade on San Vito Playa, to discuss present day carbonate systems

• The day is dedicated to the complex interplay between stratigraphical and structural features, especially between deep seated and shallow seated deformations in carbonates
• Stop 3.1 near the village of Piana degli Albanesi, will focus on Mesozoic tectonics and facies evolution in the Kumeta drowned carbonate platform. Oil seep and hardgrounds
• Stop 3.2 Panoramic view of the spectacular field analogue of Kumeta ridge, discussion using seismic and well data, analysis, and classification in carbonate reservoir
• Typical Sicilian lunch experience in Kumeta field restaurant
• Stop 3.3 Practical activities (restoration, stratigraphic and tectonic evolution) on the carbonates cropping out in the Piana degli Albanesi Gorge
• Stop 3.4 Neptunian dikes in Maranfusa carbonate platform, vertical and horizontal hydraulic barrier, exercise
• Stop 3.5 (optional) panoramic view of the impressive Rocca Busambra Ridge

• Stop 4.1 Alcamo travertine quarry, the role of continental carbonates
• Stop 4.2 Segesta archaeological site, calcarenites and clastic/evaporitic carbonates, short visit of the Greek temple
• Stop 4.3 will be focused on the Miocene-Quaternary succession of Paceco calcarenites, assemblage of dune and relationship with tectonic event
• Exercise and simulation on fluid flow in a clastic carbonate reservoir
• Stop 4.4 (optional): Succession of Erice site