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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: Jürgen Grötsch

    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

    Customer Feedback

    "The best geological course I have ever attended. Great combination of theory and practice." - Geologist at NIS

    "The particular value of the course is that, apart form theoretical basis, it offers a specific philosophy of how to approach geological problems." - Geomodeller at NIS

    “The structure of the course, theoretical basis, examples and exercises complemented each other. The skill of the lecturer should be praised.” - Sedimentologist at NIS


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