Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A geoscientist, geophysicist, reservoir engineer, petrophysicist, manager or landman

How we build your confidence

• We use a great teaching format (lectures keyed to your notebook)
• Extensive use of case studies spanning the world and geological time
• The notebook contains color images of all slides presented in lectures
• Extensive bibliographies support lectures
  
• Numerous published papers are provided to support many lectures

The benefits from attending

• Describe typical carbonate rocks
• Interpret shallow- and deep-marine carbonate facies and sequences
• Understand the key controls governing carbonate facies occurrence and distribution based on physiographic setting and geological age
• Evaluate reservoir quality in limestones and dolostones
• Understand reservoir complexity related to carbonate diagenesis
• Relate carbonate fabrics to well logs and seismic data
• Evaluate the different approaches to doing carbonate sequence stratigraphy and offer a simple rock-based approach for regional or local (reservoir) correlation and time stratigraphy
• Understand the key factors that control carbonate play type occurrence and distribution throughout Phanerozoic history and to better predict play relationships in the subsurface and their resulting geometries
• Construct a time-stratigraphic facies framework, essential for both accurate regional correlation of carbonate sequences and zonation of carbonate reservoirs

Topics

• Distinctive aspects of carbonates; non-skeletal grains; skeletal grains
• Carbonate classifications and sedimentary structures; limestone diagenesis and porosity evolution
• Dolomitisation and porosity evolution; pore types and porosity classification schemes; attributes of shallow and deep-marine facies; depositional facies models for platforms; depositional facies model for a ramp
• Carbonate sequence stratigraphy relationships and approaches; well log and seismic expression of carbonates; carbonate source rocks; carbonates and evaporites; carbonate play types and review of worldwide case studies tied to stratigraphic age and physiographic setting
• Use of depositional cyclicity to zone carbonate reservoirs (detailed review of two case studies)

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