Description

Designed for you, if you are...

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

How we build your confidence

• We use a great teaching format (lectures keyed to your notebook)
• Extensive use of Phanerozoic case studies
• The notebook contains color images of all slides presented in lectures
• Extensive bibliographies support lectures
• Published papers are provided to support many lectures

The benefits from attending

• Key controls on the occurrence and distribution of both conventional and unconventional plays during the Phanerozoic
• The importance of physiographic setting at both global and local scale, and the importance of orientation with respect to easterly trade winds in tropical and subtropical settings
• The potential for deep-seated wrench or strike slip faults to create favorable diagenesis and porosity evolution of Phanerozoic carbonate sequences

Topics

• Brief review of distinctive aspects of carbonates, as well as grain types and classification schemes for textures and porosity
• Review of carbonate diagenesis in limestones and dolostones, as it relates to the evolution of porosity and permeability in carbonate plays
• Review of carbonate depositional facies types and models of deposition
• Synthesis of stratigraphic relationships in carbonates as it pertains to carbonate plays
• In-depth discussion of typical Phanerozoic conventional and unconventional carbonate plays, using analog case studies to demonstrate the influence of physiographic setting, structural setting, and stratigraphic age