subsurface integration field trip and workshop - new mexico/texas

Course Description

This field-based workshop is an "integration field trip", where petrophysical, geological, reservoir and production engineering aspects are developed through applied exercises.

The underlying uncertainty and assumptions used in reservoir analysis tools are discussed. The venue is the Guadalupe Mountains, USA. World-class outcrops and subsurface examples of clastic deep-water turbidites and shelf-margin carbonates form the basis for the exercises. Throughout the workshop a subsurface integration process model is used as the basis for problem-solving processes.

Audience

• Team leaders, geoscientists, petrophysicists, reservoir and production engineers.

Prerequisites

• Familiarization with exploration, exploitation or production.

Topics covered

• Pore-Scale - Participants gain exposure to rock-typing techniques. Pore geometry data such as capillary pressure, wettability, and relative permeability are coupled with porosity-permeability and texture
• Well Log Scale - Tool responses and resolution in thin-bedded sands, laminated sands, mixed lithologies, dolomites, and limestones are demonstrated
• Production Scale - Reservoir engineering parameters such as pressure responses, compartmentalization, differential pressure, production and injection profiles are integrated with rock types and flow units
• Mega Scale - Reservoir geometry, sequence stratigraphy, seismic imaging, large-scale compartments, reservoir drive mechanisms and production allocation and regulatory constraints are integrated into numerical models

Course Schedule

1	The deep-water turbidite channel sands of Texas provide background examples to establish skills needed to produce an integrated solution. Teams address the risk and uncertainties of not including all of the key components.
2	Integration is extended to include surface facilities and mature field operations. Each team formulates action plans to reduce uncertainty in quick-look evaluations versus long-term reservoir characterization studies. A tour of Carlsbad Caverns is included.
3	Subsurface integration is expanded to the seismic scale at Last Chance Canyon, where an outcrop offers reservoir-scale, prograding clinoforms. This outcrop is an excellent laboratory to discuss seismic imaging for 3D and 4D datasets, compartmentalization, reservoir geometry and enhanced recovery.
4	At the mouth of Dark Canyon, participants are introduced to the techniques of specialists such as sedimentologists, paleontologists and sequence stratigraphers, to understand the complex clues in determining depositional environments. Thin-bedded Cherry Canyon Sandstones illustrate the fine-scale features that most legacy wellbore characterization tools often do not capture. The Rader Debris Flow is used as an example where interpretations based on a single well data-set can lead to problems in upscaling.
5	Cyclic carbonate depositional features are based on the Lawyer Canyon San Andres outcrop. A half-day exercise helps participants visualize shallowing-upward sequences, identify carbonate lithofacies, and discuss intrinsic properties and how they affect reservoir simulation models.

Instructor

Mr. Gary Gunter

Instructors may vary based on location and schedule.

Classes

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Course Provider:
 NExT