(sequence) stratigraphy and sedimentation: clastics
Course Description
Overview of clastic stratigraphic analysis and sequence stratigraphy. Course focuses on how geological characteristics of a reservoir impact on EP decision making during all phases of a field’s life cycle.
Full set of viewgraph material used & copy of: Coe, A.L., (Ed.), 2003, The sedimentary record of sea-level change, Cambridge University Press, pp 288 (subject to availability!)
Audience
Petroleum geoscientists and petroleum engineers in initial phase of their EP career
Course Schedule
| 1 | Clastic stratigraphy & sedimentation - basis for subsurface modeling: Correlation - key to subsurface modeling (exercise); Fundamentals of clastic reservoir architecture and subsurface fluid flow
Fluvial systems & reservoir characteristics of fluviatile deposits: Processes and main facies; Alluvial fans ; Alluvial valleys ; Braided streams; Meandering streams; Anastomosing rivers; Fluvial distributary channels in deltas; Fluvial architecture and reservoir geometry; Log correlation exercise |
| 2 | Review by participants of learning points of previous day
Deltaic coastal systems & reservoir characteristics of deltaic deposits: Processes and main facies; River-dominated deltas; Wave-dominated deltas; Tide-dominated deltas; Log correlation exercise Non-deltaic coastal systems and continental shelves: Processes and main facies; Shoreline architecture; High-energy shelf systems; Shelf edge and slope; Log correlation exercise Lacustrine systems: Main controls on lake formation; Processes and main facies; Preservation potential of lacustrine deposits; Source rock potential |
| 3 | Review by participants of learning points of previous day
Deepwater clastic systems & reservoir characteristics of turbidite deposits: Processes and main facies; Classical fan models; Feeder channel deposits; Fan deposits; Basin-plain deposits; Effects of sea-floor topography; Log correlation exercise; Deep water reservoirs - the Industry's "last frontier" |
| 4 | Review by participants of learning points of previous day
Stratigraphic Prediction; Historic context, scope and limitations: Walther's Law; Cyclicity; Milankovich; "Ice House" versus "Green House"; Allocyclic versus Autocyclic Seismic Stratigraphy; Basic concepts and techniques; Stratal patterns; Exercise - time/rock synopsis Sequence Stratigraphy: Concepts, terminology and controls; Controls on sea level changes; Exercise - subsidence, sea level & supply; Fluvial, deltaic & turbidite systems in a sequence stratigraphic context; Log correlation exercise - turbidite system; Exercise - prediction of sand distribution in turbidite feeder channels; Sequence anatomy Low-stand systems tracts Transgressive systems tracts High-stand systems tracts: High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy; Sequence architecture: concepts versus outcrop reality Cretaceous Seaway case history Correlation exercise - reservoir architecture; High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy; Scope and limitations of sequence stratigraphy; Exercise - Seismic Facies and Basin Fill Architecture |
| 5 | Review by participants of learning points of previous day
Clastic stratigraphy & sedimentation - impact on field and reservoir development: servoir architecture, subsurface fluid flow and field development implications Concepts Case history examples Workshop part of course Presentations by participants Review of participants' case studies Course assessment; Multiple choice test |
Instructors
Dr. Evert van de Graaff, Dr. Abdel-Moneim El-Araby
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