carbonate sequence stratigraphy and application to petroleum reservoirs

Introduction and major controls on the occurrence and nature of carbonate platforms. Depositional environments, facies and facies models for rimmed carbonate platforms and ramps. Exercises on modern carbonate lithologies; the building blocks for limestones and carbonate reservoirs

Field-based study on carbonate grain types and early lithification in subtropical lagoon, beach and reef environments. Lectures on principles of carbonate sequence stratigraphy.

Field study of a Miocene fault-block carbonate platform; stratigraphic geometries, facies associations, depositional sequences, logging exercise, and recognition of potential reservoir facies.

Lectures and paper exercises on application of carbonate sequence stratigraphy, and seismic stratigraphy, to rimmed shelves and to ramps. Tectonic/basinal controls on carbonate platform types; Introduction to Bosence’s new genetic classification and its implications for exploration and production studies

Lectures and exercises on near surface diagenetic environments, processes and products in carbonate rocks and relation to sequence stratigraphy; burial diagenesis; porosity and permeability evolution in carbonate reservoir rocks, reservoir rock types and classification of carbonate reservoirs.