sequence stratigraphy: principles and applications
Course Description
COURSE CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES: This workshop presents the concepts and practical applications of sequence stratigraphy for petroleum exploration and production. All concepts are illustrated with field examples of seismic, well-log, core, and outcrop data. In-class exercises emphasize the recognition of sequence stratigraphic surfaces and systems tracts on well-log cross-sections, seismic lines, and outcrop profiles. The points of agreement and difference between the various sequence stratigraphic approaches (models) are discussed, and guidelines are provided for a standardized process-based workflow of sequence stratigraphic analysis. This enables the practitioner to eliminate nomenclatural or methodological confusions, and apply sequence stratigraphy effectively for facies predictions in exploration and production.
Audience
Geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers who want to learn the methodology for applying sequence (and seismic) stratigraphy to correlation, facies analysis and the delineation of stratigraphic traps. TEXTBOOK: Catuneanu, O. (2006) Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy. Elsevier, 375 pp.
Prerequisites
Basic Knowledge of Geology & Geophysics
Course Schedule
| 1 | •Each day includes lectures and three to four practical exercises that illustrate the concepts covered in lectures. The following is the general break up of topics that are covered in class. : introduction; historical development of sequence stratigraphy; other types of stratigraphy: chronostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, event stratigraphy; methods of sequence stratigraphic analysis: outcrop, core, well logs and seismic data; workflow of sequence stratigraphic analysis. |
| 2 | •fundamental concepts of sequence stratigraphy: depositional trends; stratal stacking patterns; stratal terminations; accommodation; relative sea-level changes; forced regressions; normal regressions; transgressions. |
| 3 | •sequence stratigraphic surfaces: subaerial unconformity, correlative conformity, basal surface of forced regression, regressive surface of marine erosion; maximum regressive surface, maximum flooding surface, transgressive surface of erosion, flooding surface, drowning unconformity. |
| 4 | • systems tracts: lowstand, transgressive, highstand, falling-stage, low-accommodation and high-accommodation systems tracts; sequence models: depositional sequences, genetic stratigraphic sequences, transgressive-regressive sequences; standardization of sequence stratigraphy. |
| 5 | •applications to depositional systems: fluvial systems, coastal systems, shallow-water clastic systems, deep-water clastic systems, carbonate systems; hierarchy of sequences and sequence boundaries; conclusions.
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Instructor
Prof. Octavian Catuneanu
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