petroleum systems modeling workshop
Course Description
This 10 day workshop will cover the essentials of petroleum systems modeling from a practical standpoint, using exercise-driven sessions. Some of the course objectives are:
- Review main petroleum systems terminology
- review basin types and relationships with different petroleum systems
- Understand source rock deposition, and various methods to evaluate source rock potential and richness
- Understand petroleum systems modeling concepts and burial history reconstruction
- Sedimentary compaction and backstripping. Burial history using uplift and erosion
- Understand the relationships and interactions of time-temperature-maturity, with associated uncertainties
- Overview of PetroMod software modeling package - setting up a project, boundary conditions, lithology input for rock property modeling
- Understand the relationship between thermal models, source rock type and hydrocarbon charge
- Concepts of fluid migration, effective drainage area and kitchen, migration through faults
- Concepts of pressure modeling
- Principles of risk and uncertainty - decision trees
Audience
Geologists and Engineers who wish to have a practical understanding of basin and petroleum systems modeling
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Geological concepts, some background in Reservoir Geology and mechanics of fluid flow.
Course Schedule
| 1 | Introduction, definitions, exploration workflow (Exercise : Charge & trap volume) Basins and Petroleum Systems (Exercise: Basin Type) Source Rock Depositional Systems (Exercise: Assess source rocks) Source Rock Quality Assessment (Exercise: Interpret Geochemical Log) |
| 2 | Processes & burial history reconstruction (Exercise: Create burial history) Compaction and Backstripping (Exercise: Inverted basin history) Heat flow and Temperature (Exercise: Derive Tform from BHT) Maturity (Exercise: Maturity calculation) |
| 3 | Introduction to PetroMod software (Exercise: PetroMod 1D, rift basin) Boundary Conditions: water depth, heatflow, SWIT Lithologies (Exercise: PetroMod 1D rift basin continued) Data Gathering Approaches and Issues |
| 4 | Local Basin Example (Exercise: Basin thermal model) Calibrating Thermal Models: Temperature and Maturity Data (Exercise: Thermal model calibration for basin) |
| 5 | Generation of Hydrocarbons (Exercise: Basin Hydrocarbon Charge) Migration Concepts (Exercise: construct effective drainage area) Migration Modeling Approach (Exercise: Risk Charge into trap) |
| 6 | Introduction to 2D Modeling (Exercise: Determine seal failure with PetroMod) Trap Integrity, Column Height, and Seal Quality (Exercise: 2D basin Modeling) |
| 7 | Faults: Migration Path or Seal (Exercise: Clay Smear potential) Demonstration of Migration Modeling along Faults (Exercise: PetroMod 2D with Faults) Introduction to Pressure Modeling (Exercise: Calculate Pressure in a Hydrocarbon Trap) Pressure Modeling in PetroMod, 1D Delta Setting |
| 8 | Introduction to 3D Modeling (Exercise: Build a 3D model in PetroMod) |
| 9 | Principles of Risk and Uncertainty Analysis (Exercise: Uncertainty Analysis of Source Rock Data) Risk Analysis Tools, Charge Models, and Prospect Ranking (Exercise: Risking in PetroMod 1D) Teamwork and Project Screening - with Tests and Exercises |
| 10 | Client-Supplied Projects |
Instructors
Dr. Wiekert Visser, Mr. Thorsten Joppen
Instructors may vary based on location and schedule.
Classes
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