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    1. NExT
    2. Petrotechnical
    3. Geological Prospecting Tools for Global Exploration

    Geological Prospecting Tools for Global Exploration

    • Foundation
    • 5 Days
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    This hands-on 5-day course utilizes lectures and practical exercises to introduce key concepts of an effective petroleum system with emphasis on  global tectonics and how basins are formed, filled and deformed, and on learning key geologic prospecting tools for exploration. The Atlantic Margin basin is used as an example to discuss the elements of the petroleum system. Clastic rocks are emphasized (especially turbidites) but carbonate rocks and evaporite formation is also reviewed.

    Discussions include introduction of key aspects of source rock, migration, overburden rock, reservoir characteristics including porosity, permeability and architecture,  seal rock characteristics, structural and stratigraphic traps, timing and preservation elements.

    Prospecting Tools covered in this course include petrophysics for exploration geoscientists , bio- and sequence stratigraphic applications, essential log correlation workflow and log annotation methods, data contouring and mapping, applications of multiple working hypotheses, and utilization of direct hydrocarbon indicators to exploration. Students correlate various logs that illustrate faulted sections and straitigraphic variation, and create contour maps and learn to properly present faults in map view.
    Day 1

    Objectives and Overview of Module and Course

    Five Laws of Geology: Uniformitarianism, Superposition, Original Horizontality, Cross Cutting Relationships, and Walther's Law

    Petroleum Systems – components, definitions, and assessment

    Basin Formation

    Plate Tectonics and the Wilson Cycle

    Source Rocks in Conventional and Unconventional Petroleum Systems

    Basin Filling – clastics

    Carbonates and Dolomitization

    Clastic Depositional Models - Fluvial

    Day 2

    Clastic Depositional Models – Delta and Deepwater Turbidite

    Walthers Law

    Faulting as migration pathways and/or seals

    Review of Fault Types

    Hydrocarbon Traps - Good and Bad

    Salt Deformation

    Review of exploration in Salt Basins

    Sutures and Inclusions

    Rubble Zones and Imaging below Salt

    Day 3

    Petrophysics for Exploration

    Rock and Fluid Properties

    Porosity and Permeability

    Pressure and Compaction

    Compartmentalization

    Tool Applications

    Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy

    Accomodation Space

    Stratigraphic Sequences HST, FSST, LST, TST

    Carbonate vs Clastic Sequence Stratigraphy

    Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy

    Day 4

    Log Correlation Purpose and Methods

    Correlations for Structure

    Geological Scenarios for correlation

    What to Correlate? Log Headers

    Facies Correlation and accounting for Faults

    Using Seismic to aid correlation

    Day 5

    Mapping and Contouring – Definitions and Principles

    Creation of various types of contour map

    Multiple working hypotheses

    Contouring with Faults

    Isopach Maps

    DHI Concepts for Exploration

    Seismic interpretation and Anomolies

    Gas Effects and Bright Spots

    Prospecting with DHI's

    4D Seismic and Electromagnetic Data

    This course is designed for exploration geoscientists and managers who need a foundational understanding the petroleum systems and key geologic prospecting techniques.

    Petroleum systems

    Plate tectonics and basin formation

    Depositional models

    Sedimentology and stratigraphy

    Faulting and fault traps

    Salt tectonics and exploration in salt basins

    Petrophysics for exploration

    Correlation - logs and log-seismic

    Mapping and contouring

    DHI concepts

    Knowledge of Basic Petroleum Geology and Petroleum Systems

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