Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• Seeking technical expertise in mapping and interpreting clastic reservoirs and seals in onshore and offshore regions
• Seeking understanding of the range of processes and products involved in deep-water sediment transport and deposition
• Interested in building predictive models for a variety of deep-water clastic environments of deposition (EOD)

How we build your confidence

The benefits from attending

• Characterise turbidites, debrites, transitional, slurry- to hybrid-flow type deposits, contourites and reworked deposits and describe their transport and depositional processes, as well as the roles these deposits play in prospective sedimentary basins
• Map and interpret the different types of deep-water depositional environments (canyon, channel, levee, splay, overbank) and their implications to reservoir architecture and reservoir quality along a variety of passive to active continental margins
• Integrate seismic, outcrop, core and other industry data to inform decisions in exploration, appraisal and development drilling programs
• Use modern and ancient depositional systems to provide analogue value for deep-water drilling campaigns
• Characterise deep-water reservoirs and build relationships with depositional environments using outcrop, core, borehole image logs, FMI and other industry data
• Understand geologic risk and uncertainty methods in the context of exploration, appraisal and development
• Use lithofacies and stratigraphic architecture to understand variations in deep-water reservoir properties pertaining to reservoir presence, reservoir quality and seal presence
• Apply predictive depositional models and first principles to characterise deep-water reservoir properties
• Conceptualise and apply source-to-sink transport, sequence stratigraphy and other methods to marine and deep-water sediment delivery as well as the role that mass-transport deposits play in creating new exploration opportunities
• Understand along-slope processes including contour currents that can modify, rework and potentially improve the reservoir quality of turbidite deposits
• Apply skills in seismic interpretation, reservoir characterisation, core analysis, geophysical log interpretation, sequence stratigraphy, play fairway mapping, geologic risk and uncertainty analysis, gross depositional environment mapping and oil & gas exploration methods

Topics

• The course starts with an overview of how sediment is transported and deposited from shelf to bathyal depths and focuses on the broad range of sedimentary processes and depositional environments in a variety of passive and active margin settings from around the world
• Individual exercises involving core and outcrop samples allow participants to describe samples and interpret their mechanism of deposition and their range of possible depositional environments and reservoir properties
• Next, a deeper dive into depositional environments illustrates the types of reservoir facies, as well as depositional and stratigraphic architecture, likely to be found along the axis and periphery of deep-water depositional systems from submarine canyon head to basin plain
• Exercises involving core, outcrop and seismic examples highlight the range of deep-water depositional environments and their effect on reservoir architecture and development
• The skills of core description and integration, reservoir characterisation and sequence stratigraphy are emphasised
• Core-log-seismic exercises will show modern techniques on how to predict vertical and lateral variations in reservoir architecture in deep-water depositional systems from regions including Western Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America and the Atlantic margins
• The course will conclude with a summary discussion of the realistic expectations in clastic petroleum reservoirs, as well as new field- and lab-based research that is changing these paradigms. In this section, we will apply critical thinking skills involving modern case studies to interpret geologic outcomes in exploration and development scenarios. Modern advancements in the prediction of sedimentary deposits, facies and reservoir development in a variety of different settings - including examples from rift to drift phases of passive margin development, ponded slopes, above-grade to graded slopes, 走斜坡, foreland, forearc, strike-slip, intracratonic and hybrid basins illustrating various degrees of confinement - will be discussed

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