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    3. Clastic Sedimentation and Sequence Stratigraphy

    Clastic Sedimentation and Sequence Stratigraphy

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    • 5 Days
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    This course provides a detailed overview of common clastic sedimentary systems and how the reservoir characteristics of the resulting deposits are controlled by the combination of their depositional environment and sequence stratigraphic setting. A good understanding of these key controls on the distribution, size and shape of clastic reservoir and non-reservoir rocks as well as their internal properties, is of fundamental importance to sound reservoir characterization and consequently to Exploration & Production decision-making. This applies throughout the hydrocarbon resource life-cycle, all the way from exploration, through appraisal, to development and eventually abandonment.

    By the end of this 5-day course, participants will be able :

    • To describe the main characteristics of common clastic reservoir types and how these characteristics are controlled by the combination of depositional origin and sequence stratigraphic setting
    • To identify the key practical implications of the inferred reservoir characteristics, both for their own discipline and for the E & P project as a whole
    • To communicate effectively about these technical issues with the other disciplines involved in the E & P project
    • To contribute effectively to managing and mitigating risks to exploration and/or development activities in E&P projects.

     Full set of viewgraph material used & copy of: Coe, A.L., (Ed.), 2003, The sedimentary record of sea-level change, Cambridge University Press, pp 288 (subject to availability!)

    Petroleum geoscientists and petroleum engineers in the initial phase of their EP career, who need to be fully conversant with sedimentology and stratigraphy as key tools in the Oil- and Gas Industry

    • Course Intro
    • Clastic reservoir systems – an overview
    • Fluviatile depositional systems and their reservoir characteristics
    • Lacustrine depositional systems and their reservoir characteristics
    • Deltaic and coastal depositional systems and their reservoir characteristics
    • Deepwater depositional systems and their reservoir characteristics
    • Sea-floor topography as a key control on deepwater depositional systems
    • Carbonates versus Clastics: why and how do they differ
    • Sea-level change: the fundamentals
    • Sequence stratigraphy: the fundamentals
    • Optional topic (1): by timely prior arrangement a lecture module on desert and/or on glacial depositional systems may be incorporated in the course schedule.

    Awareness of the basics of soft rock geology and knowledge of subsurface technical workflows

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