Course Objectives:
By the end of this course, participant will be able to:
- Recognize basic characteristics of the carbonate depositional system important to carbonate reservoir development
- Understand how sequence stratigraphy can be applied to carbonates and mixed carbonate-siliciclastic systems
- Understand the geologic and engineering characteristics of carbonate pore systems
- Recognize the nature of carbonate porosity modification by diagnosis and the role of sea level and climate in porosity modification and gross reservoir heterogeneity
- Develop viable exploration and exploitation strategies In a carbonate terrain by working with actual subsurface data sets
Course Outline:
- The basic nature of carbonate sediments and sedimentation
- The efficiency of the carbonate factory and its influence on cyclicity and platform development
- Carbonate platform types
- Carbonate facies models
- Basic concepts of sequence stratigraphy including eustasy, relative sea level, accommodation model, and sequence stratigraphy as a predictive tool
- Relationship of stratigraphic patterns to changes in subsidence rates as driven by regional and earth scale tectonic processes
- Sequence stratigraphic models including the ramp, the rimmed shelf, the escarpment margin, the isolated platform and the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic shelf
- The characteristics of carbonate pore systems and their geologic and engineering classifications including petrophysics and rock fabric
- Sea level, diagnosis, porosity evolution and its distribution at the time of burial
- The fate of early formed porosity during burial in a hydrotectonic framework
- Carbonate reservoir modelling
- Case histories from the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia
- Exercises from the US and Europe based on actual data sets
- Exploration and exploitation strategies in carbonate terrains
Who Can Benefit?
Exploration and development geologists, exploration and development managers and geophysicists. Engineers with some geologic background will benefit.
