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Field Seminars
CANCELED
Predicting Clastic Reservoirs Using Applied Sequence Stratigraphy: Understanding the Fundamental Drivers of Basin Fill Architecture
- INSTRUCTOR S :
- Lee F. Krystinik, Fossil Creek Resources, Fort Worth, TX and Beverly Blakeney DeJarnett, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas, Houston, TX
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- DATES:
- May 31 - June 6, 2009
- LOCATION:
- Begins and ends in Salt Lake City, Utah
- TUITION:
- $2,225.00
Goes up to $2325 after 5/01/09. Includes ground transportation, guidebooks, some meals.
No refunds for cancellations after 5/01/09. - LIMIT:
- 25 people
- CONTENT:
- 4.2 CEU What is a CEU?
Who Should Attend
Geologists and Geophysicists of all experience levels
Field Seminar Description:
This six-day field seminar to superb outcrops in SW Wyoming and NE Utah places a broad spectrum of hydrocarbon productive, non-marine and marine reservoir successions within an integrated sequence stratigraphic context and provides tested approaches for predicting reservoir and seal occurrence. Emphasis is placed on identifying key stratigraphic surfaces in these successions that drive interpretive reservoir prediction.
Lectures, outcrop study and exercises emphasize understanding a basin fill as a dynamic, three-dimensional and largely inter-related succession of deposits. We compare and contrast basinal areas of high subsidence with areas of low subsidence and examine the relative contributions of eustasy, tectonics and sediment supply to the preserved reservoirs and seals. Although participants are taught the key terminology and context of sequence stratigraphic nomenclature, our primary focus is on practical, sensible and tested applications of sequence stratigraphic principles to finding oil and gas.
Key topics addressed: Sequence stratigraphy, syn-tectonic sedimentation, predicting reservoir and seal or petroleum systems, identifying critical controls on the architecture of a subject basin fill (eustasy, sediment supply and tectonics), outcrop and subsurface examples, correlation and mapping philosophies.
Objectives and Content
This course is designed to be a pragmatic, "bottom line" oriented approach to understanding basin fills and the petroleum systems within them, without the burden of excessive nomenclature. We will emphasize key controls on sequence stratigraphic architecture, sequence stratigraphic signatures in different subsidence and sedimentation settings, and regional prediction of reservoir and seal facies. We will also focus on critical assumptions often made in sequence stratigraphic analysis and the potentially costly pitfalls of sequence stratigraphic prediction.
Organization of the Stops: Participants are taken from the "thin-skinned" tectonics of the Western US overthrust belt across the foredeep of the Western Interior Cretaceous Basin and onto the eastern flank of the basin where "thick-skinned," higher-angle tectonics dominate. Along this traverse we compare the character of key sequence stratigraphic surfaces and reservoir sandstones as they change in response to changes in sediment supply and subsidence or uplift.
Most clastic depositional environments are covered on this trip, ranging from alluvial fans and eolian deposits, through fluvial and marine deposits, to turbidite fan complexes.
The stops are designed to take the participant through each of the sequence stratigraphic stacking patterns and help the participant to identify the predictable aspects of each component within the basin fill. Each day will start with thematic lectures during breakfast covering the key concepts for that field day.
Exercises in the lecture room and on the outcrops are designed to emphasize the economic applications of these concepts.
For further information and photos, go to AAPG Field Seminar-Utah