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Field Seminars
Play Concepts and Controls on Porosity in Carbonate Reservoir Analogs
- INSTRUCTOR S :
- Evan K. Franseen, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS; Robert H. Goldstein, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; Mateu Esteban, REPSOL-YPF, Mallorca, Spain
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- DATES:
- May 16 - 21, 2010
- LOCATION:
- Almeria Region, SE Spain, begins and ends in Las Negras, Spain. Fly from London/Barcelona/Madrid
- TUITION:
- $3,000.00 Sign Up Now
(dependent on exchange rate) Goes up to $3100 after 4/02/2010. Includes field transportation, all meals and lodging during trip, guidebook.
No refunds for cancellations after 4/02/2010. - LIMIT:
- 15 people
- CONTENT:
- 4.8 CEU What is a CEU?
Who Should Attend
Petroleum geologists, engineers, and geophysicists who are involved in interpreting carbonate sequences.
Introduction
Superb exposures of Miocene carbonates in SE Spain offer an unrivaled opportunity to learn from undisturbed depositional geometries. The region shows a variety of carbonate rocks, stratal patterns and depositional settings. Different types of porosities are evident, including those related to karst and dolomitization. The area is a natural classroom for illustrating basic and advanced concepts of carbonate sequence stratigraphy, new models for controls on basinally restricted carbonate reservoirs, and influence of paleovalleys on distribution of carbonate reservoir facies.
Objectives and Content
This field seminar will develop the regional paleogeography of an area in SE Spain greatly affected by shear-zone and extensional tectonics. The stratigraphic framework will be developed to show the controls on depositional sequence location and character. Facies architecture of Upper Miocene carbonate complexes will be explored using sequence stratigraphy stacking patterns, controls of basement morphology, paleovalley systems, climate and relative sea level.
Topics
- Facies types; fringing coral reefs with continuous progradational talus slopes grading into basinal deposits, temperate-water carbonate ramps; evaporites, oolitic shoals and stromatolites.
- Types of unconformities and associated paleokarst reservoirs; evolution and distribution of karst porosity.
- Relationships and interaction with evaporites; applications to play concepts in carbonates of the Middle East.
- Relationships and interaction with volcanoes and volcaniclastics; applications to play concepts in carbonates of SE Asia.
- Tests on large-to small-scale predictability of depositional facies and porosity trends; estimated reservoir parameters.
Key Benefits
- Depositional and diagenetic models for carbonates that are good analogs to highly productive reservoirs in the Middle East, including Cretaceous and Tertiary carbonates from the Persian Gulf (Iran, Iraq, U.A.E., Qatar, Oman) and carbonates from SE Asia, including Indonesia. The lessons learned can be applied to carbonate reservoirs throughout the geologic record.
- Additions to sequence stratigraphy concepts through development of substrate paleoslope and climate controls on depositional sequence characteristics.
- Coverage of cool-water as well as warm-water carbonate facies models.
- Controls of paleovalley morphology on shallow-water and deep-water carbonate reservoir systems.
- A consistent and detailed sequence stratigraphy approach, involving the innovative "pinning-point" technique.

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