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Field Seminars

NEW!
An Introduction To The Petroleum Geology Of Deepwater Settings

INSTRUCTOR :

Paul Weimer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

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DATES:

July 27 - 29, 2009

LOCATION:

Houston, TX

TUITION:

$1,095.00 Sign Up Now
(increases to $1195/$1295 after 7/1/09); includes course notes and refreshments.
No refunds for cancellations after 7/1/09.

LIMIT:

50 people

CONTENT:

2.1 CEU What is a CEU?

Who Should Attend

This course is an introduction to deepwater settings, and is designed for geologists, geophysicists, and reservoir engineers. The course will be useful for new professionals and/or experienced people who have never worked in deepwater settings.

Objectives

This course provides geoscientists and engineers with a broad overview of the petroleum systems of deep-water settings. The course design allows geophysicists to quickly integrate the information into their daily workflow. The material presented is approximately the 80-85th percentile of available information. Lectures will be complemented by several exercises and extensive references to key publications that participants may use to follow up. This course emphasizes the geologic aspects of deep-water deposits. All elements of the petroleum systems are reviewed (reservoir; traps; source rocks; seals; generation, migration and entrapment). The course describes all five reservoir elements in a systematic way with all data sets. Biostratigraphy, reservoir quality, traps, and petroleum systems modeling are illustrated with basic concepts, and with many examples. The attendee will be able to apply their learnings immediately to whatever problem they are working on in deepwater.

Content

The course will start with an overview of the geology of deep-water systems, past, present and future. This review will cover the recent trends in deep-water in terms of drilling results, and introduce the elements of petroleum systems—reservoirs, traps, seals, source rock, migration, and timing.

The key characteristics of the key reservoir elements in deepwater systems are: a) sheet sands (layered and amalgamated), b) channel fill, c) thin beds (overbank), and (d) slides and debris flows. The seismic stratigraphic expression of these systems is present in 2D, shallow 3D, and depth 3D, and integrated with the wireline log expression and information from outcrops, cores, and biostratigraphy. Examples from several producing basins around the world illustrate these points. The production history and the reservoir challenges in developing each of these fields is discussed.

Participants are introduced to the basic occurrences of deepwater systems in a sequence stratigraphic framework. Examples show how to modify the basic model for each kind of basin setting (structural setting, faults, and salt), high frequency sequences, sediment delivery systems, and the effects of grain sizes on deepwater systems. Carbonate and lacustrine systems are also discussed.

Many different kinds of basins produce from deepwater systems. A review of these basins shows the different tectonic settings and associated structural styles. The review also demonstrates that most reservoirs are pure stratigraphic traps or combined traps. A review of seals, source rocks and modeling principles gives the geophysicist practical techniques for understanding deep-water systems.

The course concludes with a summary of what is important in the exploration for and development of deep-water systems. The application of these techniques to each participant's current projects is key, as is the difference between frontier exploration and exploration in mature basins with deeper potential. Examples from 3 or 4 basins distributed globally illustrate the principles. These examples will also demonstrate that there is deep-water potential in most basins globally.