This 2-day, in-person course describes the range and variability in deepwater sedimentary systems and equips participants to build predictive models of subsurface geology for more successful exploration and development. A primary goal of this course is to enable subsurface teams to more effectively characterize and rank deepwater/offshore projects on a regional and global scale.
This 2-day, in-person course equips participants to build predictive models of subsurface geology for more successful exploration and development. The course is based on a selection of works from Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Science, Discovery and Applications (Eds J. Rotzien, C. Yeilding, R. Sears, F. Hernández-Molina y O. Catuneanu) that takes readers through geological and geophysical characterization of deepwater intervals in order to make informed investments. Authored by nearly 60 professionals from 20 countries, this book represents the first global treatise on exploration and production in deepwater/offshore systems. Expected publication date is September 1, 2022. Participants can opt to receive a signed copy of the first edition of the book.
Deepwater Sedimentary Systems provides a field-based analysis of the range and variation in deepwater sedimentary intervals, exploring new themes in energy industry research and applications, as well as approaches to classic reservoir challenges and how they’re being addressed today.
Throughout the course, Dr. Rotzien will explain why these technical challenges are relevant to exploration, appraisal and development drilling programs.
His analysis questions the turbidite reservoir paradigm established since the 1960s and provides a route to modern solutions.
Critical questions to be addressed during the course include the following:
- What is the range & variability in the types of deepwater clastic conventional reservoirs?
- What are key factors determining sediment distribution patterns in the deep sea?
- How can first principles of deepwater sedimentology and stratigraphy be used to a company’s advantage when determining depositional environment, and, in turn, bulk rock volume, net to gross and porosity to determine fluids in place?
- What is the role played by sedimentary routing systems in determining the overall quality of deepwater turbidite reservoirs?
- How can our global community simultaneously and at various scales observe sediment gravity flows and their deposits to inform business decisions?
Tentative Course Schedule
(Participants will receive a final schedule approximately one week prior to the course)
| Wednesday, March 1 |
| 08:00 – 09:30 |
Welcome and Session I |
| 09:30 – 09:45 |
Break |
| 09:45 – 12:15 |
Session II; Exercise 1 |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Session III |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Session IV; Exercise 2 |
| Thursday, March 2 |
| 08:00 – 09:30 |
Session V |
| 09:30 – 09:45 |
Break |
| 09:45 – 12:15 |
Session VI; Exercise 3 |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Session VII |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Session VII; Exercise 4 |
| 16:30 – 17:00 |
Book signing; conclusions; goodbyes |
| Friday, March 3 |
| 08:00 – 17:00 |
Field trip to Bathsheba and Greenland’s Quarry, Barbados |
Times are listed in Atlantic Standard Time (AST), GMT – 4.