We provide a field-based analysis of the range and variation in deep-water siliciclastic conventional petroleum reservoirs. This presentation explores new themes in petroleum reservoir research and applications, as well as approaches to classic reservoir challenges and how they’re being addressed today. We explain why these technical challenges are relevant to exploration, appraisal and development drilling programs. This analysis questions the turbidite reservoir paradigm established since the 1960s and provides a route to modern solutions:
Hour 1: Introduction to deep-water depositional systems
Hour 2: Sediment transport and depositional processes
Hour 3: Deep-water facies models
Hour 4: Deep-water depositional environments and sub-environments
Modern outcrops and subsurface data sets provide a mapping opportunity to characterize deep-water depositional systems from shelf edge to basin plain. This includes observations of the grain- to basin-scale framework and key stratigraphic surfaces that subdivide the basin-fill. Analysis from recent mapping campaigns (2009-2020) from over 20 stratigraphic intervals in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific yields the following insights.
The results of these mapping campaigns reveal new observations on sediment gravity flows, their processes of transport and sedimentation, and their bearing on oil and gas exploration and development in deep-water depositional systems. This presentation incorporates observations from passive margins including faulted slopes and ponded mini-basins, and active margins including foreland, forearc, back-arc, strike-slip, intracratonic and hybrid basins.
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Enquiries to AAPG Asia Pacific, Singapore; Adrienne Pereira ()
AAPG reserves the right to cancel this course by 12 March 2021 if registrations fall below expected numbers.
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