Due to the ongoing travel restrictions and differing guidelines from companies and organizations, the AAPG Immersion into Shuaiba Formation to Maximize Production GTW will now be taking place virtually from 8 – 11 March 2021 and then on-demand anytime, from anywhere, and from any device for the next 2 months. The workshop will provide the best opportunity to safely connect with industry colleagues and peers while travel restrictions, social distancing, and health concerns persist. The new dynamic all-digital platform makes it simple for you to access all the great science, networking, and technology to help you stay on the cutting edge of petroleum geoscience. Our businesses and industry are experiencing difficult times, but overcoming obstacles is what explorers do – so let’s do it together.
Benefits of our virtual events:
The workshop will focus on the Aptian section of the Arabian Plate and will cover one of the main reservoirs in Thamama group (Shuaiba Formation). This part of the stratigraphic column is one of the most diverse regional stratigraphy which was likely the result of segmented basinal physiography during that time.
In several parts of the plate this section lies very moderate and drilling activity compared with other reservoirs which resulted in the very good data availability especially in well-structured areas. The section consists of known regional source (Bab member) and reservoir rocks (upper and lower Shuaiba).
This workshop will enrich our knowledge in relation to regional and local geological commonalities and diversities. It will help in formulating and updating regional stratigraphic framework based on common stratigraphic and chronostratigraphic markers. The knowledge attained will enhance our ability to predict the source-reservoir-seal presence, its quality and distribution of the stratigraphic targets.
Importantly, the workshop will expose the experience of exploring the stratigraphic traps from UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia and best practices to develop it. Both oral and poster presentations make part of the workshop including presentations by invited keynote speakers. Additionally, core materials from various formations will be displayed and discussed. As the workshop will have a dedicated session on cores display from UAE, Petroleum Development Oman, and Saudi Aramco.
This workshop is intended for geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, reservoir engineers, academic researchers, and decision makers working on the exploration, appraisal and development of carbonate hydrocarbon reservoirs.
Note: All program times are GST (Gulf Standard Time)
Details of the digital platform to be used will be shared with you shortly. Please check back for more information.
During the workshop, there will be several opportunities to view cores from the Shuaiba Formation, covering different parts along the eperic Aptian paleo-platform; from the platform interior to the Baba Basin. Expert geologists will be on hand to explain the sedimentary features and reservoir characteristics and heterogeneity, and give an overview of how the Shuaiba Reservoir is being appraised and developed.
Al Dhafra Petroleum (APD) will be displaying a number of cores, focusing mainly on the Shuaiba Paleo carbonate system. The lithologies observed range from Rudist-rich floatstones to orbitolina pack to wackestone to mud dominated intervals with multiple occurrences of stylolithes and organic matter seams. Transition to more argillaceous materials and the Shale of the Nahr Umr will be part of the display. The cores will illustrate the last carbonate growth phase in the Lower Cretaceous and reflect paleo environments oscillating between distal to proximal ramps settings. Effects from higher order paleo depositional conditions are evidenced from the presence of multiple intervals where cementation and / or dissolution are pervasive.
ADNOC Onshore will have a core display for Shuaiba formation (Aptian 4), showing carbonate lithology, clear paleontological and petrophysical features, diagenesis, depositional environment and sequence stratigraphy.
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