Session 1: Lessons Learned from Contingent, Stranded and Unconventional Reservoirs

Hydrocarbon exploration and production is a risky business, and even the most experienced companies can fail to discover or produce hydrocarbons in certain situations.

This workshop session will discuss the lessons that have been learned from stranded, contingent, unconventional and tight hydrocarbon reservoir, and unsuccessful hydrocarbon exploration and production projects, both in terms of the technical challenges and the business decisions that led to failure. These reservoirs might contain large hydrocarbon quantities. The workshop session will discuss different challenges and solutions related to these types of reservoirs.

Session 2: Unleashing the Potential: Digital Transformation in Siliciclastic Reservoir Management - Leveraging Technology and Data Analytics for Enhanced Insights.

In today's dynamic oil and gas industry, digital transformation has emerged as a catalyst for optimizing reservoir management in siliciclastic formations. Harnessing the power of advanced technologies and data analytics has the potential to revolutionize how we understand, model, and exploit these reservoirs.

This session aims to explore the latest advancements and best practices in digital transformation, focusing specifically on siliciclastic reservoir management. Recent research and innovation based on machine-learning and data analytics approaches have shown encouraging and promising results for geoscience purposes. This session will provide an overview of the integration of digital technologies in the characterization and management of siliciclastic reservoirs. Advanced digital tools will be presented and discussed, such as data analytics approaches, uncertainty quantification and risk assessment workflows to build accurate and representative reservoir models, or real-time reservoir monitoring and surveillance techniques to optimize production strategies in brown field sites.

Session 3: The Application of Outcrop Analogues to Subsurface Reservoirs

The application of outcrop analogues to subsurface reservoirs has been a valuable tool in the exploration and production for hydrocarbons and CCS. By studying rock exposures, geologists can gain insights into the geometry, sedimentology, and stratigraphy of subsurface reservoirs. With the advent of remote sensing techniques such as multi-and hyperspectral satellite data, Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), airborne LiDAR, and use of drones, the outcrop analogues are effectively used in making informed decisions regarding reservoir characterization, reservoir modeling, and production optimization. Data integration from these sources can build better accurate reservoir modeling, optimize drilling and production strategies, and reduce exploration risks.

Session 4: Diagenetic Controls on Reservoir Quality

Understanding and better predating reservoir quality (RQ) in clastic sequence is a key and challenging task in HC exploration and development phases. RQ is controlled by many interrelated depositional and diagenetic processes. Therefore, a better understanding of diagenesis will lead to improved exploration risking of reservoir quality and provide a basis for building reservoir models.
In this session, delegates from academia and industry will address topics including experimental diagenesis and factors that impact diagenesis and related reservoir quality through integrated case studies of different tectonic and stratigraphic settings of various clastic reservoirs in the Middle East.

Session 5: The Impact of Tectonics and Sedimentation in Clastic and Mixed Carbonate Clastic Reservoirs

Tectonics can have a significant impact on sedimentation, both in terms of the type and distribution of sediments deposited, and the properties of the resulting reservoirs. There are various ways in which tectonics can influence sedimentation, and how this can impact reservoir quality.

The session objects reviewing the basic principles of tectonics and its impact on sedimentation. It also aims to illustrate the different types of tectonic settings, and how they can lead to different types of sediments being deposited. Moreover, the role of tectonics in creating reservoir heterogeneities, and how this can impact the flow of fluids through the reservoir will be a matter of discussion. At the end, a showcase of examples within the region of how tectonics has impacted sedimentation and reservoir quality are going to be described.

Session 6: Carbon Capture and Storage in Siliciclastic Reservoirs

CCS is seen as an essential technology and a license to operate for O&G companies around the world. This session will discuss the challenges and opportunities of utilizing siliciclastic reservoirs in the Middle East for waste storage, such as CCS. Other similar storage questions in the industry, such as hydrogen, discussed now more frequently, are also welcomed.

The subsurface characteristics, for either aquifers or depleted reservoirs, required to ensure the reservoir system (the storage complex) integrity, injectivity and storage capacity will be discussed. Siliciclastic reservoirs play a dominant role globally in CCS, but are they the best option in the ME region? This session is intended to support in answering the relevant subsurface questions by discussing the data gathering, (full geomechanical) modeling, planning and execution aspects of CCS.