About this Training Course
This 5-day advanced course will start with a refresher on key aspects of carbonate sedimentation, diagenesis and porosity evolution. Participants will then explore factors that have influenced carbonate sedimentation through time, including global sea-level fluctuations and their effects on accommodation space and depositional energy, tectonic cycles, palaeolatitude, palaeoclimate, oceanic chemistry and the evolution of biota. The significance of these global changes will be examined with respect to the deposition and diagenesis of reservoir facies and the prediction of exploration targets including the identification of stratigraphic and diagenetic traps.
The second part of the course will focus more on the factors that influence reservoir behaviour and fluid production. This will include examination of saturations including capillary pressures and the relationship to depositional and diagenetic pore systems; wettability in carbonate reservoirs; rock typing for input to reservoir modelling and mapping using the sedimentological model and knowledge of the pore systems. Seals, permeability barriers and high permeability streaks will be mapped using a sequence stratigraphic approach.
Finally, participants will examine the importance of natural fracture systems in enhancing permeability or providing the main reservoir volume and factors that may be locally important in influencing reservoir quality and production, specifically tar mats and bitumens.
By the end of this advanced course, participants will be able to:
- Develop a full understanding of the global and regional influences on carbonate deposition and diagenesis and be able to apply a workflow for studying carbonate systems and understand the implications of different data sets.
- Understand the concepts of carbonate sequence stratigraphy at different scales and the importance for mapping the distribution and continuity of depositional and diagenetic facies, seals and high permeability streaks.
- Identify pore fabrics and relate them to petrophysical characteristics. Examine methodology for defining rock types and be able to use sedimentological data as an input to reservoir modelling. Understand the importance of sedimentological and diagenetic character in the calculation of STOIIP and GIIP.
This advanced course will benefit petroleum geologists, explorationists, petrophysicists, geophysicists and engineers who are involved with exploration in carbonate provinces or the development of carbonate reservoirs.
Participants should have a good basic knowledge of carbonate reservoir geology although the course will include a brief refresher on key aspects on the first day.
Using a combination of short lecture modules, group exercises, discussions and longer workshop activities, this 5-day advanced course will build on the existing knowledge of participants to create a detailed understanding of carbonate exploration and reservoir development.
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Chief Geologist, OGDCL
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Reservoir Engineer, Wintershall Holding GMBH
Excellent course and very well organised presentation.


