Integrated Carbonate Reservoir Characterization
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Integrated Carbonate Reservoir Characterization Course
Introduction:
The course introduces the participants to modern carbonate environments and explains how the constituents of carbonate sediment become lithified and changed after deposition to provide potential reservoir rocks. Modern carbonate environments from particularly the Arabian/Persian Gulf and the Caribbean are examined in detail to provide a sense of scale and perspective. Large scale carbonate architectures are discussed and illustrated from a sequence stratigraphic perspective with seismic scale examples illustrated from the outcrop.
Course Objectives:
- UNDERSTAND the factors affecting characteristics of carbonates reservoir characterization
- PROVIDE an insight to the complexity of carbonate depositional systems, including associated evaporates
- EXAMINE the susceptibility of carbonates to post-depositional (digenetic) changes
- APPLY petrophysical approaches to carbonate reservoir description
- MANAGE the uncertainties in predicting depositional environments
- INTEGRATE different geological, petrophysical, and reservoir engineering data sets
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for, but not limited to, those who are directly involved with carbonate reservoir characterization, and who need a deeper understanding of the complexity and problems associated with carbonate reservoirs.
- Exploration & Development Geoscientists (Geologists & Geophysicists)
- E&P Managers
- Sedimentologists
- Reservoir & Petroleum Engineers
- Petrophysicists
Course Outlines:
Carbonate Essentials and Modern Depositional Environment
- Carbonate Grains and Classifications
- Carbonate Study Techniques
- Carbonate Ramps and Platforms
- Examples from the Middle East, Alps, UK, and the Bahamas
- Modern Carbonate Depositional Environment
Carbonate Facies And Sequence Stratigraphy
- Aeolian Deposition and Deflation
- Evaporites
- Modern and Ancient Microbial Mats (Stromatolites and Thrombolites)
- Modern and Ancient Reefs
- Carbonate Sands with emphasis on grain stone accumulations, including Oolites
- Bioturbation by fauna and flora
- Resedimented Carbonates
- Sequence Stratigraphy with rock outcrop examples
Diagenetic alterations and reservoir characterization
- Diagenetic Alterations
- Reservoir Characterization
Ancient Carbonate Sequences
- Exercise in Predicting Depositional Environments
- Ancient Carbonate Sequences
- Triassic Dolomites of the Italian Alps with emphasis on the Sella Platform
- Lower Carboniferous Ramp and Platform Carbonates of the UK
- Miocene carbonates of the Mediterranean
Case Studies of Carbonate Plays and Fields
