Introduction to Deepwater Petroleum Systems
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Introduction to Deepwater Petroleum Systems Course
Introduction:
Deepwater petroleum systems are considered to be the last resource of light oil inaccessible terrain. Investing in deepwater venture involves high risk and high rewards, making a very small room for error on project execution. This four-day course tackles elements of the deepwater depositional petroleum system from the exploration to the developmental stage in the geological, geophysical, engineering perspectives. The course covers deepwater exploration planning, analysis of seismic images, core & outcrop characteristics of deepwater reservoirs, and reservoir characteristics and performance. Participants will learn about the critical deepwater settings, answering questions regarding the extent and distribution of reservoir, porosity, permeability, & compartmentalization and connectivity of deepwater petroleum systems. Participants will be immersed with a broad spectrum of case studies of deepwater depositional systems seen from exploration and developmental standpoints. They will also learn the techniques to identify reservoir quality and hydrocarbon indicators in a deepwater setting, understanding transport, and depositional processes, and geologic modeling.
Course Objectives:
- Organize a proper plan from the beginning of a deepwater exploration venture adapting to the particular temperature and pressure settings occurring in deepwater setting
- Put into exploration context the characteristics of Turbidite Reservoirs through the understanding relationship of their flow processes and turbidite deposits, as well as Contourite reservoirs
- Identify patterns that can help establish sand content for different deepwater facies type
- Understand drivers of deepwater reservoir deposition, and the particularities of deepwater production and what can happen over time
- Apply the techniques to identify reservoir quality and hydrocarbon indicators in deepwater settings
Who Should Attend?
Geoscientists and engineers with little or no reservoir engineering background. It is intended to provide an introductory course in the field of basic reservoir engineering.
Course Outlines:
- Introduction to Deepwater Turbidite System
- Introduction
- Course Instructor’s Background
- Participant’s Background and Goals to Obtain from the Course
- Why Go Deepwater (The Hydrocarbon Potential)
- Working on Different Scales, Different Jargons
- The Logarithmic Scales
- Terminologies & Jargons
- Deepwater Business
- Case Study Example: Gulf of Mexico (Deepwater Exploration & Devt Planning)
- Case Study Example: Bonga Reservoir (Development Stage)
- Case Study Example: Brazil Deepwater Fields
- Planning an Exploration Venture
- Exercise: Making a Venture Plan
- Drivers for Deepwater Processes
- Sea Level Fluctuations
- Hinterland Uplift and Supply of Eroded Material (Atlantic Margins, Indian Ocean Margins, Sundaland/Borneo etc)
- Clay vs. Sand Supply (Including Volcanoclastic)
- Mobility of Substratum (Salt, Overpressured Clay)
- Rate of Subsidence and Development of Accommodation Space
- Deepmarine Intra-Basin Processes
- Turbidite Flow Processes & Models
- Deepwater Gravity Flow Processes and Models
- Turbidite Flow Processes
- Turbidite Deposits
- Relationship of Flow Processes to Deposits
- Contourites
- About Contourites
- Flow Conditions
- Sediment Supply
- Contourite Sheets
- Turbidite Fan Models
- Channelized Turbidites
- Establishing a Model for Reservoir Connectivity in Channels
- What quantitative interpretation can do and cannot do
- Exercise: Estimation for Connected Sub-seismic Play
- Team Creation
- Turbidite Outcrop Settings
- Characteristics of Sandy Turbidites Deposits
- Case Study Example: Salvador do Bahia Turbidite Outcrops
- Case Study Example: Turbidites of Reconcavo Basin, Brazil
- Reservoir Pattern Recognition
- Case Study Example: Gulf of Mexico
- Seismic Facies Calibration
- Bypass Facies Assemblage
- Chaotic Facies
- Convergent Facies
- Draping Facies
- Facies vs Facies Assemblage
- Case Study Example: Architecture and Processes Turbidite System,
- Case Study Example: High Resolution Seismic/Sequence
- Stratigraphic Framework : Depositional Models and Reservoir Analogs
- Active Margin Fan Turbidites
- Case Study Example: Characterization of an Active-Margin,
- Fan-Shaped Turbidite Reservoir Complex, California
- Characteristics of Confined Channel Systems
- Case Study Example: Outcrop Expression of Confined
- Channel Complexes
- Atlantic Margin Turbidite Examples
- Case Study Example: Using Outcrop Analogs to Improve 2D
- Heterogeneity Modeling of Brazilian Sand-Rich Turbidite Reservoir
- Case Study Example: 3D Visualization of Turbidite Systems, Lower Congo Basin, Offshore Angola
- Southeast Asia Turbidite Examples
- Case Study Example: Brunei Deepwater Exploration: From Sea Floor Images and Shallow Seismic Analogues to Depostional Models in a Slope Turbidite Setting
- Case Study Example: West Seno Field Discovery, Makassar Straits, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Field Studies, Reservoir Performance & Economic Implications
- Integrated Field Studies
- Case Study Example: Gulf of Mexico Integrated Field Study
- Pressure Boundaries
- Case Study Example: Taho and Ram Powell Cases Comparison of Large Turbidite Oil Fields in GOM, Brazil, and other Areas
- From Channels to Static and Dynamic Models
- Case Study Example: Borealis Basin Dynamic Properties
- Deepwater Oil Production & Economics
