Course Details
Several companies teach sequence stratigraphic courses. We would argue that each company has a different version. The key-word here is ‘applied.’ That means the course is not academic, we will not bore you with details of trying to figure out whether the cyclicity in your basin is from climate-change, tectonics etc, we won’t spend ages drawing Wheeler Diagrams for your basin, and we certainly won’t be drawing coastal onlap curves.
The objective of this course is to help you find more oil and gas using well-logs, core and seismic data. This is a prerequisite course for others listed here. Topics include the recognition of key sequence stratigraphic surfaces and systems tracts in seismic, well-logs, core and outcrop. Exercises during the course will teach participants how to chronocorrelate wells using wireline logs and core.
Unlike other course providers we believe 5-days are too short for participants to master both sequence and seismic stratigraphy, which is why we split these topics into two courses.
Please be aware that this is NOT a seismic stratigraphy course and we will spend minimum time on seismic data. Most sequence stratigraphy courses taught by other training providers try to cram-in sequence analysis on logs, core and seismic + seismic facies analysis into 5-days which we feel is a disservice to participants. If you are interested in learning more about seismic stratigraphy, we recommend you click here.
The focus of this course is conventional siliciclastic and carbonate reservoirs. If your interest lies in unconventional resource plays, we offer a course that covers sequence stratigraphy in shales, carbonate mudstones, tight-gas sandstones, and others.
Course Objectives:
– To develop a thorough understanding of relative sea-level changes and their effect on the distribution of source and reservoirs rocks
– To create an awareness amongst participants about the limitations of lithocorrelation and the benefits of chronocorrelation
– To prepare participants for realistic facies modeling in the creation of geomodels
Who Should Attend
• Geologists
• Geophysicists
• Petrophysicists
• Engineers who wish to develop a better understanding of the factors that control distribution, reservoir connectivity and compartmentalization of a particular reservoir The course assumes no prior knowledge of sequence stratigraphy, which is why we strongly urge engineers to enroll.