Day 1 – Core Workshop
We will begin the morning session with some introductory lectures on the economic importance of deepwater reservoirs and the high-risk-high-reward associated with drilling wells in offshore settings. Lectures will then cover sedimentary processes from mass transport, density underflows associated with deltas, shelf-edge failure, and low-frequency high magnitude events along carbonate margins to the generation and flow transformation associated with sediment gravity flows. Participants will learn to identify hyperpycnites, turbidites, debrites, linked debrites, slurry flows, and more.
The afternoon will be spent describing a deepwater core and participants will learn how to use grain-sizes, sedimentary structures, bed-dips, and stacking patterns. We will cover deepwater hierarchy and how to organize stratal packages into channel storeys, channel elements, channels, channel complexes for confined and lobe elements, lobes, lobe complexes, and fans for unconfined systems.