Exploration and Production Technical Training
This course is designed to challenge participants to provide stratigraphic solutions to four practical exploration and production problems. Both 2D and 3D data sets are used, each focusing on geological issues appropriate to the respective data types. A variety of software tools are employed in the course. Detailed stratigraphic interpretations are performed in SeisStrat and DepoMap (by IES GmbH), in which seismic facies, lithofacies, and depositional environments are delineated and mapped. The analysis of seismic attributes is performed in SeisWorks, including amplitude extraction, determination of reflection strength and instantaneous phase, and well data are integrated with the seismic data. In addition, 3D visualization tools are utilized to facilitate the stratigraphic interpretations. This is an interdisciplinary course in which the participants will be expected to arrive at geological solutions to practical exploration and production problems.The first problem focuses on a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic system. The student is challenged to interpret the distribution of the source rock, lithofacies distribution within a prograding delta, the relationship between the delta and the adjacent shoreline, and the direction of sand transport. The second problem involves the prediction of sands both axially and longitudinally in a large submarine fan system. The third problem involves the prediction of sands in a prograding delta complex. The fourth problem focuses on the stratigraphic effects of salt movement on syntectonic deposition and the chronostratigraphic restoration of eroded intervals.
Duration: Five days
Attendees: Beginning and advanced interpreters, both geologists and geophysicists.
Format: Lecture/Lab
Objectives: After attending this course, you should be able to Interpret and map seismic facies, depositional environments, systems tracts, and lithofacies in the workstation environment. Quickly reconstruct the chronostratigraphy of complex erosional/depositional successions using a workstation. Solve advanced problems more efficiently and creatively based upon the analysis of complex depositional settings. Add more geology into your prospecting.