Sequence Stratigraphy: An Applied Workshop

Geoscientists working on reservoir modelling and characterization

•    Introduction and course objectives 
•    What controls how basins fill? External and internal controls on clastic reservoir distribution and characteristics 
•    What controls sedimentary systems? Concepts of accommodation, sediment supply, depositional and redistribution processes 
•    Clastic facies models 
o    Definitions, usage and examples 
o    Environments and geometries 
•    Clastic depositional models (continental, coastal and deep water systems) 
•    Stratigraphic techniques 
o    High resolution chronostratigraphic correlation 
o    Applied biostratigraphy 
•    Sequence stratigraphy: principles and pitfalls 
•    Seismic stratigraphy 
o    Exercise: seismic stratigraphy, reflector terminations, key surfaces 
•    Stratigraphic analysis of clastic successions 
o    Non-marine, with case studies 
o    Shallow-marine, with case studies 
o    Deep-marine, with case studies 
•    Parasequences 
o    Exercise: Book Cliffs sequence stratigraphy 
•    Core description and interpretation workshop 
o    Exercise: offshore New Jersey – integrated seismic and core data 
•    Application of sequence stratigraphy to reservoir geology 
•    Reservoir subdivision and correlation 
o    Recognition and correlation of genetic units 
o    Architecture recognition and prediction 
•    Diagenesis and sequence stratigraphy 
o    Rock property control on fluid saturations 
•    Models for exploration and development 
•    Reservoir geology aspects 
•    Geological modelling of clastic reservoirs 
•    Well log correlation Framework for building models 
o    Deterministic methods 
o    Stochastic models 
o    Sand layer heterogeneities 
o    Shale layer heterogeneities