Best Practices in Deepwater Depositional Systems Exploration

Revisiting “Good Geology Rules” and their Application to E&P Projects

Course Type
Classroom Course
Duration
5 days
Thematic
Geosciences
Location
Country
Satisfaction rate

Highlights:

This 5-day course alternates lectures with poster sessions and practical exercises
The course is abundantly illustrated with core photos, borehole image logs and seismic examples
The course can be given in client meeting rooms, training centre, core viewing room or any other venue.

Objectives:

To introduce the concepts of gravity processes, facies, their reservoir architecture and characteristics
To present and apply the techniques and tools used in deepwater E&P projects
To illustrate best practices using case studies.

Program:

Gravity flows and dynamics
Depositional facies and facies tracts along depositional profiles
Deepwater architectural elements and stacking patterns
Lessons learned from outcrops studies (heterogeneity, barriers)
Facies, sorting, reservoir characteristics and petro-acoustic response
Best practices in E&P projects
Borehole image log interpretation
Seismic inversion and computation of seismic attributes from 3D seismic cubes
Data integration
Where to drill?
Optimizing net thickness (Exploration)
Optimizing pairs of injectors and producers (Prod.)
Case studies

Who Should Attend?

This course is mostly dedicated to young professionals and experienced geologists.

Geophysicists and reservoirs modellers willing to sharpen their skills are also welcome but basic geological knowledge is recommended.

Prerequisites

This course is mostly dedicated to young professionals and experienced geologists.
Geophysicists and reservoirs modellers willing to sharpen their skills are also welcome but basic geological knowledge is recommended.

Lecturers

Dr. GÉRARD J.

Predictive stratigraphy consultant, 1957, French, more than 35 years of experience in the industry. He served as a clastic sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy advisor with Repsol from 2006 to 2016, supplying internal expertise to exploration and production projects run in both Madrid and affiliates. After studying geology at the Université de Caen in France, he joined the industry in 1981, starting as a seismic surveyor in South Yemen and Gabon with C.G.G. before processing and interpreting seismic data in Massy (France). In 1985, he worked as an exploration geophysicist with Fina Exploration Norway in Stavanger. In 1989, he joined Elf in Paris, in the basin study group. His transfer to their scientific and technical centre in Pau brought him much closer to rocks. Since the early 90's he has described quite a mileage of cores and has dedicated attention and time to trace fossils and ichnofabrics.