Introduction To Karst Reservoirs Modeling Field Course

This 3-day introductory course presents karst reservoirs and complex karsts reservoirs, the use of analogs (outcrops and hydrocarbon fields) and describes the modeling principles and parameters to be used.

This course is designed to familiarize geoscientists, as well as reservoir engineers, with karst systems and reservoirs, with insights into static and dynamic modeling applied to karst reservoirs.

The course alternates lectures, exercises, and field studies about karst reservoirs identification and characterization.

Each participant is required to provide a yearly medical certificate before attending this field course. Participants must be in good health and physical conditions to attend.

• Karst presentation
  • Karst principles quick review & vocabulary
  • Complex karst definition
  • Karst diagenesis
• Field Analogs
  • Urbasa-Andia plateau (Spain) mixing water karst
  • Buda Hills (Hungary) hydrothermal karst
  • Mallorca Llucmajor platform laboratory (Spain)
• Reservoir Analogs
  • Kharyaga field (Russia)
  • Kashagan field (Kazakhstan)
  • Dong Mun field (Thailand)
• Modeling principles
  • Modeling parameters, distributions
  • Available software
• Hydrothermal modeling
• Complex karst modeling

Outcrop

• 1 day outcrops review in Spain.

Urbasa-Andia Plateau, Monte-Baio, Spain, fossil mixing water karst

Advanced Karst Modeling Principles

• Karst identification
• Karst parameters
• Uncertainties

Exercises    
Karst reservoir identification
Modeling exercises depending on the company’s tools and extra duration allowed