Predictive Stratigraphy

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

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

Highlights:

This course introduces the concepts of sequence stratigraphy and its numerous applications to outcrops, cores, log and seismic data in E&P projects.
This 3-day course (duration can be extended) alternates lectures with poster sessions and practical exercises.
This course can be given in client meeting room, training centre, core viewing room or any other venue.

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.

Program:

This course covers the following topics:
Review of the basic principles of stratigraphy
Earth cycles and their effect on climates, relative sea level and stratigraphic record
Preservation potential: time is recorded based on both rock thickness and surfaces
Depositional environments and facies associations
Interactions between depositional environments
Stacking patterns and sequence analysis
Significant stratigraphic surfaces
Correlations of surfaces and sequences
Prediction of thickness and facies changes in depositional systems
Where to drill next and impact on drilling success
Case studies

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.