GEO 159
Turbidite field course, SE Spain
COURSE OVERVIEW
This field course offers an extensive series of outcrop examinations, field-based correlation, reservoir description, instruction and exercises. It aims to familiarize the student with the stratigraphy, shape, and scale of submarine fan bodies in a small active basin. The value of sequence stratigraphic approaches, paleo-bathymetric analyses, and structural setting of the basin on predicting the large-scale character of fan deposits will be addressed in an appraisal and development context.
- Seismic to individual bed-scale appreciation of the architecture and elements of a deepwater system.
- Relationships between tectonics and sedimentation.
- Onlap relationships associated with sandy and mixed sand/mud turbidite systems. Process sedimentology.
- State of art turbidite system evaluation.
- Basics of massflow processes and their relevance to reservoir heterogeneity and stratigraphic trap geometries.
- Use of / and pitfalls of subsurface analogue examples in turbidite system evaluation
COURSE SCHEDULE
| Code | Date | Location | price (€) |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEO 159 | 21- 25 Sep 2026 | Barcelona | 4400 |
COURSE OUTLINE
5 days
Day 1:
o Mass Flow Processes. Introduction/basin-fill geometry.
Day 2:
o Continuity of sheet-like turbidites. Mixed sand-mud turbidite system sheet reservoir sands.
Day 3:
o Amalgamated turbidites and their pinch-out geometry.
Day 4:
o Channelized turbidites. Channel complex, basin floor topography and erosional channels.
Day 5:
o Main deep-marine feeder complex. Vertical and lateral changes in reservoir quality in main sediment conduit. Team exercise.
INSTRUCTOR
Instructors Profile
Instructor studied Geology at Utrecht University (stratigraphy as major, with sedimentology and geochemistry as minors) and graduated in 1981. Directly thereafter he joined Shell where he was subsequently shipped to exotic places like Lima (Peru), London (UK) and Cairo (Egypt).
He started off in Peru, in exploration, where he worked as stratigrapher and wellsite geologist during the Camisea drilling campaign. After London (working on mostly Southern North Sea fields) and Egypt (Head of Lab and involved in e.g. the Obaiyed discovery), he returned to Holland where he had the pleasure of teaching Exploration Geology in Shells Training Centre in Noordwijkerhout. He then moved to Production Geology and worked as Team Leader for a number of mainly African fields (Egypt, Algeria, Cameroon, Nigeria). In this capacity he led a team of PG’s, SI’s, RE’s, PT’s and WE’s with the main task of producing FDP’s. After that he moved back to ‘Training’, where he, with appropriate passion, taught the secrets of Production Geology to Shell’s new recruits.
FAQ
DESIGNED FOR
The course is designed for multi-disciplinary audiences of exploration and production geologists, geophysicists and petroleum engineers who need a basic understanding of deep-marine sediments or an in-depth view of submarine fan architectural element.
COURSE LEVEL
o Intermediate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The course is designed for multi-disciplinary audiences of exploration and production geologists, geophysicists and petroleum engineers who need a basic understanding of deep-marine sediments or an in-depth view of submarine fan architectural element.
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