GEO 166
Clastic Sedimentation and Sequence Stratigraphy
COURSE OVERVIEW
This course provides a detailed overview of common clastic sedimentary systems and how the reservoir characteristics of the resulting deposits are controlled by the combination of their depositional environment and sequence stratigraphic setting. A good understanding of these key controls on the distribution, size and shape of clastic reservoir and non-reservoir rocks as well as their internal properties, is of fundamental importance to sound reservoir characterization and consequently to Exploration & Production decision-making. This applies throughout the hydrocarbon resource life-cycle, all the way from exploration, through appraisal, to development and eventually abandonment.
COURSE SCHEDULE
| Code | Date | Location | price (€) |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEO 166 | 6 - 10 Apr 2026 | Online | 3300 |
| GEO 166 | 23 - 27 Nov 2026 | Oslo | 4400 |
COURSE OUTLINE
5 days
Day 1: Clastic depositional systems
o Course Intro
o Sedimentology and Stratigraphy: why do they matter to the Oil Industry?
o Fluviatile depositional systems and reservoir characteristics
Course participants will gain a sound understanding of how the large-scale reservoir architecture and the internal reservoir property variation of a clastic sedimentary deposit are controlled by the combination of its stratigraphic setting and depositional origin. Secondly how this controls fluid flow in subsurface reservoirs. This overview is followed by a review of different fluviatile deposits and their reservoir characteristics. Emphasis is placed on how the macro- and meso-scale reservoir heterogeneity that typifies many fluviatile reservoirs, impacts on recovery efficiency and well numbers.
Day 2: Clastic depositional systems
o Participants' learning points from the previous day
o Fluviatile depositional systems and reservoir characteristics [Ctnd]
o Lacustrine depositional systems and reservoir characteristics
o Deltaic and coastal depositional systems and reservoir characteristics
The module on fluviatile reservoirs is concluded with an exercise that integrates seismic, core, log, and production data. Lacustrine systems are commonly important both as reservoirs and as source rock systems. Lacustrine systems are also natural laboratories to illustrate sequence stratigraphic principles due to the rapidity of base-level variations as compared to open marine depositional systems. Lacustrine 'source rock factories' are placed in their plate tectonic and climatic settings. Deltaic sedimentation: sediment supply vs wave action vs tidal action as controls on delta type and shape.
Day 3: Clastic depositional systems
o Participants' learning points from the previous day
o Deltaic and coastal depositional systems and reservoir characteristics [Ctnd]
o Deepwater mass-flow mechanisms
o Deepwater depositional systems and reservoir characteristics
o Sea-floor topography as a key control on deepwater depositional architecture
o Carbonates vs Clastics - a comparison
Day 4: Sequence stratigraphy
o Participants' learning points from the previous day
o Sea-level change: the processes and their spatial and temporal scales
o Sequence stratigraphy: a tool to analyze sedimentary sequences
o Optional workshop module based on Client data [by prior arrangement]
Sea level [='base level'] variations at different spatial and temporal scales are the key control on how and where sediments accumulate in a basin. A sequence stratigraphic analysis of a sedimentary sequence must therefore be based on a sound understanding of the different processes that drive both relative and eustatic sea-level changes. Use and abuse of the global sea level curve ['Haq curve'].
Day 5: Summary and review of key technical aspects
o Participants' learning points from the previous day
o Sequence stratigraphy: the essentials [Ctnd]
o Course overview and summary
o Course test by participants
o Close-out
INSTRUCTOR
Instructor Profile
The PetroTeach 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
Petroleum geoscientists and petroleum engineers in the initial phase of their EP career, who need to be fully conversant with sedimentology and stratigraphy as key tools in the Oil- and Gas Industry
COURSE LEVEL
o Advance
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this 5-day course, participants will be able to:
o To describe the main characteristics of common clastic reservoir types and how these characteristics are controlled by the combination of depositional origin and sequence stratigraphic setting
o To identify the key practical implications of the inferred reservoir characteristics, both for their own discipline and for the E&P project as a whole to communicate effectively about these technical issues with the other disciplines involved in the E&P project
o To contribute effectively to managing and mitigating risks to exploration and/or development activities in E&P projects.
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