Deep Water Reservoirs and Turbidites Systems

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
30 Nov 2025 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia $ 4,500 Register

Deep Water Reservoirs and Turbidites Systems

Introduction

This course provides a unique opportunity to examine modern, ancient, and subsurface examples of data from turbidite reservoirs. The process of iteration of data types, including analog data that was collected expressly to solve subsurface issues, will be offered to validate subsurface interpretations. The course combines review of state-of-the-art and historical theories for turbidite and debris-flow deposition and process including many case studies of reservoir architecture and sand-body quality and distribution with an introduction to new concepts, ideas, and methods in turbidite reservoir geology. Participants will be introduced to the limitations of conventional models for turbidite reservoirs and taught how to build enhanced predictive models using a combination of subsurface, outcrop, and modern sea-floor data. Through practical exercises and discussions, participants will experience the relative importance of a broad range of subsurface data, including the merits of different wireline log data for distinguishing lithostratigraphic units. 3D seismic data from a range of locations will illustrate the quality and level of reservoir resolution possible when using modern data. Modern sea floor data from several turbidite basins will be available and participants will receive instruction on interpretation, especially where sea floor data can be used as a proxy of sand distribution in reservoirs. Criteria for identification and interpretation of injected sandstones will be discussed, including explanation of their mechanisms of formation, and the understanding of their influence on reservoir characteristics.

Objectives

    Participants will learn how to:

    • Interpret turbidite depositional environments using data from cores, cuttings, and wireline logs
    • Prepare predictive facies maps
    • Apply modern stratigraphic concepts to turbidite reservoirs
    • Predict reservoir size, shape, trend, and quality

Training Methodology

The training course will be conducted along workshop principles with formal lectures and interactive worked examples and with active contribution by all participants during workshops and team work. Real life examples and case studies will be included to illustrate the procedure for controlling operation of utilities and impact on environment. The emphasis in the course will be on the explanation of technical phenomena and providing answers to problems that are encountered in everyday practice in modern refineries There will be ample opportunities during workshops for active discussion on new technical measures and methodologies.

Who Should Attend?

Exploration and production geologists and geophysicists, stratigraphers, reservoir engineers, and petrophysicists.

Course Outline

  • Review of turbidite settings, processes, models
  • Turbidite systems at outcrop
  • Rock analogs for the subsurface (including injected sands)
  • Modern deepwater systems
  • Alternative reservoir geometrics
  • Seismic character of deepwater systems
  • Borehole/wireline characteristics
  • Significance and use of various tools
  • Correlation of reservoir units
  • Predictive models for sand distribution
  • Critical data input to reserve models
  • Definition of pay

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