Course Objective

• Recognize basic characteristics of the carbonate depositional system important to carbonate reservoir development
• Understand how sequence stratigraphy can be applied to carbonates and mixed carbonate-siliciclastic systems
• Understand the geologic and engineering characteristics of carbonate pore systems
• Recognize the nature of carbonate porosity modification by diagenesis and the role of sea level and climate in porosity modification and gross reservoir heterogeneity
• Develop viable exploration and exploitation strategies In a carbonate terrain by working with actual subsurface data sets

Who Can Benefit

• Exploration and development geologists, exploration and development managers and geophysicists Engineers with some geologic background will benefit

Course content

• The basic nature of carbonate sediments and sedimentation
  • The efficiency of the carbonate factory and its influence on cyclicity and platform development
• Carbonate platform types
• Carbonate facies models
• Carbonate reservoir modeling
• Case histories from the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia
• Exercises from the US and Europe based on actual data sets
• Exploration and exploitation strategies in carbonate terrains

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