Field Courses
The 6-days course combines field activities with in-class lectures and exercises. Exercises in the field will focus on description of DW lithofacies, stratal geometries and recognizing key stratigraphic surfaces, emphasizing practical applications. Participants will also learn to describe cores, integrate core and well-log information with seismic to generate high-resolution EoD maps of reservoirs in different settings. Engineering data is used to demonstrate how to improve prediction of reservoir performance. Cores, well-logs and seismic examples are compare to and contrast with outcrops to help participants to extrapolate 2-D outcrop information to 3-D views of reservoir scale depositional systems.
Submarine canyons and deep-water channels are the primary conduits for the transfer of coarse sediments from the shelf to deep-water fans and they are today major targets for petroleum exploration. Southern California has had a long and complex geologic history that has involved many episodes of deep-water sedimentation in a variety of settings ranging from the Paleozoic passive margin of the North American craton to Mesozoic forearc and arc settings to Cenozoic transform, pull-apart, and continental borderland basins. These settings feature deep-water deposits in which both large and small submarine channels and fans played major roles as sediment transport routes and sites of sedimentation.
The 5-days course combines field activities with in-class lectures and exercises. Exercises in the field emphasize practical application and will focus on description of DW lithofacies, stratal geometries and recognizing key stratigraphic surfaces. Participants will also learn to describe cores, integrate core and well-log information with seismic to generate high-resolution Environment of Deposition maps of reservoirs in different settings. Additionally, participants will learn how to integrate engineering and production data to improve prediction of reservoir performance. Cores, well-logs and seismic examples are compare to and contrast with outcrops to help participants to extrapolate 2-D outcrop information to 3-D views of reservoir scale depositional systems.