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Play Fairway Analysis Workshop

Who should attend?

Geologists and geophysicists with a background in exploration and field appraisal who wish to extend their knowledge by undertaking a fully integrated, multi-disciplinary analysis of a hydrocarbon-bearing basin.

Overview:

The course will follow a strict workshop format with minimal formal lectures. Using the non-proprietary Robertson database, attendees will make regional interpretations for the assessment of hydrocarbon prospectivity and exploration potential, and map play fairways. The database will include seismic lines, depth/time and depth/structure maps, potential fields (gravity-magnetics) data, records of performance of proven wells, information on shows and test data, together with comprehensive biostratigraphic, geochemical, structural and sedimentological data.

Content:

  • Basin formation and controls on basin stratigraphy The lithostratigraphic mechanisms of basin formation in a plate tectonic context (extension, compression and strike-slip processes) and the role of eustasy, palaeoclimate and biotic evolution as basic concepts in basin analysis; the significance of tectonic versus eustatic processes; practical sessions involving the identification of sequence stratigraphic components and the construction and use of subsidence curves.
  • Basin classification and the concept of depositional style Description and evaluation of the various classification schemes and establishment of basin fill sequence types; practical sessions on the reconstruction of basin fill sequences from basic stratigraphic, seismic and sedimentological data; chronostratigraphic summaries of the relationships of basin fill components.
  • The application of basin analysis to petroleum play assessment Generation of hydrocarbon charge systems and identification of reservoirs, seals and traps within sedimentary basins to create hydrocarbon plays; practical sessions on play assessment and the mapping of play fairways.
  • Workshop sessions These will be based on a number of sedimentary basins.