Biostratigraphy: Application in exploration, development and production

Who should attend?

Explorationists involved in the assimilation and use of biostratigraphic data during sequence stratigraphic studies, basin analysis and drilling, and development geologists investigating correlation of reservoir units.

Overview:

The course has been designed to enable the explorationist\development and production geologist to evaluate and integrate biostratigraphic data. The increasingly precise control required by explorationists in sequence stratigraphic studies can only be achieved through the application of detailed biostratigraphy. The same principles apply in the use of biostratigraphy in development and production geology, including biosteering of horizontal wells. This course has an extensive practical element with emphasis on how to apply biostratigraphic data in order to enhance well/field correlations, seismic interpretation, sequence recognition, environmental control within sequences and biosteering.

Content:

• Introduction
  Sampling techniques/programmes; types of microfossils to use; analytical techniques; integration with other disciplines.
• High-resolution biostratigraphy
  What it is and how it works; areas of application; identification of chronostratigraphic events; environmental reconstruction using high resolution data; problems and data presentation.
• Horizontal wells: Biosteering
  Theory; development of method; creation of high resolution zonation schemes; wellsite operations, problems and case histories.
• Correlation, depositional sequences and sequence stratigraphy
  Correlation and interpretation problems; precision and flexibility; grouping rocks with depositional sequences; identification of sequence boundaries and integration with chronostratigraphic control; integration of environmental data and interpretation of depositional patterns of sequences and systems tracts; integration with wireline log data.

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