Rift Basins - Key Factors in Exploration, Development and Production

Who should attend:

Geophysicists, geologists and petroleum engineers involved with exploration and development in rift basins.

Overview:

This course is designed to provide an understanding of the importance of rift systems, and the potential issues surrounding exploration and development in these settings.

Rift petroleum systems are particularly complex. This course aims to identify the uncertainties surrounding deposition of reservoir, seal and source facies, in relation to rift structures, formation of traps, and hydrocarbon migration paths. The objective is to provide a geologic basis for improved strategies for rift exploration and development.

This course will be run as a workshop using real datasets.

Contents:

• Rift basins: this will be an extensive investigation of sedimentation in relation to structure in continental and marine depositional setting - across a range of climatic zones, mostly illustrated by modern systems.
• Exploration: in the light of our understanding of rift basins, we will examine case histories of exploration in rift basins. This will include both under-explored and developed rift settings.
• Development: we will follow a series of real world case studies examining development of rift system reservoirs.
• Production: a review of particular production issues encountered in selected rift settings.