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SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF UNCONVENTIONAL

ABOUT THE COURSE

Due to the homogeneous nature and limited thickness of most unconventional resource plays, seismic has very limited applicability. Therefore, this is not a Seismic Stratigraphy course and the bulk of our time will be investigating these reservoirs using well logs (including borehole image logs), core and thin-sections. Each day of the course will be devoted to one play type with case-studies from popular oil and gas fields within North America.The instructor will provide a small collection of well logs and core photos, but we strongly urge participants to bring paper copies of their own data to work on. These data will not be shared with anyone and the instructor will only review the work done by participants.The course is divided into 4 days of lecturing and a 1-day core workshop on unconventional resource plays. Usually we use the Bakken and Three Forks Formations to illustrate the practice of sequence analysis, if however all participants happen to work a different play type, we will be glad to arrange the last day’s workshop to better suit your learning objectives.

LEARNER OUTCOMES

✔ Role of sequence stratigraphy in horizontal wells.
✔ Sequence stratigraphy of tight sands.
✔ Sequence stratigraphy of mixed-carbonate-silciclastic successions.
✔ Seismic sequence stratigraphy.
✔ Core analysis.

❶ Day One	❷ Day Two	❸ Day Three
• Review of sequence stratigraphic surfaces and Systems tracts in marginal marine siliciclastic successions.	• Review of sequence stratigraphic surfaces and systems tracts in carbonates.	• Case studies from carbonate mudrock reservoirs of the Williston Basin including the Bakken & 3 Forks.
Lunch Break	Lunch Break	Lunch Break
• Case studies from several tight oil sandstones from different Rocky Mountain Foreland Basins. The role of sequence stratigraphy in horizontal well planning this includes the Frontier, Teapot, Parkman, Muddy (J-Sandstone), Gallup and Tocito	• Case studies from carbonate mudrock reservoirs of the Permian Basin including the Avalon, Wolfcamp, Bone Springs and Spraberry	• Introduction to mudrock sequence stratigraphy

❶ Day One

❷ Day Two

❸ Day Three

• Review of sequence stratigraphic surfaces and
Systems tracts in marginal marine siliciclastic
successions.

• Review of sequence stratigraphic surfaces
and systems tracts in carbonates.

• Case studies from carbonate mudrock reservoirs of
the Williston Basin including the Bakken & 3 Forks.

Lunch Break

• Case studies from several tight oil sandstones from
     different Rocky Mountain Foreland Basins. The role
     of sequence stratigraphy in horizontal well planning
     this includes the Frontier, Teapot, Parkman, Muddy
     (J-Sandstone), Gallup and Tocito

• Case studies from carbonate mudrock reservoirs of
the Permian Basin including the Avalon, Wolfcamp,
Bone Springs and Spraberry

• Introduction to mudrock sequence stratigraphy

❹ Day Four	❺ Day Five
• Sequence stratigraphy of mixed-carbonate- silciclastic successions	• Core workshop(Bakken and Three Forks) at the Denver USGS. If this course is run outside the US then the final day focuses on client projects
Lunch Break	Lunch Break
• Case studies from salt-encased sandstones of the Paradox Formation	• Question and answer session

❹ Day Four

❺ Day Five

• Sequence stratigraphy of mixed-carbonate-
silciclastic successions

• Core workshop(Bakken and Three Forks) at the Denver
USGS. If this course is run outside the US then the final
day focuses on client projects

Lunch Break

• Case studies from salt-encased sandstones of the
Paradox Formation

• Question and answer session

SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF UNCONVENTIONAL

ABOUT THE COURSE

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

COURSE DURATION: 5 DAYS

LEARNER OUTCOMES

COURSE DISTRIBUTION

YOUR INSTRUCTUR

Dr. Ali Jaffri, PhD

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