D073 Integration of Sedimentology, Petrophysics and Seismic Interpretation for Exploration and Production of Carbonate Systems (Distance Learning)
D073 Integration of Sedimentology, Petrophysics and Seismic Interpretation for Exploration and Production of Carbonate Systems (Distance Learning)
Business Impact: Participants of this course will have the necessary knowledge for assessing different plays in carbonates as they will be familiar with a wide range of carbonate depositional environments. The course outlines what aspects are different from clastics and thus improves success in exploration and reservoir characterization of carbonates. The petrophsyical portion will give the participants the expertise to better assess uncertainties in predicting reservoir properties with geophysical methods such as saturation using AVO and porosity from seismic inversion.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of necessary concepts for seismic interpretation in carbonate systems for successful exploration and production. Newest concepts in depositional and microbial processes in shallow and deep water carbonate environments, rock physics, and sequence stratigraphy are presented though a combination of lectures, case studies and exercises. The participants will be exposed to many aspects of seismic stratigraphic interpretation related to carbonate reservoirs in traditional, unconventional and lacustrine environments.
A virtual classroom course divided into 8 webinar sessions, comprising lectures, discussion, case studies and exercises to be completed by participants during and between sessions.
Participants will learn to:
Carbonate Depositional Systems: morphologies of shelf, isolated platform, ramp:
Seismic Geometry and Facies in Carbonate Systems:
Carbonate Depositional Systems: slope and basin:
Carbonate Petrophysics:
Carbonate Microbialites:
Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy:
(Seismic) Carbonate Reservoir Characterization:
Challenges in Carbonate Exploration:
Mixing of Carbonate and Siliciclastics
This course is aimed at motivated geoscientists working on carbonate plays, prospects and fields, who are seeking to build upon their knowledge of carbonate systems and skills in seismic interpretation related to carbonate reservoirs.
Foundation Application level course N020 (Carbonate Depositional Systems: Reservoir Sedimentology and Diagenesis) provides a comprehensive classroom introduction to the petroleum geology of carbonates.
Complementary courses include N091 (Carbonate Reservoir Architecture and Applied Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy, West Texas, USA), N494 (Olio-Miocene Carbonate Systems: Examples from Southern Italy (Apulia, Italy) and N059 (Applied Carbonate Geology: Carbonate Facies and Reservoirs, Mallorca, Spain).
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Background
Gregor P. Eberli holds the Robert N. Ginsburg Endowed Chair in Marine Geology in the Department of Marine Geoscience at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami. Eberli is a leading researcher in various aspects of carbonate geology and geophysics. His research interests include carbonate sedimentology, seismic stratigraphy, and petrophysics of carbonates. He is recognized for revealing the complicated internal architecture of Great Bahama Bank and changing the view of the growth pattern of such carbonate platforms. He was the Co-Chief scientists on drilling expeditions of the International Ocean Discovery Program to the Bahamas and the Maldives that helped assess the effects of sea level fluctuations and ocean currents on carbonate platforms and the adjacent basin.
In his laboratory, he conducts petrophysical experiments that help to better understand the log and seismic signature of carbonates. In particular, he explores the influence of pore structure on sonic velocity and resistivity in carbonates and integrates these petrophysical analyses into the sedimentologic and stratigraphic analyses for improved reservoir characterization.
He is the director of the CSL – Center for Carbonate Research, which conducts basic research in sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, petrophysics, and geochemistry in modern and ancient carbonate systems to enhance prediction of facies and petrophysical properties in subsurface carbonates.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland
MSc Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer - 1996/97
JOI/USSAC Distinguished, Lecturer - 1997-1998
EAGE Distinguished Lecturer - 2005 - 2006
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Courses Taught
N073: Workshop in Geological Seismic Interpretation: Carbonate Systems
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