W017 North Sea Reservoirs Series - Triassic Reservoirs Overview
Course Facts
- Course Code:
- W017
- Duration:
- 1 days
- Type:
- Virtual Classroom
- Certificate:
- Certificate Issued Upon Completion
Summary
As the North Sea becomes more mature, and seismic data quality improves, deeper reservoir targets are coming in to focus. This is true for the Triassic of the North Sea, which is still being explored long after other plays have been designated as mature. Fundamental knowledge regarding Triassic depositional environments of each play will be shared by integrating core, well and seismic data with modern analogues and classic outcrops. Although the workshops are organised through the lens of reservoir geology, other petroleum systems elements will be discussed.
Duration and Training Method
This course has been designed to be delivered as a short but impactful learning experience over one day (via 2 webinar sessions). These courses can also be delivered via staggered webinars across a number of days (depending on the clients preferred delivery mode).
Participants will learn how to:
- Interpret the gross depositional environments of the Triassic of the North Sea, and understand the range of facies within dryland fluvial systems.
- Predict the controls on reservoir quality (facies and diagenesis).
- Build their knowledge of the dynamic reservoir behaviour of the key producing analogue fields (Snorre, Jade, Judy, Jasmine, Marnock, Skua).
- Interpret Triassic stratigraphy and sediment distribution in the context of endorheic basins.
- Predict the spatial relationship of reservoir sandstone facies in Distributive Fluvial Systems.
- Recognise both the uses and abuses of the continental sequence stratigraphic method.
The one day webinar format will be divided into 4 topics:
- Play based statistical overview and key play characteristics
- Gross Depositional Environments using core wireline, seismic, modern analogues and virtual outcrops
- Petroleum systems elements for exploration and development and production challenges
- Conclusions, take home messages and a look to the future
Who should attend
This course will benefit any subsurface professional working on the Triassic play in the North Sea or the West of Britain. The course is aimed primarily at geologists but geophysicists and reservoir engineers will also benefit from a deeper understanding of this reservoir type.
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Steven Andrews
Steven Andrews
Background
Steven is a part-time lecturer at the University of the Highlands and Islands and a geological consultant, based near Inverness, Scotland. His expertise lies in lacustrine, and more broadly continental sedimentary systems, which has been built on extensive study of the Devonian of northern Scotland and the Permian-Triassic of East Greenland and the North Atlantic.
After completing his PhD on the basin-scale response of linked lacustrine and fluvial systems to climatic fluctuations in 2008, Steven held research positions at CASP and the University of Aberdeen. During this time, he undertook 11 field campaigns in East Greenland, expanding his knowledge of lacustrine systems through work on the superbly exposed Triassic succession, while continuing his work on the Devonian of northern Scotland. Much of this work was undertaken with a focus on the petroleum systems of the north Atlantic, and latterly included the detailed study of the exhumed hydrocarbon traps of East Greenland. In 2017, Steven took up a lectureship at the University of Exeter and initiated collaboration with GUES which facilitated continued, and ongoing, research in East Greenland. Steven moved north in 2018 to work at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland.
Steven's research interests are focused on the response of sedimentary systems to climatic and environmental change, largely focusing on continental systems. This work allows the interrogration of climatic trends and increases our understanding of global climatic systems back through Earth's history. Furthermore, this research can be applied to regionally recorded climatic signals which can be important in correlation as well as the prediction of facies distribution and is therefore, significant for applied subsurface geology.
Affiliations and Accreditation
Honorary Research Associate – University of Aberdeen
PhD University of Aberdeen
BSc (Hons) University of Aberdeen - Geology and Petroleum Geology
Courses Taught
W013: North Sea Reservoirs Series - Devonian Reservoirs Overview
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