N416 Southeast Asian Carbonate Systems and Reservoirs
N416 Southeast Asian Carbonate Systems and Reservoirs
This course provides a thorough grounding in the concepts, terminology and models used to interpret, assess and predict carbonate reservoirs, with a particular focus on southeast Asian systems. Grain-, to seismic- to global-scale variability in modern and ancient carbonates as well as their pore systems evolution are evaluated. The emphasis is on understanding controlling influences to better predict the heterogeneity so commonly encountered in carbonate rocks and reservoirs.
A four-day classroom course, comprised of lectures with numerous exercises involving sample study, platform evaluation, sequence development and reservoir characterisation. If access can be gained to appropriate material, the classroom time will be augmented by examination of cored subsurface carbonate reservoir intervals.
Almost half of the world’s hydrocarbon production comes from carbonate reservoirs. In SE Asia, potentially hydrocarbon bearing carbonates occur in most marine basins, excellently placed with respect to source and seal rocks, often forming highly productive exploration targets. However, carbonate reservoirs are notoriously fickle and unpredictable. Carbonates in SE Asia differ significantly from their better-studied arid counterparts. The course is designed to cover all aspects of carbonates as reservoirs with particular emphasis on those developed in the SE Asian region in the Cenozoic.
The first part of the course will address aspects common to carbonate systems in general such as: the controls on their global distribution, the variety of carbonate depositional systems and platform types, carbonate mineralogy, grain types and classification, how carbonates differ from siliciclastics, diagenesis etc. Following the establishment of these principles discussion will be largely centered around the variety of SE Asian carbonate systems and their characteristics as reservoirs.
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Exploration and production staff working in carbonate reservoirs who require a better understanding of the controls on the distribution and heterogeneity of these reservoirs, particularly in southeast Asia carbonate systems.
The course is suitable for those with little prior knowledge beyond a basic understanding of geology, but will also challenge those with carbonate experience.
The Nautilus Training Alliance has a broad portfolio of carbonate courses that provide further training in aspects such as carbonate seismic interpretation, sequence stratigraphy, petrophysics, core evaluation, reservoir characterisation and modelling, please see our website at training.rpsgroup.com for further details.
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