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WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Geologists, geophysicists, exploration/production managers, and reservoir engineers.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Sequence stratigraphic concepts represent a powerful, but often underutilized (or worse unutilized), tool for exploration and development using well log and/or seismic data.  Seismic data especially can enhance understanding of the stratigraphic system and its development, from basin evolution to facies identification and prediction to reservoir quality characterization.  Insight into stratigraphic development inherently leads to a better understanding of hydrocarbon sourcing, migration, and entrapment; fault and stratal seal characterization; reservoir development, including diagenetic and paragenetic aspects.  Advanced seismic techniques such as spectral decomposition, pre-stack elastic inversion, and visualization allow generation of both lithologic and fluid attributes, determination of layer-based properties rather than traditional wavelet-controlled interface properties, and documentation of lithostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic relations including multidimensional chronostratigraphic (Wheeler) diagrams.  Examination of well log data from a sequence stratigraphic standpoint can likewise provide considerable information to understanding the stratigraphic role in petroleum exploration.

This course is practically based, including integrating multiple datasets, but with emphasis on seismic data and interpretation.  Numerous exercises supplement primary lectures for extensive interactive, hands-on experience.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Understanding of various correlation techniques, including lithostratigraphic, chronostratigraphic, biostratigraphic.
• Identification and characterization of sequence and intrasequence boundaries, including unconformities, flooding surfaces, in seismic, well log, and other datasets
• Characterization of intrasequence units, including systems tracts, facies changes, via morphological patterns (onlap, progradation, top lap, truncations), seismic character (sharpness or gradational aspects of amplitude events, peak-trough alternations), well log motif (fining upwards, coarsening upwards, pro-, ag-, and retrogradational), and dip patterns (internal architecture)
• Construction and interpretation of chronostratigraphic (Wheeler) diagrams
• Understanding of source-to-sink concepts and that observation of events in one domain serve to allow prediction in other domains