CARBONATE RESERVOIR PLAYS AND PETROLEUM POTENTIAL
COURSE AND WORKSHOP
APRIL 8 - 12, 2012Instructor : M. DARWISH, Ph.D.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The course is suitable primarily to petroleum geologists and geophysicts working for oil exploration and development.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course introduces the essential knowledge of hydrocarbon plays in the carbonate realm in the framework of the petroleum system concept. The course will discuss the main parameters that control and characterize the carbonate reservoirs (depositional, diagenetic and post uplift karstification). The main transformation history of the carbonate components (limestone and dolostones) will be the main focus in controlling the reservoir quality. The hydrocarbon play concept and petroleum potential in the different carbonate suites (lacustrine, karst domain, shallow marine platform, reef build-ups to deep marine settings) will be discussed and presented with examples. Carbonate reservoir quality prediction in dolomitized build-ups and pore types qualification scales (large, medium and small) will be discussed and presented for modelling techniques. Reference to reservoir degradation and compartmentalization below unconformities and related stratigraphic cyclicity will be also in the focus of the present course.
COURSE CONTENT
1. Petroleum System Concept and Plays
- Structural Plays.
- Stratigraphic/sedimentologic plays.
- Plays in a framework of sequence and cyclostratigraphy.
- Depositional processes.
- Mineralogy
- Diagenesis
- Marine.
- Meteoric.
- Burial.
- Dolomitization.
- Pore types and reservoir quality
- Methodology and modelling (process oriented and empirical)
3. Unconformities and Porosity in Carbonate Sequences (2nry porosity development and differential cementation processes; water-rock interaction)
4. Predicting Reservoir Properties in Dolomites (Build-ups)
- Methodology and techniques.
- Facies and diagenesis.
- Pore types in partly dolomitized limestones and dolostones (mouldic, crystalline, …).
- Reservoir character in dolostones,, build-ups proper (crystalline fracture, vugs, breccia …etc.).
- Reservoir character in build-ups margin and slopes (granular, crystalline ….. ).
- Scale distribution (large, medium, small).
5. Controls on pore systems, types and distribution.)
- Depositional.
- Diagenetic (dolomitization, cementation, pressure solution, fluids emplacement).
6. Case Studies (Egyptian and Surrounding Regions.
LOCATION
First day will be held at the Sofitel Hotel, in Cairo. The remaining days will be held at Ain Sukhna on the Western Side of the Gulf of Suez to continue the course.
COURSE FEES
FIVE DAYS U.S.$ 1800
Inclusive of refreshment and lunch at the Sofitel Hotel. Transport and accommodation at Ain Sukhna.