Designed for: Exploration and development geologists, exploration and development managers and geophysicists. Engineers with some geologic background will benefit.

Course Content:

- The basic nature of carbonate sediments and sedimentation.
- The efficiency of the carbonate factory and its influence on cyclicity and platform development .
- Carbonate platform types.
- Carbonate facies models.
- Basic concepts of sequence stratigraphy including eustasy, relative sea level, accommodation model, and sequence stratigraphy    as a predictive tool.
- Relationship of stratigraphic patterns to changes in subsidence rates as driven by regional and earth scale tectonic processes.
- Sequence stratigraphic models including the ramp, the rimmed shelf, the escarpment margin, the isolated platform and the    mixed carbonate-siliciclastic shelf.
- The characteristics of carbonate pore systems and their geologic and engineering classifications including petrophysics and rock    fabric.
- Sea level, diagenesis, porosity evolution and its distribution at the time of burial.
- The fate of early formed porosity during burial in a hydrotectonic framework.
- Carbonate reservoir modeling.
- Case histories from the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia.
- Exercises from the US and Europe based on actual data sets.
- Exploration and exploitation strategies in carbonate terrains.