Designed for: Geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, reservoir and production engineers, exploration-production managers, all team members involved in reservoir characterization, technicians working with clastic reservoirs. The course provides a refresher in new concepts in this field for geoscientists at a foundation level.

Course Content:

- Genetic stratigraphic analysis.
- Depositional architecture.
- Basins and units.
- Wireline logs and conventional cores.
- Seismic and sequence stratigraphy.
- Recognition of depositional systems.
- Process-response facies models.
- Integrated genetic stratigraphy.
- Analysis of clastic depositional systems.
- Alluvial fan.
- Fluvial.
- Eolian.
- Deltaic.
- Shoreline.
- Shelf.
- Deep-water systems.
- Incised sequences.
- Shelf margins and linked downslope systems.
- Characteristic log patterns.
- Prediction of reservoir size, shape, trend, quality.
- How to select optimum well locations.
- Lateral continuity and quality of seals .
- Sedimentary controls on porosity, permeability, saturation .
- Reservoir exploration and production case histories.