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Aims
Turbidites occur in many different settings from lakes to marine
basins
and form important reservoirs in many basins. They can
comprise
single beds or a wide variety of deposits with complex
stacking
patterns. This course will provide an overview of turbidite and
related
deposits, including their depositional mechanisms and settings,
facies,
geometries, architecture and controls on reservoir quality.
Benefits
You will learn:
The characteristics and depositional mechanisms of the
different
types of gravity flow deposits including turbidites,
megaturbidites,
and debrites.
The results and importance of dewatering processes from
water-
escape pipes to large scale sand injection complexes.
The different types of sandbody geometry and how they relate
to
depositional mechanisms and setting.
How allocyclic and autocyclic mechanisms affect deposition,
stacking patterns and architecture.
What controls reservoir quality within turbidite reservoirs from
the
pore-scale to reservoir scale.
Who Should Attend?
The course is of value to geologists, production geologists,
exploration
geologists, seismic interpreters, petrophysicists, and
geomodellers
who need a broad overview and understanding of turbidite
reservoirs.
Duration - 1 day
Course Instructor
Dr. Carol Pauley
Team Leader, Integrated Reservoir Description, Subsurface
Scotland -
Senergy
Carol joined Senergy in 2011 and has over 30 years experience
in
the petroleum industry. She graduated from Durham University
in
1976 with a first class honours degree in geology before
completing
a PhD at Liverpool University where she specialised in
sedimentology,
stratigraphy and structure incorporating turbidites and other
clastic
deposits. Whilst with the Geochem Group she was the
preferred
contractor for Shell UK Limited for the sedimentological
analysis of
turbidite cores, and her specialisation in turbidites continued
with
subsequent employers. Carol has published on megaturbidites
following her work for Phillips Petroleum Company in the
Central
North Sea. After forming her own company Pauley
Geoconsultants
Limited in 1996 she continued consulting for Shell UK
especially
on turbidite fields in the Central Graben including the Scoter
and
Merganser fields, and completed a project for Shell UK on
the
influence of salt structures on turbidite deposition and
reservoir
quality. Carol was also a consultant for Talisman UK,
specifically on
Central North Sea assets and was the geologist on the Orion
Field,
comprising a Paleocene turbidite reservoir. She also
participated
in other Talisman projects in the Central North Sea, notably on
the
evaluation of Paleocene turbidite prospects and leads in the
greater
Clyde-Orion area; on the Jenny diaper prospect comprising
turbidite
and chalk reservoirs; and on the turbidite reservoirs of the
Tweedsmuir
field. More recently she has worked in Cairo for over a year on
BP
operated assets offshore Nile Delta involving a variety of
turbidite
deposits.
Turbidite Reservoirs
Quartz cement within pores
Core log of a turbidite reservoir
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Course description
This one day course is designed to provide a concise overview
of
turbidite reservoirs and comprises a set of modules presented by
Dr.
Carol Pauley.
Modules comprise:
The depositional mechanisms and characteristics of the
different
gravity flow deposits including high-density turbidites,
low-density
turbidites, debrites, megaturbidites, slurry flows,
fine-grained
turbidites, turbidite-debrite couplets, and hyperpycnites.
The effects of dewatering and deformation in the syn- to
post-
depositional spectrum including dish structures, water-escape
pipes,
shear folds, sandstone dykes, mudstone breccias, micofaults,
slides,
slumps and injection complexes.
Depositional settings, facies associations and geometries.
Vertical sequences, stacking patterns, allocyclic and
autocyclic
controls.
Controls on the reservoir quality of turbidite reservoirs
including
depositional texture and composition, facies and diagenesis.
The Forties turbidite fan system, North Sea.
Turbidite fan models
From Berg, R, 1986. Reservoir Sandstones.
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