Remote Technical Sessions
Technical Sessions are two-hour long short courses on selected topics.
Participants of the live sessions will receive a training certificate, a literature list and access to the recording. Recordings will also be available to the public for a fee.
Please register for the session and pay only AFTER seat conformation.
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Regular price: 50 USD. Discount* price: 40 USD
*second and more session, unemployed
“Applied Sequence Stratigraphy – Tips and Techniques”
“Best Practices in Applied Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy”
“Basic Cross-section Balancing Techniques”
Tue 21 July @ 10-12 CT
Instructor: Katie Joe McDonough, PhD
This Extended Session introduces sequence stratigraphic concepts by reviewing sedimentologic processes and the resulting facies, depositional systems and cyclicity. For better predictability at the regional and reservoir scale, ground your interpretation in sequence stratigraphy. We explore recognition of vertical and lateral stratigraphic signatures in various data sets.
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Thu 23 July @ 10-12 CT Component grains, textures, classification, facies Cycle recognition in platform, ramp, shelf, deep water environments Cycles, parasequences, systems tracts, sequences Stacking patterns, unconformities, condensed sections Stratal geometries and systems tracts in carbonates Correlation scenarios and examples from various basins Petroleum systems recognition in carbonates
Instructor: Katie Joe McDonough, PhD
This Extended Session explores sedimentologic processes and cyclic facies successions in carbonate environments. How best to exploit this cyclicity to achieve our goal of reservoir predictability? We emphasize building the stratigraphic interpretation from a sedimentologic foundation.
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Wed 29 July 2020 @ 10-12 CT
Instructor: Catalina Luneburg, PhD
This Extended Session introduces the basic concepts and practical methods of cross section balancing. We will discuss the process of constructing a cross section and applying rules of line-length and area balancing as well as the underlying concepts and kinematic models. Examples from different tectonic settings are used to illustrate practical applications.
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“Overview of Typical Thrust-Belt Architectures“
“Complexity & 3D Structural Variation
in Thrust Belts“
“Thrust Mechanics & Kinematics:
Implications for HC Systems“
Mon 3 August, 2020 10-12 hrs CT
Instructor: Steven Boyer, PhD
First technical session from the series “Thrust-belt Architecture & Evolution: Implications for HC systems”. Overview of thrust belt architecture, structural variation, and fold-fault styles as they are typical for foreland fold-and thrust belts.
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Wed 5 August, 2020 10-12 hrs CT
Instructor: Steven Boyer, PhD
Second technical session from the series “Thrust-belt Architecture & Evolution: Implications for HC systems”. Complexity of structures in 3-D and discussion of the many cases that don’t fit the accepted models.
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Fri 7 August, 2020 10-12 hrs CT
Instructor: Steven Boyer, PhD
Third technical session from the series “Thrust-belt Architecture & Evolution: Implications for HC systems”. Structural evolution of thrust belts as controlled by mechanics, the sequence of deformation and how it affects HC generation, migration and entrapment.
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“Practical Guide to Interpretation Accuracy”
“Interpreting hanging wall rollover structures“
“Fracture Systems and Reservoir-Scale Structural Geology from Borehole Images”
Tue 25 August, 2020 10-12 hrs CT Risk and uncertainty in geologic interpretation Challenges of different data types Quality control while interpreting What is a valid interpretation Tools and techniques
Instructor: Catalina Luneburg, PhD
An accurate interpretation is key to reducing risk and uncertainty in practically all exploration workflows. This technical session teaches the practical steps to create a valid and accurate interpretation from the start and quality control the results. We will show the concepts and techniques involved in every step while constructing a real-world example section.
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Thu 27 August, 2020 10-12 hrs CT
Instructor: Catalina Luneburg, PhD
Hangingwall rollover anticlines are important HC traps. This technical session discusses structural geometries, mechanics and compatibility problems that define the rollover shape, as well as listric normal fault systems, growth structures and balancing techniques.
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TBD, 2020 10-12 hrs CT How and why to identify important rock fracture types. How to invert faults visible in images for paleostrain/paleostress and why this is useful. Basic neostress (present-day stress) interpretation. Interpreting complex fault zones and faults. Defining reservoir-scale structures.
Instructor:Alfred Lacazette, PhD
Electrical image logs (FMI, STAR, EMI, CMI), acoustic image logs (UBI, CBIL, CAST), and optical televiewer logs are a rich source of data for structural and sedimentological studies, especially for natural rock fracture and geomechanical studies. Sadly, most interpretations are overly simplistic and hence are of limited value to clients. This seminar will review
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using image logs to: generate fracture system characterizations for well test, reservoir, and, hydraulic fracture modeling; determine paleostress history to aid quantitative structural restorations; determine reservoir-scale structure; and determine the present-day stress state.