Shale Reservoir Core Workshop: Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Assessment of Organic-Rich Mudrocks

Disciplines

Geoscience

Category

Petrophysics • Subsurface • Foundational • Unconventional Reservoir • Reservoir Characterization • Geochemical

Format

Classroom 

Available

Private 

Who Should Attend

Geoscientists, reservoir engineers, and managers who desire to develop a better understanding of the geological, mechanical, and chemical character of mudrock systems and how mudrock attributes vary in the context of shale gas/oil reservoir exploitation.

Description

This three-day core workshop will comprise classroom sessions, core viewing and core descriptions exercises. The workshop will focus on rock-based interpretation of mudrocks incorporating class room lectures and core examinations. Participants will learn how to apply mudrock depositional, sedimentological, and sequence stratigraphic principles and become gain an overview of geochemical, petrophysical, geomechanical and fracture classification principles to exploration areas and production assets in shale basins. Subsurface data from a variety of oil and gas shale plays will be examined. Day 3 will consist of viewing selected intervals of cores from the Bureau of Economic Geology (ie., Eagle Ford, Haynesville, Bossier, Barnett, Wolfcamp).

PLEASE NOTE: DAY 3 IS OPTIONAL FOR CUSTOMIZED IN-HOUSE TRAINING. ALSO NOTE THAT THIS COURSE IS OFFERED IN BOTH HOUSTON, TX AND AUSTIN, TX.

Learning Outcomes

• Characterize mudrock facies and identify facies and sequences in cores and be able to tie those to well-log character.
• Assess controls on source rock deposition, reservoir heterogeneities, and determine frackable intervals.
• Recognize and quantify the rock properties that will have an impact on completion success.
• Learn how to characterize shale reservoirs

Course Content

DAY 1

• Approaches to understanding the geology of shale-gas/oil plays
• Overview of organic-rich mudrock systems
  • Carbonate-dominated systems
  • Clastic-dominated systems
  • Mud-dominated systems
  • Examples from different North American resource plays
• Techniques for characterization of mudrocks (overview)
  • Sedimentology
  • Sequence Stratigraphy
  • Geochemistry
  • Petrophysics
  • Seismic and Geomechanics
  • Fractures
• Factors determining organic-rich deposits
  • Paleogeography
  • Ocean chemistry
  • Climate
  • Modern examples (Cariaco Basin)

 

DAY 2

• Stratigraphic and depositional processes in shale basins:
• Stratigraphic framework
  • Regional correlations and variations
  • Sequence stratigraphy (shelf to basin correlations)
  • Exercise
• Interpretation of depositional environments in shale basins:
• Facies interpretations
  • Calcareous shales (Haynesville, Eagle Ford example)
  • Siliceous shales (Barnett, Bakken example)
  • Clay-rich shales (Tuscaloosa Marine Shale; Tertiary Shale)
• Mudrock sedimentology
  • Sedimentary structures and depositional processes
• Inter- and intrabasinal variations – examples from different shale basins (Haynesville, Barnett, Eagle Ford, Marcellus, Bakken, Wolfcamp)

 

DAY 3

• Core viewing: Introduction to selected intervals of cores from the Bureau of Economic Geology
  • Eagle Ford
  • Haynesville
  • Bossier
  • Barnett
  • Wolfcamp

In-Person

Length

3 Days

Virtual

Length

Not Available

Upcoming Events

Check back in periodically for updated Public and Live Online course dates! To schedule an In-House course, contact SCA’s Training Department at training@scacompanies.com.

Instructor

Ursula Hammes, PhD

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