The Practice of Seismic Stratigraphy in Deepwater Settings

• Houston, TX – October 28-30, 2024

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Geologists, geophysicists, petroleum engineers, supervisors, managers, and technical support staff who are interested in learning the fundamentals of deepwater (turbidite) depositional systems for application to development and exploration.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Play-based exploration as used in the oil industry relies on developing a thorough understanding of the evolution of key sedimentary sequences through time in the form of Gross Depositional Environment (GDE) maps. This course provides techniques for making GDE maps of deepwater stratigraphy, and the language concepts needed to articulate a basin-to-prospect-scale, deepwater depositional model needed for the quantification of prospect risk and uncertainty. The course integrates slope depositional process understanding with sequence stratigraphy, and seismic facies analysis used in the construction of GDE maps.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Understand the role GDE maps play in frontier exploration
• Achieve a general understanding of deepwater depositional models.
• Learn how to classify slope systems
• Practice classification and mapping of seismic facies, interpreting environments of deposition, and developing depositional models.
• Apply sequence stratigraphic concepts in an analysis of deepwater systems.
• Strengthen confidence in using depositional models to assemble appropriate analogs to benchmark distributions used as part of play and prospect evaluation processes.