A Field Course with Classroom Sessions
June 1-5, 2009
South-central Pyrenees, Catalonia - Spain
This course offers an integrated presentation of a range of technical issues associated with the characterisation of carbonate reservoirs.
A combination of classic exposures supported by classroom
sessions is used to describe and explain carbonate facies and architecture, litho-stratigraphy, diagenesis and fracture character.
The South-central Pyrenees offer an internationally renowned
diversity of outcrop analogues for hydrocarbon reservoirs. All types
of carbonate depositional environments in a continent to basin
transition can be investigated within a short distance.
The exceptionally well-preserved relationship between deform-
ational structures and syntectonic sedimentation allows detailed studies of the interactions between tectonics and basin evolution
both at outcrop and seismic scale. In addition, fault and fracture
type, scale and distribution can be studied in the context of different lithological, diagenetic and structural settings.
More on The Pyrenees
The five-day field course with classroom modules will cover both Fracture Analysis and Carbonate & Mixed Environments.
Course Content
- Carbonate platform types: from Cretaceous rimmed shelf
to Eocene homoclinal ramp
- Shelf: shallowing-up cycles, calcarenite shoals, tidal and
wavy sands, hardgrounds
- Shelf margin: reef core clinoforms, rudist mounds, transition
to marls
- Slope: autochthonous facies, slumps, breccias, turbidites
- Jurassic dolomites
- Fracture types and origins in carbonates
- Fracture hierarchy and connectivity
- Fracture attributes and controls on distribution
- Classroom sessions on structural geology for fracture characterisation, issues and challenges in developing fractured reservoirs, and case histories from the industry
- Dates
- June 1-5, 2009
- Location
- South-central Pyrenees, begins and ends in Barcelona
- Price
- € 2,500
This includes transfers from and to Barcelona, transportation by 4WD or minibus, field lunches, field guide and insurance
- Instructor
- Jon Gutmanis (GeoScience Limited)
- Field Guide
- Lluís Ardèvol (Geoplay)
- Contact
- For enrolment and further information please contact:
Lluís Ardèvol - info@geoplay.cat or
Jon Gutmanis - gutmanis@geoscience.co.uk
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