Business context
This field course offers an extensive series of outcrop examinations, field-based correlation, reservoir description, instruction and exercises. It aims to familiarize the student with the stratigraphy, shape, and scale of submarine fan bodies in a small active basin. The value of sequence stratigraphic approaches, paleo-bathymetric analyses, and structural setting of the basin on predicting the large-scale character of fan deposits will be addressed in an appraisal and development context.
Who should attend
The course is designed for multi-disciplinary audiences of exploration and production geologists, geophysicists and petroleum engineers who need a basic understanding of deep-marine sediments or an in-depth view of submarine fan architectural element.
Course content
Learning, methods and tools
At the end of the course participants can apply deep water depositional processes to unreavel turbidites in their own fields.
At most outcrops attendees work in small teams.This course takes place in the Tabernas basin in SE Spain.
Day by day programme
Day 1 - Mass Flow Processes. Introduction/basin-fill geometry.
Day 2 - Continuity of sheet-like turbidites. Mixed sand-mud turbidite system sheet reservoir sands.
Day 3 - Amalgamated turbidites and their pinch-out geometry.
Day 4 - Channelized turbidites. Channel complex, basin floor topography and erosional channels.
Day 5 - Main deep-marine feeder complex. Vertical and lateral changes in reservoir quality in main sediment conduit. Team exercise.