The course is designed for geoscientists, geophysicists, biostratigraphers, and engineers needing a fundamental understanding of the principles and applications of sequence stratigraphy, and to apply them to exploration and production projects. The course will also benefit graduate students interested in learning the principles, concepts and methods of sequence stratigraphy.
Objectives
Sequence stratigraphy provides a framework for the integration of geological, geophysical, biostratigraphic and engineering data, with the aim of predicting the distribution of reservoir, source rock and seal lithologies. It gives the geoscientist a powerful predictive tool for regional basin analysis, shelf-to-basin correlation, and characterization of reservoir heterogeneity. This course will examine the underlying geological principles, processes and terminology related to sequence stratigraphic interpretation. The strength of this course is the application of these basic principles to subsurface datasets in a series of well-founded exercises.