Overview

An Integrated Approach to the Exploration and Evaluation of Conventional and Unconventional Resources - Basin Analysis Workshop

  About the Course

 Basin analysis requires explorationists to take a comprehensive strategy, whether they are analyzing conventional or unconventional resource plays. It is improper and false to imply that any basin's tectonic-thermal-sedimentologic evolution is a known truth, or even that all basins follow the same straightforward and ambiguous theories. As a result, this five-day course does not just give a list of global basins. Instead, this workshop gives participants the theory, techniques, and hands-on experience they need to create and improve their own unique basin evaluation and modeling methodologies. Case studies and recent discoveries based on geology, geophysical, and geochemical data sets from around the world are included as real-world issues for workshop examination and in-depth team debate. Students also create and analyze their own 1D and 2D basin models using BASINMOD, a widely used basin modeling program. Each participant will receive one personal computer at an extra cost.

 This course builds on the topics from the prior week by integrating petrophysics and seismic stratigraphy to a more in-depth analysis of a range of international plays when it is delivered as an internal two-week format.

Target Audience

 For the regional to local evaluation of conventional and unconventional resource plays in sedimentary basins, geoscientists, especially those in new ventures or asset evaluation, who require a non-superficial but practical application of an integrated variety of state-of-the-art geological/geochemical/geophysical tools.

Course Objectives

 Participants will pick up skills in:

•  Utilizing practical geology, geophysics, and geochemistry techniques, systematically evaluate how a basin's conventional and unconventional petroleum system criticals have changed over time and space.
• Create prediction basin models that can be used for exploration by dissecting a basin over time and space.
•  Tectonic subsidence analysis can be used to assess the geomechanical principles governing a basin's history of burial.
• Find out a basin's thermal history and how it affects source maturity dynamics.
• Link the quantity and quality of organic sources to sedimentary environments and processes.
• Draw out the migration routes throughout time and space.
• Describe the critical characteristics of clastic, carbonate, and unconventional reservoirs.
• Consider the seal/trap quality.
• Create and evaluate a chart of petroleum events. Make the kinetic model geovalidated.
• Use Monte Carlo methods to rank and measure the risk associated with the petroleum system both deterministically and stochastically.
• Make a decision tree and analyze it using geological and economic risk variables. classify basins for development and exploration
• Choose the best stratigraphic and geographic locations to explore conventional and unconventional resources within a basin.
• Work as a team to create a 2D basin model that incorporates virtual wells produced by both well control and seismic data to construct and present a potential.

 Course Outlines

• the ESSENTIALS OF GEOMECHANICS
• Dickinson, Wilson Cycle Paradigm (1974).
• Types of Basin The Curve of Burial History
• Compositional vs.
• Rheological Definitions the alpha and beta of ripping elasticity
• Why Basins Uplift/Subside Analysis of Tectonic Subsidence
•   Environmental criticisms
• The primary parameter is heat flow.
• Geographical Gradients
• Integrating Geothermal Gradients and Heat Flow

 GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS

•  Number (Om)
• Organofactory (quality) Maturity Synthesis
•  Migratory Issues
•  (Micromigration) ejection (Macromigration) Migration Rules for Building Remigration Pathways in Relation to Basin Elasticity

 RESOURCE ESSENTIALS

•  Clastics, Typical Reservoir Quality Quality of Conventional Reservoirs, Less Quality of Conventional Reservoirs Overview of an unconventional resource Sequence Motifs
•  Critical Seal and Trap Elements
•  (Cap Rock) Top Seals lateral seals or faults Permeability
• Size of the seal Seal Litography
• Seal integrity and pressures Assessment of Seal Ductility Synthesis

 TIMING IS ESSENTIAL

•  Examples of Kingston's Basin Classification Events Chart: Reviewing the Basin Classification

 DECISION-MAKING AND RISK

•  Standard Concepts
• Defined Petroleum Reserves Definitions of Stochastic-Deterministic Georisk Quantitative Deterministic Qualitative Risk Assessment
•  Decision trees and Quantitative Stochastic Monte Carlo Game Theory
•  The petroleum system as a prism