Turbidite Reservoirs by Senergy

www.senergyworld.
com/training
Turbidite Reservoirs
Aims
Turbidites occur in many different settings from lakes to marine basins
and form important reservoirs in many basins. They can comprise
single beds or a wide variety of deposits with complex stacking
patterns. This course will provide an overview of turbidite and related
deposits, including their depositional mechanisms and settings, facies,
geometries, architecture and controls on reservoir quality.
Benefits
You will learn:
The characteristics and depositional mechanisms of the different
types of gravity flow deposits including turbidites, megaturbidites,
and debrites.
The results and importance of dewatering processes from waterescape pipes to large scale sand injection complexes.
Quartz cement within pores
The different types of sandbody geometry and how they relate to

depositional mechanisms and setting.
Duration - 1 day
How allocyclic and autocyclic mechanisms affect deposition,

stacking patterns and architecture.
Dr. Carol Pauley
What controls reservoir quality within turbidite reservoirs from the

pore-scale to reservoir scale.
Core log of a turbidite reservoir
Who Should Attend?

The course is of value to geologists, production geologists, exploration
geologists, seismic interpreters, petrophysicists, and geomodellers
who need a broad overview and understanding of turbidite reservoirs.
Course Instructor
Team Leader, Integrated Reservoir Description, Subsurface Scotland Senergy

Carol joined Senergy in 2011 and has over 30 years experience in
the petroleum industry. She graduated from Durham University in
1976 with a first class honours degree in geology before completing
a PhD at Liverpool University where she specialised in sedimentology,
stratigraphy and structure incorporating turbidites and other clastic
deposits. Whilst with the Geochem Group she was the preferred
contractor for Shell UK Limited for the sedimentological analysis of
turbidite cores, and her specialisation in turbidites continued with
subsequent employers. Carol has published on megaturbidites
following her work for Phillips Petroleum Company in the Central
North Sea. After forming her own company Pauley Geoconsultants
Limited in 1996 she continued consulting for Shell UK especially
on turbidite fields in the Central Graben including the Scoter and
Merganser fields, and completed a project for Shell UK on the
influence of salt structures on turbidite deposition and reservoir
quality. Carol was also a consultant for Talisman UK, specifically on
Central North Sea assets and was the geologist on the Orion Field,
comprising a Paleocene turbidite reservoir. She also participated
in other Talisman projects in the Central North Sea, notably on the
evaluation of Paleocene turbidite prospects and leads in the greater
Clyde-Orion area; on the Jenny diaper prospect comprising turbidite
and chalk reservoirs; and on the turbidite reservoirs of the Tweedsmuir
field. More recently she has worked in Cairo for over a year on BP
operated assets offshore Nile Delta involving a variety of turbidite
deposits.
Course description
This one day course is designed to provide a concise overview of
turbidite reservoirs and comprises a set of modules presented by Dr.
Carol Pauley.
Modules comprise:
The depositional mechanisms and characteristics of the different
gravity flow deposits including high-density turbidites, low-density
turbidites, debrites, megaturbidites, slurry flows, fine-grained
turbidites, turbidite-debrite couplets, and hyperpycnites.
The effects of dewatering and deformation in the syn- to postdepositional spectrum including dish structures, water-escape pipes,
shear folds, sandstone dykes, mudstone breccias, micofaults, slides,
slumps and injection complexes.
Depositional settings, facies associations and geometries.
Vertical sequences, stacking patterns, allocyclic and autocyclic
controls.
Controls on the reservoir quality of turbidite reservoirs including
depositional texture and composition, facies and diagenesis.
Turbidite fan models
From Berg, R, 1986. Reservoir Sandstones.
The Forties turbidite fan system, North Sea.
www.senergyworld.com/training
Contact Beth Reid, Training Administrator
E: technical.training@senergyworld.com
Senergy Training Centre 102 West Port
Edinburgh EH3 9DN United Kingdom
T: +44 1330 825188
F: +44 1330 825206
United Kingdom Norway Middle East India Africa Asia Pacific Americas
Oil & Gas Survey & GeoEngineering Alternative Energy Software Training
SENTRA-33263-0812

Turbidite Reservoirs by Senergy

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Turbidite Reservoirs by Senergy

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Description:

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Turbidite Reservoirs by Senergy

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

www.senergyworld.

Quartz cement within pores

The different types of sandbody geometry and how they relate to

How allocyclic and autocyclic mechanisms affect deposition,

Dr. Carol Pauley

What controls reservoir quality within turbidite reservoirs from the

Core log of a turbidite reservoir

Who Should Attend?

Team Leader, Integrated Reservoir Description, Subsurface Scotland Senergy

The Forties turbidite fan system, North Sea.

You might also like