Core target audience is production and exploration geologists, seismologists, petrophysicists, and reservoir engineers working at Permo-Triassic-Jurassic carbonate platforms in the Middle East.

Pre-requisite is basic understanding of carbonate reservoirs.

Objectives:

• Understand heterogeneities of a carbonate platform from pore to basin scale.
• Introduce methods and workflows to capture heterogeneities in digital models.
• Develop exploration concepts to assess stratigraphic trap potential.
• Understand the evolution of a carbonate platform from deposition, early diagenesis, fracturing to late diagenesis and discuss consequences on reservoir properties in a sequence stratigraphic framework.
• Evaluate rock types in terms of geobodies-petrophysical and flow properties.
• Apply outcrop-based reservoir modelling workflow to world-class carbonate outcrops.
• Relate production behavior to reservoir properties and architecture.

Description:

This is an intermediate program in carbonate reservoir characterization. Rock types and its 3D organization are studied in the field to derive conceptual reservoir models that can be applied to the subsurface. A key focus is integration of geological, petrophysical and reservoir engineering. The program conveys hands-on methods of carbonate characterization, geobody mapping and exploration concepts in a sequence stratigraphic framework. Best practices from industry and academia with carbonate reservoir developments are used and exchanged.

Addresses the following key competences

• Carbonate reservoir characterization applied to a giant carbonate platform (Permo-Triassic Khuff-Sudair Formations).
• Evaluation of carbonate petroleum systems.
• Construction of conceptual reservoir models.
• Application of outcrop geometries to subsurface models.