• Introduction and course objectives
• What controls how basins fill? External and internal controls on clastic reservoir distribution and characteristics
• What controls sedimentary systems? Concepts of accommodation, sediment supply, depositional and redistribution processes
• Clastic facies models
o Definitions, usage and examples
o Environments and geometries
• Clastic depositional models (continental, coastal and deep water systems)
• Stratigraphic techniques
o High resolution chronostratigraphic correlation
o Applied biostratigraphy
• Sequence stratigraphy: principles and pitfalls
• Seismic stratigraphy
o Exercise: seismic stratigraphy, reflector terminations, key surfaces
• Stratigraphic analysis of clastic successions
o Non-marine, with case studies
o Shallow-marine, with case studies
o Deep-marine, with case studies
• Parasequences
o Exercise: Book Cliffs sequence stratigraphy
• Core description and interpretation workshop
o Exercise: offshore New Jersey – integrated seismic and core data
• Application of sequence stratigraphy to reservoir geology
• Reservoir subdivision and correlation
o Recognition and correlation of genetic units
o Architecture recognition and prediction
• Diagenesis and sequence stratigraphy
o Rock property control on fluid saturations
• Models for exploration and development
• Reservoir geology aspects
• Geological modelling of clastic reservoirs
• Well log correlation Framework for building models
o Deterministic methods
o Stochastic models
o Sand layer heterogeneities
o Shale layer heterogeneities
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