CSPG10SC Sequence Stratigraphy: Principles and Applications
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers who want to learn the methodology for applying sequence (and seismic) stratigraphy to correlation, facies analysis and the delineation of stratigraphic traps.
TEXTBOOK: Catuneanu, O. (2006) Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy. Elsevier, 375 pp.
COURSE CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
This workshop presents the concepts and practical applications of sequence stratigraphy for petroleum exploration and production. All concepts are illustrated with field examples of seismic, well-log, core, and outcrop data. In-class exercises emphasize the recognition of sequence stratigraphic surfaces and systems tracts on well-log cross-sections, seismic lines, and outcrop profiles. The points of agreement and difference between the various sequence stratigraphic approaches (models) are discussed, and guidelines are provided for a standardized process-based workflow of sequence stratigraphic analysis. This enables the practitioner to eliminate nomenclatural or methodological confusions, and apply sequence stratigraphy effectively for facies predictions in exploration and production.
Course content includes:
- Historical development of sequence stratigraphy
- Methods and workflow of sequence stratigraphic analysis
- Fundamental concepts of sequence stratigraphy
- Sequence stratigraphic surfaces
- Systems tracts
- Sequences and sequence models
- Time attributes of stratigraphic surfaces
- Hierarchy of sequences and sequence boundaries
- Applications to all depositional systems
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Octavian Catuneanu is Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada, with Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto (1996) and the University of Bucharest (1992). He is the recipient of several distinctions in the field of Geology, including best paper awards from the Geological Society of America (2002) and the Romanian Academy (1994). Octavian Catuneanu is the Chair of the ISSC (International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification) Task Group on Sequence Stratigraphy, working towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphic nomenclature and methodology. He has served as the Chair of the North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature (2005-2006), and the Chair of the Canadian Sedimentology Research Group (2004-2007). Octavian Catuneanu is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of African Earth Sciences, and an Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology. He is the editor of several books and special issues, and author of numerous publications in the fields of sedimentology, stratigraphy and basin analysis. He is currently involved in several international research programs and as an instructor of sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis for conferences and companies worldwide. His textbook “Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy” has received a 2007 “Outstanding Academic Title” CHOICE Award from the American Library Association.
