Provenance and Diagenetic Studies of Sandstone Reservoirs

This training course will be structured in oral and practical sessions, with PowerPoint presentations and didactic material/exercises. Examples of techniques and microscopy work utilized for the assessment of provenance, diagenesis and reservoir quality (e.g. Qemscan, diagenetic logs, grain size profiles, etc.) will be provided during the training course.

By the end of this training course, participants will learn to:

• Utilize analytical techniques for provenance analysis
• Assess sandstone petro-types by provenance features
• Understand the link between diagenesis and QFL%
• Determine sandstone provenance and diagenesis vs. tectonic settings
• Develop a model of analogue petrographical datasets for exploration studies

This Gulf Rowad training course is suitable to a wide range of geologists working in the oil industry positions in hydrocarbon exploration.

The training course will thus greatly benefit:

• Sedimentary geologists of small or major service and oil companies
• Junior to senior geoscientists carrying out projects on sandstone reservoirs
• Petroleum geologists working in exploration of oil/gas reservoirs
• Geoscientists who wish to increase their knowledge in sedimentary basin analysis
• PhD and post-doctoral researchers in sedimentary geology willing to gain expertise in oil industry work-methods

Organisational Impact

Organizations sending their employees to attend this training course will benefit by:

• Having employees able to identify the types of sandstone reservoirs vs. provenance/tectonic settings
• Having employees with a working knowledge on the methods of provenance analysis
• Having employees able to apply concepts of provenance/diagenesis for single well to multi-well correlations
• Having employees able to assess the link between reservoir quality and rock composition
• Having employees able to apply provenance principles to regional exploration studies
• Having employees able to interpret the variation of sand composition vs. stratigraphy and areal distribution

Personal Impact

The participants in this training course will learn to: 

• Collect provenance and diagenetic datasets from sandstone reservoirs
• Improve methods of laboratory work for the analyses of siliciclastic sequences
• Apply stratigraphic, depositional and diagenetic concepts to sandstone suites from exploration studies
• Able to perform “Launch & Learn” sessions on the studied topics at their own company (i.e. transfer of knowledge)
• Having a set of exercises, didactic material and papers for self-training sessions
• To enrich their CV due to the attendance and successful completion of the training session