Short Course 1
Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometry: Methodology, Instrumentation and Application in Earth and Space Science Materials
Instructors
Dr. Iffat Jabeen (Canada)
and
Dr. Arshad Ali (Sultan Qaboos University-Oman)
This is a half day short course designed for Faculty specializing in carbonate research, students pursuing degrees in carbonate research, and staff working in stable isotope laboratories. Carbonate-clumped isotope thermometry is a cutting-edge science that has revolutionized the reconstruction and exploration of paleoenvironments. Carbonate minerals can record and preserve information regarding the temperature and chemistry of their formation environment through their oxygen (18O) and carbon (13C) isotopic compositions. This science is based on the temperature-dependent formation of the doubly substituted isotopologue (13C 18O 16O) of CO2 with mass Δ47 in the carbonate lattice, and the ability to measure the abundance of this rare isotopologue's 13C 18O 16O concentration (Δ47) in the carbonate mineral serves as a great tool for reconstructing past water temperature change. Δ47 varies systematically with the temperature of carbonate precipitation. With temperature known, measurements of the 18O and 13C of the carbonates provide direct constraints on the isotopic compositions of their parent fluids (water and CO2). It requires state-of-the-art analytical techniques and instrumentation protocols to produce clumped isotope data with high accuracy and precision. In this course, a walkthrough of the methodology and protocols is given, as well as a concise approach to the clumped isotopologue measurement and the data science around it.
The application of carbonate clumped isotope science to analyze a range of earth and space science materials will be covered in this course. These materials include synthetic calcite (for calibration and estimating growth temperature), calcite (measurement of the abundance of 13C 18O bonds in carbonate and estimation of the 18O of seawater or source water), ancient aragonite from plant seeds (estimation of 18O values of plant waters and ancient relative humidity conditions), and carbonates in meteorites. Please join us as we embark on an enriching learning journey!
This course covers the following topics:
- Overview of CO2 Clumped Isotopologues (CCI) System
- Isotopes and Isotopologues
- Overview and Terminology
- Analytical protocols established at Western University, Canada
- Application of CCI System at Western University Canada
Day/Date: Tuesday, February 07, 2023
Duration: Half day short course
Time: 08:30-12:30
Minimum number of participants: 10
Maximum number of participants: 50
Fees: 40 OMR for students and 100 OMR for academic and professional
Short Course 2
Using thin section to recognize and understand the carbonate diagenesis process and environment
Instructors
Dr. Mohamed Moustafa (Sultan Qaboos University-Oman)
This is a lab-based course designed for new exploration and production geologists, geophysicists, and students dealing with the assessment of reservoir quality in carbonate and wish to learn more about the state-of-the-art in petrographic approaches. This course will provide participants with an overview of the primary textural, compositional, and diagenetic influences on the porosity and permeability of carbonate reservoirs.
This course covers the following topics:
- Evidence of marine, meteoric, and burial diagenesis from the thin sections
- Meteoric water diagenesis and its control on reservoir quality
- Marine water diagenesis and its control on reservoir quality
- Burial diagenesis effect on reservoir quality
Day/Date: Wednesday, February 08, 2023
Duration: One full day short course
Time: 08:30-17:30 including a lunch break 12:30-14:00
Minimum number of participants: 10
Maximum number of participants: 20
Fees: 40 OMR for students and 100 OMR for academic and professional
Short Course 3
Advanced carbonate sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy
Instructors
Dr. Osman Salad Hersi (University of Regina-Canada)
and
Dr. Mohamed Moustafa (Sultan Qaboos University-Oman)
This is a one-day hybrid short course designed for geologists, geophysicists, and engineers actively conducting research towards their MSc or PhD as well as for those who are working in the exploration and production of carbonate rocks in oil and gas companies. The short course aims to provide the geologists, geophysicists and engineers with tools and methodologies of carbonate sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy to effectively predict the presence and quality of reservoir, source, and seal rocks.
COURSE OUTLINE
LECTURE 1: INTRODUCTION [Dr. Osman Salad Hersi]
- Introduction to carbonate sedimentology
- Origin of carbonate sediments: the significance of “carbonates are born, not made”.
- Carbonate particles and classification of carbonate rocks.
- Major controls on carbonate sedimentation (the carbonate factory).
- Sedimentary structures and their importance for the interpretation of the depositional environments.
LECTURE 2: FACIES & DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS [Dr. Osman Salad Hersi]
- The concept of facies, facies association, and Walther’s Law
- Carbonate depositional environments: the carbonate platforms
- Carbonate facies and depositional environments
- Warm water neritic carbonates
- Peritidal carbonates
- Reefs and carbonate slopes
- Carbonate diagenesis and its effects on reservoir qualities
LECTURE 3: CARBONATE CYCLICITY [Dr. Mohamed Moustafa]
- Introduction to the orders of cyclic sedimentation
- Carbonate cyclic sedimentation: peritidal rhythmites
LECTURE 4: SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY [Dr. Mohamed Moustafa]
- Introduction to sequence stratigraphy
- Carbon isotope and sequence stratigraphy
- Carbonate sequence stratigraphy: A case study from the Early Triassic Lower Mahil Formation (Upper Khuff- outcrop equivalent) of Al Jabal Al-Akhdar, North Oman.
- Discussion and concluding remarks
Day/Date: Thursday, February 09, 2023
Duration: One day short course
Time: 08:30-17:30 including a lunch break 12:00-13:30
Minimum number of participants: 20
Maximum number of participants: 40
Fees: 40 OMR for students and 100 OMR for academic and professional
Short Course 4
3D Static Modelling for Optimizing Field Development & Operations Strategies
Instructors
Shabeer Ghulam
Ana de Sousa
Roger Sakatch
Dr M. Saeed Jadoon
This training course, designed for Geologists, Geophysicists, Petrophysicists, Petroleum Engineers and Project Managers, will be covering main steps of the geo-modeling process starting from the database management, logs interpretation, facies interpretation, geological well correlation, stratigraphic framework building, structural modeling, variogram analysis, rock typing/GFUs, and reservoir properties distribution on 3D grid, and running detailed volumetric calculations by giving practical examples and exercises. Complete Process of 3D Static Modeling Using GES software will be run on each participant’s computer and 2 weeks free license and support will be complementary to course attendees.
COURSE OUTLINE
PART – 1
Significance of Geomodelling in Field Development
(Presentation Slides)
Every E & P Company wants to have more hydrocarbon production from their fields with low cost. This goal is directly dependent on how close your understanding about the real situation of is the subsurface. The analysis on the dataset of any individual discipline in insufficient to address the multiscale reservoir heterogeneity. Therefore, a cross-disciplinary integration is fundamental in an effort to extend economic petroleum field’s life
PART – 2
Key Elements of 3D Static Modeling Process
(Presentation Slides)
The process of Reservoir 3D Static Modeling offers an effective workflow to integrate the latest concepts and available dataset of all related disciplines. The outcome of this process is taken as input to the simulation studies. The integrity of a simulation model is a function of the reservoir architecture used to construct the model, facies modeling/rock typing/Geological Flow Units (GFUs) and petrophysical modeling. Topics covered in this session include,
- Introduction to Geomodelling
- Dataset
- Project Settings
- Conceptual Geology
- Building Reservoir Architecture
- Property Modeling
- Static Volumetric Assessment
- Model QC
- Model up-scaling
PART – 3
Hands on 3D Static Modeling Software
(Run Complete Process of 3D Static Modeling Using GES software on each Participant Computer)
Thanks to our high computing power software technology (GES – a commercial package) that will be used during this course to interpret and perform integration of seismic, core, log, outcrop/field analog, and production data altogether in a single platform for better consistency and quick estimations while building the 3D static model. The complete workflow of the 3D static model will cover,
- Dataset & Conceptual Geology
- and approaches of 3D Static Modeling
- Key dataset and its management
- CRS, Quick data importing and QC
- Facies Interpretation (depo & litho)
- Stratigraphic framework
- Hierarchy definition
- Geological well correlation
- Boundaries of genetic units
- Structural framework
- Reservoir Architecture Building
- AOI definition
- Fault compartments and production units
- Make horizon process
- Make zone process
- Layering scheme
- 3D gridding
- Grid QC
- Facies Modeling
- Well blocking of facies log
- Data analysis
- 3D distribution of depositional facies
- 3D distribution of lithofacies constrained with depo-facies
- QC methods of facies model
- Porosity modeling
- Well blocking of porosity log
- Data analysis
- 3D distribution of porosity constrained with facies model
- QC of porosity model
- Permeability modeling
- Well blocking of K – NN
- Data analysis
- 3D distribution of K – NN
- QC methods of permeability model
- Water Saturation Modeling
o Well blocking of Sw
o Data Analysis
o 3D distribution of Sw
o QC methods of Sw model
- Formation Fluid Contacts
- Static Volume Calculation
- High case, base case and low case scenarios
- Model up-scaling
- Static to Dynamic modeling preparations
- QC of existing Model
- How to present geo-model results to management
Day/Date: Thursday, February 09, 2023
Duration: One day short course
Time: 08:30-17:30 including a lunch break 12:00-13:30
Minimum number of participants: 20
Maximum number of participants: 40
Fees: 40 OMR for students and 100 OMR for academic and professional