Carbonate Reservoir Description and Characterization

Overview

📍 Locations : DUBAI & LONDON & CAIRO & ISTANBUL ⏳ Duration : 5 Days

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Description:

This intensive 5-day course provides a comprehensive overview of carbonate reservoir description, integrating geological, petrophysical, and geophysical data to understand the complexity of carbonate systems. Carbonate reservoirs, unlike their clastic counterparts, are highly heterogeneous due to their depositional environments, diagenetic overprints, and structural features such as fractures and karst.

Participants will learn the key methods used to describe and characterize carbonate reservoirs, including core analysis, well log interpretation, thin section petrography, seismic integration, and facies modeling. The course emphasizes how reservoir quality is controlled by depositional facies, diagenesis, and fracturing, and how to integrate these observations into a coherent reservoir model.

13-Oct	London	Dates could be adjust for special requests
20-Oct	Cairo
27-Oct	Dubai

👥 Who Should Attend:

Geologists, geophysicists, and reservoir engineers
Subsurface modelers and asset team members
Professionals involved in prospect evaluation, reservoir modeling, and CO₂/gas storage

🗓️ Day 1: Introduction to Carbonate Reservoir Systems

Time	Topic
08:30 – 09:00	Welcome and Course Overview
09:00 – 10:30	Carbonate Depositional Environments – Platforms, ramps, reefs
10:30 – 10:45	☕ Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15	Fundamentals of Carbonate Sedimentology – Grain types, textures
12:15 – 01:15	🍽 Lunch Break
01:15 – 02:45	Facies Analysis and Classification Systems – Dunham, Embry & Klovan
02:45 – 03:00	☕ Coffee Break
03:00 – 04:30	Exercise: Interpreting depositional facies from core photos and logs

🗓️ Day 2: Diagenesis and its Impact on Reservoir Quality

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Carbonate Diagenesis – Cementation, dissolution, dolomitization
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Porosity Types in Carbonates – Interparticle, moldic, vuggy, fracture
12:15 – 01:15	🍽 Lunch Break
01:15 – 02:45	Thin Section Petrography – Identifying porosity and diagenetic features
02:45 – 03:00	☕ Coffee Break
03:00 – 04:30	Exercise: Describe and interpret petrographic slides and core plugs

🗓️ Day 3: Log Interpretation and Core Integration

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Well Log Response in Carbonates – Challenges with porosity & lithology
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Integration of Core and Log Data – Calibrating porosity, saturation
12:15 – 01:15	🍽 Lunch Break
01:15 – 02:45	Facies-based Log Interpretation – Patterns and electrofacies analysis
02:45 – 03:00	☕ Coffee Break
03:00 – 04:30	Exercise: Build a facies log using petrophysical and core data

🗓️ Day 4: Fractures, Karst, and Reservoir Heterogeneity

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs – Types, causes, implications
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Karstification and Cavernous Porosity – Recognition and challenges
12:15 – 01:15	🍽 Lunch Break
01:15 – 02:45	Heterogeneity in Carbonates – Vertical and lateral variability
02:45 – 03:00	☕ Coffee Break
03:00 – 04:30	Exercise: Interpreting fractured and karst features from image logs and core

🗓️ Day 5: Reservoir Modeling and Case Studies

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Carbonate Facies Modeling Concepts – Facies control on properties
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	From Description to Modeling – How to populate geological models
12:15 – 01:15	🍽 Lunch Break
01:15 – 03:00	Case Studies – Middle East, North Africa, Mediterranean reservoirs
03:00 – 03:15	☕ Coffee Break
03:15 – 04:30	Summary Discussion, Q&A, Participant Presentations & Closing Remarks

📂 Course Materials Provided:

PDF of course slides and handouts
Core photos, thin section images, log sets
Case study reports
Facies classification charts and templates
Reservoir description workflows

Target audiences

Reservoir Engineers, Geologists

$ 5,000

Course Features