Oil and Gas
Oil and Gas | Basin Analysis
Structure and Sedimentology of a Petroleum System (Wessex Basin, UK)
Course Code: N500
Course Outline:
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Format and Duration:
5 days
The course is a field-based exploration of a working petroleum system. Using examples from the Devon and Dorset coast the components of the Wytch Farm oilfield can be examined, including source rocks (the Kimmeridge Clay), reservoir rocks in the Permian and Jurassic, cap/seal facies and trapping structures. All elements can be considered at a verity of scales, from large-scale reservoir geometries to smaller heterogeneities, both structural and sedimentological. The characteristics of fault zones are viewed as well as the geometries of fault/fold inversion structures. Outcrop and subsurface data are integrated in this course.
Schedule
Duration and Training Method
A five-day field course in southern England.
Course Overview
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn to:
- Review the components of a working petroluem system through examination of key aspesct at field locations.
- Examine the characteristics of a major source rock interval, the Kimmeridge Clay.
- Consider the reservoir characteristics of contiental and shallow marine clastic units.
- Consider shallow marine limestones as potential reservoirs.
- Evaluate different lithologies as potential seal horizons.
- Determine the importance of the structural history of the area in terms of creation of trap geometries and fault seal properties.
- Consider the timing of formation of reservoir faceis, seals, structural geometries and petroleum migration in the oil field history.
Course Content
Course Itinerary
Please note that the following itinerary is subject to weather and tidal conditions.
Day 0: Arrival
- Group to meet at Heathrow Airport for transfer to Sidmouth
Day 1
- Dawlish: aeolian-fluvial sandstones as reservoirs
- Exmouth: impacts of faults and fault damage zones on reservoir characterisation
Day 2
- Budleigh Salterton/Sidmouth: top-seals for reservoirs
- Ladram Bay: clastic reservoir heterogeneity
Day 3
- Watton Cliff, West Bay: fault seal and stress fields; effects of cemented bands within sandstones on reservoir performance
- Freshwater Bay, Isle of Portland: carbonates as reservoirs
Day 4
- Durdle Door and Man o'War Cove: chalk reservoirs; consideration of drilling and completions
- Lulworth Cove: source rocks, structural styles
- Kimmeridge Bay: source rocks, fault systems
Day 5
- Wytch Farm overview of operating hydrocarbon field
- Transfer to Heathrow Airport
Accreditation and Certification
CEU: 3.2 Continuing Education Units
PDH: 32 Professional Development Hours
Certificate: Certificate Issued Upon Completion
RPS is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. We comply with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognised internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices.
We issue a Certificate of Attendance which verifies the number of training hours attended. Our courses are generally accepted by most professional licensing boards/associations towards continuing education credits. Please check with your licensing board to determine if the courses and certificate of attendance meet their specific criteria.