America Virtual Exploration Fault Seal Short Course

Day One  Structure of Traps

• Introduction and Cataloguing Cognitive Bias
• The prospect checklist & conventional risking
• Structural Geology
• Fault mechanics, kinematics, and geometrySeismic Fault Interpretation Strategies Fault statistics Fault anatomy Fold and fault architecture Accommodation space

Day 2 Seals

• Defined through Sequence StratigraphySedimentation principles Benefits of sequence stratigraphy over lithostratigraphy Identifying aquitards and seals Defining flow units, reservoirs, and thief (waste) zones

Day 3

• Allan Maps and introduction to reservoir connectivity analysis
• Trap definition based on top and lateral seals.Structural traps Draped stratigraphic traps. Pure stratigraphic traps Unconformity traps

Day 4

• Calibration using successful and dry wells.
• Case Studies
• Mechanistic prospect risking strategy
• How to implement fault seal and stratigraphic seal techniques into corporate risking.