Education Week 2008

Sequence Stratigraphy: Principles and Applications (SC0810)

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

Instructor: Dr. Octavian Catuneanu
Date: October 27 - 29, 2008
Time: 8:00am to 4:30pm
Duration: 3 Days
Max. Attendance: 25 Participants

CSPG Member Earlybird Registration Deadline: September 15, 2008
CSPG Member Registration Deadline: October 15, 2008
Course Fee: CSPG Member Earlybird: $900 +GST | CSPG Member: $1,000 +GST
(Registration includes Elsevier's textbook which has won 2007 Outstanding Academic Title Choice Award)

Location: TBA

Course Description:

Who Should Attend?:
Geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers who want to learn the methodology for applying sequence (and seismic) stratigraphy to correlation, facies analysis and the delineation of stratigraphic traps.

Textbook:
Catuneanu, O. (2006) Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy. Elsevier, 375 pp.

Course Content & Objectives:
This workshop presents the concepts and practical applications of sequence stratigraphy for petroleum exploration and production. All concepts are illustrated with field examples of seismic, well-log, core, and outcrop data. In-class exercises emphasize the recognition of sequence stratigraphic surfaces and systems tracts on well-log cross-sections, seismic lines, and outcrop profiles. The points of agreement and difference between the various sequence stratigraphic approaches (models) are discussed, and guidelines are provided for a standardized process-based workflow of sequence stratigraphic analysis. This enables the practitioner to eliminate nomenclatural or methodological confusions, and apply sequence stratigraphy effectively for facies predictions in exploration and production.

Course content includes:

Historical development of sequence stratigraphy
Methods and workflow of sequence stratigraphic analysis
Fundamental concepts of sequence stratigraphy
Sequence stratigraphic surfaces
Systems tracts
Sequences and sequence models
Time attributes of stratigraphic surfaces
Hierarchy of sequences and sequence boundaries
Applications to all depositional systems

Instructor Bio(s):

Octavian Catuneanu

Octavian Catuneanu is Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada, with Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto (1996) and the University of Bucharest (1992). He is the recipient of several distinctions in the field of Geology, including best paper awards from the Geological Society of America (2002) and the Romanian Academy (1994). Octavian Catuneanu has served as the Chair of the North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature (2005-2006), the Chair of the Canadian Sedimentology Research Group (a division of the Geological Association of Canada; 2004-2007), and he is the current Chair of the International Working Group on Sequence Stratigraphy (working towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphy in the International Stratigraphic Guide and in the North American Stratigraphic Code). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, and also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of African Earth Sciences and as an Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology. He is the author of Elsevier's textbook titled "Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy" (Elsevier's 2006-2007 best seller, and recipient of a 2007 "Outstanding Academic Title" CHOICE Award), co-editor or senior editor of several books and special issues, and author of numerous publications in the fields of sedimentology, stratigraphy and basin analysis. He is currently involved in several international research programs and as an instructor of sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis workshops for conferences and companies worldwide.