COURSE OVERVIEW:

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of deep-water depositional systems, with a primary focus on turbidites and their role in forming high-quality hydrocarbon reservoirs. Participants will explore the processes governing sediment transport into deep marine settings, the architecture of submarine fans, and the heterogeneity patterns that influence reservoir performance.

The course covers seismic interpretation of deepwater settings, facies classification, reservoir quality evaluation, petrophysical integration, and stratigraphic modelling techniques that support field development. Particular attention is placed on the challenges of reservoir continuity, thin-bed identification, and complex sediment routing systems. Case studies from global deepwater plays illustrate how geological understanding reduces reservoir uncertainty and supports well placement, completion design, and production forecasting. Participants will gain the skills needed to interpret turbidite systems accurately and integrate geological, geophysical, and petrophysical data for reservoir characterization.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

After completion of this course, the participants will be able to:

• Describe deep water depositional environments and the geological processes controlling them.
• Understand turbidity currents, sediment gravity flows, and their depositional products.
• Identify key elements of submarine fan architecture and their reservoir implications.
• Classify turbidite facies and interpret their lateral and vertical heterogeneity.
• Recognize deepwater reservoir geometries and depositional features using seismic and well data.
• Evaluate reservoir quality variations driven by grain size, sorting, and sediment supply patterns.
• Interpret thin-bedded turbidites and quantify their contribution to net pay.
• Integrate core, log, and seismic data for deep water reservoir characterization.
• Assess stratigraphic trapping mechanisms and reservoir connectivity risks.
• Understand the role of mass-transport complexes and slumps in reservoir disruption.
• Apply deepwater sequence stratigraphy concepts to regional reservoir correlation.
• Analyze geobody modelling workflows for turbidite reservoir simulation.
• Review global deepwater case studies to identify best practices and lessons learned.
• Support field development decisions with improved geological interpretations of deepwater systems.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

• Reservoir Engineers
• Geologists and Sedimentologists
• Petrophysicists
• Exploration and Development Geoscientists
• Seismic Interpreters
• Reservoir Modellers
• Technical Professionals involved in deepwater field development

TRAINING COURSE METHODOLOGY:

A highly interactive combination of lectures, discussion sessions, and case studies will be employed to maximise the transfer of information, knowledge, and experience. The course will be intensive, practical, and highly interactive. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share in developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. There will also be some indoor experiential activities to enhance the learning experience. Course material will be provided in PowerPoint, with necessary animations, learning videos, and general discussions.

The course participants shall be evaluated before, during, and at the end of the course.

COURSE CERTIFICATE:

National Consultant Centre for Training LLC (NCC) will issue an Attendance Certificate to all participants completing a minimum of 80% of the total attendance time requirement.