Instructor: Dr. Octavian Catuneanu, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta

Includes: refreshments, workbook, and PDH certificate  

Who Should Attend: Geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers who want to learn the method of sequence (and seismic) stratigraphy for correlation, facies prediction, and the delineation of stratigraphic traps

Course Objectives: This course presents the concepts and practical applications of sequence stratigraphy for petroleum exploration. The course involves both lecture and workshop formats. Workshop exercises emphasize the recognition and correlation of sequence stratigraphic surfaces on well log cross-sections, seismic transects, and outcrop profiles. Following the course, participants will have a clear understanding of the principles of sequence stratigraphy, the workflow of sequence stratigraphic analysis, and the difference between the various sequence stratigraphic approaches currently in use. Participants will be able to recognize and use sequence stratigraphic surfaces as the main correlation lines on their cross-sections and seismic data, and to use sequence stratigraphy for predicting facies reservoirs away from control points.

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The Instructor: Dr. Octavian Catuneanu is Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, with Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto (1996) and the University of Bucharest (1992). His textbook "Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy" (Elsevier, 2006) has received a 2007 "Outstanding Academic Title" CHOICE Award from the American Library Association, and remains a best-selling title. He specializes in clastic sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, and basin analysis. His current research focuses on the stratigraphy and evolution of the Western Interior foreland system of North America, and also of several other sedimentary basins of Precambrian to Phanerozoic age, worldwide.