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Office of Special Programs and Continuing Education
 
Recent Sand Models
The Key to Interpreting the Subsurface
June 1-3 and November 16-18, 2009

 

SCOPE OF THE COURSE
The prime focus of this three-day course is the use of the Recent and Late Pleistocene - a classic high stand and low stand combination--to develop the basic clastic depositional models for all the various reservoir types we explore for and develop. The course will summarize the vast amount of information available for each reservoir system and provide the "ground truth" that can be used in the subsurface.

MAIN TOPICS
For each reservoir type we will:

  1. Review the PROCESSES that control sediment movement and deposition in that environment.
  2. Study the resulting DEPOSITIONAL RECORD from continuous cores through the reservoirs and GEOMETRIES characteristic of each unit.
  3. Document the LOG RESPONSES using actual logs run in the modern sands.
  4. Establish the FACIES and SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC CONTEXT for each unit.
  5. Translate these observations to applications in the SUBSURFACE with emphasis on TRAP TYPES.

The reservoirs we will examine in detail include:

  • CONTINENTAL: Aeolian, Alluvial Fan
  • CHANNELS: Straight, Meandering, Braided (includes Incised Valleys), Estuaries
  • BARS: Coastal Regressive, Transgressive (coastal and offshore), Shallow Marine Shelf
  • DELTAS: River Dominated, Wave Dominated, Tide Dominated, Special Case: Shelf Margin Deltas
  • DEEP WATER: Ramp Turbidites, Submarine Fans, Contourite Drifts

The course is not a science course - it is designed to be practical and intensive - how to realistically use log and rock data to make reasonable interpretations in the subsurface.

COURSE INSTRUCTOR
As a consultant, Larry Meckel has been involved in Tight Gas Exploration since 1975. He has worked these units in more than 20 basins in Canada, the U.S., and currently in Mexico. His experience spans both clastic and carbonate plays. Dr. Meckel has been a part of various teams that have made significant discoveries and he will bring this experience to the course to illustrate how to integrate all the pertinent data (rock, logs, pressures, test recoveries) and resolve conflicting pieces of information. He is also keenly aware that these plays are not always the easiest to sell to management and thus will have some useful suggestions.

Prior to forming his own consulting company, Dr. Meckel was a partner and cofounder of Sneider and Meckel Associates, Inc.. and a geologist with Shell Oil and Development Companies. He studied modern clastic facies and developing depositional models in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Coast, coastal and offshore California, and the Colorado Delta area of Baja California; thus acquiring experience in a variety of climates (semi-tropical to arid) with varying levels of marine energy (micro tidal to macro tidal). He now serves as an adjunct professor at the Colorado School of Mines.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The course will be very useful for any person trying to correlate, map, and interpret clastic reservoirs in the subsurface in order to predict geometries and anticipate hetergeneities. The information presented will be useful for work at various scales: regional mapping, prospect generation, or field development work.

LOCATION
The course will be held at:

The Metropolitan Conference Centre
333 Fourth Ave., S.W.
CALGARY, ALBERTA CANADA T2P 0H9
Telephone: (403) 266-3876
Fax: (403) 233-0009

Class hours are 8:00 am to 5:00 pm with an hour lunch break. Class the first day will begin at 8:30 am with check-in beginning at 8:00 am.

REGISTRATION FEE
The registration fee is $1,195.00 (US), which includes tuition, breaks, and text materials. It does not include meals or lodging. Enrollment is limited and applications will be accepted in the order received.

You may register electronically or by sending to the address below for a brochure with registration form. The sponsor reserves the right to cancel the course and return registration fees if enrollment is insufficient. Payment and/or purchase order or training order must be mailed in additionally to complete electronic registration.

Register

Cancellations or transferring of registration fee will be charged a $175.00 fee. No refunds will be made to registrants who fail to cancel 5 working days prior to course delivery. Personnel substitutions may be made at any time without cost penalty.

CREDIT
The Colorado School of Mines will award 2 Continuing Education Units (CEU's) upon successful completion of this course. This course is offered in cooperation with the Extended Studies Program of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.

ACCOMMODATIONS, TRAVEL, AND MEALS
Registrants are responsible for their own lodging, food, and travel arrangements. Click here for accommodations information and for travel information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

For technical information contact:
Mr. Larry Meckel
L.D. Meckel & Company
1120 Race Street
Denver, CO 80206
Phone: 303/377-4146
Fax: 303/377-4664
Email: meckel@flash.net or
blmeckel1@mindspring.com

For registration information contact
Office of Special Programs and Continuing Education
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 303/273-3321
Fax: 303/273-3314
E-mail: space@mines.edu

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