Course Description

This course covers the fundamental concepts and techniques required to accurately construct structure maps in 3D so that you will get the most out of your data. Principles and techniques are illustrated by solving numerous exercises by hand - with drafting tools and a calculator- using strategies and work-flows analogous to those that participants will use back at the office using computers. The course gives a very good basic understanding of structured geology as a whole and helps a lot to clarify concepts, terms for my general career development. 

Course Goal

To enhance the participants’ knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to develop more accurate structural models of reservoirs, avoid dry holes, find new traps in old fields, extract the maximum information from exploration wells, and validate or recognize errors in existing interpretations.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participant will be able to:

• Recognize common contouring pitfalls.
• Find thickness in deviated wells.
• Use thickness maps to interpret structure.
• Construct predictive cross sections.
• Apply the best techniques for projecting data.
• Make fault maps and integrate them with horizon maps.
• Build a complete 3D interpretation.
• Recognize valid and invalid fault surfaces.
• Interpret folds and faults from dip-meters.
• Construct juxtaposition (Allan) diagrams for fault trap and seal analysis.
• Map structures with multiple overlapping faults.

Who Can Benefit

• Geoscientists and those exploring mature areas.
• Early-career Geoscientists and technologists who make structure maps.
• Those who need to judge the validity of maps and cross sections.