Applied Biostratigraphy: A Critical Tool for Subsurface Prediction and Characterisation

Course Description

The subsurface is a hugely valuable host of resources and requires characterisation. Biostratigraphy is vital for understanding and characterising the subsurface and plays a role at all scales from global, through regional and basin-scales, to prospects, and individual assets. 

The course will introduce the fundamental concepts for subsurface characterisation that biostratigraphy contributes – principally correlation and environmental determination – and how these are integrated under the umbrella of sequence stratigraphy. The predictive power of the latter is emphasised and demonstrated.

 Similar principles are also demonstrated in operational situations such as casing-point/TD determinations and well steering. 

Relevance to the energy transition is emphasised.