Not many course providers offer detailed technical courses in sedimentology and stratigraphy as it pertains to the oil and gas business. This course is taught by a consultant who spends the majority of his time solving real-world problems using subsurface data in industry. The course is richly illustrated in seismic, log and core data which are from the instructor’s own teaching collection and cannot be found.

This course assumes no prior sedimentology background and systematically introduces participants in a landward to basinward transect through all environments of deposition where reservoir quality sands are deposited. For each environment of deposition, they are shown core photos, well-log signatures, and seismic expression. Besides presenting standard facies models, quantitative modeling equations are presented in exercises. By the end of the course, participants will be able to predict reservoir geometries, dimensions, and Net:Gross of clastic depositional systems and look for stratigraphic traps.