The course presents methods in the study this unique group of rocks, evaluates their depositional systems, presents their sequence stratigraphy, and shows their alteration during diagenesis, and documents their porosity-permeability characteristics. Participants will learn many case studies of carbonate petroleum systems.

This is a five-day course designed to provide participants with a complete understanding of carbonate rocks and their behavior as oil and gas reservoirs. The course begins with basic concepts necessary for understanding of deposition and diagenesis of carbonate rocks. This includes a description of the most common minerals and characteristics of dominant grain types in carbonate rocks. Afterward, we explore diverse depositional systems of carbonate rocks including eolian, tidal flats, shelf, bank margin, slope, and deep-water environments. This is followed by examine deposition of carbonate rocks in a sequence stratigraphic framework. This includes presentation of basic concepts in sequence stratigraphy, characteristic of systems tracts, sequence boundaries, and parasequences are discussed. One day is allocated to diagenetic modification of carbonate rocks under variety of settings such as marine, meteoric, and burial. The last day of course of the course concentrates on dolomitization and porosity and permeability variations of carbonate rocks.