Date: 13 - 15 Aug 2024
Location: Houston
Tutor: Mark Rowan

This 3-day in-person classroom course in Houston is aimed at geoscientists working the Gulf of Mexico but is also applicable to salt basins around the world. Taught by world-leading expert Mark Rowan, the course emphasis is on fundamental mechanics and processes, structural geometries and evolution, salt-sediment interaction and the implications for hydrocarbon exploration and production.

You will learn to:

1. Understand the implications of layered-evaporite sequences for velocity-model building and seismic interpretation.
2. Describe how halite differs from other lithologies and how that impacts deformation in salt basins.
3. Characterize the ways in which extension, contraction and differential loading trigger salt flow and diapir initiation / growth.
4. Interpret typical salt and stratal geometries associated with salt evacuation and diapirism.
5. Predict how drape folding around passive diapirs impacts stratal geometries, faulting and reservoir distribution in diapir-flank traps.
6. Understand why and how allochthonous salt forms and how salt sheets / canopies evolve.
7. Assess the effects of salt on various aspects of the petroleum system, including trap formation, reservoir presence, hydrocarbon maturation and migration and seal.

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