About the Event
The fourth EAGE/ AAPG Hydrocarbon Seals Workshop is three-day event and has the primary goal to exchange knowledge, case studies, techniques and workflows to enable geoscientists of understanding and evaluating hydrocarbon seals for exploration purposes through presentation, posters and discussions materials.
Hydrocarbon seal is essential element of the petroleum systems and responsible of accumulating commercial hydrocarbon column within structural or stratigraphic entrapments. Despite the importance of this element to the petroleum system, it is the least understood component among the petroleum system elements. Hydrocarbon seals are the highest risk element responsible on the failure of exploratory wells to find more oil and gas based on published studies of well failure analysis.
In last few decades, there is a clear increase in knowing more about seals evaluation in order to understand the stratigraphic entrapment mechanism. More recently, the increase of Co2 sequestration activities gives arise to the importance of top and lateral seal evaluation. Top and lateral seal should be evaluated thoroughly in any stratigraphic entrapment setting.
The workshop will present and discuss the advancement of wide range of topics in seal evaluation from seal capacity estimation, geomechanics and seal integrity, CO2 sequestration aspects, AI in facies and petrophysical property, forward stratigraphic modeling and seal risk assessment. The importance of integrating different data set to evaluate seals will be discussed in details.
TOPICS
The following seal topics and subtopics will be covered with presentations and posters and participants will have enriched discussions and experience during this workshop.
1. Regional and Intraformational Seal Stratigraphic and Structural Settings
1.a. Hydrocarbon seal importance to exploration strategies
1.b. Seal stratigraphy and facies variations in carbonate and clastic environments
1.c. Geometries for top and lateral seals using seismic data for structural setting
1.d. Lateral seals assessment in stratigraphic/diagenetic entrapment
1.e. Forward stratigraphic/diagenetic modeling for seal development
1.f. Seal evaluation and prediction within sequence stratigraphic framework
2. Seal capacity and integrity evaluation using capillarity, fault and fracture assessment
2.a. Seal capacity assessment using capillarity methods
2.b. Seal evaluation from outcrop to subsurface data
2.c. Fault and fracture predictions in seal intervals
2.d. Fault seal analysis for structural entrapment
2.e. Geomechanics and seal integrity of conventional hydrocarbon reservoirs
2.f. Overpressure predictions for seal integrity
3. Technology, solution and sustainability in seal assessment techniques
3.a. Integration of petrophysical, rock mechanics, seismic and engineering data for hydrocarbon seal assessment
3.b. AI in facies and petrophysical property predictions
3.c. Seal evaluation for CO2 sequestration and hydrogen storage
3.d. Risk assessment in seal evaluation
Plenary sessions will be organized to cover topics that are expected to be of interest for all the attendees. Poster and break-out sessions will be organized for the experts in specific topics to dig more into the details.