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Short Course

Instructors:

W. Lansing Taylor, Ph.D.Senior Research Scientist

Course Structure2-day classroom, Lecture plus exercises Presentation materials Optional Field day

Duration2 days (Option for a third day)

LocationEGI’s Salt Lake offices or Corporate Associate location

May 11, 2016 11:14 AM

Structural Geology PrimerAvailable to EGI Corporate Associate MembersOverviewThis classroom course provides a comprehensive introduction to the principals and tools of structural geology commonly used in the exploration and development of hydrocarbon resources. The course is designed to provide familiarity with a range of related subjects rather than proficiency in any single type of analysis. Upon completion, participants should be able to recognize the characteristic structural styles that form hydrocarbon traps and identify which additional methods might be beneficial for reservoir characterization. (Note: when desired, either day of this training can be expanded into a 3-day classroom course.)

Day 1: Structural Geology for Exploration Ø Seismic-based Tectono-stratigraphy

Ø Extensional systems

• Rifting vs. passive margins, planar vs. listric faults• Displacement, extensional folding, footwall erosion, linkage, tip-line

structures Ø Contractional systems

• Orogeny and the Coulomb wedge• Detachment, fault propagation, and fault bend folding

Ø Inversion & Strike Slip

Ø Salt Tectonics

Day 2: Structural Geology for Development Ø Overview of Structural restoration

Ø Overview of Fault Seal Analysis

Ø Geomechanics and stress dependent reservoirs

Ø Characterization of natural fractures

• Image logs and seismic anisotropy• Geologic controls on fracture occurrence• Curvature analysis and stress modeling• Discrete fracture model to reservoir simulation

Day 3 (Optional): Recommend combining the classroom course with our 1-day field course in the Arbuckle Mountains

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Short Course | Structural Geology Primer | Instructor: W. Lansing Taylor

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Figure 1 – Seismic examples of characteristic structural styles. Course participants will interpret seismic examples in class followed by group discussion.

From “THE SALT MINE”, Michael Hudec & Martin Jackson, Bureau of Economic Geology Udden Book Series No. 5, AAPG Memoir 99, 2011

Figure 2 – structural styles are illustrated using seismic, outcrop analogs, and 3D conceptual diagrams like this model of a salt dome in the East Texas Basin.

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Figure 3 – an example of structural geology for development. Participants will learn how a plate bending model can transform a geologic horizon into a map of subsurface stress.

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Lansing (Lans) Taylor Ph.D. has seventeen years of experience in the oil and gas industry working for Anadarko Petroleum, Talisman Energy, and as an independent consultant and industry instructor. Dr. Taylor has developed extensive knowledge of the tectonic and structural settings of petroleum systems across the globe. His primary areas of experience include the western cordillera of the Americas and their associated foreland basins and the Tethyan margin from North Africa through the Middle East to South East Asia. Lans has worked on hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation projects in Alaska, Canada, the US Rockies, West Texas, the Gulf Coast, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina; and Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Jordan, Iraq, UAE, Oman, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, PNG, and Australia.

Lans received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999 as Phillips Fellow in the Rock Fracture Project where he specialized in quantitative structural geology, neotectonics, and geomechanics. Part of his research at EGI and much of his prior work in the industry focuses on the application of mechanical principals to structural restoration and to the prediction of natural fractures and other stress-dependent reservoir properties. ‘From mantle plume to molecular cohesion’ was the theme of his opening address for the 2013 Houston Geological Society Conference ‘Geomechanics for Unconventionals,’ a biennial conference where Lans serves as chair of the organizing committee.

Lans is recognized as an outstanding teacher and field course leader for industry. He instructs several popular courses including ‘Structural Geology for Petroleum Exploration,’ ‘Structural Geology for Reservoir Characterization,’ and ‘Structural Styles for Seismic Interpretation,’ addressing the morphology and evolution of the fundamental structural forms that create hydrocarbon traps. Noted as an enthusiastic and knowledgeable field guide, Lans has led more than 850 geoscientists on trips to the Basin and Range in Southern Nevada, the Northern Rockies in Montana, the Paradox Basin in Utah, the Cretaceous Platform of central Texas, the Pedernal uplift in New Mexico, the Canadian Cordillera in Alberta, and the Spanish Pyrenees.

Dr. Taylor’s current research at EGI includes basin-scale petroleum systems evaluation, using seismic and well data, surface mapping, and potential fields to build the structural and stratigraphic framework necessary to predict hydrocarbon prospectivity in hydrocarbon-bearing basins. Lans is also working on fundamental research in structural geology with two new projects, one for mechanical stratigraphy and one on rotation in continuum, including research examining the effects of mechanical stratigraphy on subsurface stress heterogeneity to improve our understanding of how natural and hydraulically stimulated fractures propagate through layered materials. The second project is a combination of regional tectonic interpretation with numerical simulation and is focused on documenting the patterns, scales, and temporal evolution of rotational deformation within solid material.

Research Interests

• Structural geology & tectonics

• Geomechanics in unconventional resources

• Petroleum system evaluation

Email ltaylor@egi.utah.edu

Phone 801-581-8430

Lansing Taylor, Ph.D.

October 29, 2015 2:13 PM

Senior Research Scientist & Advisor