Geomodeling and Geostatistics Course

David Garner

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The Geomodeling and Geostatistics course provides a comprehensive foundation in modern geomodeling practices crucial for subsurface resource development such as hydrocarbons, geothermal, and mining. It integrates key disciplines like geology, geostatistics, geophysics, and reservoir engineering to help teams create digital models representing subsurface heterogeneities. Participants will learn fundamental theories, workflows, and best practices that improve decision-making and resource evaluation through stochastic modeling and simulation. The course emphasizes collaboration across subsurface teams, practical workflows, and adapting new techniques to address complex geological challenges. Examples and case studies illustrate important concepts, with an emphasis on software-agnostic principles. This training is designed to raise the technical competency and communication skills necessary for success in subsurface geomodeling projects.Read more...

Who Should Take This Course
• Hands-on geomodelers
• Subsurface technical teams
• Geologists and geophysicists
• Reservoir engineers and petrophysicists

What You Will Learn
• Multidisciplinary workflows and best practices
• Modeling uncertainty and stochastic simulations
• Fundamental geostatistics and geomodeling theory
• Data integration and reservoir heterogeneity representation

Why This Course Works
• Enhance subsurface team communication
• Optimize production and development planning
• Improve decision-making and resource evaluations
• Adapt workflows for complex geological challenges

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Course contents

    Chapter 2 - Data Types and Geostatistical Terms

    2.01 Summary of Data Distributions (19 min.)

    2.02 More on Data Distributions (34 min.) Quiz

    2.03 Variograms (15 min.)

    2.04 Calculating Variograms - Part 1 (14 min.)

    2.05 Calculating Variograms - Part 2 (24 min.)

    2.06 Fitting a Variogram Model (28 min.) Quiz

    2.07 Estimation and Kriging - Part 1 (27 min.)

    2.08 Estimation and Kriging - Part 2 (22 min.) Quiz

    Chapter 3 - Simulation: Modeling and Honouring Variability

    3.01 Why Simulations? (24 min.)

    3.02 Sequential Gaussian Simulation (23 min.)

    3.03 Post-Processing Simulations (28 min.) Quiz

    Chapter 4 - Facies Simulation

    4.01 Simulation of Facies (21 min.)

    4.02 Truncated Gaussian & PluriGaussian Simulations (27 min.)

    4.03 Multiple Point Statistics Simulation (27 min.)

    4.04 Simulation Summary (14 min.) Quiz

    Chapter 5 - Frameworks

    5.01 Facies for Modeling (27 min.)

    5.02 Example Structure & Stratigraphic Framework (14 min.)

    5.03 Topics Around Facies and Petrophysics Preparation (20 min.)

    5.04 Facies Trends (34 min.) Quiz

    Chapter 6 - Petrophysical Modeling

    6.01 Petrophysical Modeling (14 min.)

    6.02 Water Saturation Modeling (25 min.)

    6.03 Permeability Modeling Issues Checking Models (22 min.) Quiz

    Chapter 7 - Scaling to Uncertainty

    7.01 Scaling to Uncertainty (36 min.)

    7.02 Post-Processing, Uncertainty, and Proxies (21 min.)

    7.03 Direct Forecasting, Proxies, and Uncertainty (28 min.)

    7.04 North Sea Case (Cormorant East) (19 min.) Quiz