Diagenetic Controls On Reservoir Quality Course

Reservoir quality—the ability of rock to store and transmit fluids—is a primary control on subsurface uncertainty, risk, and economic value. This course provides a rock-based framework for evaluating how depositional fabric, burial history, fluid-rock interactions, structural processes, and diagenesis shape reservoir properties across carbonate, clastic, and unconventional systems. Learners apply a Product–Process–Prediction workflow and integrate seismic, wireline, core, petrographic, mineralogical, geochemical, and specialist datasets to identify reservoir-quality controls, select fit-for-purpose evaluation techniques, improve subsurface predictions, and support exploration, appraisal, development, and production decisions.Read more...

Who It’s For

• Petrophysicists and geophysicists
• Reservoir engineers
• Exploration and development geologists
• Reservoir quality non-specialists on asset teams

What You Will Learn

• Evaluate geological controls on reservoir quality
• Select fit-for-purpose reservoir characterization techniques
• Compare carbonate, clastic, and unconventional reservoirs
• Apply diagenetic insights to subsurface decisions

Why It Works

• Uses a Product–Process–Prediction evaluation workflow
• Integrates observations across multiple reservoir scales
• Compares three major reservoir system types
• Applies concepts through reservoir case studies