Date: 29 January – 2nd February 2023
Tutor: Peter Gutteridge, Carbonate Sedimentologist and Director of Cambridge Carbonates Ltd

Booking for the virtual workshop on Cretaceous Petroleum systems of the Arabian Plate presented jointly by Cambridge Carbonates and Imaged Reality is now open. The workshop will be held in 5 half day sessions from 29th January to 2nd February from 0800-1200 UK time.

This virtual workshop on Cretaceous petroleum systems is based on the evolving palaeogeography of the Arabian Plate. Selected palaeogeographical maps at a 3rd order systems tract level show how the depositional systems, sequence stratigraphic architecture, source, seal and reservoirs are configured in each petroleum system. The controls on reservoir quality in each mega-sequence are also discussed.

The workshop also includes descriptions of work flows, including the use of facies analysis, core logging and petrographic techniques integrated with other sub-surface techniques are required to characterise these petroleum systems at a regional to reservoir scale. While the workshop focusses on Cretaceous carbonate systems, case histories from outside the area may be introduced to illustrate principles of sequence stratigraphy, carbonate diagenesis, pore systems and reservoir types will be introduced.

This workshop examines:

• Early Cretaceous/ late Jurassic oolitic systems.
• Early Cretaceous Ratawi and mid-Cretaceous Mauddud mixed clastic-carbonate systems, looking at their differing interaction between clastic and carbonate systems and the consequence for the distribution and quality of reservoir facies.
• Early to mid-Cretaceous reservoir-source rock systems associated with intrashelf basins including the Bab Basin.
• Mid- to late Mishrif carbonate systems – depositional reservoir associated with shelf margins in Iraq and the effects of top Mishrif exposure on the reservoir quality and distribution in underlying carbonates.
• Late Cretaceous carbonate systems: karsted carbonate platforms, reservoirs in low stand carbonate systems and fractured basinal/pelagic carbonate reservoir systems.

The regional distribution of these systems will be demonstrated by 3rd order palaeogeographical maps of the Arabian Plate. The map represents the Mishrif palaeogeography of the SE Arabian Plate.

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