Biostratigraphy is a very specialised subject within the Geosciences. Although known to be an important part of, and with a significant role in geoscience applications to the engergy industry, it remains to many people a fairly inpenetrable subject often filled with archaic terminology and strange, almost "black art" practices. The identification of fossils, for example, is a highly specialised subject... almost an "art" in itself.
A group of NERC-CDT doctoral students interpreting the sequence stratigraphy of a well from the Gulf of Mexico.
Fortunately, in the bigger picture, none of these things are critical when it comes to understanding how biostratigraphy can help you find more energy sources. They can be left to the specialist.
However... understanding how biostratigraphy "fits" into the exploration workflow and life cycle of a precious asset is important.
We can guide you through the grey, technical "fog". We can show you why and how biostratigraphy can be applied at numerous points along the screening-exploration-development-production workflow without worrying about the identification of fossils or their strange names. Topics covered include:
- Biostratigraphy in basic-screening and exploration
- Constructing chronostratigraphic charts and gross depositional environment (GDE) maps
- Biostratigraphy in sequence stratigraphy - prediction of the subsurface and identifying new plays
- Biostratigraphy in sequence stratigraphy - identifying and characterising surfaces and systems tracts
- Biostratigraphy in appraisal
- Biostratigraphy in production - at the wellsite; monitoring, "geostopping" and "biosteering"
A group of Masters Geoscience students in Bangkok "role-playing" a wellsite biostratigrapher "biosteering" a horizonal well.
Mike Bidgood and Associates have also provided these courses to young people about to enter the Energy Industry at both Masters degree and Doctoral level at the following institutions: The Universities of Aberdeen (UK), Bonn (Germany), Brunei, Chulalongkorn (Bangkok, Thailand), Heriott-Watt (UK), Imperial College (UK), Manchester (UK) and Royal Holloway (UK) and in various localities for NERC-CDT (Centre for Doctoral Training). We have also provided short-courses in Applied Biostratigraphy for AAPG in London.
Mike Bidgood and Associates have also provided these courses to young people about to enter the Energy Industry at both Masters degree and Doctoral level at the following institutions: The Universities of Aberdeen (UK), Bonn (Germany), Brunei, Chulalongkorn (Bangkok, Thailand), Heriott-Watt (UK), Imperial College (UK), Manchester (UK) and Royal Holloway (UK) and in various localities for NERC-CDT (Centre for Doctoral Training). We have also provided short-courses in Applied Biostratigraphy for AAPG in London.