The course is primarily about clastic reservoir geology. Although the rocks studied are not commercial reservoirs, they are analogous to a number of important reservoir sections offshore Norway and other parts of the world, and the use of analogues will be discussed throughout the course. Within the topic of reservoir geology a number of parallel themes will be addressed. Many of these will run between outcrop localities and between days. The main themes are:

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1. Fluvial systems as reservoirs
2. Clastic shallow marine systems as reservoirs
3. Deep marine systems as reservoirs
4. Introduction to techniques in reservoir modelling
5. Geology of the Pyrenean Foreland Basin

The course will include a mixture of fieldwork and class work. The aims of the fieldwork are to illustrate the concepts that are utilized to build reservoir models and provide hands-on experience at building the models.

Open for both PhD and Master students. Interested students should send an application and academic CV to contact@nfipweb.org with a short motivation for participation. NFiP will pay the course fee for approved applications.

Course Dates: Nov 14-18, 2016

Registration closed

General
You will be divided into 4 groups for the duration of the course. Each morning one of the groups will have a short presentation on the previous day fieldwork. In addition, an individual report/best practice document for reservoir modelling of different reservoir types. The reports must be submitted by the end of the year.
Personnel
Prof. Josep Anton Muñoz de la Fuente, Universitat de Barcelona and Director of the Institut de Recerca Geomodels
Dr. Miguel López Blanco
Pau Arbués Cazo
Patricia Cabello Lopez

Schedule (NOTE: This is subject to change)

Sunday 13th
Arrival and overnight in Barcelona
Monday 14th
Drive from Barcelona to the Pyrenees
Cross-section along the Southern Pyrenees (ECORS)

• Structure of a thrust and fold belt.
• Sedimentary basins associated to the mountain chain building.
  Overnight in Tremp area.

Tuesday 15th
Introduction to Tremp-Graus basin
Alluvial and Fluvial deposits

• Alluvial fans (Collegats/Graus conglomerates)
• Braided river deposits (Castissent sandstone)
• Meandering river deposits (Pont de Montanyana)

Tectonic influence on the paleogeographic arrangement of the basin (La Calavera pass)
Overnight in Labuerda.

Wednesday 16th
Deltaic and shallow marine deposits

• Tidal-influenced deltaic systems (Roda sandstone)
• Introduction to sequence stratigraphy in shallow marine sediments (Roda sandstone)

Introduction to the Aínsa Basin (La Foradada pass)
Overnight in Labuerda.

Thursday 17th
Slope and deep marine deposits

• Slope and base-of-slope slump and slide features
• Turbidite channel deposits (Aínsa quarry)
• Turbidite lobe deposits (Jaca basin)

Overnight in Labuerda.
Friday 18th
Structure of the Aínsa basin and deformation structures

• Synsedimentary folding and related unconformities and processes (Mediano anticline)
• Fracturation associated to folding (Añisclo anticline)

Overnight in Labuerda.

Saturday 19th
Drive from Ainsa to Barcelona