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Wasatch Plateau, Utah
Measuring section by rope in the Castlegate Formation.
Wasatch Plateau, Utah
Collaborators:
Collaborators:
Gary Hampson, Imperial College London.
Hiranya Sahoo, Delft University of Technology.
Nahid Gani, Western Kentucky University.
Objectives:
Objectives:
Understand sequence stratigraphy and facies architecture along depositional-strike of shallow-marine, coastal-plain, and fluvial strata.
Develop predictive models of sandbody geometry, distribution and connectivity along depositional-strike for shallow-marine, coastal and fluvial reservoirs and plays.
Significance:
Significance:
Current sequence stratigraphic models deal with stratal packages almost exclusively along depositional-dip. There exists under-appreciated potential for along-strike variability.
Much of the current and projected global hydrocarbon production remains in siliciclastic shallow- and marginal-marine reservoirs.
Many reservoirs are characterized by complex arrangement of sandbodies. Their efficient development and management requires robust geological understanding, preferably in 3D.
Dataset:
Dataset:
High-quality outcrops, photomosaics, Lidar, cores, wireline logs, and GPR (ground penetrating radar).
An airplane was used to acquire hundreds of digital photos along the entire Wasatch Cliff (~120 km) to create high-resolution photomontages.
3D perspective view of all channelized sandbodies of the entire Blackhawk Formation. Sandbodies were mapped by integrating lidar and outcrop data (Sahoo and Gani, 2015).
3D perspective view of all channelized sandbodies of the entire Blackhawk Formation. Sandbodies were mapped by integrating lidar and outcrop data (Sahoo and Gani, 2015).
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