Collaborators:

• Gary Hampson, Imperial College London.

• Hiranya Sahoo, Delft University of Technology.

• Nahid Gani, Western Kentucky University.

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:

• 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:

• High-quality outcrops, photomosaics, Lidar, cores, wireline logs, and GPR (ground penetrating radar).