AAPG Student Chapter Talk

The Leeds AAPG Chapter will be hosting a talk by Stefan Schröder (Senior Lecturer in Sedimentology at the University of Manchester) from 5pm – 6pm.

Stefan will be talking about "Pre-Salt carbonate reservoirs of the South Atlantic", providing an overview of the current understanding of the rift from a sedimentologist’s perspective with focus on carbonate reservoirs in the basin.

All are welcome to attend.

Abstract: Continental carbonates are a new play type in the South Atlantic rift. Exploration success has been mixed, which partly relates to limited understanding of processes governing reservoir development, quality and charge. Deposition and diagenetic alteration of rift-related continental carbonates depend on paleoenvironments, tectonic setting, fluids (meteoric, hydrothermal-volcanic, alkaline, possibly marine), climate and organisms (in particular microbes). Due to this complexity and inherent heterogeneity, an integrated approach of process-based reservoir studies and determination of the links between components of the petroleum system and the tectonostratigraphic evolution is required. It can help reducing the risks of frontier exploration and petroleum systems prediction.

This presentation intends to give an overview of our current understanding of the rift (from a sedimentologist’s perspective), and discuss the main carbonate reservoirs in the basin.