Monthly Lecture

David Alsop (Subject Matter Expert, Shell) will talk about:

Dryland vs humid tropical fluvial systems in the Gharif Formation, Sultanate of Oman.

Abstract
The Permian Gharif Formation in Oman comprises three main depositional units, The Lower (LG), Middle (MG) and Upper Gharif (UG), each of which has a different depositional setting. The LG was deposited in a transgressive to early highstand marginal marine shoreface and deltaic setting following the Permo-Carboniferous Al Khlata glacial deposits. The MG transitions from a progradational deltaic environment to semi-arid fluvial depositional system. Deposition in the MG ended an unconformity related to the breakup of Gondwana with an estimated 5-10 Ma age gap prior to deposition of the Lowstand UG which was deposited in a humid fluvial system.

In this talk, the differences of the MG and UG depositional systems will be investigated as well as their impact on depositional geometries, reservoir architecture, connectivity, and reservoir properties.

About the presenter

David Alsop is Australian and has a BSc. From Sydney University (1986) and a M.Sc. from the National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics (Adelaide University) 1991. He has 37 years in the Oil and Gas Industry spending his early career working in operations followed by working as an exploration geoscientist, researcher and production geologist.

David joined the Shell Group in 1998 and has had postings in Australia, Netherlands, Oman, and Brunei and worked many basins around the world. His passion is depositional systems including sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, seismic facies and diagenesis and has done considerable field work on outcrops in Australia, Canada, Oman, Brunei, Egypt and the US. He is currently a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Shell in Shallow Marine, Deltaic and fluvial reservoir characterization.

Program:
17:30-18:00 hrs: Social hour
18:00-19:00 hrs: Lecture
19:00-20:00 hrs: Social hour

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Venue:
Millers, Plein 10, Den Haag