REFERENCE MANUAL   -- CONTENTS --   VIDEO SLIDESHOWS

1.00 Dipmeter and Image Logging Tools
1.01 Evolution of the Dipmeter Concept
1.02 Modern Dipmeters
1.03 Basic Continuous Dipmeter Calculations
1.04 Handling Correlation Closure Error
1.05 High Resolution Dipmeter
1.06 Handling Correlation Planarity Error
1.07 Determining Dip By Clustering and Pooling
1.08 Pattern Recognition Dip Calculations
1.09 Stratigraphic High Resolution Dipmeter

2.00 Dip Data Processing Methods
2.01 Formation Imaging From Dipmeters
2.02 Resistivity Microscanner Imaging
2.03 Dipmeter Advisor - An Expert System
2.04 Auxiliary Dipmeter Presentations
Stick Plot
Cylindrical Plot
Schmidt Plot
Azimuthal Frequency Plot
Dip Removal Plot
2.05 Synthetic Dipmeter Curves
2.06 Manual Dipmeter Calculations
2.07 Dip Subtraction and Rotation
2.08 True Stratigraphic and True Vertical Thickness
2.09 True Vertical Depth
Tangential Method
Average Tangential Method
Balanced Tangential Method
Mercury Method
Radius of Curvature Method
Minimum Radius of Curvature Method

3.00 Structural Analysis
3.01 Plate Tectonics - The Big Picture
3.02 The Regional Picture
3.03 Subsidence and the Creation of Geosynclines
3.04 Folds and Faults
3.05 Petroleum Traps Formed By Structures
3.06 Analysis of Dipmeter Data For Structural Features
3.07 Choosing and Using Regional Dip
3.08 Deciding What The Patterns Mean
3.09 Classic Dipmeter Patterns On Arrow Plots - The Cook Book
3.10 Case Histories of Structural Analysis
Unconformity
Normal Fault with Rollover and Drag
Normal Fault with Rollover and No Drag
Normal Fault with No Rollover and No Drag
Normal Fault with Drag and No Rollover
Thrust Fault with Rollover and Drag
Normal Fault with Rotation
Normal Fault with Correlation to Unfaulted Well
Complex Overthrust Faults
Correlation in Thick Sand Sequence
Angular Unconformity
Growth Fault in Thick Sand Sequence
Overturned Anticline

 

4.00 Alternate Structural Methods
4.01 Statistical Curvature Analysis - SCAT Diagrams
4.02 Analyzing Dipmeters with Tangent Diagrams
4.03 Dipmeter Calculations With Stereonets

5.00 Depositional Environments
5.01 Rock Facies
5.02 Classification of Depositional Environments
5.03 Sedimentary Structures
5.04 Genetic Units
5.05 Marine Transgressive Overlap - Fining Upward
Sequence
5.06 Marine Regressive Overlap - Coarsening Upward
Sequence
5.07 High Energy Marine Deposition - Cylindrical Sequence
5.08 Curve Shape Patterns in Continental Sequences
5.09.Stratigraphic Traps
5.10 Grain Size and Depositional Environment
5.11 Dip Spread and Depositional Environment
5.12 Current Bedding and Depositional Environment
5.13 Curve Shape Analysis and Depositional Environment

6.00 Stratigraphic Dip Patterns
6.01 Dipmeter Patterns in Sedimentary Structures
6.02 Analyzing Dipmeter Patterns
6.03 Choosing Regional Dip
6.04 Subtracting Regional Dip
6.05 Deciding What The Patterns Mean
6.06 Sedimentary Models
6.07 Glacial Deposits
6.08 Alluvial Fan and Scree Slope Deposits
6.09 Sand Dune Deposits
6.10 Braided Stream Deposits
6.11 Meandering Stream Point Bars
6.12 Channel Cut and Fill
6.13 Delta Distributary Channels
6.14 Delta Front Distributary Mouth Bars
6.15 Tidal Channel Deposits
6.16 Beach and Shoestring Sands
6.17 Basal Unconformity Sands
6.18 Offshore Bars and Barrier Bars
6.19 Marine Shelf Sands (Blanket Sands)
6.20 Marine Shelf Carbonates
6.21 Reefs and Carbonate Banks
6.22 Turbidite Slumps
6.23 Classic Dipmeter Patterns For Stratigraphy - The Cookbook

7.00 Stratigraphic Case Histories
Case Histories
Channel Cut and Fill 1
Channel Cut and Fill 2
Channel Cut and Fill 3
Barrier Bar
Unconformities
Foreset Beds
Cross Bedding
Gouge
Shale Dome

7.00 Stratigraphic Case Histories (cont)
   Reef
   Channel with Foreset Bedding
   Sand Dunes
   Barrier Bar Mapping
   Unconformity
   Deep Water Clastic
   Channel Sand
   Braided Channel
   Sand Count
   Laminated Shaly Sand

LECTURE 18

• Introduction To Dip and Image Logs

• Evolution of the Dipmeter Concept

• Modern Dipmeters

• Basic Continuous Dipmeter Calculations

• High Resolution Dipmeter

• Determining Dip By Clustering and Pooling

• Pattern Recognition Dip Calculations

• Stratigraphic High Resolution Dipmeter

• Formation Imaging From Dipmeters

• Resistivity Microscanner Imaging

• Dipmeter Advisor - An Expert System

• Auxiliary Dipmeter Presentations

• Dip Subtraction and Rotation

• True Stratigraphic and True Vertical Thickness

• True Vertical Depth

• Exercise 18

LECTURE 19

• Plate Tectonics - The Big Picture

• Diastrophism - The Regional Picture

• Subsidence and the Creation of Geosynclines

• Folds and Faults

• Petroleum Traps Formed By Structures

• Analysis of Dipmeter Data For Structural Features

• Choosing and Using Regional Dip

• Deciding What The Patterns Mean

• Classic Dipmeter Patterns On Arrow Plots -------- The Cook Book

• Case Histories

• Exercise 19

LECTURE 20

• Depositional Environments

• Stratigraphic Traps

• Grain Size

• Dip Spread

• Current Bedding

• Curve Shape Analysis

• Dipmeter Patterns in Sedimentary Structures

• Choosing Regional Dip

• Subtracting Regional Dip

• Deciding What The Patterns Mean

• Sedimentary Models

• Classic Dipmeter Patterns For Stratigraphy - The Cookbook

• Case Histories

• Exercise 20