GEOSCIENCES FIELD TRIP AND WORKSHOP

The field trip is conducted in unique areas and that shows examples of both clastic and carbonate reservoirs, sedimentary and structural features, and source and reservoir rock relationships.

During the field trip practical exercises will be conducted on the outcrops, also using unique UAV and virtual outcrop models for the digital 3D reconstruction of reservoir geology applying cutting edge technologies.

These field trips are conducted in the following areas for interested participants to choose from:

Seaton, in South-Eastern England.

• This area, which includes both a UNESCO GeoPark and a World    Heritage Site, shows a unique overview of the Permo-Triassic clastic series, unconformably overlain by the JurassicCretaceous along the Variscan unconformity.

• This provides the opportunity to illustrate both silico-clastic and carbonate series, stacked sandstone reservoirs, and faulted and fractured carbonate reserves, as well as the interplay between tectonics and sedimentation, and a working Petroleum System with source and reservoir rocks.

UAE (Jebel Hafit) from Dubai or Abu Dhabi.

• Eocene-Oligocene carbonates stratigraphy, Strike slip tectonics and folding, Oman-UAE mountain building.

Oman from Muscat or Duqm or Salalah (specifically Huqf, Mirbat).

• Neoproterozoic (Precambrian) to Cambrian series, Snowball Earth glacial deposits, mountain building processes

UAE (RAK, Musandam) from Dubai or Abu Dhabi. o Triassic-Eocene carbonate stratigraphy, Oman-UAE mountain building.

Central Italy (Majella Mountain) from Pescara or Rome.

• Carbonates stratigraphy, analogues of faulted and fractured carbonate reservoirs, oil seepages, asphalt mining.

Southern Italy (Basilicata, Pollino, Calabria) from Bari, Naples or Rome.

• Mountain building, Subduction Arc tectonics, Carbonates stratigraphy, regional geology, strike slip tectonics, thrust sheet tectonics, oil seepages.