Touchstone Fundamentals
This online course assumes no Touchstone modeling experience and is designed for prospective Touchstone modelers, individuals who apply Touchstone results, basin modelers who provide input data, or anyone else who desires to know more about the system and the results it produces. The course consists of paired lectures and hands-on exercises.
Topics:
- Project design and input data
- Compaction and replacement
- Quartz cementation and paragenesis
- Microporosity
- Permeability
- Parameter optimization
- Prediction runs
Open to RQC members and students and academic staff from universities that have been awarded software grants from Geocosm.
Controls on Sandstone Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality
This course is designed for exploration and production geologists, geophysicists, and managers who are concerned about assessment of reservoir quality in sandstones away from well control and wish to learn more about the state-of-the-art in predictive modeling approaches.
We provide participants with an overview of the primary textural, compositional, and diagenetic influences on porosity and permeability of reservoir sandstones from a wide range of geologic settings. We also review recently developed approaches for predicting sandstone reservoir quality away from well control using diagenetic models and how these models can be used to evaluate reservoir quality variability and uncertainty prior to drilling.
This one to two day course covers the following topics:
- Compaction in both lithic-rich and lithic-poor sandstones
- Quartz cementation
- Carbonate and clay cements
- Role of textural characteristics such as grain size and sorting
- The impact of grain coatings such as detrital clay, chlorite, siderite, and microcrystalline quartz
- Controls on and significance of secondary (dissolution) porosity
Available for all companies and institutions.
Advanced Touchstone Modeling
This one to three day course is intended for people who have taken the Touchstone Fundamentals course or have Touchstone modeling experience. The objective of the course is to delve more deeply into modeling concepts and limitations and to discuss practical approaches to complex modeling studies.
Potential topics:
- Working with burial history uncertainties
- Density, mineralogy, and chemistry model
- Rock physics model
- Advanced quartz cementation topics
- Fibrous illite model
- Chemical compaction modeling
- Model for volcanic rock fragment alteration and formation of chlorite coatings, smectite, and zeolite
- Working with the Prediction run mixer utility
- Advanced prediction run topics
- Advanced sample data topics
Open to RQC members and students and academic staff from universities that have been awarded software grants from Geocosm.
New Textbook!
Sandstone Petrography, Petrology, and Modeling is now available from SEPM at this link: https://sedimentary-geology-store.com/catalog/book/sandstone-petrography-petrology-and-modeling This book, which owes its existence to Tom Taylor, who had minor assistance from Linda Bonnell and Rob Lander, From the publisher’s description: This volume provides both an updated foundation in modern sandstone petrology and a practical guide for the petrographic…
Touchstone Fundamentals Online!
After months of work on both the content and our website we are delighted to announce that the Touchstone Fundamentals Course is now available online for active RQC members and recipients of academic Touchstone licenses. The course is intended for individuals who are new to Touchstone but experienced Touchstone modelers might find some things of…
3rd International School on Diagenesis
The Applied Sedimentology Group at the GeoZentrum NordBayern (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Geocosm LLC. announce the 3rd School on the Diagenesis of Silicilastic Sediments on September 7-11, 2020. The school will be held at the Geozentrum Nordbayern in Erlangen, Germany and will focus on the controls on sandstone diagenesis and their implications for data interpretation and modeling.…
2nd School on Sandstone Diagenesis
Geocosm staff once again helped to teach the Second School on Sandstone Diagenesis, which was held at GeoZentrum NordBayern in Erlangen, Germany on August 26-30, 2019. The school provides Ph.D. candidates and professionals from around the world with a comprehensive overview of the processes that control sandstone diagenesis and rock properties.
T>Map Course: June 14, 2019
We will be holding the one day T>Map course in Houston on June 14, 2019. This course is open to current RQC members and academic institutions with Touchstone license grants. Contact us for more information
Europe Touchstone Fundamentals Course, August 30-31
RQC members are welcome to attend a Touchstone Fundamentals course that we will be holding on August 30-31. The course will be taught at GeoZentrum NordBayern, which is part of Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen, Germany. Note that it is not necessary to participate in the 1st School on Sandstone Diagenesis that Geocosm staff will be helping to…
T>Map Modeling
This one day course combines lectures and hands-on exercises to provide a basis for using the T>Map system for simulation of rock properties over map surfaces.
The course is intended for people who have taken the Touchstone Fundamentals course or have Touchstone modeling experience. Open to RQC members.
NEW! An online version of the T>Map course is now available for all active members of the T>Map and T>Earth consortium.
Topics:
- Creating and importing Touchstone configuration files (TCF)
- Importing "map stacks" from 3D basin modeling systems
- Using polygons and maps to define areas of interest
- Working with natural neighbor interpolation
- Viewing map and 3D surface results and creating result animations
- Extracting and viewing results from well and point locations
- Exporting result maps
T>Earth Modeling
This half day course combines lectures and hands-on exercises that give a solid basis for using the T>Earth plugin for Schlumberger's Petrel® system.
This course is intended for people who have taken the Touchstone Fundamentals course or have Touchstone modeling experience.
Topics:
- Creating and importing Touchstone configuration files (TCF)
- Importing "map stacks" from 3D basin modeling systems
- Linking TCFs to Petrel facies properties
- Working with natural neighbor interpolation
- Viewing and analyzing simulation results
Open to RQC members and students and academic staff from universities that have been awarded software grants from Geocosm.
Quartz Cementation in Cataclastic Zones Workshop
This lecture and exercise provide an overview of the optional module in Touchstone for defining the timing of cataclastic deformation together with its effect on the grain size distribution. This information, in turn, may have a dramatic impact on the results from the permeability and quartz cementation models.
Open to RQC members and students and academic staff from universities that have been awarded software grants from Geocosm.
Plagioclase Albitization Workshop
This lecture and exercise provide an overview of the Perez and Boles (2005) model for the albitization of calcic plagioclase and its implementation as a optional module in Touchstone.
Open to RQC members and students and academic staff from universities that have been awarded software grants from Geocosm.