The conceptual model

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The conceptual model
• an overall understanding of distribution and trends of depositional environments
• created in order to understand how depositions, tectonic, diagenetic and fluid filling
processes interacted, in order to help in predicting the rock distributions in 3D
• is a way to describe geological features that controls fluid flow within the reservoir
• includes heterogeneities at all scales, dimensions and geometries of reservoir
rocks and barriers, and the spatial arrangement of these elements
• it is necessary in order to support definition of
− reservoir zonation
− input to geological modelling
− operational activities, e.g. drainage strategy and well planning

In defining the conceptual model, information is synthesized

from all sources of data

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Depositional trends/distribution and paleogeography
• In defining depostional trends all previous data from the regional understanding of
the basin parametres should form the basis for construction of maps and cross
sections
• Depostional trends are normally presented in two different types of maps
− Paleogeographic maps
• “snap-shot” in time representing reconstruction of what an area would
have looked alike at the time of depostion of a particular stratigraphic
interval
• used to understand the logical development of the sedimentary
depositional system
− Facies distribution maps
• illustrates the distribution of various facies/facies associations within a
certain time interval
• applied as input to reservoir modelling and operational activities

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