Fluvial Sedimentation: Principles and Application
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | ||
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Fluvial Sedimentation: Principles and Application | 30 Nov 2025 | 04 Dec 2025 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | $ 4,500 | Register |

Fluvial Sedimentation: Principles and Application
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Fluvial Sedimentation: Principles and Application | 30 Nov 2025 | 04 Dec 2025 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | $ 4,500 |
Introduction
Participants on this 5-day intensive training course range from petrophysicists, geologists, geophysicists or engineers who use core, borehole images, log data, core data, and production data to produce or understand facies produced in a fluvial sedimentary environment. The goal of this training course is to learn to develop a G&G workflow that utilizes a variety of geological data essential to produce an accurate fluvial reservoir model.
By choosing this training course, the participants will be able to utilize all forms of data that can be used to build a fluvial geological model. Ranging from mud logs, rock cuttings, thin-sections, core, and borehole images, log data, seismic and geological analogs. The participant will build and interpret facies logs, to create detailed facies maps deposited within a fluvial environment. Participants will be able, despite their different working sectors, to deal with fluvial sedimentary models, interpret facies logs and understands varying sand body architecture and geometries. As well as learning about the different tools needed to acquire the most accurate data to derive accurate facies models.
This training course will highlight:
- Understanding the fundamental different sedimentary plays within the fluvial environment
- Learn the different sedimentary flow processes that deposit within a fluvial system
- Analysis of mud logs, rock cuttings, core and thin sections to build robust facies types and facies associations
- Interpret the key features of borehole images, and interpret the dip data to determine palaeoflow direction and sand dispersal
- Understanding and utilizing geological analogs to provide the input parameters to build a fluvial reservoir model
Objectives
- Understand different fluvial facies models and their sedimentary setting
- Interpret mud-logs, core and thin sections to produce fluvial facies logs and a facies model
- Utilize borehole images, log data, ECS and NMR to generate fluvial electro facies
- Identify accurate geological analogs, to derive input parameters for geological models
- Understand up-scaling, which honors geological data to create accurate static and dynamic geological modelling
Participants will learn how to:
Training Methodology
The course is delivered in a combination of lecture-style and computer-based training. In addition, a significant amount of time is set aside for small working group activity when addressing case study problems. Extensive use is made of case study material to underline the key aspects of the course and to give the delegates exposure to current best practice.
Who Should Attend?
This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Geologists
- Petrophysicists
- Geophysicists
- Reservoir engineers
- Technical project managers
- Exploration managers
- Geomodellers
Course Outline
Day One: Overview of the Alluvial and Fluvial Environment - The different Types of Physical Processes
- Alluvial and fluvial processes from braided to meandering channels
- Different type of physical processes from fractional to suspended flows
- Different types of river morphology and their impact on sedimentation
- Classification of fluvial clastic systems
Day Two: Fluvial Sedimentation – Facies Characteristics of Different River Morphologies
- Understand different types of alluvial and fluvial systems
- Identify the different controlling processes and their facies and facies associations
- Sand body architecture and geometries
- Review the Petrophysical parameters and facies
Day Three: Creating Electro facies Utilizing the mudlog, Rock cuttings, Core, Borehole Images to Produce Facies Types
- Principle of Borehole images and interpreting Electrofacies
- Dip picking and dip interpretation in fluvial facies
- Current analysis and sediment dispersal patterns
- Creating electro facies incorporating core, log data, NMR and ECS – defining cut-offs
Day Four: Case Studies
- Outline of classical outcrop examples
- Subsurface fluvial plays
- Utilizing seismic data
- Using analogs to input parameters for the static model
Day Five: – Case Studies – Group Project & Presentation
- Recognizing facies from core
- Identifying facies from borehole images
- Determine the sedimentological model