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Stoakes Consulting Group Ltd Suite 505, 609 - 14th Street N.W. Calgary, Alberta, CANADA T2N 2A1 ph: (403) 262-6003 fax: (403) 265-4662 email: fstoakes.scg@shawbiz.ca ANCIENT CARBONATE COURSE - CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA Nov 22 - 25, 2010 This course is specifically designed for the explorationist working in the Devonian of Western Canada. It emphasises controls on the geometry, distribution and development of reservoir quality carbonate rocks through lectures, case histories and extensive core examination of productive units. Click Images to Enlarge Lectures and core examination are designed to familiarise the participants with carbonate facies identification and interpretation. Five full days will be spent at the ERCB Core Research Centre looking at suites of cores from all the major productive carbonate units in the basin. These include: Keg River reefs and banks, Muskeg evaporites/carbonates, Slave Point and Swan Hills platforms, Swan Hills and Leduc reefs, Nisku pinnacle reefs, Wabamun ramp carbonates, Pekisko downslope mounds and basinal shales of the Duvernay, Ireton and Exshaw/Banff. Emphasis will be placed on identification of shoaling-upward cycles and their correlation. This provides a depositional framework within which to extrapolate the distribution of reservoir-quality porosity. The majority of production from Devonian carbonate units comes from stratigraphic traps. However, an understanding of diagenesis is critical to evaluating the occlusion and creation of reservoir porosity. A number of situations will be examined where diagenesis (primarily dolomitization) is the key to exploration success. In all cases, facies interpretation from core will be related to log response. A course notebook documenting all lecture and core material presented is included in the course fee. For single company groups, exclusive private courses can be arranged to suit your company's timing and stratigraphic emphasis. Updated regularly, this highly successful course has been given to industry on both an open and private basis over 50 times.