Ali Jaffri | Applied Stratigraphix LLC
Virtual Field Trip to the Modern Indus Delta
Abstract:
The Indus River drains the Himalayas and creates one of the largest deltas and deepwater channel-levee complexes and fans in the world. The delta is often incorrectly used as a “classic” example of a tide-dominated system. The first part of this presentation will take viewers on a virtual journey through the Indus Delta. We will compare the upper and lower delta plains of abandoned versus active lobes and will finally reach a terminal distributary mouth bar in the delta front. The second part of the talk will go over some lessons from the Indus Delta we can import to local sandstone reservoirs in Rocky Mountain Basins.
Biography: Ali Jaffri
Ali Jaffri, Ph.D. is the founder of Applied Stratigraphix LLC, and has twenty years of experience in sedimentology and stratigraphy projects. He has worked several onshore US Basins, North Sea, Indus Basins, Barents Sea, Offshore East and West Africa, Taranaki Basin, Offshore Mid-Norway, and Former Soviet Union. He has a doctorate from Colorado State, Masters from Oklahoma State and Bachelors from University of Colorado. Equally proficient in carbonates and clastics, he has trained over five hundred oil and gas professionals from fifty companies in ten countries.