This field course is designed for geoscientists and engineers exploring for and producing deep-water(DW) reservoirs globally, and particularly in the Permian Basin. At the end of this course, participants should have improved abilities to recognize deep-water depositional facies and reservoir architecture, as well as how to use sequence stratigraphy to identify and map key surfaces for DW exploration. The Guadalupe and Delaware mountains in west Texas and New Mexico show unique, world-class exposures of shelfal to slope and basinal settings with seismic-scale, continuous exposures. These exceptional outcrops are ideal to learn about depositional systems, lateral and vertical variations in facies and sequence stratigraphic architecture and surfaces. Coeval shelfal to deep-water environments are exposed both downdip and along strike, with clear stratigraphic relationships from a carbonate shelf margin incised by canyons, feeding confined to weakly confined channel systems, connected to distributive lobe complexes and distal fan fringe sandstones that thin and pinch out onto a basin margin far removed from siliciclastic sediment sources.